National transportation system

Overview

The Canadian Transportation Agency keeps the national transportation system running efficiently and smoothly in the interests of all Canadians – those who work and invest in it, the producers, shippers, travellers and businesses who rely on it, and the communities where it operates – and the prosperity and social fabric of the country as a whole.

Broadly speaking, to implement this mandate, we:

• administer regulations and issue determination, including;
  • Maximum Revenue Entitlement (MRE) for the movement of certain western grains by Canada's class 1 railways;
  • Certificates of Fitness, permitting federally-regulated railways to operate;
  • Licenses and other temporary authorities for commercial air operations in Canada;
  • Coasting Trade determinations for the issuance of licenses by the Canada Border Services Agency to foreign marine vessel operators; and
  • Canadian status, financial fitness and issuance level determinations for air licensees.
• help resolve disputes using a range of approaches from relatively informal facilitation and mediation to more formal arbitration and adjudication.
• provide information and guidance about the rights and responsibilities of transportation providers and users, and the Agency's legislation and services.