Are Farmers Safe In Canada?

Both of you make good points. I think the biggest value of something like the NCI is that it keeps issues in the public eye. Even if it’s not an official inquiry, it can still push conversations that governments might otherwise avoid. With the farmland issue, for example, a lot of people in rural areas feel like decisions about land use are made without enough local input. If these hearings highlight concerns from farmers in places like Wilmot, that alone could be useful. That said, I’ll be interested to see how they handle evidence and whether they invite a broad range of viewpoints. If they do that well, it could make the hearings more credible and actually help move the conversation forward.