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I’m sure I’m not the only one struck by the irony that “A Waste of Farmland” billboard has gone up on Tsawwassen First Nation’s reserve.

The billboard is not questioning, however, how the giant Tsawwassen Mills shopping mall has just been built on more than 1,000 acres of adjacent farmland owned by the Tsawwassen band.

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The billboard is instead questioning why the B.C. government is building its Site C dam on farmland in the far-away Peace River district.

The billboard, which is permitted on reserve land but not on municipal property, is sponsored by the Sierra Club of B.C. and the Peace Valley Environmental Association. Both receive support from aboriginals.

Tens of thousands of people each day pass the billboard near the ferry terminal in semi-rural Delta. Farmland in and around Metro Vancouver is considered more prime than agricultural land in the colder Peace River, which is about 1,300 kilometres north of Vancouver.