Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, once again, our Conservative colleagues are providing incomplete information. I would like to remind members of all the efforts we are making to help and support our farmers, who are the first to be affected by climate change. One example is the agricultural clean

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Mr. Speaker, I want to wish everyone a happy World Milk Day. I thank my colleague for giving me the opportunity to sincerely thank all our dairy farmers across the country, who are working very hard to ensure that we have sustainable agriculture. Do members know, by the way, th

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Madam Speaker, the opposite is true. Agricultural producers in Quebec and across Canada know that our government is there to help them. I am in constant communication with them. Yesterday, I met again with the president of the Union des producteurs agricoles, and I can say that t

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, as we all know, Quebec has had a carbon exchange for a long time, so the federal price on pollution does not apply. Our government has a number of measures to help the agricultural sector. One of them is the agricultural clean technology program, which is open right

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, what my colleague calls a typical farm is actually the 3% biggest farms in Canada. The projection he is talking about is based on a scenario where farmers would take absolutely no action, would adopt no good practices and would not use any new technologies to improve

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, once again, my colleague is twisting information. He is talking about a typical 5,000-acre farm. The average farm in Canada is 809 acres. He is presuming that farmers will not make any effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but they are always doing precisely tha

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Mr. Speaker, we have a clean technology program. We are talking about half a billion dollars' worth of investment in clean technology. One of the innovations that could be deployed across the country is the use of agricultural manure as a source of energy. There is tremendous pot

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Mr. Speaker, I think that my colleague should show a little more humility and look at the history of the last Conservative government, which cut hundreds of millions of dollars in risk management programs and hundreds of millions of dollars in research and innovation programs. O