NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh released the following statement in response to the Liberal government’s decision to undermine 9,300 workers with a binding arbitration order in the CN and CPKC lockout:
What’s your logic for treating it separately? The tracks and roads both serve as infrastructure to move people and goods around, yet the public owns only roads.
We could keep more train conductors employed too if we had a fairer access system for tracks.
We don’t allow freight and logistics companies to own highways, so we do we still let them own track?
The public should own the tracks. Rail companies should be freed to focus on competing for cargo and passengers.
Yes but that’s a separate issue and exists to keep truckers employed
What’s your logic for treating it separately? The tracks and roads both serve as infrastructure to move people and goods around, yet the public owns only roads.
We could keep more train conductors employed too if we had a fairer access system for tracks.
The shipping would still be controlled by a duopoly