Farmers plan parade to protest Wilmot land acquisition [Video]

Tractors made their way through downtown Kitchener on Wednesday, a slow-moving protest of Waterloo Region’s handling of the Wilmot land acquisition and assembly process.

Fight For Farmland, a citizen group of Wilmot farmers and their supporters, wants the region to know they’re “unwilling” to go along with the sale of 770 acres of land between Nafziger Road, Bleams Road and Wilmot Centre Road.

The region has previously stated that it wants the agricultural property for future large-scale development.

“[Premier] Doug Ford was very clear back in April that it shouldn’t be foisted on an unwilling community and our community has been doing everything possible to show that it’s an unwilling community,” Kevin Thomason, the vice-chair of the Grand River Environmental Network, explained at a Wilmot council protest on Monday.

Regional protest

The Region of Waterloo demonstration started long before Wednesday’s council meeting.

Participants got on tractors at Bleams Road and slowly drove …