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

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

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

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.