By Karen Briere, The Western Producer, September 30, 2016
Farm groups appearing at a transportation committee meeting make the argument for keeping interswitching rules
Extended rail interswitching provisions should stay in place even if they aren’t being used that much, grain representatives told the federal standing committee on transportation last week.
Cereals Canada, the Grain Growers of Canada and the Canadian Federation of Agriculture all said the 160-kilometre radius implemented in the 2014 Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act should not be eliminated as recommended in the Emerson review of the transportation system.
