2024 Interswitching consultation

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.

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

• Interswitching Review Consultations Paper
• Interswitching Review Consultations Paper – Annex B