Bill C-23

Statements by Members

…tax, it was the Conservatives who heard the calls for help. It was the Conservatives who introduced Bill C-234 to deliver carbon relief on farmers and the people they feed. The legislation was duly passed in the House with the support of every party except the government. Then, right before Christmas, the Pr…

Adjournment Proceedings

Madam Speaker, I am pleased to take part in this debate. As we know, Bill C-234 would remove farmers' obligation to pay a price for the greenhouse gas emissions they generate when they use propane and natural gas for farming activities, including to dry grain. The government, o…

Adjournment Proceedings

…ate in the House. I am speaking tonight to follow up on a question I asked the Prime Minister about Bill C-234 and, more importantly, the embarrassing way it was handled in the Senate. For some unknown reason, it was the Minister of Transport who rose to answer me and, frankly, I was not pleased with the res…

Adjournment Proceedings

…s that, as the Liberals are attacking farmers by their refusal to support common-sense Conservative Bill C-234, their attacks on fertilizer mandates and a whole host of other things, now the debates and discussions are ongoing about how they are going to regulate cow farts. I wish I was making this up. As th…

Adjournment Proceedings

…s brought forward a common-sense solution that we thought would receive the support of all parties. Bill C-234 would provide an exemption from the carbon tax on all on farm fuels. Everyone supported the idea and voted with us, except for the majority of the Liberal caucus, of course. Most of them voted again…

Oral Questions

…under the tree; and the gift from the Prime Minister's Liberal loyalists in the Senate is to cancel Bill C-234, preventing a carbon-tax carve-out for farmers. When we have two million Canadians lined up at food banks every month and those numbers only getting worse when they increase taxes on farmers, why wa…

Oral Questions

…record, or worse yet, his quadrupling of the carbon tax. There is a common-sense Conservative bill, Bill C-234, in the Senate up for the vote today. Will the Prime Minister stop blocking the bill and axe the tax so our farmers can feed families?

Government Orders

…ss the country. It is going to quadruple. That does not make any sense, and it is truly outrageous. Bill C-234 would give Canadian taxpayers a little breathing room by eliminating the carbon tax for Canadian farmers. That would bring down food prices in Canada. When the government taxes the farmers who grow …

Government Orders

…e adopted on division provided that the House send a message to the Senate demanding that they pass Bill C-234—

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…