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newsfeedback - RE: Sugar bush farms face big tax hike (fwd)

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Russell McOrmond

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Dec 15, 2003, 9:58:12 AM12/15/03

This story has been repeated over-and-over again this morning, and the
lack of answering the important question for me was missing.
http://ottawa.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=ot_sugarbush20031215

Does anyone in this list have some useful information on this story?

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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:40:36 -0500
From: Russell McOrmond <rus...@flora.ca>
To: paddy...@cbc.ca
Subject: newsfeedback - RE: Sugar bush farms face big tax hike

The most important question I had was not answered, which is the
methodologies used to bring this food from the farm onward. If the
methodologies are organic then I would agree that the land should be
assessed as agriculture, but if the methodologies are not then I would
agree that the part of the land used for these non-organic processes
should be assessed as Industrial.

I would be interested to hear more about this before I could assess
whether I agree with the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation or
not. I do not see why it matters whether an industrial process is used
in the production of food or other product in assesments, but agree that
there should be a difference on whether or not industrial processes or
organic agricultural processes are used.

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