Trudeau’s war on farmers could create catastrophe as food prices soar
by David Krayden
The net income for Canadian farmers fell 8.3 percent in 2022 and the expense of running a farm increased by 21.2 percent in 2022, the largest gain since 1974.
Vacant farms without crops. Grocery stores lacking any foodstuffs. People starving in their homes or on the streets. It could happen in Canada because of the Liberal government’s war on farmers.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is waging that war and it could well create an artificial famine in Canada like the kind the Soviet Union experienced during the 1930s.
Farmers are being put in a position of non-productivity and that has begun with restrictions on the use of fertilizer – deemed to be a source of those nefarious greenhouse gasses.
Even if Canada eliminated all of its greenhouse gasses by eliminating all gas-powered vehicles and shutting off its electricity, natural gas, propane and oil, it would make little difference on the global carbon footprint since it produces less than 2 percent of world emissions.
But that hasn’t impeded the Trudeau government from making Canadians suffer in the fight against climate change and farmers have been a priority target.
Agriculture Canada admitted that it wants to reduce the use of fertilizer by 30 percent from 2020 levels by 2030 in its “2022-2023 Departmental Results Report” released in August 2023.
“The Department published a “What We Heard Report” compiling the feedback received, which will inform AAFC’s work in collaboration with the sector, towards meeting the target of a 30 percent reduction of fertilizer use from 2020 levels by 2030. To this end, AAFC created a new government-industry Fertilizer Working Group, co-chaired by the Department and Fertilizer Canada, to collaboratively work to reduce fertilizer emissions while protecting the livelihoods of Canadian farming families.”
Justin Trudeau has dismissed reports of the fertilizer reduction as “misinformation.”