SummarySpren for "Carbon pricing"
- • Carbon pricing will be responsible for 20-30% of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada between 2019 and 2030, according to a study by Environment and Climate Change Canada.
• The Conservative Party's official position is that climate change does not exist, despite ongoing extreme weather events in Canada.
- • The Liberal government's economic plan includes generational changes to Canada's competition law that will bring down grocery prices.
• The Conservative leader's advisers have ties to large retailers such as Loblaws and Walmart, raising questions about their influence on the party's policies.
- • The Green Party supports carbon pricing to address the climate crisis, but the current approach exempts farms from paying the carbon tax on propane used for grain drying, leading to unfairness and confusion.
• Instead of exempting farms from carbon pricing, the Green Party proposes paying farmers for every tonne of carbon they sequester through sustainable practices such as zero-tillage agriculture, reducing summer fallow, and planting more perennial crops. This approach would recognize the important role that farmers play in sequestering carbon and address the climate crisis.
- • The Liberal government has a plan to address climate change, including a price on pollution and investments in clean technology, while the Conservative Party denies the existence of climate change and has no plan to address rising food costs.
• The Conservative Party has a history of supporting a price on pollution, but has since abandoned this position and now denies the existence of climate change, despite the impact of climate change on food prices and the pockets of farmers.
- 1. The existing carbon pricing system already provides significant relief to the agricultural sector, and Bill C-234 would only serve to remove the price signal needed for carbon pricing to work.
2. The refundable tax credit for farmers does not undermine the effectiveness of pollution pricing, as it puts a price on pollution and returns a portion of the proceeds to farmers to help them transition to lower-carbon emissions farming methods.
- • There is no direct correlation between the price on pollution and the increase in food prices, according to experts and data from the OECD.
• The Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food has heard that the climate crisis is one of the most significant challenges facing the agriculture industry, and that there is no easy, single solution to address the volatility and instability in the industry.