Making life better for Greenhouse operators, owners and workers
Patrick Brown, Ontario PC Leader would scrap Wynne’s Cap-and-Trade Scheme and provide relief to the greenhouse industry
KINGSVILLE, ON – Patrick Brown, Ontario PC Leader slammed the Kathleen Wynne Liberals for making life harder for the Greenhouse industry under their Cap-and-Trade scheme. Brown committed to scrap Wynne’s Cap-and-Trade Scheme and replace it with a carbon price that would give relief to the Greenhouse industry as British Columbia and Alberta have done.
“The next election will be about change for the better versus the status quo,” Brown said. “We will scrap Wynne’s Cap-and-Trade Scheme and give the greenhouse industry relief. Life will be better under our government for the greenhouse industry.”
The greenhouse industry uses natural gas to heat its greenhouses to create an artificial climate to grow plants. In using natural gas they create carbon dioxide that they use as a food source through photosynthesis for their vegetables and flowers, which then expel oxygen instead. Since greenhouses use the carbon dioxide they produce, there is a business case to exempt them from carbon pricing. In addition, our greenhouse industry competes against jurisdictions without carbon taxes and therefore they should not pay carbon taxes on products they export.
Alberta and BC greenhouse industries get rebates that cover 80 percent of the cost of those provinces’ carbon taxes. This recognizes, first, that greenhouses consume carbon dioxide and second, that this is an export industry that competes with jurisdictions without carbon taxes.
Ontario is a greenhouse powerhouse, with nearly 2,900 acres of greenhouses, an increase of over 800 acres over a few years ago. Wynne’s Cap-and-Trade Scheme will result in many of these greenhouses relocating to carbon tax-free jurisdictions across the border.
“Life is harder under Wynne,” Brown concluded. “I want an Ontario where people will want to create good long-term jobs and those who do will want to stay here. We will rebuild the economy with a balanced plan to provide the right conditions for job growth.”
I don’t care for Patrick Brown but I will do anything to get rid of Winnie the Poo so I have to vote for Patrick Brown.
Jules is going to vote?? Perhaps we should have a parade!!
A meager population of approximately 36 million located in the second largest country by land mass which has the third largest amount of forestry and we are a net producer of carbon? Computer modeling is based on science predictions and NOT science fact and has proven only to be fallible. Taxation will obviously fix any problem society creates. Whew! Problem solved.
I have some land for sale in Florida……
We Canadians will be hit with carbon taxes and not because we are using a lot of things or have a lot of industries but because the government wants to rip our pockets apart and steel what we have. Interest rates are rising and people will have to tighten their belts.