Canola Council

Biodiesel

How to get your message heard by the Prime Minister

Dear Grower,

We learned late last week that the government's draft spring budget item for biofuels falls very short of what is needed to provide tax parity with the United States and therefore what is required to build a Canadian biofuels industry. Given that budget deliberations are winding down, we have very little time to impress upon the government just how important it is to have the federal government’s 10 cent/litre ethanol and 20 cent/litre biodiesel tax incentives in place.

Without these, we will not have a biofuels industry in Canada.

We are therefore asking you to show your support by sending in the linked letter to the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance urging them to provide tax parity for biofuels.

As this matter is time sensitive, please send in the letter by email before February 9th, the end of this week to:

Prime Minister Harper (harper.s@parl.gc.ca);
The Hon. Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance (jflaherty@fin.gc.ca);
and copy via cc: to The Hon. John Baird, Minister of the Environment bairdj@parl.gc.ca;
The Hon. Chuck, Minister of Agriculture (strahl.c@parl.gc.ca); and
The Hon. Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources (lunn.g@parl.gc.ca).

Finally, after you've sent your e-mail letter to the Prime Minister and Ministers, we would ask that you send a copy to Kory Teneycke, Executive Director, Canadian Renewable Fuels Association at K.Teneycke@greenfuels.org and Tyler Bjornson, Vice President Corporate Affairs, Canola Council of Canada (bjornsont@canola-council.org) so that we may collect the letters as a package to hand deliver to Minister Flaherty and the Prime Minister's office.

Thanks for playing your part in making the grains and oilseeds sector stronger by building a Canadian biofuels industry!

February 7/07

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