Farming Rage

Written By Peter Allan

By Chris Hatch

This week, Pierre Poilievre was exposed courting the angry misogynists of the incel movement. A few weeks ago, he was seeding fear to harvest anger among farmers.

You’ve probably seen some of the disinformation — howls of outrage about a purported new climate mandate on fertilizer use, an impending “attack on farmers.” If the algorithms have you pegged a certain way, you’ll have seen a whole lot of it — federal “fertilizer cuts” that will drive food prices up, farmers into ruin and leave us all eating bugs.

It’s a classic disinformation playbook. Industry plants a sky-is-falling report, which is laundered through the echo chamber of Postmedia outlets and amplified by pro-fossil fuel outfits like Canada Proud and Oil Sands Action. Poilievre and conservative premiers jump in, promoting the claims and harvesting the crop of outrage, donations and data.

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