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Saturday, July 12, 2025

Freeland billed taxpayers for private car instead of taking train during climate summit

Instead of taking a $50-a-day train to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow last year, Liberal finance minister Chrystia Freeland stayed in Edinburgh and billed taxpayers over $3,000 for a private driver to get her to the conference.

Documents acquired by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) reveal that Freeland employed the luxury car service St Andrews Chauffeurs to shuttle herself, Deputy Minister of Finance Michael Sbia, former policy director Leslie Church and senior communications director Bronwen Jervis to Glasgow.

The trip between the two cities takes about an hour and a half by car but only 49 minutes by train. 

“Did Freeland forget to check Google Maps?” asked CTF federal director Franco Terrazzano. “Taxpayers shouldn’t be billed thousands of dollars extra because a minister stays in Edinburgh when the actual conference is in Glasgow.” 

“Here’s a crazy idea: the next time Freeland wants to attend an international conference, she should try staying in the same city instead of billing taxpayers for a luxury chauffeur service.” 

“And why did the minister and her staff drive when they could have taken trains that were cheaper and faster?” added Terrazzano.

A first-class ticket on a direct train only costs $50 a day, and around 121 trains run between the two cities per day. 

Freeland’s department has not commented on why she and her team decided to stay in Edinburgh instead of Glasgow. It also didn’t say why they opted for a luxury chauffeur service instead of the train. 

“It’s extremely disappointing that the finance minister is taking taxpayers for a ride like this,” said Terrazzano. “Freeland is supposed to be protecting the public purse, not wasting tax dollars on luxury shuttles because she didn’t stay in the same city as the conference.”


Other records reveal that taxpayers paid a total of $42,000 for Freeland’s three-day stay in Scotland. Her flight alone cost $11,573, followed by a stay at a $740-a-night hotel. Canadians were also billed for the flights and lodging of her staff members.

As reported by True North Canada’s delegation was the largest sent to COP26 by a G7 nation, including the host nation United Kingdom. 

LEVY: Women’s rights activist warns gender dysphoria has become an epidemic

Gender critical activist Mia Ashton has sent a letter to 3,000 school trustees across Canada expressing deep concern with policies allowing schools to withhold a child’s transgender leanings from his or her parents.

Ashton is an Ottawa-based spokesperson for the organization Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights (caWsbr), which aims to maintain women’s rights in the face of rabid gender ideology. 

Ashton said she feels teachers are being given the green light to practice pseudo “psychotherapy” on confused students who have gender dysphoria, which is a mismatch between their sex at birth and the gender they think they are.

According to Ashton, the use of selected pronouns and new names is part of this practice.

She said she believes this practice  – labelled social transition – is well-meaning but does “far more harm than good” – especially since the majority of teachers and school administrators don’t really understand the ramifications of its “very powerful psychotherapeutic intervention.”

Gender critical activist Mia Ashton has sent a letter to 3,000 school trustees across Canada expressing deep concern with policies allowing schools to withhold a child’s transgender leanings from his or her parents.

As reported by True North, school boards across Canada have increasingly adopted radical gender-based agendas, with educators teaching children to question their sexual identities in elementary school and earlier. 

Among the examples of their methods are outrageous posters containing pictures of breast binding, and special forums involving gender concepts far too sophisticated for young kids.

When it comes to how far school boards are prepared to go to indoctrinate students, Ashton said there’s a very “close race” between Nova Scotia, British Columbia and Ontario. She said their activism is being driven by groups – like Egale in Canada – which are piggybacking on gay rights. 

Ashton said that when it comes to people’s support for trans rights, they often think of it in the same terms as gay rights, and don’t see the potential harm in encouraging a student to medically transition. Sterility, she said, is very often an outcome.

“They support it blindly because they’re afraid of being called a bigot or transphobic,” she said, explaining in her letter that social transition is “viewed as the first active step on the pathway towards medical transition.”

Ashton provides statistics to show that there has been a “huge surge” in Canadian teenagers identifying as transgender in the past decade – girls, in particular. She says the stats show the number of those with gender dysphoria at puberty has become an “epidemic.”

She added however, that experts have shown that more than 80% of school kids who experience gender dysphoria come to terms with the sex they were born with after puberty – if they are not encouraged to transition.

