Eat Crow!!!

[smallguy]

Braveheart:

The crow rate was not finished till 1995. The liberals started discussing it in 80's. This is a quote on the crow rate.

"Although popular with farmers, these reduced rates were not cost-effective for the railway and provided central Canadian manufacturers and grain ports with an unfair advantage. The Crow Rate was suspended by the CPR during World War One and only reinstated in 1925. By the early 1980s, the government attempted to resolve the problems between the competing interests by altering the agreement. The Western Grain Transportation Act of 1983 allowed shipping rates to increase, but never more than 10% of the world price for grain. In addition, further cash payments were made by the government to the CPR.

With the 1993 election of the new Liberal government of Jean Chrétien, the government took steps to eliminate the subsidies altogether. This was implemented in 1995 through the Western Grain Transition Payment Program, which provided one-time payments to farmers to assist them in making the transition away from subsidized shipping.
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I agree with Burbert, time to move on.

[Braveheart]

There are lot of misused phrases around the subsidy. Biggest one is crow rate. Crow rate was gone in 1983 and became the crow benefit under the WGTA.

[smallguy]

Forgot to mention, that Braveheart was right in a sense, all the government had done was make a name change in 1983, and a couple of act changes. Termination of all was done in 1995.