Bill C-234

Routine Proceedings

…g that a lot of stakeholders talked about in our committee was the fact that they would love to see Bill C-234 passed, and that is the exemption from the carbon tax for heating barns for grain drying. This is something that our producers desperately need. Mr. Currie went on to say something about the mental h…

Routine Proceedings

… for farmers and axe the carbon tax so that farmers can have a reprieve. Especially, if we can pass Bill C-234 unamended, that will help our farmers. I do not understand why the member will not just stand with us, help pass Bill C-234 and give farmers a reprieve from the carbon tax now.

Routine Proceedings

…es as I need to, that the Conservatives will axe the tax. However, in the meantime, we need to pass Bill C-234, unamended, and give farmers a reprieve from the carbon tax. I will give members an idea of why the carbon tax impacts the cost of food so much. If we look at the supply chain from start to finish, e…

Private Members' Business

… food prices yet again. As Conservatives, we have offered solutions to these problems. For example, Bill C-234 would remove the carbon tax from the natural gas and propane farmers use for drying grain and for the heating and cooling of barns and greenhouses. This would save farmers more than a billion dollars…

Routine Proceedings

…ing at a loss. One recommendation that was removed from this report was the importance of approving Bill C-234 unamended because the amendment would remove the carbon tax carve-out for greenhouses and mushroom farms, which would cost them more than $300 million by 2030.

Government Orders

…arder for farmers to grow food, as is the carbon tax. We did have a common-sense Conservative bill, Bill C-234, that was going to actually lessen the weight of the crushing carbon tax on our Canadian farmers. The Senate sent it back and gutted the bill, and now the Liberals and New Democrats will not let us g…

Government Orders

…r barns and dry their grain, which is why the Conservatives have been advocating for the passage of Bill C-234 to exempt farmers' grain drying and barn heating from the carbon tax so that these costs would not be passed on to consumers. In fact last winter, Environment and Climate Change Canada was even going…

Government Orders

…ut hypocrisy. It is June. We are coming up to the summer adjournment and we still have not voted on Bill C-234. As I said earlier, the first speech that I gave in early January was about this bill. Sometimes bills stall in the Senate, but that is normally not the case in the House of Commons. How does someone…

Private Members' Business

Mr. Speaker, it is actually a bit of a trip down nostalgia lane for me when we start talking about Bill C-234, because one of the first things I did when I became elected in 2019 was bring forward a private member's bill, Bill C-206. Bill C-206 was in many ways a precursor to Bill C-234. I remember initially…

Private Members' Business

…we are essentially taxing the Canadians who buy the food. That is just basic economics. That is why Bill C-234 is back in the House and presented again. It would provide a needed carve-out for farmers from the Liberal carbon tax. This carve-out would ensure that farmers are not punished for drying grain, heat…