Canada Transportation Act

Marginal note:Regulations re information

• 50 (1) The Minister may, with the approval of the Governor in Council, make regulations requiring carriers or transportation or grain handling undertakings to which the legislative authority of Parliament extends to provide information to the Minister, when and in the form and manner that the regulations may specify, for the purposes of

  • (a) national transportation policy development;

  • (b) annual reporting under section 52;

  • (c) operational planning;

  • (d) any safety or subsidy program;

  • (e) any infrastructure requirement;

  • (e.1) monitoring the grain transportation and handling system; or

  • (f) the administration of this Act.

• Marginal note:Information to be provided

  (2) Information required to be provided under subsection (1) may include the following:

  • (a) financial data;

  • (b) traffic and operating statistics; and

  • (c) fitness and ownership information.

• Marginal note:Restriction

  (3) No regulation made under subsection (1) shall require or have the effect of requiring any person to provide the Minister with a contract referred to in subsection 68(1) or a contract entered into under subsection 126(1) or under section 53 of the Canada Marine Act.

• Marginal note:Limitation

  (3.1) Subsection (3) does not apply in respect of a contract entered into under subsection 126(1) to the extent that the information is required for the purpose of monitoring the grain transportation and handling system.

• Marginal note:Report on the monitoring of the grain transportation and handling system

  (3.2) The Minister must prepare, within six months after the end of each crop year, a report on the monitoring of the grain transportation and handling system and cause the report to be tabled in each House of Parliament on any of the first fifteen days on which that House is sitting after the Minister prepares it, if the Minister

  • (a) makes a regulation under paragraph (1)(e.1); and

  • (b) uses or communicates the information provided under the regulation for the purpose of monitoring the grain transportation and handling system.

• Marginal note:Exemptions

  (4) The Minister may exempt a carrier or transportation undertaking from the application of all or any part of a regulation made under subsection (1) if the Minister is satisfied that it is not practicable for the carrier or transportation undertaking to provide the information.

• Marginal note:Consultations

  (5) The Minister may consult with the Agency or Statistics Canada before making any regulation under this section.