“By accommodating the social transition, schools may be depriving teens of the chance to become comfortable with their bodies without the need for lifelong medical intervention and medical surgeries,” Ashton writes. 

She added that keeping important information from parents about a child’s health – particularly their mental health – is a “betrayal of trust” on the school’s part.

“Schools may well be setting them (students) on a pathway towards double mastectomies, hysterectomies and cross-sex hormones,” she said.

Ashton said that she has received 20 positive responses from her letter, including from school trustees who have said they agree with her but don’t feel they can raise the issue.

Indeed, as 20-year Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) teacher Carolyn Burjoski discovered in February, questioning trans issues has been deemed off-limits by some school boards. 

Burjoski was cancelled and labelled transphobic by WRDSB trustees merely for expressing her concerns about a book in the elementary school libraries promoting trans issues. She was placed on leave and subjected to a review. Burjoski has since retired.

Explaining some of the new perspectives and labels peddled by trans activists, Ashton said that one can’t be a masculine or “butch” lesbian anymore, and that tomboys are all considered “trans.”

“You can’t be a gender-non-confirming girl anymore… you have to be a trans man,” she said. 

Ashton says society is dealing with a transgender social contagion and that the seed was planted in 2015 when the reality show “I am Jazz” premiered on TV. The show featured an individual – now named Jazz Jennings – who according to news articles experienced gender dysphoria at age 5. 

Jennings started doing interviews publicly in 2007 – at age 7 – and took puberty blockers at a young age to transition from male to female. At age 20, Jennings has gained 100 pounds and has been very open about a binge eating disorder. 

“She’s clearly not doing well,” Ashton said. “She’s said on TV that she’s never had sexual function.”

Ottawa Police ban “vehicle-based” protests, including Rolling Thunder motorcycle convoy

The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) has announced that due to the Freedom Convoy, they will now bar “vehicle-based or supported protests” from the downtown core, including a motorcycle convoy heading to the city this weekend to celebrate freedom.

The event dubbed “Rolling Thunder” is estimated to have attracted between 500 and 1000 people, who are set to arrive in the nation’s capital on Friday and leave Sunday. The OPS announcement means that rally participants will now be barred from using their vehicles downtown. 

Police will be creating “vehicle exclusion zones” which covers a large portion of the city’s downtown core. 

“We have identified that based on what’s occurred in our city over the last number of months, that vehicle-based protests shouldn’t occur in that area,” said Ottawa Police Steve Bell on 580 CFRA.

“Our communities are scarred by what happened in February. They were deeply hurt and deeply affected by that. They expect us to maintain community safety and well-being in their areas, and we’re putting plans in place to make sure we do that.”

People can expect to see road closures as well as an increase in police presence downtown. OPS will be receiving backup support from the RCMP and the Ontario Provincial Police.

While OPS is referring to the motorcycle convoy as a protest, organizers say it is a celebration.

“What we are there to do is to celebrate our freedom,” said an organizer who goes by “brother Neil.” “This is not a protest of the government. We’ve already done that and exposed them, so this is about bikes.” 

According to a schedule posted to Rolling Thunder’s website, the bikers will arrive on the evening of Apr. 29. They will hold a rally and march on Parliament Hill followed by an afterparty.

On Saturday, the bikers will head to the National War Memorial at 10:00am for a memorial service hosted by the advocacy group Veterans for Freedom. They will then gather for another rally on Parliament Hill at 2:00pm, which will feature controversial public figure Chris Sky as a guest speaker.

The bikers also plan to do a bike show as well as a church service Sunday morning at Ottawa’s Capital City Bikers Church. 

The rally has also been criticized by Ottawa mayor Jim Watson and other Ottawa politicians.

“Why waste all that money on gas, which is really expensive, to come here to drive around a couple of streets yelling ‘Freedom?” said Jim Watson Friday on Newstalk 580 CFRA.

According to Watson, the days of “Mr. Nice Guy, welcoming people” to Ottawa for protests must end. He also said that participants “are not going to be able to break the law like they did in the past.”

