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CP offers assurances for 2016-17 grain handle

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Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) says it’s ready and willing to move a bumper Prairie crop in 2016-17. “Operationally, CP is eager and prepared to move grain this coming crop year,” company CEO Hunter Harrison said in a letter to federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau. The letter, dated Tuesday, was also circulated to Prairie transportation and
Grain transport emergency provisions extended
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Grain transport emergency provisions extended

Provisions that were set to expire August 1 have been extended another full year

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The federal government is extending emergency grain-shipping provisions for another year. The provisions, which included weekly mandatory minimum grain-hauling levels, compensation to shippers for failing to provide service and extended interswitching that encourage competition, were set to expire August 1 with the end of the current crop year. Transport Minister Marc Garneau and Agriculture Minister
Transportation Minister Marc Garneau says the timeline to decide how to proceed on grain shipping is growing tighter as the July 31 expiration date for temporary measures draws nearer.
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Government aware deadline for temporary rail measures drawing near

The recent release of CTA recommendations further complicates the decision, says transport minister

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The federal government is grappling with a complicated question as the expiry date looms on emergency sanctions imposed on the railways in 2014: should they stay or should they go? Astronaut-turned-transport minister, Marc Garneau concedes the timeline is a tight one as the current measures — minimum weekly haulage targets, expanded interswitching and fines on
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Transport review urges scrapping railway grain revenue cap

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Winnipeg | Reuters — Ottawa should phase out over seven years its cap on the amount of revenue railways can earn transporting grain, a study for the Canadian government recommended Thursday, a move long urged by railways and opposed by farmers and grain handlers. A review of Canadian transportation laws, aimed at modernizing the system,

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