Canada’s major-projects focus needs an agricultural economic strategy

Canada has an extraordinary agricultural advantage. We produce grains, oilseeds, pulses, and livestock that support communities across the Prairies and supply customers around the globe.
If we want Western Canadian agricultural exports to grow substantially over the next 20 or 30 years, we need to understand what that growth will demand of our transportation system, writes John Simpson.

Canada has rediscovered the language of nation-building. Governments are talking about major projects, new trade corridors, and the infrastructure required to make this country more competitive and less dependent on traditional markets.

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