Canada has its own farmers’ problem, resembling that of the Netherlands. The Trudeau government is set to impose a 30% reduction in fertilizer emissions (nitrous oxide) across the country as a part of his environmental emissions reduction strategy. Trudeau’s aim is to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2030.
The fertilizer industry association, Fertilizer Canada, commissioned a damning report warning that such reductions would lead to a $48 billion loss in farm incomes over the next eight years leading up to 2030. In the end, analysts say, the reasoning is flawed and will backfire.
Simultaneously, the Trudeau government has imposed a tariff on Russian-imported nitrogen fertilizer, which will hike up production costs for farmers, since Eastern Canada doesn’t produce nitrogen. Canada is the only G-7 country to impose such a tariff.
Farmers in Canada have faced on ongoing onslaught by the Trudeau government. In 2020, Trudeau infuriated the farming industry when he imposed an increase in the carbon tax. He called his plan “A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy” from Environment and Climate Change Canada,” but it served as nothing but a provocation to the farming industry:
Groups such as the Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO), Grain Growers of Canada (GGC), Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) and Western Canadian Wheat Growers (WCWG) have all come up with shock, anger, and strong criticism of the plan.
Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek recently summed up the situation in the Netherlands and Canada. She stated that Dutch farmers were really “protesting a Communist agenda.” She added that countries such as Canada and the Netherlands are being used as “staging grounds for the World Economic Forum (WEF) and other globalist elites to pursue their radical schemes to transform society.”
Last weekend, a “slow roll” convoy began to move into Ottawa to show support for Dutch farmers. And in Saskatchewan, hundreds of protesters in dozens of vehicles showed up to stage a “slow roll” protest.
Frustration and alarm are building all across Canada, prompting the question of whether Canadian farmers will protest in large numbers.
“Trudeau fertilizer emissions plan sparks backlash from farmers and provinces,” by Breanne Deppisch, Washington Examiner, July 26, 2022:
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is slated to impose a 30% reduction in fertilizer emissions in the country, sparking intense backlash from farmers and provincial agriculture ministers, who argue the target will decrease crop output, increase prices, and cost farmers billions in lost revenue.
The new target, which seeks to “reduce absolute levels of GHG emissions arising from fertilizer application,” is part of the Trudeau government’s goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2030.
But the news has been met with disdain by farm and agriculture groups in the country that argue imposing such restrictions will shift production to higher-cost, less efficient countries.
“The world is looking for Canada to increase production and be a solution to global food shortages. The federal government needs to display that they understand this,” Alberta Minister of Agriculture Nate Horner said last week in response to the news.
Farming is a major sector of the Canadian economy. In 2021, the country exported nearly $82.2 billion in agriculture and food products, and the agriculture and agrifood sector accounts for roughly 6.8% of its annual gross domestic product.
“Farmers don’t need the government to tell them how to properly use fertilizer. We engage crop consultants, soil tests and use the latest technology available to us,” Gunter Jochum, president of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association, said in a statement. “Our government should be strongly supporting the agronomic techniques that we have put into practice.”
A recent study commissioned by the association found that the new targets would cost Canada’s so-called “prairie provinces” billions in lost grain revenue by 2030— including $2.95 billion from Alberta, $4.61 billion from Saskatchewan, and $1.58 billion from Manitoba.
“We’re really concerned with this arbitrary goal,” Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture David Marit said in a statement.
The new reductions target comes just weeks after the Netherlands introduced a similar proposal — touching off a wave of protests and angry crowds that shut down bridges, food distribution centers, and other export hubs across the country.
Analysts say that by reducing output from countries such as Canada and the Netherlands, each among the world’s most sustainable and environmentally efficient producers, leaders risk redistributing global production to countries that require more land and more fertilizer, likely resulting in higher nitrogen pollution overall….
Wingg says
French-speaking Canadians will understand:
Trudeau – trou d’eau – trouduc.
The worst thing that happened to Canada, but, still, people voting for him
The same as in Europe, France, Germany, Switzerland…
Welcome to the lemming era.
Wellington says
The hysteria about carbon emissions is just one more example of how man often acts like an idiot. Here is an article which addresses this:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/07/the_one_point_that_can_get_people_off_the_global_warming_obsession_train.html
Ignorance is a very powerful phenomenon and when people in power are ignorant (and a lot are), watch out because all kinds of stupidities will happen. Much of the body politic is ignorant too and this doesn’t help matters at all.
mortimer says
The science is too complicated for the average person to grasp. Experts are at variance, some of it, because the ‘research’ is not being done in a pristine, objective manner. The studies are funded by agencies that have a vested interest in ‘proving’ man-made climate change.
