The Chair of Manitoba Pork says pork producers want to be part of the solution when it comes to reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that threaten our environment.
Manitoba’s Speech from the Throne last week, which opened the third session of the 41st Manitoba legislature, referenced the province’s Made-in-Manitoba Climate and Green Plan and the government’s goal of implementing that plan.
George Matheson, the Chair of Manitoba Pork, acknowledges, while there are still questions as to how taxes will be applied to propane and natural gas, he has confidence in the approach the province taking.
I think all of agriculture and the pork producers realize that greenhouse gases are very much a problem to our planet and we want to be part of the solution. Of course we’re in a position, producing commodities, that producers can not pass on extra taxes.
We were pleased that marked diesel and gas for agriculture purposes are going to be exempt. We’re a little concerned over the future of whether propane and natural gas will be outside of the tax as well. We do need these for products for heating our facilities. But, above all, we want to be a part of the solution and be part of the country’s program to get a hold of greenhouse gases and their effect on us.
George Matheson-Manitoba Pork
Matheson notes Premier Pallister seems to think that, for Manitoba, a provincial plan will be best and he’s communicating quite closely with the federal government so that he’s on the same page as the rest of the country. He says he has faith that the premier and the conservative government will have a plan that will work and will be something that the rest of the country feels is on the same page with what they’re doing.
