Government Says Rail Targets Must Be Consistent, Not Just a Response to Crisis

By Newsroom Apr 30, 2018 | 6:18 AM

Minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale says the concerns with railways and grain shipments that led to a backlog this winter still need to be addressed. He says the railways have made mistakes in the number of crews, basic employee numbers, and the equipment made available. Goodale says he’s pleased to see an improvement in service, noting car spottings have been consistently above 5,000 for each railway. However, he notes this level of service has to be sustained, expanded, and provided to all commodities going forward. (CKRM Regina)

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When you receive your carbon tax rebate by direct deposit have you ever not known where it came from, regardless of how it was identified on your statement?

The Candian government wants the country’s banks to identify, in customers’ bank statements when they receive the carbon rebate, that it is labelled as such.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the lack of a clear identifier is contributing to confusion about carbon price rebates, so he is going to change the law if he has to in order to force the big banks to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits.

The first rebate deposits in 2022 were labelled very generically, which meant recipients had no idea why they were getting the money.

T-D and B-MO have adopted the government’s requested “CdaCarbonRebate” entry, R-B-C and Scotiabank say they couldn’t make the change in time for the rollout, and C-I-B-C is still calling it “Deposit Canada.”

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