Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives say their election platform would leave more cash in the pockets of farmers and ranchers while protecting Canadian soil from foreign buyers.
A headline pledge is a phased cut to the lowest personal income tax bracket, dropping it from 15% to 12.75%.
A new Tax Reform Task Force, with farmers at the table, would rewrite the tax code to slash red tape and make filing simpler.
Producers would also feel relief at the fuel pump and in the barn.
The Conservatives promise to scrap the entire federal carbon pricing system, including the consumer carbon tax that many grain growers pay to dry crops and heat livestock barns.
At the same time, Conservatives promise to keep fighting any federal cap on fertilizer use, which they say would shrink farmers yields.
To preserve rural land, Poilievre is pledging a Farmland Protection Act that would prevent foreign governments and corporations from buying Canadian farm land and would publish data on land already under foreign ownership.
Several smaller measures target life far from urban centres.
The platform says every RCMP police car in rural Canada would carry a defibrillator, a step ranchers’ groups argue could save lives when ambulances could be an hour or more away.
It also promises “right to repair” rules for farm machinery and payment-security changes so fruit and vegetable suppliers get paid even if a buyer goes bankrupt.
On trade, Conservatives repeated their support for supply management and promised to bring farm families into future talks before any deal reaches the table.
They say they will finish compensation still owed to dairy and poultry processors hurt by recent agreements and will demand reciprocal standards from the United States to keep Canadian exports moving.
Family succession also appears in the platform.
A Poilievre government would ensure that selling a farm to children is taxed no more harshly than selling to a stranger, and it would redirect some federal research spending to public-private projects that expand year-round greenhouse production.
The Conservative Party’s platform outlines a path that involves lower taxes and reduced costs.
This approach aims to allow producers to concentrate on calves, crops, and community rather than being burdened by paperwork and increasing expenses.