The founder of the Weather Channel (a real climate scientist) said that those studies are not actually proving what they claim.
Bull Herman says
That man was the brave John Coleman.
Founder of Weather Channel.
Former weather caster/meteorologist KUSI Ch 9/51 TV San Diego CA
He was one of the firs to prove climate change is BS.
Keith O says
Mortimer, I used to be sceptical about the climate change stories, at that time I lived in a city so didn’t get to see the effects humans are having on the planet.
Since moving back into a semi bush area I can see the subtle and not so subtle changes, from when I was a kid growing up in the bush to now.
Little things like the sky being bluer when I was young, commented by a few of my neighbours who are older than me, plants flowering months earlier, birds nesting at the wrong time of year.
Then there is the storms, we used to get 1-2 big storms every summer, between Jan and end of Feb. now? expect one at any time, hell we had a big one in June, our winter, that’s unheard of.
My daughter, when she was 7 told me that “people are dumb”, she said there are more people, more cars, more cattle to feed those people, but less trees to make the oxygen that those people and cattle breathe.
Now if a kid of 7 can make the connection, then why can’t all these so called experts?
And she is now 23 so that was 16 years ago.
gravenimage says
With all respect, Keith, there are *more* trees than there were 35 years ago.
somehistory says
wouldn’t that depend on where one is living and seeing trees or not seeing them? Over the years in Florida, many trees were cut down…really old and huge trees…to make room for houses, businesses. those trees were not replaced.
gravenimage says
Somehistory, there are more trees globally than there were 35 years ago. Of course I don’t know the exact circumstances in Keith’s or your part of the world.
somehistory says
I’m not sure how anyone would know the number of trees in the world. I have read for years of the cutting of trees in the Amazon rain forests at an alarming rate, and the lack of trees in africa is one of the main reasons they have so much drought and famine.
In Florida, as I said, the builders, movers and shakers, have cut down a whole forest full over the past 40 years, many in my home town.
john smith says
Gravenimage
Where on earth did you get this from? “there are more trees globally than there were 35 years ago”. I find this hard to believe when such large areas of the Amazon rain forest are being cleared on a daily basis.
gravenimage says
Somehistory and John:
“Earth has more trees now than 35 years ago”
https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/earth-has-more-trees-now-than-35-years-ago/#:~:text=Tree%20cover%20increased%20globally%20over,data%20from%201982%20to%202016.
This study was from 2018, and analyzes data up to 2016, but the basic trend has not changed. There are many similar studies.
This is not counting individual trees, but is based on satellite data. Many nations, especially in the West and places like Israel are engaged in large tree-planting campaigns.
This doesn’t of course mean that there is not a problem with deforestation in some places, especially in parts of South America, Africa, and Russia.
john smith says
Gravenimage
Thanks for the links, and I’m glad to hear that some countries are making a serious effort to correct a serious problem.
But until we get all countries properly on board, (particularly the ones you mention) we still have a serious problem.
somehistory says
Just saw this
The amount of forest per person in the world has shrunk by nearly two thirds, according to a new study.
Tree cover has fallen from 3.4 acres (1.4 hectares) per person in 1960 to just 1.2 acres (0.5 hectares) per person in 2019.
In total, the world has lost more than 200 million acres (81 million hectares) of forest in the last 60 years.”
there is more here is some of it:
/”More than a billion acres (437 million hectares) has died or been cut down while just over 877 million acres (355 million hectares) of woodland has been planted since 1960.Results also revealed that deforestation has mainly affected poorer countries while new trees have tended to be planted in richer ones.
Lead study author Dr. Ronald Estoque from the Center for Biodiversity and Climate Change, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute in Japan ”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/study-amount-of-forest-per-person-has-shrunk-by-nearly-two-thirds/ar-AA10bYAi?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=039f131aa8fd43fec043fd23df5df6a2
john smith says
Somehistory,
That seems a lot more accurate, and you have to take into account if a tree has only recently been planted it’ no a tree it’s a sapling. It can take many hundreds of years for a tree to mature, especially like those you get in the rain forests
somehistory says
That’s how I see it, John. tiny just beginning trees don’t put off much oxygen, produce any fruits, nuts, shade or lumber, etc. And if more are burned or cut down for whatever reason, it’s gone and the tiny new plantings may not even survive long enough to make proper replacement.
