CN and CPKC have locked out employees as of 12:01 a.m. Thursday. The industries to be most heavily impacted are those in bulk commodities. Canada is a major producer of grain, potash and metallurgical coal. In general, those industries have no reasonable method to get their products to market, which largely involves movement to ports for export, without the railways. Other impacted industries that move via rail carload include automotive, forest products, chemicals and petroleum. Grain...
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