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Letter to the Powers of Canada
Live & Let Love
To the governments, major landowners, corporate food producers, and institutional investors who shape how this country feeds and houses itself,
We are not asking you to disappear. We are asking you to take responsibility.
The current model — mass industrial farming, chemical dependence, long-distance imports, vacant units, and low-quality construction — wastes land, skill, and capital that already belong here. It produces weak outcomes while concentrating control.
What needs to change:
- Move from mass industrial farming to local and regional production. Make Canadian-grown food the standard.
- Cut toxic chemical dependence and support growers already farming cleaner.
- Fill vacant units and use existing space better before approving more low-quality construction.
- Create good homes together. Build durable, healthy places — including micro-homes and small communities — that people enjoy living in.
- Use AI and applied science for the hard calculations so local builders can focus on craft, quality, and healthy materials.
- Redirect public money from distant military spending into Canadian soil, housing, energy, and local food systems.
- Design living as a constellation: scattered, high-quality places that stay connected.
- Use what Canada already has — land, skilled people, working communities — before looking elsewhere.
- Correct mistakes in public projects instead of defending them. Honest systems improve.
- Hold the standard: while healthy and strong, live fully. When the end comes, meet it with grace. Without live and let love, none of this holds.
This is not “down with the rich.” This is the rich taking responsibility for the systems they control. You already have the resources and the reach. Use them to build strength instead of extracting from weakness.
Canada has the land and the people. The missing piece is the decision to tend what is already here.
We are prepared to build. We ask you to stop protecting what is failing.
Respectfully,
Danielle Mearns
Canada