Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Monday, October 24, 2005 04:02 AM

E Hunter Harrison, the President & Chief Executive Officer of CN Rail, rolls into town on Tuesday.

The purpose of his trip has not been announced other than he will tour the CN facilities.

Recently the rail company reported a 24% increase in operating revenues to $713,000,000 dollars.

There has been a great deal of activity at the CN shops in the CN yard recently and according to insiders, there has been a lot of down sizing, but no layoffs.

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Posted on Monday, October 24, 2005 04:02 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: camoose on October 24 2005 3:35 PM

This is the same guy who sent a memo a few years back telling employees to refer to their employer as CN and NOT Canadian National Railways. Guess this Yankee doesn't like his business refered to as Canadian

Posted by: Chadermando on October 24 2005 5:00 PM

I think someone needs to corner him on his suggestion that residents pay yearly rates around $2000 a year for the rail crossings to access private property. IMO that was not part of the BC Rail deal and should not be tolerated.

I also think before the BC Rail deal was ever done someone should have got committments from CN to move its rail tracks out of the downtown as a condition of the deal. Maybe a committment for an inland container port in PG, but with the line along the Nechako removed and connected through the Fort St James-Bear Lake BC Rail line as the new East West corridor.

Spur of the moment deal maker Colin Kinsley was too quick on the draw to get any commitments last time around. Is he now going to follow through on his threats to be CN's worste enemy? I doubt it.

Time Will Tell