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House Hansard - 267

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 13, 2023 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 267 - Dec/13/23
The Speaker
  • Dec/13/23 3:19:48 p.m.
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I am going to ask the member for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan to wait his turn to ask a question. I will also ask the member for Provencher to keep it down so we can have the question asked. The hon. member for Etobicoke Centre, from the top, please.
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Context: House Hansard - 267 - Dec/13/23
Mr. John Barlow
  • Dec/13/23 4:37:21 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am very thankful to my colleague, who has always been a strong advocate for Canadian farmers and certainly his constituents in Saskatchewan. This is why I find the comments of the Prime Minister today in question period so offensive. He said that farmers are not telling the truth about the cost of the carbon tax and said that 97% of their carbon taxes are covered. That is completely false. Unlike most any other industry, Canadian farmers pay the carbon tax over and over again, from the rail lines when they transport their grain to the trucking companies when they move their cattle to the shipping companies when they are moving other commodities and buying fertilizer, fuel or feed. They pay it every single time, and those prices and increased costs are passed directly on to consumers.
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