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LILLEY: Farmers feel ignored as Trudeau government pushes them to reduce emissions(nitrogen)
https://calgarysun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-farmers-feel-ignored-as-trudeau-government-pushes-t ^ | 7/8/22 | Brian Lilley

Posted on 07/10/2022 11:45:04 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19

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.

Article content 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.

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at calgarysun.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agriculture; canada; farming; food; nitrogen
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1 posted on 07/10/2022 11:45:04 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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We are living through the first stages of Idiotocracy.


2 posted on 07/10/2022 11:48:51 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

I wonder if Putin and Xi are planning the same for their countries...


3 posted on 07/10/2022 11:49:07 AM PDT by BobL (My hatred of Necons/Globalists exceeds my love of Ukraine or any other country, other than the US)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Netherlands, Italy, Poland now Canada. Hmmmm....we need to punish the farmers for heating up the world by keeping them from growing so much food. Right as we are on the eve of worldwide famine.

This doesn’t sound suspicious at all.


4 posted on 07/10/2022 11:49:11 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: RomanSoldier19

You vill eat notheeng and be happy


5 posted on 07/10/2022 11:51:07 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: RomanSoldier19
The atmosphere is 78% nitrogen. The governments of Canada and the Netherlands are punishing farmers and ultimately disrupting the food supply to ostensibly reduce nitrogen. Pure evil.
6 posted on 07/10/2022 11:55:05 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis )
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To: RomanSoldier19

Worked so well for Sri Lanka.


7 posted on 07/10/2022 11:56:52 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: packagingguy
This may be able to work.

Do what Mao did.

Have all of the elite, college professors, politicians, etc., hand gathering and hand lugging "night soil" from the cities and towns to the farmers in the countryside.

Outlaw flush toilets, everybody craps in buckets and sets it outside for the elites to gather.

8 posted on 07/10/2022 11:59:25 AM PDT by Mogger
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To: newnhdad

maybe we can convince the progressives to join the government suspended animation program and then they can rule the future.


9 posted on 07/10/2022 12:00:59 PM PDT by Waverunner
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To: RomanSoldier19

Willing to bet Trudeau’s carbon footprint from flying is larger than 100 farms combined.


10 posted on 07/10/2022 12:01:17 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Crush, smash and obliterate the Liberal New World Order)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Maybe all of the Great White North hosers should be electing other “leaders”?

Right Now!


11 posted on 07/10/2022 12:05:24 PM PDT by Paladin2
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A music professor at our local university (one of the best music programs in the nation) lived through the Cultural Revolution.

He told me they took him and the other music students out of the conservatory and made them grow rice. They took the farmers off to the city to play music and make artwork.

The artists and musicians did not know how to farm. The farmers didn’t know how to play instruments or paint.

Needless to say millions starved.

He was lucky, survived and escaped to Hong Kong, then got a professorship here in the USA.


12 posted on 07/10/2022 12:07:34 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: RomanSoldier19

Time for more Brawndo


13 posted on 07/10/2022 12:11:20 PM PDT by struggle
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To: newnhdad

And second stages of the forecast Famine.


14 posted on 07/10/2022 12:33:31 PM PDT by chopperk
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To: RomanSoldier19

I do not understand the focus on nitrogen. It is 78% of the atmosphere. These people are insane, and evil.


15 posted on 07/10/2022 12:37:01 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Don’t feel sorry for them at all. They just had an election. Live with your stupidity.


16 posted on 07/10/2022 12:48:05 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: napscoordinator

Feel sorry for us, as we had an election as fraudulent as yours. Nobody believed for a minute this buffoon won a second time.


17 posted on 07/10/2022 12:50:19 PM PDT by JudyinCanada (Maranatha)
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To: Rebelbase

2000 farms they figured.


18 posted on 07/10/2022 1:32:04 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: RomanSoldier19

The Planet has X amount of Stuff it moves around but it’s always the same amount of stuff


19 posted on 07/10/2022 1:32:38 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Paladin2

All Global Warming/Climate Nuts should be banned from governments


20 posted on 07/10/2022 1:34:34 PM PDT by butlerweave
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