Canada Transportation Act

Marginal note:Continuous route

• 136 (1) The Agency shall, in determining the continuous route from the point of origin to the point of destination, have regard to the continuous route that has been chosen by the shipper for the movement of its traffic in its application.

• Marginal note:Route in Canada

  (2) If the point of destination of the continuous route of a movement of the shipper’s traffic is in Canada, the Agency shall determine a continuous route that is wholly within Canada, unless there is no cost-effective continuous route wholly within Canada that is available to the shipper and over which it is reasonable to move the shipper’s traffic.

• Marginal note:Export and import

  (3) For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2),

  • (a) if the traffic is to be moved through a port in Canada for import into Canada, that port is the point of origin; and

  • (b) if the traffic is to be moved through a port in Canada for export out of Canada, that port is the point of destination.