Dutch farmers are fighting against the government and WEF
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Of course not. They may be blockheads, but the Dutch are not dumb enough to turn down free money.
LILLEY: Farmers feel ignored as Trudeau government pushes them to reduce emissions — Toronto Sun
The farming industry maintains the Trudeau government's proposal would also reduce crop yields and profits
LILLEY: Premiers united on some issues, need to stand together on fertilizer use — Toronto Sun
It should tell you something about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s environment policy that all 10 provincial premiers, including Liberal, New Democrat and Conservative governments, are now fighting him in court. Premiers have been united on the health front for years now — the common stance is...
“There was no prior consultation. There has been no modeling or analysis provided to explain this 30% target. It appears to have been pulled out of thin air,” one industry source said.
In fact, the reduction target wasn’t even developed by Agriculture Canada. It was the work of Environment and Climate Change Canada, which is why neither farmer nor industry groups were consulted. The government has been clear that this plan is part of their strategy for fighting climate change and getting Canada to Net Zero by 2030.
Agriculture and agri-food are big business in Canada, representing 7.4% of GDP in 2020, according to the federal government’s own statistics. Despite the persistent idea that this is mainly concentrated on the Prairies, every province has a role.
While Alberta leads the country in cattle and Saskatchewan in canola, Quebec leads in dairy and hogs, Ontario in vegetables and soy, British Columbia in floral and nursery products. These moves from the Trudeau government on fertilizer will impact the Prairies and Ontario the most at first, but it won’t stop there.
The protests from Dutch farmers that have taken hold across the Netherlands is over their mandated 50% fertilizer reduction and demands to lower livestock production to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
There is no doubt that if the Trudeau government gets its way on fertilizer reductions, livestock reductions will soon follow, including for Quebec’s valuable hog industry.
Across the Netherlands, the move by the Rutte government to impose a 50% cut has seen farmers protest over the last two weeks with highway blockades, the shutdown of food distribution centres and protests at supermarkets.
If Trudeau and his advisors want to avoid seeing a repeat of these tactics, they should start listening to Canada’s farmers, something the industry says hasn’t been happening.
The anger over the Trudeau government’s plan to have farmers use less fertilizer hasn’t boiled over in this country like it has across the Netherlands, but it’s getting there.
Citing climate change as the reason, the government wants to see emissions of nitrous oxide from fertilizer reduced, not they say, fertilizer use.
Farmers insist there is no difference, that the government’s moves will cause “severe economic harm” including billions lost. The Western Canadian Wheat Growers commissioned a report that said the plan would cost Alberta $2.95B, Saskatchewan $4.61B and Manitoba $1.58B just in lost production from their canola and spring wheat crops alone.
High fuel costs, demand for fertilizer driving up costs for Canadian farmers
Farmers were among the first to see the impacts of Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Besides skiing and surfing , I wonder if any of turdOWE's ministers have ever been outside city limits?
People are getting tired.. tired of Governments thinking they can control people, tired of more boosters shots and so called 7th wave..
It’s truly time for another French Revolution and a few head rolling in the streets
He also had a similar statement about Trudeau saying that "young leaders" like him were the future. OMG I certainly hope not! I agree, Schwab & his ilk are monsters who want to rule the world. It seem he knows exactly what we need.
Good point. I'm struck by the close similarities in history, government, trade, and isolation between Mao's China and today's Netherlands. . .
The Netherlands owns a very precious distinction. It is, after the United States of America, the second largest agricultural exporter in the world. In the world! Now there’s a success to trumpet. But in the green world every success is a failure in disguise. Or something to be maimed or hobbled. So the Netherlands’ livestock productivity has to be, by government decree, by environmental edict, cut by one-third to satisfy the world savers. And the farmers responsible for this miracle of production, who have for generations worked the land more efficiently than perhaps anywhere else on the globe, are supposed to … take it.
Something like Canada’s strangulated oil and gas industry — it could be a splendour of our economy but has been stymied for years by protest, regulation, green mania and Justin Trudeau’s insensate fixation with net zero.
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There is something happening in the Netherlands that has been happening for weeks, which if anything even closely resembling it were happening in Canada, especially in Ottawa, it would surely be called an “insurrection.” It might even have cabinet ministers and the prime minister calling those participating an intolerable “fringe minority.” Come to think of it, it would probably have driven the government to invoke the civil-rights-denying Emergencies Act, and arrest any of its leaders, especially any of those from the rebellion hot spot of darkest and most menacing Medicine Hat.
I am referring to the huge and continuous protest against the Dutch government. For some weeks now upwards of 40,000 farmers have been on their tractors and in their trucks crowding highways and snarling traffic in a mass protest against a green edict that would force them to halve emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia by 2030. Among the minor (sarcasm here) consequences of this wand-wave from on high is that the Dutch would lose about 30 per cent of their livestock numbers. Only 30 per cent — a mere rounding error. Who needs livestock? Food suppliers?
Something like Canada’s strangulated oil and gas industry — it could be a splendour of our economy but has been stymied for years by protest, regulation, green mania and Justin Trudeau’s insensate fixation with net zero.
Rex Murphy: If the Dutch farmers' protest was happening here, it would be an emergency — National Post
If 40,000 Canadian farmers were protesting drastic new green measures, the leaders would probably be arrested and their tractors seized
There is something happening in the Netherlands that has been happening for weeks, which if anything even closely resembling it were happening in Canada, especially in Ottawa, it would surely be called an “insurrection.” It might even have cabinet ministers and the prime minister calling those participating an intolerable “fringe minority.” Come to think of it, it would probably have driven the government to invoke the civil-rights-denying Emergencies Act, and arrest any of its leaders, especially any of those from the rebellion hot spot of darkest and most menacing Medicine Hat.
I am referring to the huge and continuous protest against the Dutch government. For some weeks now upwards of 40,000 farmers have been on their tractors and in their trucks crowding highways and snarling traffic in a mass protest against a green edict that would force them to halve emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia by 2030. Among the minor (sarcasm here) consequences of this wand-wave from on high is that the Dutch would lose about 30 per cent of their livestock numbers. Only 30 per cent — a mere rounding error. Who needs livestock? Food suppliers?
Just think. If they doubled their production. . . they'd be Double Dutch!