Mr. Speaker, farmers in Ontario have the right to vote.
After four years of study, a federal rail service review reported last October that shippers of grain, forest products and other commodities are getting seriously inferior services. The problem is an imbalance in market power, which strongly favours the railways.
After a further delay of six months, the government agreed last March to correct that imbalance. It only takes a simple amendment to the Canada Transportation Act but the throne speech was oddly silent on that issue.
Will the government commit unequivocally to enact that new legislation before the end of this calendar year?