On August 2, 2021, Canadian Pacific Railway Limited issued the statement in response to the Surface Transportation Board decision on August 2, 2021, relating to materials sought by CP in preparing its application for authorization to control Kansas City Southern. The statement mentioned that CP was gratified by the STB's decision released on August 2, 2021, in which the STB confirms that CP may use the STB's discovery processes in the CP-KCS docket, Finance Docket No. 36500, to immediately seek from KCS the materials that are relevant to its preparation of an application of authority to acquire control of KCS to be filed in that docket. The STB had already approved CP's use of a voting trust and affirmed KCS's waiver from the new rail merger rules it adopted in 2001.