Progressivist councilor Catherine McKenney, who was a staunch opponent of the Freedom Convoy, has submitted an “inquiry at Council for a legal opinion on how to restrict further convoys and illegal occupations.”

“I do not want convoys sympathetic to the past illegal occupation in our downtown. They must not stop or stay in our neighbourhoods,” said McKenney on Twitter

Activist group Horizon Ottawa had launched a petition calling on Ottawa City Council and police to “withdraw logistical and planning support from Rolling Thunder organizers.”

“Residents are adamant that the terror of the occupation cannot ever be repeated and that any efforts to do so must be stopped in their tracks,” wrote Horizon Ottawa.

It should be noted that unlike Freedom Convoy, the Rolling Thunder bike rally is only planning on staying in Ottawa for the weekend. 

The original Freedom Convoy had stayed in Ottawa for three weeks. It was forcibly removed in late February after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act. 

In March, a convoy from Quebec calling for the freedom of future generations and for the end of COVID-19 restrictions made its way through downtown Ottawa, with OPS saying there had not been any incidents to report.

Despite months of protests in cities across Canada, federal mandates that prohibit unvaccinated Canadians from boarding planes and trains as well as crossing the US border remain in place, and with no end in sight.  

The Charter didn’t stop Canada’s Covid slide towards tyranny

While many Liberals unabashedly celebrated the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms last week, many Canadians were left wondering: if the Charter couldn’t protect our freedoms during Covid, then what good is it?

On today’s episode of the Candice Malcolm Show, Candice is joined by lawyer, legal scholar and President of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), John Carpay. 

Candice and John discuss the purpose of the Charter, its history and its many shortfalls. They discuss the worst government offenders during Covid, the most draconian and anti-freedom policies, and why our Charter didn’t do more to protect individual rights and freedoms during the dystopian nightmare of the past two years. 

Finally, Candice asks John if Canada is truly a free country and if it’s fair comment to describe Canada as a “dictatorship” – as we’ve heard recently from Conservative activists and politicians.

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Guantanamo Bay prisoner suing Canada for $35 million

A suspected terrorist who was detained in Guantanamo Bay is suing the Canadian government for $35 million.

In his statement of claim to the Federal Court of Canada, Mohamedou Ould Slahi alleged that Canadian authorities “caused, contributed to and prolonged (his) detention, torture, assault and sexual assault at Guantanamo Bay.”

Slahi is from Mauritania and is not a Canadian citizen. He lived in Canada for a short stint between Nov. 1999 and Jan. 2000. It was at that time that he was investigated by Canadian intelligence officials, who surveilled him for several weeks but did not find any evidence to arrest him. 

When US officials arrested Slahi in 2002, they said he had links to terrorist groups, due in part to the fact that he attended the same mosque as “Millennium Bomber” Ahmed Ressam. 

Slahi has admitted to travelling to Afghanistan in the 1990s to fight against the Soviet occupation. He was held in Guantanamo Bay without charge.  

Slahi’s lawyers claim that it was the torture that “broke him down” and led him to begin “to confess to the lies his interrogators put to him.” 

In a 2010 release order US Judge James Robertson ruled that “evidence does show that he provided some support to al-Qaeda, or to people he knew to be al-Qaeda.” 

Convicted al-Qaeda terrorist Omar Khadr was also held at Guantanamo Bay over his links to the international terrorist group. In 2017, it was revealed that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau authorized a $10.5 million settlement with Khadr.

In response to a question regarding the settlement, Trudeau told Canadians that “we all must pay” for the consequences of Khadr’s rights being violated. 

“That when a government violates a Canadian, any Canadian’s fundamental rights, and allows them to be tortured, there are consequences and we all must pay,” said Trudeau in 2018. 

Feds refuse to disclose justification for Emergencies Act

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The Trudeau government is refusing to reveal what information it used to justify invoking the Emergencies Act to crack down on peaceful Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa in February.

According to court documents obtained by the Globe and Mail, the government is citing “cabinet confidentiality” in its response to legal changes brought on by four legal organizations.

The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association are among the groups who have taken the government to court. The Alberta government is also seeking to join the case as an intervenor.

The legal organizations are accusing the government of acting unlawfully, saying existing laws, such as the Criminal Code and traffic laws, would have been sufficient to address the convoy protests.

