Agriculture committee  I'm not a lawyer, but it's certainly.... Greenhouses already have an 80% exemption currently, so the parent legislation referred to earlier is certainly already there. I would certainly defer to the lawyers and drafters, but the intention of the bill is that it be for a building

Agriculture committee  Yes, I think within the scope of a PMB, they can ponder only one act, but I would suggest that putting in a sunset clause would be appropriate. I would caution the committee about being overly draconian about that. If it's 10 years, I think that is appropriate, but you could add

Agriculture committee  I think those are excellent examples of where we are going. The example in Listowel is a great example of "What works for your farm, works for your farm". I would suspect that this farm is not a major size in acreage.

Agriculture committee  It's fantastic to hear about this technology. I would hope that if it were viable for Canada, the wait-list wouldn't be too long, because currently farmers can't buy new technology because there is no supply of it. In Canada, most farmers who have a grain dryer have done as man

Agriculture committee  On farm, I'd say the pricing signal is there. To be clear, even if Bill C-234 were passed, farmers are not made whole from carbon pricing. The second carbon pricing goes up, every year the cost of custom-haul trucking, freight, their inputs and the rest of their day-to-day expen

Agriculture committee  I assume it would be sufficiently warm, or cool.

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. I can say that in the ACA, it is also the first time we've ever actually brought every segment of agriculture primary production together. Supply management, export-oriented grains and oilseed, dairy, poultry—all are in support of this bill. It does have varying degre

Agriculture committee  The key is that there's no silver bullet here. Farmers need to have all of the tools possible to deploy on a farm. In the early 1990s there was about 7% no-till or low-till in the Prairies. Now we're up to the high 60s. That was because of the introduction of herbicide-tolerant

Agriculture committee  I don't want to speculate as to what the government's thinking was, but I think they wanted to be sufficiently broad while appropriately narrow. I think the biggest confusion that we had at that time—or now—is that only gasoline and diesel were included, as opposed to natural gas

Agriculture committee  When it comes to grain drying, in my day job our 43,000 canola farmers would love it if they could use electricity. It would be a cheaper alternative. I think what Scott alluded to is that we're certainly not opposed to the transition to more energy-efficient fuels on farms, or r

Agriculture committee  I can start. I think that when we look at heating or cooling buildings, we need to be very clear that those would be livestock buildings and greenhouses. There's no intention, I think, in this legislation to consider housing costs or the heating and cooling of homes. Infrastru

Agriculture committee  I think it's very hard to create a taxation policy like this that actually applies to sensitivities on-farm, and farmers, as has been alluded to by my colleague at the CFIB, are getting pennies on the dollar back. As well, the turnaround time is 18 to 24 months down the road, as

Agriculture committee  Yes. There's certainly validity to some biomass digesters on-farm, but you would be increasing your diesel use by taking your tractor on-farm, and your labour costs. You then need to dry that feedstock and store it in some manner, which creates a lot of fire hazards, particularly

Agriculture committee  I can start. Currently for oilseed and grain drying and for the heating and cooling of livestock barns, there just isn't another technology commercially available at any sort of scalable, economically viable level. As for a rebate versus an exemption, farmers during the season

Agriculture committee  Yes. Our 15 national organizations collectively represent 190,000 farm businesses.