No. In the land categories across Canada, there are significant acreages that are considered to be category 3 or category 4 lands. Under typical climate conditions, you would not be able to raise any food crop there at a profit. Your inputs would be too high, your water requirements would be too high, and your fertilizer requirements would be too high.
That has actually driven the renewable carbon industry, if you will, to identify plants that are able to grow on marginal land with a lower input cost: lower water, lower fertilizer, and lower inputs from a weed control or pest control side. Inherently, these plants would be more resistant to insects and disease and better able to make use of the existing nutrients in the ground so that you don't have to add conventional fertilizer.
That is the way it needs to go for renewable energy. It is absolutely wrong to be diverting any food production into energy production to power our vehicles. Biotechnology offers not only a convenient but also a worthwhile solution to that challenge by being able to create and engineer a crop that requires less overall energy to process and to convert into liquid fuels for transportation.