Churchill Mayor Michael Spence said in a recent release that to his knowledge, Ottawa and the province have not sat down together to discuss the situation since the rail line flooded almost two months ago.

He added that he can’t understand why the Premier isn’t able to get his ministers to sit down with their federal counterparts, and that provincial government seems to have abandoned their plan to ship propane this winter.

The town of Churchill is saying that the current situation with the Omnitrax and the rail line connecting the remote northern community shows a lack of leadership in both the provincial and federal government.

Mayor Spence said that Omnitrax has said it can repair the rail in 60 days, and KRC could do repair it sooner. He added that the province is not showing leadership and that means more losses will come to Northern Manitoba.