Canadians Cannot Afford this Government.
After 8 years of inflationary taxes and out- of-control spending Canadians know they cannot afford this Prime Minister and his Liberal NDP government. If the Liberals are truly looking to lower grocery prices and make life more affordable, they can do it right now: cancel the costly carbon tax.
Both carbon tax one and carbon tax 2 are driving Canadian inflation and making the cost of food at the grocery store astronomical for families. Our agriculture and agri-food industries are two of the most efficient and sustainable in the world, but with two carbon taxes, our farmers are struggling to do what they do best, feed Canada and the world.
The data is painfully clear. According to the Canada Food Price Index a 5,000-acre farm in Canada will now pay around $150,000 a year in carbon taxes.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer just published a new report confirming the correlation between inflation in Canada and the suffocating carbon tax on our farmers. Diesel will go up 70 cents a litre, gas has already exceeded $2/litre in some provinces? This year alone, the carbon tax collected from on-farm propane and natural gas totaled $50 million.
Think that’s bad? Hold my jerry can, between 2023 to 2030, the Liberal-NDP government will collect almost $1 billion from Canadian farmers and ranchers in carbon taxes.
These are the facts. A farmer in southern Alberta told me he paid $140,000 in carbon taxes last year meaning he could not invest in new efficient equipment or help his daughter in her dream to take over the family farm.
A fruit and vegetable grower told me they are paying almost $5,000 a month in carbon taxes alone. Plus, another $800 for GST on that tax.
It has become so expensive they may close their market in the winter months due to the high costs.
A grocery store owner told me his power bill has gone up $6,000 per month due to the higher carbon taxes. How does he absorb that additional cost?
The Liberals will also be enforcing non-sensical front-of-package labelling on all products which will cost producers and retailers another $2 billion. Do the Liberals believe farmers and manufacturers can simply absorb those costs?
