Cathy Holtslander 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈
@holtscat
Tom Kitten's mom, policy analyst and researcher at National Farmers Union, organic farmer, birdwatcher, fiddle player...
Trade agreements make it easier to process in a country with lower labour, environmental and health standards and import to Canada. We had way more domestic processing before the FTA and food was also more affordable. Here is data from 2017 - same pattern holds today.
Happy Caturday from Tom Kitten who does not approve of noisy lawnmowers in his domain.
$1.5 billion for this after cutting hundreds of researchers and highly skilled technicians from the civil service... ?
The AAFC Seed Increase Unit is in limbo - it provides seed needed for growing crops on 20 million acres of Prairie farmland.
Little nuthatch is working on his nice cozy nest this snowy day.
Poor birdies! Today in Saskatoon- yet another round of winter in April
Endorsed by Stephen Harper, paid for by ... Loblaws, CAPP ? Bought and paid for anyways.
Normally quite elegant... Common Mergansers on the South Saskatchewan River. #birds
Have you sent your letter to the Minister, your MP, etc. to protest the massive cuts to AAFC agriculture research in Canada? If not, go to www.nfu.ca/stop-the-aaf... and stand up for #foodsovereignty #seeds and #farmers
WTF CBC - your independently verified video "appears to show"?! It clearly and unequivocally shows what happened! Are you afraid Trump will sue you for telling the truth? You quote ICE lying but don't believe your own eyes???
Here is one in Saskatoon in December. They migrate to here for the winter.
Happening in Canada too - via a loophole: donate plasma and get paid for your time and effort.
Its like saying 5 wrongs make 1 right. This MOU has no teeth and emboldens provinces to use extortion to get concessions from the feds. Here's the text of the "implementation plan". These deadlines are ridiculous and insulting to serious policy-making.