Canada Transportation Act

Marginal note:Agency’s report

• 42 (1) Each year the Agency shall, before the end of July, make a report on its activities for the preceding year and submit it, through the Minister, to the Governor in Council describing briefly, in respect of that year,

  • (a) applications to the Agency and the findings on them; and

  • (b) the findings of the Agency in regard to any matter or thing respecting which the Agency has acted on the request of the Minister.

• Marginal note:Additional content

  (2) The Agency shall include in every report referred to in subsection (1)

  • (a) the Agency’s assessment of the operation of this Act and any difficulties observed in the administration of this Act;

  • (b) in respect of the year to which the report relates, information about, including the number of, the following:

    • (i) inspections conducted under this Act for a purpose related to verifying compliance or preventing non-compliance with any provision of regulations made under subsection 170(1) or with any of sections 60 to 62 of the Accessible Canada Act,

    • (ii) orders made under section 181.2,

    • (iii) orders, in writing, made under section 26 that require any person to do or to refrain from doing any thing that they are or may be required to do or are prohibited from doing under any provision of regulations made under subsection 170(1) or any of sections 60 to 62 of the Accessible Canada Act,

    • (iv) notices of violation issued under section 180 that identify a violation referred to in subsection 177(3), and

    • (v) inquiries made under any of sections 172, 172.1 and 172.3;

  • (c) the Agency’s observations about whether the information referred to in paragraph (b) discloses any systemic or emerging issues in respect of any matter or thing that concerns transportation to which the legislative authority of Parliament extends and that relates to the mobility of persons with disabilities; and

  • (d) any other information prescribed by regulations made under subsection (2.01).

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (2.01) For the purpose of paragraph (2)(d), the Governor in Council may make regulations prescribing information about any matter or thing that concerns transportation to which the legislative authority of Parliament extends and that relates to the mobility of persons with disabilities.

• Marginal note:Railway transportation

  (2.1) The report shall include the number and nature of the applications, complaints and submissions for arbitration made under Parts III and IV, the manner they were dealt with and the systemic trends observed. The report shall also include the number of disputes that were mediated by the Agency and the number that were resolved through mediation by the Agency.

• Marginal note:Confidential information

  (2.2) The Agency shall ensure that the report does not include any confidential information.

• Marginal note:Tabling of report

  (3) The Minister shall have a copy of each report made under this section laid before each House of Parliament on any of the first thirty days on which that House is sitting after the Minister receives it.