"Canada’s three major railways should benefit from the Oct. 19, 2015 sea-to-sea election sweep by Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party of Canada. Trudeau’s party even managed to get four members of parliament elected in Alberta's two metropolises, Calgary and Edmonton—the ideological and financial anchors of the defeated Stephen Harper’s pro-pipeline and anti-rail Conservative government. Canadian voters issued the final death warrant for the ailing Keystone XL trans-border pipeline project, for which Harper was the last surviving cheerleader, having spent millions of taxpayer dollars promoting the private-sector scheme. The election of a greener government determined to redeem Canada from its reputation as an environmental pariah means a screeching halt to expansion of Alberta’s northern tar sands. New pipeline capacity is decades away because the Liberal government has promised to restore credible social and environmental assessment processes before new energy projects will be considered. That means CN and Canadian Pacific will continue to haul their existing shares of tar sands output to U.S. markets (assuming shippers find a way to avoid diluting the bitumen with extremely explosive naphtha). Any additional tar sands production from capacity expansions too far along to stop will also be shipped by rail."
"‘Just leave us alone,’ CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway tells Trudeau - The head of Canada’s second-largest railway urged the country’s incoming Liberal government to stop what is says is Ottawa’s history of meddling in its operations. Canadian Pacific Railway CEO Hunter Harrison said the Conservatives and prior Liberal governments haven’t done much in the past to help the railway. “Just leave us alone, give us a level playing field and let us run our business,†Harrison said Tuesday during a conference call about its third-quarter results a day after Justin Tru-deau led the Liberals to a majority government. The Calgary-based company and its larger rival, Canadian National Railway (TSX:CNR), were highly critical of the Tories for imposing fines and setting minimum grain volume require-ments last year following backlogs in moving a bumper grain crop. Harrison said he hopes the new government won’t again regulate Western grains. “I think they’ve got larger issues than to worry about than rails in Canada,†he said, adding that the country has been best rail system in the world. Canadian Pacific (TSX:CP) beat analyst expec-tations as it posted stronger adjusted profits by continuing to control costs while facing weaker volumes. CP’s ad-justed profits were $427 million or $2.69 per share, which was up 16 per cent from the same time last year and two cents above an estimate compiled by Thomson Reuters. Revenues rose to $1.709 billion in the three months ended Sept. 30, up two per cent from the third quarter of 2014. Analysts had estimated $2.67 per share of adjusted earn-ings and $1.686 billion of revenue. Net income decreased 19 per cent to $323 million or $2.04 per diluted share – mainly because of the impact of foreign exchange fluctuations on the value of the debt it owes. The company said it plans to cut up to $400 million in capital spending next year and will extend its holiday from buying locomotives a few more years until at least 2018."
"‘Just leave us alone,’ CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway tells Trudeau - The head of Canada’s second-largest railway urged the country’s incoming Liberal government to stop what is says is Ottawa’s history of meddling in its operations. Canadian Pacific Railway CEO Hunter Harrison said the Conservatives and prior Liberal governments haven’t done much in the past to help the railway. “Just leave us alone, give us a level playing field and let us run our business,†Harrison said Tuesday during a conference call about its third-quarter results a day after Justin Tru-deau led the Liberals to a majority government. The Calgary-based company and its larger rival, Canadian National Railway (TSX:CNR), were highly critical of the Tories for imposing fines and setting minimum grain volume require-ments last year following backlogs in moving a bumper grain crop. Harrison said he hopes the new government won’t again regulate Western grains. “I think they’ve got larger issues than to worry about than rails in Canada,†he said, adding that the country has been best rail system in the world. Canadian Pacific (TSX:CP) beat analyst expec-tations as it posted stronger adjusted profits by continuing to control costs while facing weaker volumes. CP’s ad-justed profits were $427 million or $2.69 per share, which was up 16 per cent from the same time last year and two cents above an estimate compiled by Thomson Reuters. Revenues rose to $1.709 billion in the three months ended Sept. 30, up two per cent from the third quarter of 2014. Analysts had estimated $2.67 per share of adjusted earn-ings and $1.686 billion of revenue. Net income decreased 19 per cent to $323 million or $2.04 per diluted share – mainly because of the impact of foreign exchange fluctuations on the value of the debt it owes. The company said it plans to cut up to $400 million in capital spending next year and will extend its holiday from buying locomotives a few more years until at least 2018."
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