Canada extends grain transportation rules one year

Canada's new Liberal government on Friday extended by one year rules put in place in 2014 to speed movement of grain by rail, after an unprecedented backup of grain on the Western Prairies that year. The former Conservative government took drastic steps to ease the backlog, including giving U.S. railways greater access to Canadian shipments and requiring minimum grain shipments by the country's two main railways, Canadian National Railway Co and Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.