{"id":516776,"date":"2026-03-05T21:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/516776\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T21:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:54:12","slug":"ottawa-accused-of-preferential-treatment-with-coming-rail-subsidies-for-steel-lumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/516776\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa accused of preferential treatment with coming rail subsidies for steel, lumber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government is being accused of creating an uneven playing field in Canada\u2019s shipping industry.<\/p>\n<p>Later this spring, Ottawa is expected to launch a program to subsidize interprovincial rail shipments of steel and lumber by up to 50 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The move was announced in November by Prime Minister Mark Carney as a way to foster domestic supply chains to mitigate the impact of U.S. tariffs on those sectors.<\/p>\n<p>But some of Canada\u2019s maritime shipping companies are criticizing the move because the subsidies aren\u2019t being extended to their businesses \u2014 only to rail companies.<\/p>\n<p>In the House of Commons last week, Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois MP Claude DeBellefeuille said the government was creating \u201cunfair competition between rail transportation and marine transportation,\u201d putting jobs and supply chains at risk.<\/p>\n<p>The move also puts at a disadvantage construction projects in Canada\u2019s Arctic, where no rail lines exist into Nunavut and materials are all brought in by cargo ships.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Murray, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government is being accused of creating an uneven playing field in Canada\u2019s shipping industry.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-516776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}