What to do with the railroaded over payments?

[Kodiak]

That should use up the money nice and quickly. Then we won't have to argue about where it should go.

[mustardman]

So seeings how the promised value added did not happen and the cost savings have not been passed on to the farmers only to shareholders THEN sorry CNR and CPR you had your chance... We are now reinstalling the Crow rate.
(if only we had some politicos with balls)

[agstar77]

No Crow , but if they had Balls they would institute open running rights.

[mcfarms]

I have suggested to a couple of folks I know that at the very least as a producer I want my investment tax credit for my portion of the overpayment.

[mustardman]

Yes open running rights would be good maybe more realistic
although the lobbyists would be getting paid thru the roof by the RR's to stop that possibility

[furrowtickler]

husker - how about somewhere inbetween? It does not have to be black and white.

[Kodiak]

Why would you want open running rights in Canada? Almost where ever its been tried, its been a failure. Either a lack of coordination curtails efficient movement, or a lack of maintenance causes safety problems AND inefficent operation of the trains. There are many forms of running rights, but none that work as good as amalgamated railroad companies.

BTW, I'm not an apologist for Canadian rail companies, and the shoddy and overpriced service we are getting from them. Massive improvements are needed, but running rights is not going to do it. Enhanced shipper protection will help to some extent, but it won't solve the problem completely. Increased competition will help too. More domestic markets so that we depend less on rail for export would be the most effective. If we don't like their service and price, we can tell them to go haul coal.....

[husker]

as an alternative to building a fertilzer plant,take the money as a group and tender 2009 inputs

[mcfarms]

Ummm does the term WESTCO ring any bells...

[Hopperbin]

Take this money and hang onto it.
Then when the class action is done and there is another billion we should be given prefered shares. Plus the couple years inbetween the class action is done.
We should own the tracks or a portion of.