NORTH GOWER — While the grassroots Canada Day farm rally on Parliament Hill was successful for its warm and fuzzies, the next step for the grassroots protest movement will likely be directed at the federal government. But politicians won’t be feeling the love.

Farmers are prepared to dump liquid manure into downtown Ottawa, said grassroots leader and North Gower crop farmer Dwight Foster. French farmers did the same in Paris this year and "they got what they wanted in six hours," he said. "Quite a few farmers have said, ‘when you get serious, we’ll come alongside."

Foster likened the current grassroots farm protest against government to David meets Goliath. Foster added that the Conservative government is getting bad advice from bureaucrats who have been 12 years under the Liberals.

"It’s like when Eugene Melnyk took over the Ottawa Senators, he cleaned house. He got rid of the coach, the assistant coaches and the general manager and cleaned house. That’s what the Conservative government has to do. It has to clean up."

Grassroot Ontario farmers have this year closed down food and fuel terminals. They have twice driven tractors to the Prime Minister’s house. Grains and oil seeds farmers are seeking a risk management program that guarantees earnings above their cost of production, as well as promised funding from the last federal budget. Dairy farmers want the federal government to stop imports of milk proteins that have caused a decrease in demand for domestic milk.