Railways are playing games again. Why can't canada get its shit together.

[bucket]

Maybe VVALK could enlighten us about his 10 years of working in Ottawa towards an open market ....did he fall asleep in meetings about the transportation file and larger crops??????

Or was it myopic vision that didn't lead to think further past his nose...

I guess 2013 showed up just like 1997 unexpectedly with no one paying attention....and now it looks like even with good weather this winter there is a crisis developing....

Who would have thunk it with less than 500,000 tonnes moving to the west coast weekly and as high as 2.3 MMT of vessel space waiting for grain while the new trade agreement was coming....

Geez that's vision....

Meanwhile the CTA keeps rubber stamping indexed increases in freight....while some guys think lobbying on behalf of their sponsors that higher rates will motivate the railways.....

[Oliver88]

-Trudeau puts moratorium on shipping oil off northern BC coast
Northern Gateway Pipeline- cancelled
-Bill C-69 and other regulations/stall tactics (giving Montreal mayor a veto) added to kill Energy East.
-Twinning of the Transmountain Pipeline gets stalled due to environmentalists and Trudeau playing games with Vancouver voters, buys pipeline to avoid making a decision.
-Carbon tax now being added to freight in Alberta and BC. NFU told federal government farmers endorse the carbon tax.
-CN claims to have a wonderful patented plastic hockey puck to haul oil in.
-Notley and some of her ministers were anti-oil activists before politics.
-Gerald Butts used to be head of the World Wildlife Federation opposing the oil industry now directs Trudeau.
-Foreign billionaires are paying activists to oppose industry and productivity in Canada.

Should we be shocked with bad grain movement?

[bucket]

Even the CBC is questioning where the environmentalists are getting their money.....

[FarmJunkie]

Anything that would make sense just never gets done in this country. There would always be an excuse why it wouldn’t work. Churchill is a prime example. Not enuf votes or political favoratism there. Just look at the Great Lakes situation. Votes talk. Our whole system is setup to pander to Ontario and Quebec. In the west we would be better off without them. Railways hold every small town ransom and determine which communities live or die. Not the way it shud be but once again money and votes talk.

[furrowtickler]

-Trudeau puts moratorium on shipping oil off northern BC coast
Northern Gateway Pipeline- cancelled
-Bill C-69 and other regulations/stall tactics (giving Montreal mayor a veto) added to kill Energy East.
-Twinning of the Transmountain Pipeline gets stalled due to environmentalists and Trudeau playing games with Vancouver voters, buys pipeline to avoid making a decision.
-Carbon tax now being added to freight in Alberta and BC. NFU told federal government farmers endorse the carbon tax.
-CN claims to have a wonderful patented plastic hockey puck to haul oil in.
-Notley and some of her ministers were anti-oil activists before politics.
-Gerald Butts used to be head of the World Wildlife Federation opposing the oil industry now directs Trudeau.
-Foreign billionaires are paying activists to oppose industry and productivity in Canada.

Should we be shocked with bad grain movement?

You basically summed up the entire issue,
What we have in Canada right now is a complete cluster *** , while the rest of the world is blowing past us .

[Rareearth]

Well here is a out of the box idea,

Ottawa buys Suncor and gifts it too indigionous groups, as a final settlement, self govt, self supporting ethnic entitled group.


Lots of pros and cons to this.

[westernvicki]

This is the Canadian reality:
lets project growth.
lets do value add to diversity the economy, in all sectors.
Lets have a seed tax so farmers can grow better varieties so they can grow more.
Lets have fight the environment with a carbon tax.
But then fail to provide the legislation to insure the most efficient form of traffic works: rail.


Sad that a resource based economy cannot build pipelines to go to the market, and depends on rail.
Sad that the folks who protest likely will depend at some point in their life in the revenue that a viable resource industry generates to the GDP.

The reality it the rail network with increased traffic will need tonnes of new investment & maintenance, and likely more derailments as a result of a pressured infrastructure, something needs to give. Look in the mirror.

I am adding a negotiating point to the seed tax: no tax, unless we can get grain to market without delay and serve the value add network we need, and was promised when we gave up the CROW.

[bucket]

They can't just say the grain will move as the trade off for a seed tax ......prove it.....this constant deer in the headlight look when SHTF is getting old already.....1997 2013 and again now....

Why is it always primary producers paying the bill??????