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Ottawa—Last month’s brief strike at CP Rail and the threat of one in May at CN has shippers debating whether to push the federal government to designate railway operations as an essential service.
The conclusion was that shipper organizations need to start discussing among themselves what measures would minimize the impact of labour disputes between the railways and their workers. A viable alternative to the current situation could be presented to the federal government. He said grain shippers were getting poor rail service up until about 2017-2018, and then Bill C 49 – the Transportation Modernization Act was passed. “Then we had two years of pretty good service overall. It wasn’t perfect, but it was acceptable.
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