Allowing 3 severances on…

Allowing 3 severances on every farm property is incredibly dumb. Past experience shows these houses eventually end up being sold to non farmers. As a farm fencing contractor a few years ago I was contacted by a man who had just inherited farm property from extended family, he wanted to build a new house and barn and have a hobby farm. Some time in the past a lot had been severed off the farm and while planning the fence a man came out of the house and asked what I was doing. He told me he did not want his yard fenced in, I laughed and said well then I guess cows will be pasturing on your lawn. He then told me a firmer voice there would not be a fence, I suggested he read the line fences act and the fence viewers would be called and there would be a fence. He informed that he was a police officer in another municipality and he knew how to make my life hell as a contractor. The new owner ended up selling the property rather than deal with such a nieighbour.