OTTAWA – Ontario and Quebec farmers paid their second visit to the home of Prime Minister Stephen Harper in two months. But this time the farmers on tractors brought gifts. The noon-hour visit of about 200 farmers June 30 included a cheese basket, which was received by an aide, at the front gate to 24 Sussex Drive, from a group of bright-eyed children wearing bright-yellow "Farmers Feed Cities" t-shirts. Police wouldn’t let them past the tall gates at the driveway entrance. Farmers and their families then walked across the street to offer another cheese basket at the entrance to the governor-general’s home, guarded by mounties.

There were about100 tractors and farm vehicles parked in the neighbourhood. Some parked on Sussex Street in front of the prime minister’s house.

The U.S. embassy is on the same street and farmers also dropped off a letter for the U.S. ambassador explaining that the Canadian federal and provincial governments treat farmers "with disdain and as second-class citizens."

Lindsay’s Joe Hickson led a small group of tractors into Ottawa for the event, as did Lloyd Crowe of Prince Edward County and Quebec’s Chris Judd, from the Pontiac.