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Grain sector appeals to Government to modernize Port Governance
GLOBE NEWSWIRE The Western Grain Elevator Association
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(WGEA) announced Feb. 18 that the grain sec- tor is embarking on a major campaign to raise awareness and seek solutions for outdated and problematic marine port governance rules. “We are working in a port oversight system
that simply lacks proper checks and balances, in contrast to what we have in rail or air trans- portation where there are tools available to hold people accountable for decisions,” said Wade Sobkowich, Executive Director of the WGEA. “With marine ports, we have no recourse to an adequate appeal mechanism, no outside dispute resolution, no independent complaint process, and no effective input to Director nominations – the federal government needs to address these shortcomings in the Port Modernization Review.” Over the last couple of years, port terminal
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operators like the grain elevators have experi- enced some decisions that are unjustified and lack a deeper level of transparency necessary to hold decision makers accountable. Double digit annual rent increases, large but sometimes un- substantiated ‘improvement fees’, and question- able priority setting on infrastructure spending are areas of concern. The dual role of Canadian port authorities as developer and regulator also places them in an apparent conflict of interest, which is something that the government should be looking at carefully. Lastly, as the federal government’s representative for port lands and operations, port authorities need to reconsider their role to help remove duplicative or overly re- strictive sub-federal government regulations on port terminal operators. “The Government of Canada needs to act on
the major clean-up of marine port governance that was recommended during the review of the Canadian Transportation Act back in 2016-17,” continued Sobkowich, “This is having a large negative effect on our ability to unlock existing capacity and to grow the agri-food export sec- tor.” The WGEA is an association of grain business-
es operating in Canada which collectively handle in excess of 90% of western Canada’s bulk grain exports. For more information, see the WGEA’s port issues overview found here:
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