5.7 Home and Native Land
Investments that build our resilience and autonomy and set us up to flourish - are rooted in care for the land. Including farm land. The most needed measures don't fit the frames of Canada's financial systems - they can take years, and cost a lot - but they will benefit us for generations to come.
How to fix our food security and diversify Canada's Financial systems to better reflect our full economy, better serve us through this poly-crisis and set us up for a more secure and inclusive future.
Investment in our actual land: farm, urban and park - that take years, and cost a lot - but benefit generations with greater resilience to extreme weather, greater security of our food and shelter and health plus effective defence against tariffs and other international market risks...
Smart investments - that fall outside our current financial systems.
How to fix that and diversify Canada's Financial systems to better reflect our full economy, better serve us through this poly-crisis and set us up to flourish.
It starts with our relationship to this land, our home, and the farming sector.
Colonial-rooted as Canada's food & financial systems are, it will be hard to heal and better manage them, to shift from Colonial Insecurities to Native Stewardship. But it is work we can and need to do - urgently.
Referencing:
Sleepy G Farm in Pass Lake, Ontario
Regenerative Food Systems Investment Canada 2026
The value of Natural Services in Canada today. The slide up at the conference said Trillions - but maybe it was not Canada but North America or in Stock-Market Traded Companies or some other metric. I found this after recording.
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