Carbon is not a pollutant.
The carbon tax is a tax on living.
One cannot heat one's home nor drive to work (the wages of which will be further taxed) because of these taxes.
Justin cannot afford to let slip his lucrative ace-in-the-hole and his convicted criminal ally is a Kool-aid drinking believer.
Winter is coming:
The bill from a Conservative MP would exempt carbon pricing from natural gas and propane used to heat farm buildings or run grain dryers. It faces one final vote in the Senate before it either dies or becomes law.
It’s quickly become the latest focal point in the ongoing carbon-pricing clash between the Liberals and Conservatives.
Bill C-234 passed the House of Commons in March with support of the Conservatives, Bloc Quebecois, NDP and Greens. All but three Liberal MPs voted against it.
Guilbeault said Tuesday that the government doesn’t support it because most farm fuel is already exempt from the carbon price, and there are programs in place that aim to offset the carbon-price cost to farmers or help them buy more energy-efficient equipment that mitigates their need to use natural gas or propane.
Farmers already don’t pay the carbon price on gasoline and diesel used in farm vehicles. There is a tax credit for farmers to help offset the cost of the carbon price they do pay, but like the rebates issued to families, there is no direct tie-in to what a specific farmer pays. It is calculated based on a farm’s overall income.
Now, about that:
Western Canadian Wheat Growers president Gunter Jochum told the House of Commons agriculture committee on Nov. 2 that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax and fertilizer emissions reduction scheme will hurt the viability of Canada’s farming industry.
“The government wants to increase the [carbon] tax, which would cost my farm a whopping $136,000 per year by 2030. This will jeopardize the viability and sustainability of my farm,” Jochum told parliamentarians.
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“For farmers, there are no viable alternatives except for natural gas and propane for food production and growing food, whether that’s drying your grain or cooling your barn,” he said.
“Heat pumps in agriculture don’t work up to a certain ambient temperature, and it goes far below that in the prairies — you have to keep livestock barns at a static temperature.”
With the amended bill now back in the Senate, it’s up to Senators to either accept the amended bill or reject the report and send the original bill to third reading.
If the senate votes in favour of the amended bill, said Sen. David Wells, it would be sent back to the House for approval, where it would likely never be seen again.
“Because the government controls the pace and placement of bills, it would just die a slow, lonely death — especially after the steps we saw late last week in carving out exemptions on home heating fuel,” he said.
Wells recalled speaking to a chicken farmer who is expecting to pay $500,000 in carbon taxes this year.
“That’s just money out the door,” Wells said.
When asked what we would have otherwise done with that money, the farmer told Wells it would have been invested back into his operation.
“He said if we make $500,000 in one year, that’s probably a good year — but now all of the sudden that’s a break-even, or a loss year.”
Lobb, who tabled the bill in the House, described forcing undue financial burdens on Canada’s food producers as the “genesis” of inflation.
“These extra costs that the carbon tax bear on farmers is punitive,” he said, explaining that unlike many other industries, producers aren’t able to pass on these extra costs to their buyers.
“Farmers are price-takers, not price-makers — they don’t make the market, they take the price that’s available to them.”
Like Wells, Lobb hears constantly from struggling producers, including a hog farmer in his riding whose monthly carbon tax bill averages $3,000.
Like all Canadian agricultural producers, Koeslag said mushroom farmers continue to struggle to make ends meet, contending with both rising costs and the carbon tax.
“The cost of buying packaging and cardboard is going up, labour has been going up, so when we add on carbon tax and the price of the natural gas they use on top of that,” he said.
“This is an easy one. This is an easy win for the government and the consumer.”
The Liberals cannot afford to have ANY relief for farmers or anyone because the carbon tax is what they rely on. Even their senators abruptly left before discussing a vital exemption for farmers.
There is no peace, order or good government here.
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Well, Mr. Principle, prove that you have the backs of the people by screwing over Justin:
The Commons yesterday by a 292 to 30 vote rejected a New Democrat motion to remove the GST from all home heating. “New Democrats have the backs of people,” Party leader Jagmeet Singh told the House. “We are not backing down.”
The Power of Rolex compels you!
And one more thing:
Just in from NOAA.
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) November 8, 2023
No warming in the US over the past 23 years.
Every emission is supposed to cause warming, but not in the US?
What about the 'hottest summer'? Where does that show up? pic.twitter.com/MlhwMFSyq1
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