Juno News - March 11, 2024


Canadian farmers are FINALLY RISING UP against the government!


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In the wake of the massive farmer protests across Europe, it was only a matter of time before Canadian farmers began protesting and pushing back against the self-destructive climate agenda that is destroying one of our country s most crucial industries.

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00:00:00.000 Well, it was only a matter of time until Canadian farmers began protesting and pushing back against the self-destructive climate agenda that is destroying one of our country's most crucial industries.
00:00:18.000 Farmers in Murmuski, Quebec gathered in the hundreds to protest the provincial government's upcoming budget as farmers are becoming squeezed by crippling regulations and a spike in the cost of fuel and equipment.
00:00:30.000 Interesting, because farmers across Europe are protesting the exact same thing.
00:00:36.000 The European Union's Green Deal climate policies and taxes on diesel fuel have triggered mass protests across the continent.
00:00:44.000 Well, farmers in Quebec are now faced with an existential crisis. That is why they are now protesting.
00:00:49.000 Net income for Quebec farmers has dropped by over 85% in the last two years.
00:00:55.000 Yep, you heard that right. 85%.
00:00:58.000 When farmers suffer losses like that, the price for food goes up by a lot.
00:01:02.000 Which means Canadians eat less.
00:01:04.000 Which means Canadians go hungry.
00:01:06.000 Which ultimately means that Canadians are more reliant on the government to literally stay alive.
00:01:11.000 Running farmers out of business is not just existential for our great farmers.
00:01:16.000 It's existential for all of us.
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00:01:22.000 And the comment question for the episode is this.
00:01:24.000 When will farmers across the country start rising up and protesting the federal government?
00:01:30.000 Let me know your answer in the comments below.
00:01:32.000 And let's get into it.
00:01:33.000 We'll take a look at the scenes out of Rimouski, Quebec on Friday.
00:01:36.000 If you've been following the European farmer protests like we have, these scenes in Quebec will look awfully familiar to you.
00:01:43.000 Hundreds of farmers traveled from the Bas-Saint-Laurent and the Gaspaisy region traveled to Rimouski to participate in a protest on Friday organized by the Federation of the Union of Agricultural Producers of the Bas-Saint-Laurent area.
00:01:58.000 These farmers formed a massive convoy of tractors to protest outside of the Agriculture Ministry offices.
00:02:04.000 One farmer's sign at this protest translated to English read very clearly.
00:02:09.000 Our end will be your hunger.
00:02:11.000 The rallying cry in Europe, which has now been adopted in Quebec, is simple.
00:02:15.000 No farmers equals no food.
00:02:17.000 Well, if you've been waiting for Canadian farmers to start protesting our government over crippling self-destructive climate policies and overburdening regulations,
00:02:26.000 while our brothers in Quebec have finally taken to the streets.
00:02:29.000 Yes, sir!
00:02:32.000 Hey! 0.99
00:02:34.000 Partagez tout le monde!
00:02:36.000 Share, everyone!
00:02:38.000 Share, share, share!
00:02:41.000 And when you start to see what these regulations have done to the bottom line of Quebec farmers, the only question you'll be left with is why it has taken them so far.
00:03:02.000 And when you start to see what these regulations have done to the bottom line of Quebec farmers, the only question you'll be left with is why it has taken them so long to start protesting.
00:03:12.000 Take a look at what's been going on to our farmers in Quebec, alright?
00:03:16.000 In 2022, net income for Quebec farmers was just under a billion dollars.
00:03:22.000 It was $959 million in 2022.
00:03:25.000 By 2023, a year later, Quebec farmers lost over 49% of their income, okay?
00:03:32.000 So, half of their income was gone a year later.
00:03:35.000 This year, however, farmers in Quebec are expected to lose over 86% of their income.
00:03:41.000 $959 million in 2022 to $66 million in 2024, net income.
00:03:49.000 Losses of that magnitude have not been recorded since 1938.
00:03:55.000 Find me any other industry, maybe one that doesn't keep us all alive, like agriculture, that can possibly handle an 86.5% loss in net income.
00:04:05.000 These record low profits are all due to the rising cost of fuel, fertilizer, and equipment.