In response to the government’s cabinet-secrecy claim, the CCF compared Ottawa’s approach to a phrase attributed to King Louis XIV of France in the 17th century: “L’état, c’est moi.” (I am the state.)

According to the Canada Evidence Act, when the government incites “cabinet confidentiality,” the federal court will refuse to examine or hear evidence relating to the case. However, the CCF is asking the court to instruct the government to reveal information specifically to the judge and counsel.

“To discharge its constitutional function, the court must have before it a full record and consider those materials in a fully adversarial proceeding,” the CCF said in its filing. “Without these materials and procedure, this court may feel ‘a little bit like a fig leaf.’”

The CCF has said it believes the government has information on Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino’s submissions on the factual and legal basis for emergency measures, options considered and rejected and a record of cabinet’s decisions – including a vote.

The Trudeau government invoked the never-before-used Emergencies Act on Feb. 14, saying the legislation’s powers were required to deal with ongoing protests against pandemic restrictions, including the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.

Trudeau refused to revoke the act even after a joint force of municipal, provincial and federal police cracked down on freedom protesters between Feb. 17 and 20. Mounting opposition to the government’s decisions both to implement and prolong the Emergencies Act concluded with Trudeau revoking it on Feb. 23.

Trudeau said that invoking the act had been “the responsible and necessary thing to do.”

“Totally unfair” – Wheat farmers blast Trudeau government over carbon tax

Farmers are being “unfairly burdened” by the Trudeau government’s carbon tax, the head of a major agricultural industry group says. 

True North spoke to Western Canadian Wheat Growers president Gunter Jochum, who blasted the tax for forcing farmers – as primary producers of goods – into a corner. 

“Absolutely we are unfairly targeted because we as a primary producer have no way of dealing with the carbon tax,”  said Jochum. “It is a pure cost to us, and there isn’t really a way for us to become more efficient.” 

“We were in a meeting two years ago when they first came out with the carbon tax, and we told the government that 75% to 85% of what we produce is exported, and we get it to export position via rail. So, we said to put a carbon tax on fuel, for example, that the railway uses, they will just offload that cost onto us farmers – and how are we going to make the railway, for example, more efficient? It is already one of the most efficient ways of transporting goods.” 

Critics including Jochum have said that the federal carbon tax is irresponsible during a time of looming food supply issues exacerbated by inflation and the Russia-Ukraine war. On Apr. 1, the federal carbon tax increased from $40 per tonne to $50 per tonne, adding another 2.2 cents in tax to a litre of gasoline.

“It’s totally unfair. The next thing would be anything that we need on the farm like our equipment that is built, the manufacturers are burdened with the carbon tax, and all they do is bill it into the cost of manufacturing and pass it on down to the farmers. Yes, of course, farmers are unfairly carrying that burden,” said Jochum. 

The agriculture industry has raised additional concerns about the high cost of fertilizer, which could impact their yields down the line. The president of the National Farmers Union Katie Ward told parliamentarians in February that farmers were “facing a fertilizer crisis.” Additionally, the Liberal government has also required farmers to reduce emissions from fertilizer by 30% over the next seven years.  

“Fertilizer has tripled in the last 18 months, and other input costs for farmers have doubled. The price of wheat has approximately doubled in the last 12 months,” explained Jochum. 

Conservative MP Philip Lawrence echoed Jochum’s concerns about the carbon tax, calling it an unfair punishment which barely affects Canada’s emissions levels. According to Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) estimates, the carbon tax could cost farmers over a billion dollars by 2031. 

“The PBO actually updated a report calculating that the proposed measures of Bill C-206 would save farmers a cumulative total of $1.104 billion over a ten-year period between 2021-22 and 2030-31,” Lawrence told True North.  “A more recent report on C-234 updated the figure to $1.107 billion.” 

“So, to summarize, the carbon tax is a huge burden on farmers with minimal positive impacts on the environment. Where farmers simply do not have other options, I think it is fair to say that they are being unfairly punished by the Liberal carbon tax.“ 

Bills C-206 and C-234 would give fuel and equipment emissions used by farmers exempt status from the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Act. 

