The 16 Canadian farm groups that are members of the Agriculture Carbon Alliance (ACA) are welcoming Prime Minister Carney’s order-in-council scaling down the federal consumer carbon tax to zero, but are calling for further legislative changes to provide long-term certainty. “The reduction of the consumer carbon price to $0 is a good first step for… Read More
Category: Carbon tax
New Prime Minister Mark Carney acted on one of his Liberal leadership campaign commitments within hours of being sworn in on Friday. While Carney signed a symbolic order to remove the unpopular federal fuel charge — more commonly referred to as the consumer carbon tax, cabinet approved an Order-in-Council setting the carbon price at $0… Read More
Senator Rob Black gets around. Appointed in 2018, he’s earned a reputation for his diligent commitment to agriculture issues and ensuring they get their fair share of attention in the upper house of Canada’s parliament. Black was on hand this week at the Ontario Federation of Agriculture AGM at Toronto where he kicked off the… Read More
Regular government business has come to a standstill in the House of Commons over the past week, decreasing the likelihood that multiple agriculture-related bills will cross the finish line before Parliament is inevitably dissolved for an election. The impasse over the Liberals’ refusal to yield to a Conservative motion to hand over green tech fund… Read More
A July 15th tax return filing deadline is looming for small and medium-sized businesses across Canada who could be eligible for the federal carbon tax rebate announced in the federal budget in April. An estimated 600 thousand Canadian-controlled private corporations (CCPCs), including farms that are incorporated, could be eligible to receive more than $2.5 billion… Read More
Farmers and ranchers face many pressures to farm and raise animals in certain ways to meet sustainability-related goals of others, including food companies, lenders, and government. Clauses in crop contracts, carbon credits, government payments for rotational grazing or using nitrogen loss inhibitors, the federal fertilizer emissions reduction target, clean fuel standards, codes of practice, and… Read More
MPs on the House of Commons’ agriculture committee have published a list of recommendations for the federal government to tackle the issue of food price volatility after studying the topic over the past six months. The committee heard from a long list of witnesses, including executives from Loblaws, Metro, Sobeys-owner Empire, Walmart Canada and Costco,… Read More
When it comes to agriculture and the environment, some people see agriculture as a solution, while others view it as a problem. And in politics, people with different perspectives and levels of awareness about farming often sit in the same caucus or cabinet, influencing where a party stands on environmental policies that affect agriculture. Canada’s… Read More
Incorporated farms in provinces where the federal carbon tax is collected should receive a little more back on their tax return under the “Canada Carbon Rebate for Small Businesses” proposed in the federal budget last week. The federal government said it would “urgently” return more than $2.5 billion in accrued carbon tax revenue going back… Read More
Ontario Premier Doug Ford made a surprise appearance at the Grain Farmers of Ontario March Classic meeting in London, Ont., this week. Emerging from behind a curtain, Ford took the stage to address a convention hall full of grain growers and wasted little time addressing the issue that led many conversations at the annual industry… Read More