I've done some digging, because this doesn't just affect my municipality at home. I guess it was in 1996 that the Railway Act was repealed and replaced by provisions split into both the Canada Transportation Act and the Railway Safety Act.
Is it your understanding that the government of the time intended to change the policy around drainage and the opportunity for railways? I find it a bit odd that it was changed back in the late nineties, and then all of a sudden, about five years later, both of our national railways appeared to challenge it. Comment on that, please.