This briefing suggests that railroad financial results reflect improved performance, not customer gouging, and that the solution to farm sector difficulties does not lie with the railroads.
Document Highlights
The Canada Transportation Act must determine whether the improvement in the financial situation of the railways has been at the expense of some or all of the railways’ customers.
The key issues for the review panel are:
- the level of competition in the rail sector,
- the degree to which some shippers are captive to a single railroad,
- the relationship of the rail sector to the farm sector, and
- the financial viability of the railroads themselves.
