PJ The Belt - September 02, 2025


Canada SELLS OUT Alberta & Saskatchewan To China! — U.S. To Help Farmers？!


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8 minutes

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146.2142

Word count

1,205

Sentence count

91

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Hate speech

1

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Canola farmers in Alberta and Saskatchewan are feeling the effects of China's new 75% tariffs on canola seed and meal. Canola farmers across the country are being hit hard, and there's no sign of relief coming soon.

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00:00:00.000 As producers, we feel like we're caught in the middle of a trade war that we neither wanted or started or have any influence.
00:00:07.280 Some producers are going to be forced to sell their canola and likely selling it at a loss at the prices that we're likely to see in the near future.
00:00:15.460 China is one of the biggest markets for Canadian canola products, but it is now effectively closed to producers.
00:00:22.140 The announcement on Tuesday immediately dropped the price for the crop, which is bad news for canola farmers across Canada, with harvest set to begin soon.
00:00:33.120 So here's another chapter in the never-ending disaster that is today's Canada.
00:00:39.460 China slaps devastating tariffs on Alberta and Saskatchewan's canola farmers,
00:00:45.140 all because the Trudeau government decided right before they left power that Ontario's electric vehicle industry needed protecting.
00:00:55.080 And if you're wondering why talk of Western independence is hitting up again in Canada, well, this might just be Exhibit A.
00:01:03.320 The tariffs are coming at an already tough time for the industry, where producers are dealing with slim margins as they gear up to sell.
00:01:11.700 We put our fertilizer on, we've spent our money on this crop already, so basically we've spent the money.
00:01:17.700 We can't reduce costs anymore, so it's going to hurt.
00:01:21.760 Let's lay it out.
00:01:23.240 Ottawa imposed 100% tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to shield Ontario's auto sector.
00:01:30.160 China fired back, but targeting prairie agriculture instead, our biggest export lifeline.
00:01:37.120 We're talking 75% tariffs on canola seed, 100% on meal, basically slamming the door shot on billions of dollars in farm exports.
00:01:48.820 For Ontario, Ottawa acted like a bodyguard.
00:01:53.080 For Alberta and Saskatchewan, Ottawa opened the door and invited the hitman into the house.
00:01:59.420 And this is where the anger comes from.
00:02:03.460 Prairie farmers didn't pick this fight. 0.99
00:02:06.400 They didn't ask Ottawa to go to war over electric vehicles.
00:02:10.780 Yet, they're the ones footing the bill.
00:02:13.900 Their livelihoods, their markets, their communities, all collateral damage in a trade war designed to score points in Ontario.
00:02:23.320 Does that all sound familiar?
00:02:24.800 Well, it should, because whether it's oil and gas, pipelines, equalization payments, or now canola, the message from Ottawa is always the same.
00:02:37.200 The West can take the hit as long as the East gets the benefits. 0.60
00:02:42.120 And this is why more and more people out here are talking about breaking away.
00:02:47.040 And it's not some fringe idea anymore.
00:02:49.220 It's growing because every policy out of Ottawa seems to confirm the suspicion that Alberta and Saskatchewan are treated as provinces of convenience,
00:02:59.860 good enough to fund the country, expendable when political calculations demand it.
00:03:06.720 Think about it.
00:03:07.920 If we were independent, would our government ever allow our biggest agricultural export to be thrown under the bus
00:03:15.140 just to prop up some electric vehicle plant in Ontario?
00:03:19.900 Not a chance.
00:03:21.060 What does that mean for the industry?
00:03:24.480 Well, basically, it effectively shuts down, basically, exporting canola to China.
00:03:31.040 You know, it gets back to, you know, if you have a shipload of canola that's been going into China,
00:03:38.180 that itself is worth millions of dollars.
00:03:40.700 And to have a 75% tariff put on that, you know, it just, it effectively shuts down the trade to there.
00:03:47.420 So basically, you know, all of a sudden there are contracts that have been, you know, have been sold.
00:03:53.600 So for China or for canola going to China. 1.00
00:03:56.960 So it, you know, it's very devastating.
00:03:59.240 On the ground, this is devastating.
00:04:03.000 Farmers who've already sunk thousands into seed and fertilizer are staring at collapsing prices.
00:04:09.620 Five billion in exports, completely gone.
00:04:13.280 200,000 jobs are at risk.
00:04:15.480 Saskatchewan's premier, Scott Moe, is literally packing his bags for Beijing to beg for relief
00:04:22.080 because Ottawa can't, or won't, fix the mess that they created.
00:04:27.060 Meanwhile, in Alberta coffee shops and Saskatchewan town halls, the chatter isn't just about canola.
00:04:33.580 It's about whether this country even works anymore for people out west.
00:04:37.360 Canadian canola farmers are feeling the blow of Chinese tariffs.
00:04:42.280 China slapped a duty of nearly 76% on canola seed.
00:04:47.180 This came into effect last Thursday.
00:04:49.800 That's in addition to the 100% tariff on canola oil and canola meal imposed this March.
00:04:56.500 China's move is seen as a response to Canada's tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.
00:05:01.280 So far, the federal government has not announced any help for canola farmers.
00:05:05.140 This is not a choice between one or the other.
00:05:09.620 The question is, we will be there to support our canola industry.
00:05:13.480 We will be there to support our farmers.
00:05:15.640 And I know that the prime minister and the minister of agriculture have been working together to address this issue.
00:05:22.780 And here's the thing.
00:05:24.520 Ottawa calls this national policy.
00:05:27.960 But really, it's selective protectionism.
00:05:31.100 They protected Ontario's electric vehicle plants while letting prairie agriculture burn.
00:05:37.780 That's not national unity.
00:05:39.740 That's picking winners and losers.
00:05:42.440 And the prairies?
00:05:43.540 We always seem to get stuck with the loser status.
00:05:47.720 You can only tell people to wait their turn, sacrifice for the greater good, or suck it up for so long.
00:05:54.920 Eventually, they start asking, why stay in a system that's rigged against us?
00:06:00.960 Our largest market for canola, oil, seed, and meal is the United States of America.
00:06:06.380 Our second largest market is China.
00:06:08.120 We have uncertainty, at the very least, and 100% tariffs on oil and meal going into China now.
00:06:17.280 And now this is added to that.
00:06:18.680 It's not in place.
00:06:19.540 It's added to that.
00:06:20.500 So it's very, very significant to producers, to exporters, and I would say to Canadians as a whole in an industry that employs 200,000 people.
00:06:29.100 So China has decided to target the agricultural industry mostly located in Western Canada.
00:06:36.060 It's obvious they're doing this as retaliation to Canada imposing a 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in order to protect Ontario's auto sector.
00:06:45.860 Whenever the Ontario car industry has been in any sort of trouble, the Canadian federal government is quick to respond in defense of that industry.
00:06:56.320 Not so much for Western farmers, though.
00:06:59.280 The premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan have been requesting for over a year that the feds deal with previous Chinese tariffs affecting the agriculture industry, to no avail.
00:07:10.440 If this was the Quebec dairy cartel being tariffed into ruin, the liberal government would be bending over backwards to protect the Frenchies.
00:07:20.620 So when you see the headlines about Chinese tariffs, don't just see a trade dispute.
00:07:26.920 See another log on the fire of Western independence.
00:07:30.880 Because for farmers out here, this isn't just about canola.
00:07:35.580 It's about being ignored, sacrificed, and betrayed, yet again.
00:07:41.360 And every time Ottawa makes a move like this, more Albertans and people from Saskatchewan stop asking if separation makes sense and start asking when and where do we sign.
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