2024 Interswitching consultation
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Background
On November 21, 2024, the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) launched consultations to review the Railway Interswitching Regulations. The CTA invites stakeholders to share their views to ensure the Railway Interswitching Regulations are clear, and the rates methodology is fair and reasonable to all parties.
The CTA has prepared an interswitching review paper that focuses on the following key issues:
- Eligible traffic; and
- Factors in setting the interswitching rate.
How to Participate
You are invited to respond to all questions, or simply those questions that are of interest to you or your organization. Your answers will help the CTA decide whether to propose any changes to the regulations or rate-setting method. Your submissions can be sent to ferroviaire-rail@otc-cta.gc.ca.
| Action | Date |
|---|---|
| Last day to submit your input to the questions posed in the discussion paper | February 10, 2025 |
| Initial public submissions posted online | February 24, 2025 |
| Last day for stakeholders to provide responses to initial submissions | April 11, 2025 |
| Public versions of the stakeholder responses posted online | April 25, 2025 |
Submissions by mail can be sent to:
Secretariat, Canadian Transportation Agency
60 Laval Street, Unit 1-117
Gatineau, Quebec
Canada J8X 3G9
Please note that these must be postdated no later than February 10, 2025.
If you wish to submit a video due to accessibility issues, please send an email to ferroviaire-rail@otc-cta.gc.ca with the subject line “Video“. We will contact you to coordinate your submission.
If the CTA makes any formal proposals to change the regulations, these regulatory amendments would be introduced through the formal regulatory process in the Canada Gazette. The Agency anticipates any such formal process could begin in the Spring of 2025.
Confidential Information
If your submission contains information that you believe should be treated as confidential, you must file two versions of your documents:
- A confidential version of the document in which:
- each page is marked “contains confidential information” at the top, and
- on each page, you identify, by highlighting or other means, the confidential information that was redacted from the public version; and
- A public version of the document from which the confidential information has been redacted.
We will post the public version on our website and keep the confidential one for our use only. However, any document provided to the Agency is subject to potential release (if requested) under the Access to Information Act and Privacy Act requirements. The confidentiality of any information you provide will be subject to protections as outlined in these Acts.
Reference materials
Initial public submissions
Disclaimers
Third-party information liability disclaimer
Some of the information on this web page has been provided by external sources. The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) is not responsible for the accuracy, reliability or currency of the information supplied by external sources. Content provided by external sources is not subject to official languages, privacy and accessibility requirements. All submissions are made available in the official language in which they were received.
Privacy notice
Participants were advised that all submissions would be considered a public document and may be posted on the CTA’s website. Participants were advised not to include any personal or confidential information.
| Name of the individual or organization | Date submitted | Submission |
|---|---|---|
| Canadian National Railway Company (CN) | February 10, 2025 |
CN submission - PDF (167 KB) |
| Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) | February 10, 2025 |
CPKC submission - PDF (173 KB) |
| FAIR Rail Coalition (FAIR) | February 10, 2025 |
FAIR submission - PDF (1.2 MB) |
| Fertilizer Canada | February 10, 2025 |
Fertilizer Canada submission - PDF (175 KB) |
| Freight Management Association of Canada (FMA) | February 7, 2025 |
FMA submission - PDF (222 KB) |
| Dr. James Nolan - Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, U. of Saskatchewan | February 4, 2025 |
Dr. James Nolan submission - PDF (170 KB) |
| Responsible Distribution Canada (RDC) | February 10, 2025 |
RDC submission - PDF (495 KB) |
Milestones
| Date | Status |
|---|---|
Thursday, November 21, 2024 | Consultation opened |
Monday, February 10, 2025 | Last day to submit your input to the questions posed in the discussion paper |
Monday, February 24, 2025 | Initial public submissions posted online |
Friday, April 25, 2025 | Consultation closed |
- Date modified:
Submitted comments
Third-party information liability disclaimer
Some of the information on this web page has been provided by external sources. The Agency is not responsible for the accuracy, reliability or currency of the information supplied by external sources. Content provided by external sources is not subject to official languages, privacy and accessibility requirements.
Privacy notice
All participants were informed that the information they shared during the public consultation process would form part of the public record and be posted on the CTA's website. This includes personal information, such as full names, email addresses, postal/street addresses, telephone and facsimile numbers, etc. They were advised not to include in their submission any information that they did not want to be published in the public record.
Exemption requests and comments
All documents are made available in the official language they were received. For accessibility purposes, the CTA has converted all documents to PDF.