Thousands of Canadians from Calgary to Ottawa came out on Saturday to support the Dutch farmers who are being forced to produce less food on their land in order to achieve a higher economic social and governance (ESG) score from the World Bank and World Economic Forum (WEF). The Dutch government – and now a plethora of countries in the European Union (EU) are severely limiting the farmers’ access to fertilizer because it contains nitrogen – allegedly an element that causes climate change. .Does this sound strangely familiar?.You could find the Ottawa protest at the corner of Albert and Lyon streets, right in front of the Embassy of the Netherlands. Many of the people there also came out in February to support the Freedom Convoy and were marching on Canada Day despite the best efforts by Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson to intimidate them and an outrageously large police presence..The Ottawa Police Service was there on Saturday but with the same threatening posture as they brought to the previous events. The protest was, as usual, peaceful, with no fighting, shouting or destruction of private or public property. .That has always been the case with those who came out to oppose COVID-19 vaccine mandates and who are now realizing that Trudeau is weaponizing food..First the climate change communists went after your gas and fossil fuels, now they are going after your food..All in the name of ideology: just like what happened in Soviet Russia and Moaist China during their catastrophic attempts to control the food supply and starve the rural areas in order to industrialize and feed their urban centres..It is madness; but it is happening again..So the protests on Saturday had a larger scope to them. Most of the people I talked to were aware that this fertilizer purge is not just happening in Europe. As with most radical climate change initiates, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is imposing the same restrictions and the same ultimate food shortages and potential famine on Canada. And the protesters knew that – despite the fact that the Western Standard has been one of the few media to talk about this issue. .While protesters have been focused on vaccine mandates and the hysteria surrounding the latest COVID-19 variant and the forced prolongation of the pandemic, Trudeau has been assiduously preparing for the next stage of climate change madness: controlling the food source, by putting a 35% tariff on nitrogen..As one demonstrator, who called herself Juanita, told me, “We all need to eat … I think [Trudeau’s] policies are going to make the price of food go up for middle class and poor people, this is bad.” She said that “just because these policies don’t affect” all Canadians at the moment, “this doesn’t mean they won’t affect them in the long term.”.Juanita argued that democracy is a team sport..“To have a peaceful society, we need to stand for the rights of each other.”.Justa Martin came to the protest to support the Dutch farmers and to share some music on her guitar, “to play some tunes to keep the vibes positive. They’re pretty positive already,” she said..When asked why she was spending her Saturday afternoon in front of the Dutch embassy, Martin said something has to give..“We’re dealing with tyrannical governments … it’s not very democratic and it has to stop.”.She noted that there is an absence of debate when it comes to what issues are supposedly settled by science or public opinion and that Canada’s federal government is one of the worst offenders..“They say, ;’Trust the science, trust our science.’ Well can we talk about it? No. We’ve been trying to talk about it for two or three years now.”.Martin noted that the demonstrations have remained truly peaceful..“People have kept it peaceful and we’re going to continue to keep it peaceful.”.I asked her if people were aware that it’s not just the Dutch farmers who are in peril but Canadian ones as well..“I think it’s definitely coming here at least with the nitrogen cuts,” she responded..“You know what’s scary here is that a lot of our food here in Canada is imported. So what happens if those imports stop?” .It has been almost 100 years since Canadian farmers became politically engaged and pushed back against the federal government. That was during the Great Depression. Farmers are usually too busy growing our food to fret about politics; the government has kept them docile with subsidization and the constant liaison between the myriad of agriculture lobby groups and the federal agriculture minister. But they can be satisfied no more..Canadian farmers have got to get energized and activated and stop assuming that someone else is going to fight for their issues. The time to act is now.
