Agency staff is seeking interested parties' views on three underlying issues at the core of the Agency's regulatory costing model (ARCM), which is the broad set of relationships used in determining regulatory costs for all federal railway companies, subject to the Canada Transportation Act.

The CTA consulted with industry stakeholders, experts and interested members of the public from December 2016 to October 2017, to update and clarify its regulations, guidelines and tools for air transportation so that they reflect how industry is evolving, avoid unnecessary administrative burden and allow for innovation.

Agency staff is seeking interested parties' views on the methodology for determining the capital structure of Canadian National Railway Company (CN) and Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CP) for the determination of the cost of capital of the two Railway Companies.