Conservative leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis has come out in support of the Dutch farmer protests. .“Canadian farmers are horrified to see what is happening in the Netherlands because our country is following the same destructive path,” Lewis said in a Thursday email. .“The Liberals’ Net Zero policy commitment is predicated upon the complete decarbonization of the entire food supply chain under a technocratic management system.”.Dutch farmers were promised by their government that if they transitioned to sustainable farming, they could save their industry. The Dutch government is forcing a 30% decrease in livestock farms. .Dutch farmers angry at government plans to slash emissions have scaled up their protests, using tractors and trucks to block major roads and grocery store distribution centres..READ MORE: Dutch farmers protest threaten to grind Nederlands to a halt.Some 40,000 farmers have voiced their displeasure with their government's policies by obstructing roads in the Netherlands. Many farmers have disrupted highway traffic or parked their tractors, while others have dumped hay bales onto roads..The farmers have plans to perform a slow-roll that will snarl traffic across the country. .Lewis said the rules being set out by the Dutch government are non-negotiable. She said there is no democratic discussion taking place and that the government is refusing to budge. .Lewis said the Dutch farmer protests is “how cancel culture works.” She explained cancel culture makes the government act in an overbearing way, and it labels anyone who challenges ideas a 'conspiracy theorist.'.She went on to say the result is that “people are silenced and oppressed and their only outlet to combat the arrogance of government becomes protesting in the streets.”.Many farmers, said Lewis, are engaged in carbon-offsetting practices that are not acknowledged. She said this lack of recognition has “fuelled the belief that the government is out to destroy the agricultural sector.”.Lewis said if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is concerned about the environment, he has to adopt a transparent plan with metrics to account for emissions from the farming sector. .As prime minister, Lewis said she would consult with farmers to create a plan to protect the environment. .“Canadian farmers have done more in the past few years to protect our environment than the government has done with its carbon taxes, or any other virtue-signalling policies,” she said.
