Rail Crossing Maintenance Charges

WHEREAS rail lines in Canada provide a service almost exclusively to large corporate entities; AND WHEREAS the costs of maintaining safe crossings for the general public throughout Canada should be the responsibility of the corporate land owner as trains have increased in frequency and speeds since they originally divided the lands they cross: Therefore be it resolved that local governments across Canada band together as a unified voice, by forwarding this resolution to FCM, to lobby for discontinuance of the monthly charges for rail crossing maintenance throughout Canada.