SASKATOON – It will be at least the middle of October before grain industry officials arrive at a final recommendation for the future of grain transportation, said a member of the committee.
“There will be at least three more days of meetings before we expect to arrive at a consensus,” said Don Loewen, chief executive officer of Saskatchewan Wheat Pool.
Loewen and other senior executives of the Canadian grain industry were given a report last week by its technical committee studying the unresolved transportation issues.
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Surveying the options
“They’ve identified a number of options for us. We now have to work through those and get to a point where we can achieve some industry consensus.
“We’re not held to the options that were put before us by the technical committee,” said Loewen, of Regina, the group’s spokesperson.
Curtis Sims, one of the producers on the technical committee, said they gave the group a series of options from “almost no change to something very dramatic.
“We tried to develop a series of very different alternatives,” said Sims of MacGregor, Man.
The committee will meet again Oct. 2, 11 and 12, before arriving at its final recommendation to give to the federal transport minister.