Trudeau flew over 50,000km in the past seven weeks to talk carbon emissions

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew over 50,000 km in the past seven weeks – all while touting the Liberal government’s plan to cap emissions in the oil and gas sector by 40%.

An investigation by the National Post revealed that of the 127,147 km Trudeau has flown since last June, 50,680 km of his travel took place in the last seven weeks alone. As the outlet notes, the total distance – in terms of burning jet fuel – is the equivalent of travelling around the world three times. 

Trudeau and his team flew domestically on a fleet of bombardier Challenger 650s and internationally on a configured military jet, the CC-150 Polaris.

Out of all the flights Trudeau has taken since resuming travel after pandemic lockdowns, the longest was his 6,588 km trip from Warsaw, Poland to Ottawa on Mar. 11. His longest domestic flight was his controversial Sept. 30 vacation to Tofino. Soon after that, the prime minister embarked on a week-long trip to Europe to discuss climate change at the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland. 

As reported by True North, Canada sent the most delegates to Glasgow out of all G7 nations including host country, the UK. The Liberals have yet to reveal the cost of bringing over 300 officials and aides to the conference. 

While there, Trudeau revealed his government’s oil and gas sector emissions target.

“We will limit oil and gas sector emissions today and ensure they decrease tomorrow at the speed and scale needed to reach net zero by 2050,” Trudeau told global leaders. 

“This is no small task for a major oil and gas producing country. This is a big step which is absolutely necessary.”

Soon after the announcement, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney blasted Trudeau for not consulting with the province first. 

“I don’t know why they would make such an announcement without consulting the province with the most oil and gas reserves in Canada,” Kenney said.

“The (federal government) has zero chance of achieving its greenhouse gas reduction goals without Alberta’s oil and gas industries. Let’s be a partner in that.”

Professor of Environmental Studies at York University Bruce Campbell called the prime minister’s jet setting one of many contradictions to Trudeau’s stance on the environment. 

“(It’s) another one of those Trudeau contradictions, like when his government declared a climate emergency and then announced it was buying a pipeline, or more recently put forward its climate plan implemented in Budget 2022 and then approved an offshore oil development project despite the latest warnings from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change),” Campbell told the National Post. 

Family of Ukrainian priest narrowly escapes Victoria house fire lit by arsonist

Victoria police are investigating an arson attack after an unidentified suspect set fire to the family home of Ukrainian Catholic priest Yuriy Vyshenvskyy while he and his family were sleeping inside. 

At around 1 a.m. Vyshnevskyy awoke to his wife crying for his help as somebody poured gasoline through the mail slot of their front door before lighting the fuel ablaze. 

Vyshnevskyy reportedly leapt through the flames at the front door while his wife ran upstairs to pass the children to their father through the second-storey window. All three children – aged 5, 7 and 11 – made it out of the house, with the third jumping out of the window and sustaining injuries. 

Firefighters arrived at the 1112 Caledonia Ave home to find the mother clinging to a window on the second floor. 

“The flames were going from the ground level all the way to the roof,” said Victoria fire battalion chief Doug Carey. “There was also a female occupant of the house clinging to the window ledge on the left side of the house here.”

“The father ran down the stairs through the flames to escape the house. The mom woke up the children, took them into the one bedroom and shut the door behind her and then passed one child through the window to dad below, then another child down. She jumped and was injured slightly on her way down.”

Vyshnevskyy’s eldest daughter was treated for cuts from the jump at the hospital, while all family members were found to have inhaled smoke. The family’s two-year-old cat Tony was also resuscitated by firefighters. 

“He was totally unconscious, I thought he was deceased. Our crews used a special pet resuscitation device – it goes over the nose of the cat – they gave him oxygen and Tony’s now in stable condition at the central Victoria animal hospital,” said Carey.

Firefighters have forwarded the investigation to police, who are currently on the case. Detectives with the Victoria Police Department are investigating the fire as an arson and are asking for any witnesses to come forward, including those who have dashcam or surveillance cameras. 

“There has been some questions surrounding this, given the structure’s proximity to a Ukrainian Catholic church,” said Victoria police Const. Cam MacIntyre. “Sometimes there is simply an arsonist that is in the community. Other times these incidents are targeted. It’s too early in the investigation for us to say.”

