PC Party Wants Port Of Churchill To Remain Open To Grain Transportation

Aug 09, 2016

There’s a lot of concern around layoffs and the decision by Omni-Trax to close the Port of Churchill to grain transportation

The PC Party of Saskatchewan wants to see the Port remain open to grain transportation.

PC Party Leader Rick Swenson is calling on both the Federal and Manitoba Governments to reverse the layoffs and keep the port open.

"Sometimes federal governments have to act like federal governments that's why you have them. Transportation is under the authority of the federal government and if the railway is the major issue here with that port then the federal government needs to step up to the plate. Certainly they can involve the province of Manitoba where the port is and they can involve the province of Saskatchewan where much of the rail track originate."

He says with Saskatchewan being so far from tide-water the Port of Churchill is extremely important adding we don’t want to take away any opportunity from farmers to ship their product to market.

Swenson says the Port is too important to farmers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan to let it close adding it could also help expand Canada’s trading relationships.

Source : Discoverestevan

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