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Internal dispute over privilege, bullying allegations ties up C-234

New amendment to farm fuel bill now under debate

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News November 22, 2023

A proposed amendment, and a dispute over senatorial behaviour, further geared down progress Tuesday of a federal private member’s bill to carve out a carbon tax exemption for grain drying and heating of barns and greenhouses. Bill C-234, which passed the House of Commons in late March, remained on the Senate’s order paper for debate

Opposition accuses feds of ‘playing games’ on Bill C-234

Conservative shadow minister says new Liberal senators set bill up for failure

By GFM Network News, Jeff Melchior November 21, 2023

The Conservative shadow minister for Agriculture, Agri-Food and Food Security has accused the Liberal government of “playing games” with a bill that would grant Canadian farmers a carbon price exemption for natural gas and propane used for barn heating and grain drying.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, pictured here at a Remembrance Day event in 2023. Photo: Supplied/X.

Premiers urge senate to pass Bill C-234

The bill, which would see farm propane and natural gas exempted from the carbon price has been in the Senate since March

By Geralyn Wichers, GFM Network News November 16, 2023

The premiers of Ontario and Alberta are urging Senate to pass a bill that would see fuels for grain drying and barn and greenhouse heating exempted from the carbon price.

Since Ottawa has paused the carbon tax for heating oil, a compelling case can be made for examining the impact on our entire food supply.

Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Carbon tax makes Canadian food production less competitive

Recent claims that the carbon tax has little effect are poorly thought out

By Sylvain Charlebois November 14, 2023

The federal government has put a hold on the carbon tax applied to heating oil for the next three years and announced a doubling of the rural supplement in the carbon tax rebate program. In mere minutes, Ottawa transformed the carbon tax into a negotiable political lightning rod and lent credence to carbon tax critics.

Senate votes down C-234 amendments

Changes would have pulled barn and greenhouse heating from carbon price exemptions

By Geralyn Wichers, GFM Network News November 7, 2023

The Senate voted today to reject amendments that would have seen barn and greenhouse heating removed from Bill C-234. In a sitting on the afternoon of Nov. 7, senators voted no to the adoption of amendments made by the committee for agriculture and forestry. Twenty-eight voted yes, and four abstained. The Senate then voted to

Markets, Other

Canada to boost carbon tax rebate for rural areas

Will also pause carbon tax on home heating oil for three years

By GFM Network News, Ismail Shakil, Nia Williams October 28, 2023

Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday announced a three-year carbon tax exemption for home heating oil and higher carbon tax rebates for people in rural areas, measures he said were intended to bring relief amid soaring costs of living. Trudeau’s Liberal government has implemented a price on carbon to combat

A federal grain dryer exemption bill did not pass in 2021, but the concept was revived in Bill C-234.

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: Waiting game on Bill C-234

By Alexis Stockford October 27, 2023

Mother Nature has thrown the federal government a bone on Bill C-234. Manitoba’s weekly crop reports show harvest 2023 ran ahead of the five-year average pretty much from the get-go. There were still some soybeans, corn and sunflowers to come off as of Oct. 17, as well as regional patches of canola. But, for the

Carbon tax exemption bill C-234 clears Senate committee

Divided senators defeated an amendment to make it more difficult to extend the bill's sunset clause

By Geralyn Wichers, GFM Network News October 25, 2023

In final committee deliberations on Oct. 24, an amendment that would make it more difficult to extend the bill’s sunset clause was defeated with a tied vote.

The nuts and bolts of grain drying technology were the focus of the latest testimony as Bill C-234 worked its way through the Senate ag committee.

News

Senators get technical on Bill C-234

Clean grain drying technology years away, experts tell Senate committee

By Geralyn Wichers October 20, 2023

Options to fuel farmers’ grain dryers are limited and grain drying without fossil fuels is still years away. That’s the message the Senate’s standing committee on agriculture and forestry heard as expert witnesses were called to give their two cents on the state of grain drying technology. Why it matters: Bill C-234, which would exempt

Senate committee pulls barn, greenhouse heating from carbon exemption bill

Groups expressed disappointment over the amendment, which will also slow the bill’s progress

By Geralyn Wichers, GFM Network News October 20, 2023

Groups expressed disappointment over an amendment to Bill C-234, which will not only remove barn and greenhouse heating from a proposed exemption from the carbon price but will also delay the bill’s progress.

Daily Network News

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