One field. Two rule books. · AIT-ALC-001

On protected farm land, the Trust does not get the last word.

We have no proof that the Agricultural Land Commission and the Islands Trust are at war. They are two bodies. They make rules for the same land. When their rules clash, the B.C. law wins. The local rule stops working, but only as far as the clash goes.

What we found

The Commission guards farm land across B.C. The Trust sets local zoning. That means what you may build and do on your land. The Trust does that within the powers it has. Both can cover the same field. Where the two rules clash, the B.C. law comes first.

  1. There is a B.C. law called the Agricultural Land Commission Act. It gives the Commission one job for the whole province. Keep farm land as farm land.
  2. Local zoning can set rules for named farm uses. But it must stay inside the limits B.C. sets. It cannot ban a use that the B.C. rules protect.
  3. Shutting the Trust down would not touch the Commission. It would move the local land call to a town council or a regional district.

The demand

Keep the farm land protected. Keep the B.C. farm rules. Then let a normal elected local government make the zoning call. And answer for it.

Read and sign the exact petition.

Sources you can check

  1. Agricultural Land Commission Act, SBC 2002, c. 36 — ss. 6 and 46; verified 2026-08-24.
  2. Agricultural Land Reserve Use Regulation, BC Reg. 30/2019 — ss. 4–5; verified 2026-08-24.

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