00:04:11.000 Now, you don't need to be a genius or a farmer to understand that farmers operate with some of the slimmest margins.
00:04:18.000 Farmers have to spend millions of dollars on state-of-the-art equipment in order to create great Canadian food.
00:04:25.000 Which means they have to sell food in order to sustain their businesses.
00:04:29.000 Now, how many farmers do you think will end up having to go out of business when you're faced with an over 86% decrease in net income?
00:04:36.000 It's absolutely frightening when you think about it.
00:04:38.000 Now, the massive farmer protests across Europe have been over the exact same issues.
00:04:43.000 Fertilizer emissions reduction targets.
00:04:46.000 Carbon taxes on fuel.
00:04:48.000 Now, wouldn't it be interesting if True North had the receipts which show that the Canadian government views the European climate policies targeting the agriculture industry and farmers as inspiration, as a blueprint to follow for success?
00:05:01.000 We do, as a matter of fact.
00:05:03.000 A 2021 copy of a speech delivered by Justin Trudeau's then agriculture minister shows that Canada's climate and agriculture policies were, quote,
00:05:12.000 very closely aligned with the European Union's farm to fork strategy.
00:05:16.000 Which, of course, meant a fertilizer emissions reduction scheme.
00:05:19.000 The federal government wants Canadian farmers to achieve a 30% reduction in fertilizer-based greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
00:05:27.000 A report by the Alberta Wheat and Barley Commission in 2022 on the federal government's fertilizer emissions reduction scheme says very clearly,
00:05:37.000 Reaching a 30% reduction is not realistically achievable without imposing significant costs on Canada's crop producers and potentially damaging the financial health of Canada's crop production sector.
00:05:49.000 European governments and Justin Trudeau's government in Canada believe that in order to somehow solve climate change, farmers need to be the ones at the tip of the spear,
00:05:58.000 completely changing how they operate for decades and generations in order to somehow reduce emissions.
00:06:04.000 Now, these policies have likely been cooked up by people who've never spent a day in their life working on a farm,
00:06:11.000 but yet somehow believe as though they have the moral authority to dictate to the people who literally keep us alive how they need to change their practices to achieve some arbitrary climate reduction level.
00:06:25.000 They need to start operating electric tractors.
00:06:27.000 They need to get away from diesel fuel, that dangerous diesel fuel.
00:06:31.000 Their fertilizer needs to change to become some low nitrogen mixture.
00:06:35.000 That is the worst idea I've ever heard in my life, Tom.
00:06:38.000 Yes.
00:06:39.000 Yes, it's horrible.
00:06:40.000 This idea.
00:06:41.000 Add on top of all of that, an outrageous and growing list of regulations that farmers need to follow. 0.91
00:06:47.000 Now, whenever I look at political ideas, especially ones adopted by Justin Trudeau, 0.99
00:06:52.000 I always try to remember Hanlon's razor, never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity. 0.99
00:06:58.000 Seeing as how European farmers and Quebec farmers are suffering from existential losses due to these climate policies, 0.99
00:07:04.000 why would any government continue with this?
00:07:06.000 Why would they not want to make sure that farmers, the people who put food in our table, can continue to operate in our country?
00:07:13.000 Unless, however, we had a government that was in fact so malicious that their ultimate goal was to drive farmers out of business,
00:07:20.000 to put the government in the business of food production.
00:07:23.000 To make the people fully reliant on the government in order to stay alive, and to put food on their own table.
00:07:29.000 I think we've seen how that has worked out in the past, and something tells me it's not going to work out in this country either.
00:07:35.000 So, Canada, let's get behind the farmers in Quebec, encourage them to protest, let's get the farmers out across the country to protest as well.
00:07:42.000 Make no mistake about it, this is existential.
00:07:45.000 Alright everyone, that's going to do it for us today on the show, thank you so much for tuning in.
00:07:48.000 My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ratio.
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