A bill to exempt fuel for grain drying from the price on carbon has cleared the Senate and returns to the House of Commons with two amendments.
Yesterday evening, senators read Bill C-234, An Act to amend the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, for the third time, and passed it.
The bill received two amendments in the Senate. On Monday, senators voted to reduce the bill’s sunset clause to three years from eight. Previously, senators amended the bill to remove barn and greenhouse heating from proposed carbon price exemptions in the bill.
Farm groups and government officials aligned with the bill have expressed concerns that, since the bill must now be returned to the House of Commons for further debate, it will be delayed until it dies on the order paper.
According to its online schedule, the House of Commons will rise for the year on Dec. 15.
—Geralyn Wichers is associate digital editor of AGCanada.com. She writes from southeastern Manitoba.
