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OTTAWA – December 22, 2016 – In a determination issued today, the Canadian Transportation Agency ruled that revenues of the Canadian National Railway Company (CN) and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CP) have exceeded their Western grain revenue entitlements for the 2015-2016 crop year.CN’s...
News | 2016-12-21
December 6, 2016 — Ottawa — The Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Dr. Scott Streiner, Chair of the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA), announced today the establishment of a three-member panel to review the proposed Milton Logistics Hub Project in...
News | 2016-12-06
The Government of Canada’s national transportation policy, as set out in the Canada Transportation Act, permits the market to largely self-regulate. However, it also acknowledges that regulation may be required to meet public objectives or in cases where parties are not served by effective...
Web page | 2016-11-24
Introduction
On June 22, 2007, Parliament enacted amendments to the Canada Transportation Act (the CTA) which came into force the same day.
The CTA now authorizes the Canadian Transportation Agency (the Agency), a quasi-judicial administrative tribunal of the federal government, to resolve...
Publication | 2016-10-03
September 21, 2016NOTICE OF ORAL HEARINGApplication by Univar Canada Ltd. (Univar) against Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CP), requesting that the Canadian Transportation Agency (Agency) find that CP has failed to fulfill its level of service obligations for the receiving, loading, carrying and...
News | 2016-09-21
Types of disputes we can help with
According to section 24 of the RSA, the Governor in Council can make regulations restricting specific activities on land adjoining the land on which the railway is situated, where those activities may threaten safe railway operations. These regulations may...
Web page | 2016-08-26
Types of disputes we can help with
Under section 99 (Part III) of the Canada Transportation Act, if the parties are unable to reach an agreement respecting a railway crossing, the party proposing to construct the crossing may apply to the Agency.
The Agency may authorize the construction of the...
Web page | 2016-08-26
Types of disputes we can help with
Sometimes railway companies charge shippers for specific activities performed over and above the service to be provided upon payment of the rate, such as:
demurrage (taking longer than permitted to load or unload a railcar);
cleaning and storing railcars; and...
Web page | 2016-08-26
Types of disputes we can help with
Whenever a public passenger service provider and a railway company are unable to agree in respect of any matter raised in the context of the negotiation of any agreement concerning the use of the railway company’s railway, land, equipment, facilities or services...
Web page | 2016-08-26
Types of disputes we can help with
A railway company can apply to the Agency for the right to run its trains over the tracks of any other federal railway company when no negotiated agreement exists.
For more information about running rights and joint track usage, read section 138 of the Canada...
Web page | 2016-08-26