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WORLD NEWS Thursday 17 OcTOber 2019

Canada's Liberal leader Justin Trudeau speaks during a cam-
paign stop at the Botanical Garden in Montreal on Wednesday
Oct. 16, 2019.
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Obama endorses

Trudeau in A wooden shoe is attached to a protest sign during a farmers protest in The Hague, Netherlands,

Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019.
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unprecedented By MIKE CORDER and PETER the Dutch Parliament. There were no reports of

endorsement DEJONG Large camouflage trucks violence.
Mayor of The Hague Johan
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carrying shipping contain-
THE HAGUE, Netherlands ers were deployed at ma-
Remkes appealed to the
(AP) — Thousands of Dutch jor roads. farmers to stick to agree-
By ROB GILLIES elections. farmers, many driving trac- The farmers are angry at ments about where they
Associated Press Robert Bothwell, a profes- tors, poured into The Hague recently announced gov- could protest — meaning
TORONTO (AP) — Barack sor of Canadian history on Wednesday to protest ernment plans to reduce they had to stay out of the
Obama is urging Canadi- and international relations government moves to rein emissions, particularly of town center.
ans to re-elect Prime Min- at the University of Toronto, in carbon and nitrogen nitrogen. They argue that "Ignoring agreements is
ister Justin Trudeau, an ap- said that might have some- emissions to better fight cli- the government's plans unacceptable and dan-
parently unprecedented thing to do with Obama's mate change. are based on inaccurate gerous for residents and
endorsement of a candi- intervention. It was the second major readings and calculations shoppers," he said, warning
date in a Canadian elec- "Trudeau is in real danger," protest this month by Dutch by the government-funded residents to take extra care
tion by a former American Bothwell said. "If I were a farmers who say the gov- National Institute for Pub- amid the traffic disruptions.
president. Liberal (Party) campaigner ernment is unfairly target- lic Health and the Environ- Farmers by the hundreds
Obama tweeted Wednes- I would quietly point with ing them as it seeks to slash ment. The institute disputed parked on a large grassy
day that he was proud to pride to Obama's endorse- emissions. that in a statement, calling field just outside the city
work with Trudeau and ment. I don't know if I'd run "They blame agriculture for its nitrogen measuring "ro- center and police effec-
described him as a hard- around toting it as a major everything at the moment bust and scientifically re- tively turned the main
working, effective leader political issue." because of nitrogen emis- sponsible." highway into the city into
who takes on big issues like Bothwell said you would sions," said farmer Jans de The farmers started their a tractor parking lot. Some
climate change. have to go back more Wilcher. demonstration at the cen- farmers even drove along
"The world needs his pro- than 100 years to find an He added that "we as a tral city of De Bilt, where the the North Sea beach, park-
gressive leadership now, American president inter- sector store far more nitro- institute has its headquar- ing there and coming into
and I hope our neighbors vening in a Canadian fed- gen than we produce. So ters, before heading to The town on busses, police said.
to the north support him eral election. we are actually helping the Hague. Their lobby is powerful be-
for another term," Obama He said former U.S. Presi- Dutch problem rather than There, they gathered cause of the economic sig-
wrote. dent Theodore Roosevelt, making it worse — so why around a small stage to lis- nificance of agriculture to
Trudeau later responded who was president from do we get the blame?" ten to music and speeches the Dutch economy. The
with his own tweet: "Thanks 1901 to 1909, visited Toronto The government called in from farmers and politi- Dutch farmers' organiza-
my friend, we're working in 1917 when Canada was the military to block key cians. Some farmers man- tion, LTO, says exports from
hard to keep our progress having an election about intersections in downtown aged to drive their tractors the country's nearly 54,000
going." conscription and spoke in The Hague to prevent farm- through parts of the city, farms and agriculture busi-
Trudeau is in a tough re- favor of it. But Bothwell said ers reaching the commer- while others blocked tram nesses were worth 90.3 bil-
election fight ahead of he didn't know how explicit cial and political center of tracks near the central rail- lion euros ($98.3 billion) last
Monday's parliamentary he was.q the city, which is the seat of way station. year.q