VRCPI Forecast Models Consultation

On this page

• Background
• Providing your feedback
• Who can see your feedback
• Confidential Information
• Reference material
• Public submissions

Background

The Agency recently held its first Consultation on the effectiveness of the models used to predict future price changes for the labour, fuel and material components of the VRCPI.

Interested stakeholders were given an opportunity to respond to various questions posed in the consultation document over the period from July 10, 2025, to October 31, 2025. The Agency received a wide range of responses and has identified and evaluated a number of suggestions for enhancement.

On April 17, 2026, the Agency issued LET-R-18-2026, in which it committed to extending the consultation on the VRCPI forecasting models to allow industry participants an opportunity to comment on the results of the Agency’s testing of various suggested alternative approaches.

Industry stakeholders are invited to provide feedback on the test results of the chosen alternative methods.

Providing your feedback

Your input on the test results will help the CTA in determining the most appropriate reasonable forecasting methods for the 2027-2028 VRCPI Determination.

Your submissions can be sent to grain@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 September 22, 2026.

If you wish to submit a video due to accessibility issues, please send an email to grain@otc-cta.gc.ca with the subject line “Video”. We will contact you to coordinate your submission.

Who can see your feedback

Your feedback is public information

Your feedback will appear on the Agency website in the official language you used to write it, along with your name. If you believe part, or all, of your feedback should be treated as confidential, follow the steps below.

Confidential Information

If a document you send has confidential information, you must send two copies of it, as follows:

1. One copy (the public version) from which the confidential information has been blacked out.
2. One copy (the confidential version) in which:
   • each page is marked “contains confidential information” at the top; and
   • you highlight, or otherwise show, on each page the confidential information that was blacked out in the first copy.

The Agency will post the public version on its website and keep the confidential one for internal use only.

However, all feedback is subject to the Access to Information Act and Privacy Act. The Agency will protect the confidentiality of your information subject to the provisions of those acts, but the Agency can be required to release information if someone requests it and if it doesn't fall within the legislated exceptions.

Reference material

• VRCPI forecasting test results

Public submissions

Submissions will be posted here when available.