Canadian Pacific Railway has confirmed in a letter to customers that it has received a strike notice from its union representing its engineers, conductors and other train employees. The strike notice from the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) comes into effect on March 20 th, which is the same deadline CP Rail gave the union a couple of days ago for a lockout unless a deal is reached in the ongoing contract negotiations, or the union agrees to a binding arbitration. The two sides are at odds over 26 outstanding issues, including wages, benefits and pensions. Union members had voted 96.7% in favor of authorizing strike action, the TCRC stated in a release. CP Rail says it has "commenced and will continue to execute" a structured shutdown of its train operations in Canada and that an "embargo application for shipments routing to and from CP Canadian locations is now in place to be effective 00:01 Sunday March 20, 2022."