I know the mozlums have destroyed plantings in Israel. a lot to consider when making estimates.
Keith O says
Mortimer, your comment about there being “more trees than there were 35 years ago” is at the very least ignorant.
Get onto google earth and look at the Amazon rain forests, or what’s left of it.
Use the timeline function and go back a few years. Ray Charles could see the difference.
I don’t now where you got that info from, it is totally false.
gravenimage says
Keith, I said this, not Mortimer.
Here are some more references:
“Global tree cover has increased 7% since 1982, finds biggest ever study”
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/tree-cover-increase-world-deforestation-farming-rainforests-forests-a8486096.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/02/scientists-discover-that-the-world-contains-dramatically-more-trees-than-previously-thought/
You can look this up yourself.
somehistory says
I don’t doubt that some say that because some people are planting trees, there could be the idea that there are more trees in total, but I find that difficult to believe.
A quick look at google earth reveals vast areas of land that are brown….and that means, no trees in those areas.
I won’t argue the point, but I disagree with the studies by people who say there are more trees.
Carol the 1st says
I urge everyone to watch Jordan Peterson’s recent interview with Michael Yon:
Cometh the Horsemen: Pandemic, Famine, War | Michael Yon and Dr Jordan B Peterson
john smith says
Thank you Carol,
I did manage to find this interview on youtube, I’ve been trying to warn people for sometime now that this is the direction that we are heading, but most just laugh at me.
Unfortunately my wife is one of them. who seems to think that I am some sort of an apocalyptic nut-case, if only I could get her on board. I’ve been secretly preparing for the worse by stocking up with food etc, I wish you the best of luck and I really hope you do the same.
somehistory says
I found it too, Carol the first. thank you. Mr. Yon gives some very interesting bits of information.
watched most of it….Revelation 6 is being fulfilled. Once, a long time ago, Raymond Burr on the show “Perry Masin” pointed out that the ‘horsemen are riding.”
There is no escaping it. Jesus didn’t say how long they would ride, but it seems there is no reason now for people not to see the evidence of the prophecy coming true.
Infidel says
This fertilizer thing is now about nitrogen oxide emissions, which is a new one on me. I had heard of carbon dioxide, and to a lesser extent methane (the cow flatulence gas) but this one is absolutely new
Plants are the kingdom that do not require living organisms for their sustenance: certain chemicals will do. But nooooooo, that ain’t good enough for our know-it-all overlords: they now have to mandate that in addition to requiring us to eat what they want us to eat, plants now have to do so as well.
This switch from inorganic to organic fertilizer is what got rid of the government in Sri Lanka, and is threatening governments in different continents – Ghana, Panama, Netherlands… Right wing parties in every country should wise up and explicitly declare their complete opposition to this new cult of ESG, which is screwing our finances, our energy and our food, in addition to our political freedoms
Fitna says
Trudeau was nothing but a drama teacher who got the PM job because of his supposed ‘good looks’ and his father’s name.
It’s absolutely idiotic to go after our food supply, esp. since Ukraine and Russia provide 30% of the world’s grain and they’re at war, causing inflation and bread shortages.
The last sector we should ever touch is food, that’s our survival. There are other places one could easily “cut the fat” when it comes to carbon and other emissions.
I can understand if they want to “tweak” things and try to make it less polluting, assuming fertilizer even is harmful, but calling for massive changes, when even the farmers are telling you it is untenable, is hubris and insanity.
The most polluting sectors are transportation, industry and electricity. Shut down coal, switch to nuclear and right away you’ve stopped a major chunk of the emissions.
https://bit.ly/3beroZK
I trust the science, MCGW (man caused global warming) is real, the facts are undeniable. However this is a problem that can be easily managed over decades. Also what can be done about China and developing countries?
Even if the West completely stopped emissions, who will stop other nations from polluting? It’s not going to work if not everyone is on-board.
Radical Leftists with their climate hysteria can be as worrisome as Muslims. What’s worse is many of them are in positions of power or can influence the elites.
Hopefully they’re not vegans also, because the next polluting sources will be animals and they’ll try to force us off of eating meat…so far I think we’re ok in that area.
gravenimage says
Fitna, not all vegans are like this–I’m not. Sadly some are.
