Federal Budget Fails Entrepreneurial Grain Farmers
CALGARY, AB: The Western Canadian Wheat Growers put a failing grade on the 2019 Federal Budget announced yesterday. What little...
Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association Frustrated With Federal Carbon Tax
The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association believes that the coalition opposing the federal carbon tax is the right and necessary...
Alberta farmers await Saskatchewan court decision on carbon tax
Alberta wheat farmers are cheering on the Saskatchewan government in its battle against the federal carbon tax. “It’s more important...
Wheat Growers Support Saskatchewan Government Action Against a Federally Imposed Carbon Tax
CALGARY, AB: The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association supports the action taken by the Province of Saskatchewan, and others, to...
A “Price on Pollution” is a Carbon Tax
CALGARY, AB: The release of the federal government’s carbon tax will further increase the price of inputs that farmers must...
Manitoba is Aboard the “No Carbon Tax” Train
CALGARY, AB: The Western Canadian Wheat Growers is pleased that one more province has rejected the proposed federal carbon tax....
MacAulay chided for asserting farmers support carbon tax
Farm groups say they’re concerned about climate change and other environmental issues, but that doesn’t mean they support this policy.
MacAulay thinks farmers support the federal carbon tax
Jim Wickett, Chairman of Western Canadian Wheat Growers, said the minister’s statement that most farmers support the carbon tax “is...
Senator Plett Questions the Government’s Assertion that Canadian Farmers Favour the Carbon Tax
Hon. Donald Neil Plett: Honourable senators, my question as well is for the government leader. Leader, last week the Minister of...
Western Canadian Wheat Growers Do Not Support a Carbon Tax
CALGARY, AB: This week Federal Minister of Agriculture MacAulay stated in the Senate, “…you would find that most farmers support...