Letter: Press releases don’t fix potholes or stop floods

MPP Bobbi Ann Brady’s claim that her Protect Our Food Act (Bill 21) doubles as a flood-prevention plan relies on a disingenuous fairy tale: Pavement bad, farms act as sponges. Modern agriculture tells a very different hydrological story. To make heavy soil workable, fields are lined with tile drainage – because soil is only a sponge until saturated, at which…