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Published: August 5, 2022

Canada’s western premiers reject Trudeau’s plan forcing farmers to reduce fertilizer emissions

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(LifeSiteNews) – Premiers from Canada’s three western provinces, which are responsible for growing most of the Canadian wheat that feeds millions, have said they outright reject a plan by the federal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to curb fertilizer use by 30 percent.

“Our response to the federal government’s 30% reduction on fertilizer usage is ‘thanks, but no thanks for Saskatchewan,” tweeted Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe yesterday.

Moe tweeted in late July that “Saskatchewan producers use some of the most sustainable agriculture practices anywhere in the world, and we need to be sharing that story instead of targeting producers’ ability to put food on the table for families at home and abroad.”

Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson wrote in a letter dated July 29 to Trudeau and Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, that his plan to reduce fertilizer use “will negatively impact producer yields, which will mean higher

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