This column was originally published in the Winnipeg Sun.
Premier Brian Pallister now recognizes that carbon taxes are bad for farmers. It's an acknowledgment echoing the precise points we raised on these pages back in March. But carbon taxes cause harm beyond the farmyard.
"Many of our farm families exclusively deal in commodities that they sell on the world market. They'd have no influence whatsoever over the price that they can achieve and so there is no way for them to recover additional input costs that they would incur as a result of a carbon tax," Premier Pallister told the Winnipeg Sun. "Carbon pricing has the potential to very negatively impact on that sector."
