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File photo of a desk in Canada’s Senate. (Dougall_Photography/iStock/Getty Images)

Senate strikes down C-234 amendment, introduces another

Conservatives table motion in the House of Commons to call for Senate to pass bill

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Hours after the Senate struck down an amendment some feared would kill Bill C-234, another amendment was introduced, Tuesday evening. Bill C-234 proposes to exempt from the price on carbon propane and natural gas used on farm to dry grain or heat barns and greenhouses. 
File photo of a desk in Canada’s Senate. (Dougall_Photography/iStock/Getty Images)

Opposition accuses feds of ‘playing games’ on Bill C-234 

Conservative shadow minister says new Liberal senators set bill up for failure

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The Conservative shadow minister for Agriculture, Agri-Food and Food Security has accused the Liberal government of “playing games” with a bill that would grant Canadian farmers a carbon price exemption for natural gas and propane used for barn heating and grain drying.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, pictured here at a Remembrance Day event in 2023. Photo: Supplied/X.

Premiers urge senate to pass Bill C-234

The bill, which would see farm propane and natural gas exempted from the carbon price has been in the Senate since March

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The premiers of Ontario and Alberta are urging Senate to pass a bill that would see fuels for grain drying and barn and greenhouse heating exempted from the carbon price.