Editor:
I was a guest at the signing of the Tsawwassen First Nation treaty ceremony. The total acreage of this land settlement was 1,200 acres. It was divided into 700 acres for development and 500 acres that were to remain in the Agricultural Land Reserve.
It is absolutely essential for the Tsawwassen First Nation, local agriculture and our community that future port expansion takes place, as intended, on these 700 acres.
We must not allow more farmland to be lost forever.
We must stick to the original plan.
Ted Murphy's editorial put forward two options - filling the foreshore or using more farmland - and he favoured the latter. Both are unnecessary if we follow the original plan and use already zoned TFN lands.
Jack Bates is right. We simply must not use more agricultural land.
As my wife said many times in the legislature after she was elected MLA: "Remember, we all have to eat to live."
Noel Roddick
