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Transport Canada Marine Safety (TCMS) is the division under Transport Canada that maintains and enhances marine safety and work to protect life, health, property and the marine environment. This includes providing services that are mandated by acts and regulations such as certification for Canadian seafarers and related professionals. [9]
The Office of Boating Safety is the division of Transport Canada that is responsible for overseeing regulations, standards, policies, enforcement, and technical services for pleasure craft and marine recreation. The OBS delivers prevention-based programs to reduce the safety risks and environmental impacts of boating on Canadian waters. [1]
The Act also creates an obligation for physicians or optometrists to report to the Minister of Transport any person whose health condition would constitute a danger to marine safety. The Act empowers the ship's master over hiring conditions and discharge, as well as maintaining records of service, and creates an obligation to report any births ...
The Polar Prince, the submersible’s support vessel, returned to port in Newfoundland, Canada, on Saturday after pieces of the submersible were found on the ocean floor earlier this week.
By 2002, it was described as a "federal statute designed to protect the public’s right to navigation and marine safety in the navigable waters of Canada." The Act was "administered by the Navigable Waters Protection Program (NWPP) under the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. [7]
Transport Canada oversees most of the regulatory functions related to marine registration, [41] safety of large vessel, [42] and port pilotage duties. [43] Many of Canada's port facilities are in the process of being divested from federal responsibility to other agencies or municipalities.
On 18 February 2012, letters patent were issued to promote the Oshawa Harbour Commission to a port authority. [8]On 16 November 2012, a project document was released about the Saguenay Port Authority intermodal container plan, [9] which will impact the village of Tadoussac, and which needed the support of Denis Lebel, MP for Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean and Minister of Transport from May 2011.
The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG; French: Garde côtière canadienne, GCC) is the coast guard of Canada.Formed in 1962, the coast guard is tasked with marine search and rescue (SAR), communication, navigation, and transportation issues in Canadian waters, such as navigation aids and icebreaking, marine pollution response, and support for other Canadian government initiatives.