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OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Provinces and agriculture groups are pushing back against Justin Trudeau’s objective to implement a national plan that would drastically reduce fertilizer usage in Canada by 30 percent.
BREAKING: Trudeau seeking to implement ‘regulated fertilizer reduction’ policies across Canada https://t.co/51Pw2jE1Bd
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The push to restrict farmers in their capacity to grow food in the conventional way is part of a Liberal Party initiative to reduce “GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions in Canada by 40-45% by 2030.”
Not everyone is happy with the anti-fertilizer push. Notably, the provincial governments of both Alberta and Saskatchewan released a statement expressing their dismay with the proposed initiative.
In a press release dated July 22, Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture David Marit said: “The Trudeau government has apparently moved on from their attack on the oil and gas industry and set their sights on Saskatchewan farmers.”
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