“Our goal in this is to locate a suspect, or suspects, and arrest them. We have some information but we need more.” 

Trudeau government targets grain growers as worst emissions offenders

A Trudeau government report is putting farmers next on the carbon emissions chopping block, using UN data that accuses Canadian grain growers of producing crops with the highest “emissions intensity” in the world.

A new “discussion document” released by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada titled “Reducing emissions arising from the application of fertilizer in Canada’s agriculture sector” singles out wheat, barley and other cereal producers for emission reductions. 

The report outlines a framework to meet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s 2020 climate plan target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the agriculture sector by 30% below 2020 levels within ten years. 

“The fertilizer target’s objective is to contribute to lower GHG emissions from the agriculture sector, building on and leveraging public and private programs and initiatives,” Agriculture Canada writes. “The target applies to both direct (following fertilizer application) and indirect (from nitrogen leached from fields and volatilized to the atmosphere as ammonia) emissions from the application of fertilizer.”

Agriculture Canada goes on to accuse cereal farmers of having “one of the highest levels of emissions intensity” among exporting countries. The claim refers to data gathered by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) that puts Canada at the top of the list.

“Available data show that Canadian cereal production likely has one of the highest levels of emissions intensity (amount of GHGs emitted per unit of product) amongst major exporting countries,” Agriculture Canada claims. “Canada’s emission intensity for cereals in 2017 is higher than those reported for the United States, the European Union and (other regions).”

Industry leaders including President of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Gunter Jochum have disputed the federal government’s claim about the greenhouse gas output of farmers. In an interview with True North, Jochum questioned the validity of the data, saying there has yet to be any reliable measurement of emissions on fertilizer use by farmers in Canada.

“I would like to know where they got their facts from,” said Jochum. “I believe those facts were entirely made up because in Canada we don’t even have a baseline as to what the true emissions are.” 

“Now there’s also several forms of fertilizer that we use on farms, and some of them actually have very little nitrous oxide emissions. Then the other fact is, it depends on how the fertilizer is applied on farms, and there’s many different ways. Across Western Canada, we are at the forefront of applying fertilizer properly.”

“Until we have those (measurements) I’m very suspect to the government making bold statements like that, which I find quite ludicrous,” Jochum continued. “It’s not reasonable at all. I don’t think it’s a good idea to put any kind of cap on fertilizer manufacturing or fertilizer use for that matter.”

In 2020 The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) estimated that the federal carbon tax would cost Canadian farmers an estimated $235 million by 2025. At the time Conservative MP Philip Lawrence told parliament that farmers were sending him “exorbitant bills” for the carbon tax totalling between “$10,000 to $20,000.” 

A more recent PBO report on Bill C-206 which would exempt farming fuel from the carbon levy found that it could save the sector up to $1.1 billion over a ten-year period. 

On the fertilizer emissions cap for farmers, MP Lawrence told True North that the move could have dire consequences on future yields by already burdened farmers. 

“For farmers to meet emission reduction targets they will require significant capital to invest in more sustainable technologies,” said Lawrence in an emailed statement. “By imposing greater and greater burdens on our farmers, the government is actually making it more difficult for farmers to reduce their emissions.” 

“Basing fertilizer emissions reduction targets on the amount used will have dire consequences on how much we can grow.  So no, it is not reasonable that we self-impose a limit on how much we can grow when the world is on the verge of a global food crisis.” 

As reported by True North, at a time when fertilizer prices are through the roof, consumers are increasingly shouldering the burden in the form of higher costs at the grocery store. Additional concerns include a trucker shortage that could triple by next year according to the National Cattle Feeders’ Association and the ongoing economic repercussions of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 

Jochum also stated that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s stated goals to supply the world with agricultural products at a time of increasing uncertainty and war were inconsistent with the targets he places on domestic producers. 

“I don’t think we can afford to cut back any production without affecting the price of food, and our prime minister – I think it was a few weeks ago when he was in Europe – made an address (where) he said that Canada must step up and produce as much as we can in order to make up the shortfall from the Russian-Ukrainian war,” said Jochum.

“So if our prime minister wants to cut back fertilizer use on Canadian farms, how on earth are we going to maximize production?”

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