Ivison: Justin Trudeau waited until the House of Commons adjourned for Christmas before announcing a plan to increase the federal carbon tax by 240 per cent and spend $15 billion on greenhouse gas reduction measures.
Brian Allison farms 1,800 acres near Delburne, east of Red Deer, Alberta. A beef and grain farmer, he has seen his freight costs rise 20 per cent in the past three years and now expects heating costs to dry his grain to double because of the carbon tax increase from $50 a tonne in 2022 to $170 a tonne in 2030.
He said competitors in Brazil, Russia, Australia and the U.S. do not have a carbon tax, putting Canadian farmers at a disadvantage. “It is death by a thousand cuts. I don’t like being put out of business by government regulation and taxation,” he said.
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