Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault claimed Monday during the House of Commons Question Period that he is meeting with farmers and they are all telling him that they are not opposed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax but are worried about climate change.
“Mr. Speaker, if the Conservatives had an ounce of intellectual integrity, they would admit to Canadians that 97 percent of fuel used on farms where there is pollution pricing is not taxed by the federal government, first of all,” Guilbeault said.
“Secondly, do you know what I’ve been doing, Mr. Speaker, recently? I’ve been meeting with farmers from Quebec, Alberta, Nova Scotia. I’ve been meeting with grain farmers, cattle farmers: they don’t talk to me about carbon pricing. They talk to me about the hundreds of millions of dollars due to impacts from climate change in the farming sector in the country.” The Trudeau government […]
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