John Barlow at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

On March 28th, 2022. See this statement in context.

March 28th, 2022 / 11:20 a.m.

Conservative

John Barlow Conservative Foothills, AB

Thanks for adding that.

Certainly when you claim that on your taxes and get paid back, you'd be paying for those expenses for perhaps 18 months before you got that rebate, whatever the rebate would be.

Mr. Currie, would you mind taking a crack at that as well?

From the CFA's perspective—and I know this was spoken about at your AGM last week in Ottawa—why is it important to have that full exemption from the carbon tax rather than a rebate?

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