Westman says
Let’s imagine that enough volcanoes start erupting to cause a drop in the average temperature of the earth, creating years of short or no summers. Where would that leave the global warming “crisis”? How important would fertilizer become?
It has and can happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
gravenimage says
Yep. This has actually happened several times in recorded history, and there is evidence for many more, stretching back millenia.
Westman says
Now it is discovered that readings used to determine temperature trends may be faulty due to improper station locations.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/29/study-noaa-advances-bogus-heat-data-based-on-collection-practices-96-corrupted/
It seems sensors were placed too close to dense populations and asphalt which biased the measured trends upward. This is just another example of garbage-in-garbage-out assumptions that litter the calculations for global warming.
No amount of calculations can correct the inaccurate measurement of a “measurand”, the quantity being measured. This is the Holy Grail of instrumentation. The overall accuracy of any measurement is fixed at the moment of measurement.
somehistory says
Many are at airports which have huge amounts of asphalt or whatever it is that covers the long, long runways. I’ve heard that the reflected heat makes for many miscalculations.
Wellington says
This is the very argument, Westman, that the recently deceased, Dr. Fred Singer, Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Virginia (you know, the university that that slave owner, Thomas Jefferson, founded) made for years and that is that so many temperature gauges have been placed in “hot sinks” and thus quite inaccurate.
Ah, there is so much wrong with the current man-made climate change hysteria. And again I would recommend to all the some 7-minute skit by George Carlin on this “matter.” Just Google “George Carlin on global warming.” It’s viciously funny and still rings true to this day.
Westman says
Listened to Carlin, Wellington, and it was hilarious and right on about human arrogance, thinking we really can control nature. He also might be prescient about the planet cleaning us off with invisible viruses.
gravenimage says
Here it is:
“George Carlin on global warming”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0aFPXr4n4&ab_channel=thenewhosser10580
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, Wellington.
CogitoErgoSum says
Maybe we should bring back the great herds of bison that most of North America once had. The bison lived off the wild prairie grass and then fertilized the land naturally. The bison even produce less methane than domesticated cattle do. We would probably have to eat more meat and less grain but it worked for the plains Indians. Of course, a lot of them died at an early age but I think that is a big part of Trudeau’s plan.
mortimer says
You would need huge numbers of bison to provide the fertilizers that farmers currently use.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, you would. There were once huge numbers of buffalo and not many people. I’m saying that would fit right in with Trudeau’s plan.
somehistory says
clearly, he would rather have the bison…food and fertilizer all rolled into one…than have people who use up those things and breathe.,,..and don’t worship him
when I was growing up, the fertilizer we used was from chicken farms. It’s very rich and has to be used sparingly or it will burn the crops.
CogitoErgoSum says
Also, it would not take very long to get the great herds back. Just let them roam freely and eat a part of what the farmers can produce. I see how it works with the deer in the state where I live. When I was a boy we never saw any deer in town and we planted a garden in our back yard. But now, thanks to conservation efforts, it’s not uncommon for me to see 6 or 7 deer in my yard at all times of the year. A person can no longer put out a garden or have flowers in the yard but that is offset by the opportunity I now have to hunt deer in certain parts of town with a bow and arrow. That could work with bison (or buffalo) too, don’t you think? 👀
somehistory says
No reason why not. at one time, there were hardly any to see in Yellowstone, etc., but now, people visiting have to be careful to avoid the great beasts.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, and I always have lots of fertilizer in my yard too.
CogitoErgoSum says
BTW, my dad liked to use chicken manure on his garden in our back yard. One year he used a little too much and it was pretty smelly. The plants did okay but my friends didn’t want to come over and play in our back yard that summer.
somehistory says
I can imagine. You must have to clod hop. My mother asked my father to put a little on her garden one year, and he did it while he was a little inebriated, and put a little too much…burned some of her plants. She was not happy.
And it does smell, but when it’s worked in well, not too bad. sorry your friends didn’t want to visit. since we were always in the fields, we got kind of used to it. Our schools were called “strawberry school” because all the kids in the area had to help pick during the season, so the school district worked around that; otherwise, empty classrooms.
