The Red Deer & District Chamber of Commerce is echoing a national call for the Canadian Senate to get on with passing a Conservative bill that would give farmers crucial financial relief.
Bill C-234: An Act to Amend the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, would expand the definition of eligible farming machinery and extend the exemption for qualifying farming fuel to marketable natural gas and propane.
In other words, farmers would not have to pay the federal carbon tax in order to use their grain dryers, saving them an estimated $1 billion over the next 10 years, according to the bill’s sponsor, Ontario MP Ben Lobb.
C-234 was passed by the House of Commons, mainly with the support of the NDP and Bloc Quebecois, in March this year. Three Liberals, all from the Maritimes, were part of the 176 overall who were in favour. One independent and 145 Liberal MPs voted against it.
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