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House Hansard - 184

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 25, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 184 - Apr/25/23
Mr. Scot Davidson (York—Simcoe, CPC)
  • Apr/25/23 8:17:14 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-47 
Madam Speaker, my hon. colleague brought up the carbon tax a number of times. In my riding, the soup and salad bowl of Canada and home to the Holland Marsh, we are seeing onions come in from Egypt and Morocco. I talked to farmers and they tell me we are losing our competitive edge on pricing now with the carbon tax. In my riding, we have no choice but to dry our beans and our onions with propane. We cannot even get natural gas lines in with infrastructure spending. I am wondering if my colleague could comment further on the carbon tax and how it is affecting our agriculture.
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Context: House Hansard - 184 - Apr/25/23
Mr. Scot Davidson (York—Simcoe, CPC)
  • Apr/25/23 9:14:26 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-47 
Madam Speaker, with respect to the speech of the hon. member for Saanich—Gulf Islands, I did not get that far into the budget implementation act. I may be 25% of the way through. The member and I had a conversation earlier about the funding for the Great Lakes and Lake Simcoe, Lake Winnipeg and the Fraser Valley. For freshwater resources, $650 million over 10 years is only $65 million a year. The Deputy Prime Minister promised $40 million for Lake Simcoe four years ago. Again this is inaction on behalf of the government. I wonder if she could comment on the insignificant funds for freshwater resources across Canada.
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