The Executive Director for the Western Grain Elevator Association is pleased that farmers finally got a meeting with Federal Transportation Minister Marc Garneau.

The Minister has been meeting with industry to get feedback on suggestions for change in the Canadian Transportation Act Review Report.

Wade Sobkowich says they met with the Minister back in July and talks about some of the changes they would like to see. Sobkowich said, “We're thinking it’s going to end up, once all the final numbers are in, somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 - 80 million tons Western Canada. Could be the second largest on record and so a big crop. So far railway performance has been better than we’ve seen in previous years and better than what we saw in 2013/14 we attribute most of that to lower shipping in other industries.”

Transportation Minister Marc Garneau tabled the Canada Transportation Act Review Report in Parliament in February of this year; the review itself ran from June 25th, 2014 to December 21, 2015.