CogitoErgoSum says
That’s the kind of school my dad attended but when he married my mom they moved into town and I grew up as somewhat of a “city slicker.” As for my friends, they had a big back yard too so I just went over to their house and we played softball, football, whiffle ball, badminton, tag, hide and seek, whatever. I sometimes wished I lived in the country but I had a pretty good childhood nevertheless. Don’t see many kids playing outside (at all times of the year) the way we did. All in all, it was a good time to be a kid but the world has moved on. I just can’t imagine what the world will be like for the kids in the future. I just don’t think things can keep going in the direction they are headed.
somehistory says
Yes, in a lot of ways, we had it hard; but I would rather have that kind of hard, than what the kids have now.
We learned to work hard, but we also learned math, science, history, English, etc. and the teachers were real…not the kind that have so much control over the kids now and are *teaching* them garbage.
Kids today have it horrible. the foul odor today is not from chicken manure spread over a garden, but it’s coming from the crowd who says they are ‘woke.’
CogitoErgoSum says
Between leaving the world to the “woke” and having it revert to the bison, I’m hoping the Indians haven’t forgotten how to hunt bison.
Dan says
Cogito, the VAST MAJORITY of cattle live off prairie grasses in the summer, being fed hay pretty much ONLY in the winter, and even then most ranchers have winter pastures of natural grass.
As for fertilizing the land naturally, what the heck do you think cattle, AND spreading manure as fertilizer, does?
Pretty sure cows don’t use a “commode.”
As for the methane “shit” that’s a crock.
Bison and cattle have the exact same digestive system, end result the same.
As for how the Indians hunted buffalo, you realize a lot of tribes would stampede buffalo over cliffs, because before the white man came along, INDIANS DIDN’T HAVE HORSES to chase down individual buffalo, which they wouldn’t do anyway because those animals are VICIOUS.
So they’d stampede herd over a cliff, then either go after a dead one, or kill a crippled one.
Which by the way, there were a LOT of dead/crippled buffalo after being run over a cliff, and with NO FREFRIGERATION, that meant the plenty of buffalo just rotted where they died…
And crippled ones went off do die slow deaths, or get taken down by predators, because they couldn’t travel with the herd.
Pray Hard says
Trudeau should be used for fertilizer.
mortimer says
Justin’s mouth is a constant fire hose of fertilizer.
Yogi says
It’s time that Treaudauop have to go quick very quick, He is dick globalist rat , liar , dictator and on and on !!, look what is happening in Canada with travel !!!, you cannot enter the country with out this poison in your body !!, and even if you citizen or permanent resident, they treat you like criminal , threatening you a prison time if you don’t comply, !!! 2 weeks healthy people seating at home ( quarantine) it’s laughing stock !!!
mortimer says
Klaus Schwab of WEF claimed he has ‘PENETRATED’ the cabinet of Justin.
somehistory says
Glenn Beck discussed this and pointed out just how stupid it is…what the fool is forcing them to cut is only in the fertilizer necessary to grow food. to cut it, means to cut food production when there are already so many problems with that.
One guy, Mike Adams, has compiled a list of at least 100 food processing establishments…warehouses, silos and elevators, chicken farms, slaughter houses for beef, etc. being destroyed over the past year. The diesel prices are out of sight, one RR company is refusing to allow certain farm products to be carried, the truckers in CA are under siege from newsom,, a drought in the U.S is keeping crops low, russia and ukraine are underproducing their crops and fertilizer…and now the Canadian fool is flexing his muscles against the farmers.
It’s all part of the plan….to bring the entire globe under schwab and his henchmen. Whoever escapes the death by virus, by needle, by terrorism from mozlums, and last without enough to eat, will “own nothing”…but will not “be happy.”
Bull Herman says
CA Governor Grevious Nuisance.
DemoCraps next candidate for President.
The friend to illegal aliens, child molesters, and abortionists. But an enemy to freedom, the Constitution, and legal Californians.
somehistory says
he’s a total jerk, a control freak, and imo, a psychopath. I knew that some time ago, and then when he told people they couldn’t have gas-powered lawnmowers…and now, paying for their own water. Total jerk. And worse, because of the baby-slaughter guaranteed from his mouth.
Grace says
Gavin is Nancy Palosi’s nephew. A chip off the block.
gravenimage says
Not exactly, Grace. Gavin Newsom was once related to Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law by marriage.
https://abc7news.com/are-gavin-newsom-and-nancy-pelosi-related-relation-to-recall-governor/10693194/
Newsom was just ten years old when they divorced.
mortimer says
The figure of 30% reduction is as ARBITRARY as the quotas imposed on farmers during the disastrous USSR.
