Manufacturers are scrambling to deliver products, industry associations are warning of potential shortages of food items, propane, and chlorine for water treatment, and mining companies are curtailing production as rail blockades by Indigenous groups and environmental activists continue to paralyze Canada’s transportation infrastructure.
Canadian National Railway began shutting down all operations in Eastern Canada and Via Rail cancelled most passenger service nationwide Friday as protests in support of Wet’suwet’en Nation opposition to the Coastal GasLink pipeline in northern British Columbia moved into a second week.
Demonstrators have blocked railways in B.C. and Ontario, crippling crucial arteries for industrial supply chains that operate on a just-in time basis. And as trains ground to a halt, unions were notified by CN, Canada’s biggest cargo railway, to be prepared for potential layoffs.
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