Administrative law: CP Rail is challenging Ottawa's Fair Rail for
Grain Farmers Act, which gives grain farmers and other railway clients the right to «interswitch» their goods between rail lines within 160 kilometres at a prescribed rate.
In 2014, government passed the Fair
Grain Farmers Act, which gives farmers increased access to rail capacity.
Rick and 12 other farmers arrested received a pardon from Prime Minister Stephen Harper on August 1, 2012, when the federal government's Marketing Freedom for
Grain Farmers Act came into effect, which allowed producers to opt out of the Canadian Wheat Board and sell wheat on the open market.
Not exact matches
Since our previous Client Alert: New Marketing Freedom For
Grain Farmers, a judge of the Federal Court ruled on December 6, 2011, that the Minister of Agriculture had
acted in breach of the Canadian Wheat Board
Act.