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Transport Canada (French: Transports Canada) is the department within the Government of Canada responsible for developing regulations, policies and services of road, rail, marine and air transportation in Canada. It is part of the Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities (TIC) portfolio.
Transport Canada oversees and regulates most aspects of transportation within federal jurisdiction, including interprovincial transport. This primarily includes rail, air and maritime transportation. Transport Canada is under the direction of the federal government's Minister of Transport.
- About Us
- Our Mission
- Our Vision
- Our Raison d’être, Mandate and Role: Who We Are and What We Do
- Our Organizational Structure
This page will provide you with a general overview as to who we are as an organization and what we aim to achieve for Canadians.
To serve the public interest through the promotion of a safe and secure, efficient and environmentally responsible transportation system in Canada.
A transportation system in Canada that is recognized worldwide as safe and secure, efficient and environmentally responsible.
At Transport Canada, we are responsible for developing and overseeing the Government of Canada’s transportation policies and programs so that Canadians can have access to a transportation system that is: 1. Safe and secure; 2. Green and innovative; and 3. Efficient. We work towards these objectives by: 1. Proposing and updating policies, laws and r...
Transport Canada consists of program and support groups working both at our headquarters in Ottawa and in dozens of locations across Canada. You can view our organizational structure, including information about our senior officials by consulting our Department’s organizational chart.
The Canadian National Railway Company [a] (French: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) (reporting mark CN) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.
National Highway System. The Trans-Canada Highway (French: Route Transcanadienne; abbreviated as the TCH or T-Can) [3] is a transcontinental federal–provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada, from the Pacific Ocean on the west coast to the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast.
A proposed link to the contiguous United States would link Alaska and Canada via the Yukon and British Columbia. [48] The Canadian National Railway system includes the former Illinois Central route from Chicago via Memphis to New Orleans.
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