Why not 100%? Why not 4.6%% Why 30%? Total nonsense.
gravenimage says
True, Mortimer.
Tom says
Reducing the use of nitrogen enriched fertilizers has been proven time and time again, with the most recent example being Sri Lanka, that it results in destruction of farming and food production tanks. High inflation costs for food and food scarcity and hunger are the direct results.
Indirect results are no exports to third world countries where starvation is the end result.
This is the strategy of the globalist elites like Trudeau and Klaus Schwab to reduce carbon emissions and is a deliberate plan to cull the human population.
Carol the 1st says
There are plans for some Super City replacing farmlands where Belgium, Netherlands, and Germany meet. Part of the Belt and Road. Once China hits the North Sea they can more than compete with the Panama Canal. Melting ice over Canada will soon allow another route – so warfare with countries having interests there seems inevitable.
Maybe that’s why China was allowed to train their troops in Canada’s northern environment?
Rarely says
The Liberal Party, of whom Trudeau is the head, has often thrown Western Canada under the bus whenever it suits them.
It’s all about retaining power — no larger principle is involved. Attacking carbon emissions in the Maritimes, Quebec and industrialized Ontario will cost necessary votes while votes in Western Canada are much less important and, after all, grain farmers have been doing quite well of late so they can easily absorb these losses.
Wellington says
Maybe it’s time, Rarely, for Western Canada to secede, which, if I am not mistaken, is allowed by the Canadian Constitution of 1982. I hold out little hope for British Columbia (what is it with the Left coast of North America, minus Alaska of course?), but perhaps Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba might want to form their own nation or, in the alternative, if America were still sane (it is not under Democrats and RINOs) become part of the USA. Just sayin’.
Bull Herman says
It would be a Blessing to see those three provinces, and what a plus if the Left Coast BC would join in in telling Boi Wonder Justine Trudump to get lost and fart.
His only objective is to bleed taxpayers, eliminate guns while he imports tens of thousands of Islamists already blocked from the US, and then he of course wants to force the WEF polices on Canadians.
Must confiscate guns, canoes, cars, and sling shots to pull that shit off.
He has no clue about defense, finance, or anything other than kowtowing to his globalist bully gang.
Carol the 1st says
Face it. The guy is malicious,
Infidel says
I’d say split up the left leaning and right leaning parts of both the US and Canada. Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta could join the Red states in the US, while that part loses CA, OR, WA, IL, MN, HI, all the New England states, NY, NJ, MD, DE, DC and maybe CO and NM. Call the red country the US, and readjust the number of stars on the flag. The capital can be distributed b/w different cities based on the department. The US constitution would be at work here
The blue states can be called Canada, since Leftists hate America, and it can be everything from Ellesmere Island to DC in the east, and Washington to California in the West
Once this is achieved, maybe have Justin as the prime minister, Harry & Meghan as their king & queen, and you won’t have to bother about Biden, Kamala and the like. They can have everything they want – the ban on cattle, organic fertilizers, no guns, maybe an ESG derived constitution, or maybe even a country resembling CHAZ/CHOP/whatever they ultimately called it. All the woke companies can leave the US and move to this Canada, and companies that are still led by people who haven’t taken leave of their senses can inorporate in the US. We can have Trump again, and Ron DeSantis following him. Oh, and have a 50 ft wall b/w this new US and Canada
gravenimage says
Good post, Rarely.
Rarely says
GI
Sadly it’s the way it is. To form a majority government a party needs few, if any, seats in Western Canada. That sober fact can dictate policy to a much greater degree than any ideology — real or imagined.
As far as separation goes, B.C. already believes it’s a separate country and often acts like it. However, if the 4 western provinces did separate they would have enough oil, grain, hydro power, lumber, minerals, potash, cattle, water resources etc. to go on their own without joining the U.S. Of course it’s purely academic because it isn’t going to happen.
gravenimage says
Rarely, things are similar here in California. There are actually many moderate and even conservative parts of the state–largely in the agricultural great central valley and in the east and far north, but they have smaller populations than do urban areas and the coast. They get little attention and are almost unknown outside the state, but grow a large part of the nation’s food.
somehistory says
Ot
A majority of repub voters in WY say no to liz…one woman, when asked about a *fourth* term for cheney, said that “she shouldn’t have had the three.”
gravenimage says
+1