“Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the member for Provencher, if he could, to further explain how some of those costs on the farms and at the farm gates are becoming almost insurmountable for some of those farmers who are working their hardest to put food on Canadian dinner plates, whether it be grains, beef or other products. How is this increased cost in fuel, which we are seeing impact things all the way down the line, impacting the actual cost on Canadian dinner plates from coast to coast to coast?”
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Mr. Speaker, Claims · 254 wordsit is true that farmers have to absorb the cost of increased diesel fuel prices, Unearned certaintyand they have increased almost 100%.1In other words, for Canadians watching today, the price of diesel fuel has almost doubled in this last year, 2and farmers have no choice.They have to put diesel fuel into their combines, trucks and tractors, and they also have to then have that product shipped to the elevator and shipped to a rail yard before it can be sent to a processing facility, where it gets processed and manufactured into food products, which again get shipped with a transport truck across the highway, burning diesel fuel at $2.60 a litre.3The food products finally get delivered to a warehouse, and from a warehouse, they will get picked up one more time by a semi-truck and delivered to a retailer for distribution or for sale to the public.All of those activities require the use of diesel fuel, and when diesel fuel has increased by almost 100% in the last year for the farmer, there is nothing he can do about it, 4because his prices for his products are commodity prices.They are market-based.However, for the transport companies and for the processors, the price of increased fuel and energy costs are actually being put onto the backs of consumers who are buying those products, because they are just moved along, and the farmers absorb it.Processors and truckers do their best to pass those costs along to the consumer, the end user.
