Jason Kenney says Alberta will fight Trudeau’s starvation policy
Thomas Lambert
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has come out to defend farmers whose businesses will be destroyed by Trudeau’s fertilizer reduction starvation policy.
“The Trudeau Liberal government has been hammering Canada’s largest industry, oil and gas, for years, and now they’re moving to a new target, Canadian farmers, with their proposal to reduce by 30% a key component of the fertilizers that are used by farmers right across Canada and around the world to get the best yields they can,” Kenney began.
“And this is happening just when the world is facing a serious global food security crisis,” he continues. “Now, that pre-dates Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Because of sky-high gas prices, which are the result of dumb green policies that have caused Europe to become almost completely dependent on Russian gas exports, Europe has shut in about 50% of their fertilizer production.”
Kenney’s comments couldn’t be timelier. As reported earlier today, BASF, the world’s largest chemical producer, announced that it plans to cut ammonia production even further to cope with skyrocketing natural gas prices. Ammonia is a critical ingredient in nitrogen fertilizers, and the company acknowledges this will further exacerbate fertilizer prices.
Kenney continues, saying that Trudeau’s cap on nitrogen emissions from fertilizer will only hurt farmers more and that food shortages will be an obvious consequence.
“Now you have European governments like in Holland and elsewhere trying to reduce even from there the access to fertilizers. Well, you know what this means? Less fertilizer means less food. It means radically lower agricultural yields,”
“And apparently, according to the proposal tabled at a federal-provincial meeting of agriculture ministers last week, the Trudeau government now wants to bring those kinds of policies here to Canada.”