Bill C-234

Oral Questions

…once again, he proved he is not worth the cost. The Prime Minister spent the weekend working to gut Bill C-234 to keep the carbon tax on. Will the Prime Minister finally listen to Canadians and take the carbon tax off farmers, first nations and families?

Oral Questions

…y quickly if she will do everything she can to ensure that the Senate repeals its amendment gutting Bill C-234, which would have the effect of taking the carbon tax off farmers to bring grocery prices down. If she would commit to doing that, we could deal with the supply bill this evening in an orderly and ti…

Government Orders

…rose in the House to ask the government to expedite the legislative process in the Senate regarding Bill C-234, which is about reducing the tax on the fuels used for grain drying. It is linked to the carbon tax. Once again, as all members from my party keep saying, the carbon tax does not apply in Quebec. Yet…

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…inging more money in, but we are not seeing the investments in technologies that we need to see. On Bill C-234, let us turn to something that is really disgusting. I have an email here from some farmers in my riding. Currently, one livestock farmer has already spent approximately $38,000 in carbon tax alone t…

Government Orders

…ing to place on everyone in Canada and their cost of living today. The government could have passed Bill C-234, which was a bill to take the carbon tax off heating barns and greenhouses in Canada and drying grain. The cost of food is directly proportional to the cost of the inputs that it takes to grow these …

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…etitclerc from Quebec, voted to shut down debate and voted to gut a common-sense Conservative bill, Bill C-234. I would ask the same question of Senator Paula Simons from Alberta. She voted to gut and attack it as the deputy chair of the ag committee. She is the deputy chair of the ag committee in the Senate …

Government Orders

…re are existing exemptions for on farm fuels for gasoline and diesel already. They referenced often Bill C-234. This is a bill I supported at second reading and at third reading, and we saw it off to the Senate. I do believe the work the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food did at the House level t…

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…he Bloc making issues that deal strictly with Quebec as opposed to all of Canada, his comment about Bill C-234 is very appropriate. I recognize that Bloc members voted for the bill when it was here in the House, where the people we represent are the common people of this country. Everybody voted for that. We …

Oral Questions

…desperate, panicking Prime Minister spent last weekend calling senators, pleading with them to kill Bill C-234, which would lower grocery prices for Canadians. On Tuesday, those supposedly independent senators voted to gut Bill C-234, betraying farmers and keeping food prices high. After eight years of rising…

Government Orders

…I thank my hon. colleague for his speech. He concluded by making some rather serious comments about Bill C-234. I would like to hear his thoughts on the following. First, he spoke about the fact that there was obstruction in the Senate. Second, my colleague and I are both members of the Standing Committee on …