Ontario is the sick man of Canada.
The heartland province, with almost 40 per cent of the country’s population and economy, was a national leader in agriculture, then in manufacturing, then in services and most recently in tech.
But today’s news is mostly bad news. Although the number of farms in Canada is dropping in most jurisdictions, Ontario’s decline is above the national average (2.5 per cent between 2016 and 2021, according to Statistics Canada, compared to 1.9 per cent nationally).
