While much of the focus on the proposed merger between Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern has been on keeping cross-border gateways open to competing railroads, a Canadian attorney is asking whether there will be national security consequences if a corporate police force run by a foreign entity is operating on U.S. soil.
Tavengwa Runyowa, a Regina, Saskatchewan-based lawyer, plans to address that issue before the Surface Transportation Board’s three-day hearing later this week on the proposed merger.
Runyowa represents three families of CP employees who were killed during a February 2019 incident in which a CP train bound for Vancouver derailed near Field, British Columbia. The train consisted of 112 covered hopper cars and three locomotives. Of those, 99 cars and two locomotives derailed.
CP, like other Class I railroads, operates a police force to safeguard rail shipments and infrastructure. CP’s police force is a fully authorized federal force under the direction of CP.
Runyowa wants STB to consider how or whether a foreign-run corporate police force operating in the U.S. should abide by U.S. law — especially, he says, since he wants CP to be accountable for actions in Canada related to the February 2019 incident.
“If STB allows CP Railway to use the merger process to integrate the KCS police force into the new Canada-based CP-KCS Police, that will affirm the United States’ acceptance of non-American persons with no police powers in the United States, and who...
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