What they saw was that they're actually closer to the ground—pardon the pun—and they know how their ditches operate. They know when the fish run in them, and they know effective ways to manage their own ditches better than the fisheries officers and better than the environmental activists who tromp out there occasionally every few years to tell them what to do. Their point is that their lands are being flooded, that the quality of their acreage is being affected, and that their ability to grow food and to support the work that they came to Canada 100 years ago to do—and were invited by us to do—is all being undermined by people who don't do a very good job, don't quantify the costs and benefits of the programs that are being undertaken, and do not prove the value of the program they're proposing to foist on everyone versus what it's costing us all.
On May 30th, 2012. See this statement in context.