Jackson vs CN/CP

[wmoebis]

Interesting for sure.
Did Gord say he was going to write a public letter on behalf of pulse growers to the RR and CTA? Maybe even MP's and PMO?

Those are the guys that should be writing glad you talked to him.

[TOM4CWB]

wm,

It sounded like the shippers coalition has submitted something to the review panel.

[cottonpicken]

Hunter Harrison on bnn just now full interview tommorrow he is pretty weird

[wmoebis]

Good, each prod group should make a public announcement on what they are doing on our behalf.

Would be nice to see communications from WGEA too!

I think public letters from these groups would do more than a hunger strike as noble as that is.

Public media seems to be the only way to get things done these days.

[agstar77]

Railways should never owned the railbeds indefinitely . This would take real leadership and guts. I doubt any of our politicians can put that bell on.The roadbeds are publically owned as should the railbeds. Then there might be competition.

[grassfarmer]

Been on a few British trains in my time. I know they haul freight but the majority of traffic is passenger. Looks to me like the reverse situation from western Canada where it's virtually all freight and no passengers.

[TOM4CWB]

Agstar77,

Have you written saying that the CNCP Alliance is disrupting service... and needs the CTA to be revised to allow competition?

Using the European model...and the Frazer Canyon example of functional multi-use of rail beds for years... having multiple users...

Do you think the ND's and Libs would vote against this? Other than disappointed RR lobby people... what is the political downside???

What are the Chances... Hunter is just trying to divert people away from the real issue... the unfettered collaboration... that allowed the railcar maint. fiasco, and now the manifest breakdown of services in western Canada... so Hunter can boast of record profits... when supposed unbearable weather consumed service last winter?

Who can't see though the maize directly to the centre of the issue...

CNCP are coordinating... together. The rail service provided is not acceptable.

Do you really think Minister Ritz... is happy about what has happened?

When we met last March... every shipper in the room... all were there in Calgary... were annoyed, frustrated, and of one accord that there is a problem with service provided by the CPCN Alliance.

Now Hunter has pushed the 'pay me of suffer' line... what is the actual political downside in acting when there is a lack of service problem again???

Hunter is bold. Hunter is motivated by profit. Hunter may think... the Conservatives are too slow to pick up his manipulation and act...

Isn't it a matter of political survival.. to resolve the rail bed issue multi-use needs of the Canadian economy??? CNCP Alliance... is now being shown to be possibly a bigger threat to our grain industry... than a certain other institution was!!!

The CWB NEVER was as mean and vicious... as the CPCN Alliance is now!

[Braveheart]

Will you dummies ever realize the "Crow" was going, going, gone anyway. By the way, it was the left and those Sask Wheat Pool assholes that made sure that the Crow Benefit was paid to the railways.

So, for all your railway hating talk, why o why did the left wing hand the subsidy to them (railways). In the end, it was the LEFT, the Pools, the NFU and all the rest of the Agri-Left that killed the benefit early. It would have been politically difficult to end a subsidy received by farmers, but a subsidy paid to railways? A much softer target.

[farmaholic]

You will be quoted on that last statement later.

Tom, why did you challenge the RRs on the grounds you did?

Didn't your "percentage" legal counsel advise you of "time is of the essence" on this matter?

[bucket]

Tom

So you were at a circle jerk and what has been done since?

What concrete solution came out of that meeting of the top minds?

seems to me nothing has been done since confederation except we tore out half the railroads.