But unless you're a farmer who actually works and farms the land, you are just living in a rural community, you are not an economic driver. In that case you are just living rural, and you are a drain on the economy

Really?

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I may be mistaken but I thought rural centres have all sorts of companies providing goods and services to our agricultural sector.

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Farming supplies

Seed retailers

fertilizer supply

manure management

farm machinery servicing

farm machinery retailers

irrigation supplies

vertrinary

Shall I continue, or have you grasped the point?

Perhaps you ought to stumble out of the 905 area once and get som perspective on how Canada really is