Mémoires

For decades, farmers have focused on reinvesting in their operations to maintain competitiveness, enhance productivity, and continually improve practices to do more with less. For most Canadian farmers, these investments are made with an understanding that the assets they invest in will position them to maintain both the financial health of the business and ensure they can maintain quality of life into retirement. These sudden, fundamental reforms to Canada’s capital gains taxation, undermine plans that are often decades in the making and challenge the financial stability of capital-intensive multi-generational family farm operations.