Farmers, small-business owners protest carbon tax at Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border

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“He’d have gotten here a lot faster if he didn’t wait for me – my tractor’s slow,” said Gautreau, who runs a llama farm outside Shediac, N.B.

“We’re farmers, contractors, woodsmen, small-business people,” said Larry McCrea, himself a retired farmer from outside Sussex. Josie Gautreau and Bobby Vienneau drove their tractors from their farms in Shediac, N.B., to be at the carbon tax protest at the border on Monday. - Aaron Beswick With diesel at around $1.86 a litre, it costs them more than $2,000 to fill their tractor trailer – something they have to do every two days.“I get up every morning and wonder am I going to make any money today or am I going to give it all to the government.”

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