As Canada’s Minister of Transport, I am pleased to present Transport Canada’s Departmental Performance Report for 2014-15. The report outlines the Department’s achievements in ensuring Canada’s transportation system continues to be recognized worldwide as safe and secure, efficient and environmentally responsible.
A safe and secure transportation system is critical to Canada’s economic progress and directly affects the quality of life of Canadians. It meets the challenges posed by Canada’s vast spaces and places and helps to connect people, regions and communities to one another and Canada’s products to markets both at home and abroad.
Transport Canada creates, monitors and enforces standards that protect communities, users and the environment from harm and the transportation system from threats. Its legislative and regulatory activities enhance safety, uphold the public trust and ensure that industry is accountable for the safety and security of the transportation system.
In collaboration with provincial and territorial governments and international partners, the Department responds to issues impacting the wider transportation environment, such as evolving domestic and global supply chains, and works to harmonize policy and regulatory frameworks to advance Canada’s objectives.
Over the next four years, we will ensure that our plans for roads, ports and airports are integrated and sustainable and that Canada’s transportation system is safe and reliable in facilitating trade and the movement of people and goods in our ever dynamic world.
I look forward to working closely with stakeholders from across the country to meet the commitments outlined in my mandate letterEndnote from the Prime Minister and to make strategic investments in Canada’s transportation system to benefit Canadians in the years to come.
The Honourable Marc Garneau, P.C., M.P.
Minister of Transport