Canada Marine Act

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Canada Marine Act
Act of Parliament
Introduced by David Collenette
Dates
Royal assent 11 June 1998

The Canada Marine Act (CMA; French : Loi maritime du Canada) was passed in 1998 under the stewardship of David Collenette, who was Canada's Minister of Transport at that time. It was intended to modernize Canada's most important ports and make "the system of Canadian ports competitive, efficient and commercially oriented, providing for the establishing of port authorities and the divesting of certain harbours and ports, for the commercialization of the St. Lawrence Seaway and ferry services and other matters related to maritime trade and transport and amending the Pilotage Act and amending and repealing other Acts as a consequence." [1] [2]

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The Act

The Act designated 19 ports as economically significant. [3] Each of those ports was to have a port authority created for it. The Act made provisions to allow additional ports to have port authorities created to oversee their operation. [2] The Act downloaded the mandate to oversee the operation of 150 smaller ports to the provinces or municipalities in which they were contained. [2] Thirty-four remote ports remain under direct supervision by the Department of Transport. [2]

An exception was made for the port facilities at Churchill, Manitoba, North America's only port on the Arctic Ocean connected to the North American Railroad grid. [2] The Port of Sydney, Nova Scotia, is also not part of this system. [4] The Welland Canal, which is part of the St. Lawrence Seaway, falls to Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and is regulated under the Fishing and Recreational Harbours Act (R.S., 1985, c. F-24). Port Dalhousie is subject to the Fishing and Recreational Harbours Regulations, [5] while Port Colborne falls under the Ontario Fishery Regulations.

Responsibility for the construction and operation of canals had been given to the Department of Public Works at the time of Canadian Confederation, with the canals of the Province of Canada having been previously operated by that colony's Department of Public Works. Since 1995, the Minister of Public Services and Procurement, formerly the Minister of Public Works and Government Services, has taken care of these affairs. A vestigial reminder of the past is that the Ottawa River, which once was an important part of the economy with for example the Ottawa River timber trade, and "all canals or other cuttings for facilitating such navigation, and all dams, slides, piers, booms, embankments and other works of what kind or nature soever in the channel or waters" is wholly governed under this Ministry's An Act respecting certain works on the Ottawa River. Most of the other heritage waterways of Ontario and a few in Quebec are governed by Parks Canada under the guidance of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change.

The Act is, from time to time, supplemented by regulations and letters patent published in the Canada Gazette . A list of recent publications is maintained by Transport Canada, [6] which documents, among other things, the land transactions of the various Port Authorities. The equivalent phrase to the English "Port Authority" is the French Administration Portuaire, so that one would perform an online search for "Administration Portuaire de Saguenay" or other Quebec emplacements. A list of board member appointments to port authorities can be found at the respective individual Governor in Council Appointments web pages of each organisation. [7] The Minister of Transport alone appoints the chair of the board, while in consultation with the minister, the remaining board members are selected by users of the port. A user is determined as specified under the legislation, and cannot include city councillors, civil servants or directors of port customers. Each authority by now should have its own domain name website, at which can most likely be found copies of the letters patent and other legal documents.

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CMA Port Authorities

CMA Port Authorities [2]
Port AuthorityMunicipalityProvince# Directors [7]
Belledune Port Authority Belledune New Brunswick 7
Fraser River Port Authority [lower-alpha 1] New Westminster British Columbia -
Halifax Port Authority Halifax Nova Scotia 7
Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority [3] Hamilton, Oshawa Ontario 7
Montreal Port Authority Montreal Quebec 7
Nanaimo Port Authority Nanaimo British Columbia 7
North Fraser Port Authority [lower-alpha 1] Fraser River British Columbia -
Port Alberni Port Authority Port Alberni British Columbia 7
Prince Rupert Port Authority Prince Rupert British Columbia 7
Quebec City Port Authority Quebec City Quebec 7
Saguenay Port Authority Saguenay Quebec 7
Saint John Port Authority [17] Saint John New Brunswick 7
St. John's Port Authority St. John's Newfoundland and Labrador 7
Sept-Îles Port Authority Sept-Îles Quebec 7
Thunder Bay Port Authority Thunder Bay Ontario 7
Toronto Port Authority Toronto Ontario 9
Trois-Rivières Port Authority Trois-Rivières Quebec 7
Vancouver Port Authority [lower-alpha 1] Vancouver British Columbia -
Vancouver Fraser Port Authority Vancouver British Columbia 11
Windsor Port Authority Windsor Ontario 7
  1. 1 2 3 Now defunct; see Vancouver Fraser Port Authority

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References

  1. ↑ "Canada Marine Act (1998, c. 10)". Transport Canada. 10 December 2013. Archived from the original on 21 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014. An Act for making the system of Canadian ports competitive, efficient and commercially oriented, providing for the establishing of port authorities and the divesting of certain harbours and ports, for the commercialization of the St. Lawrence Seaway and ferry services and other matters related to maritime trade and transport and amending the Pilotage Act and amending and repealing other Acts as a consequence.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "The Canada Marine Act -- Creating Canada Port Authorities" (PDF). Westac. March 1999. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 March 2006. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Organization Profile - Hamilton Port Authority". Government of Canada. 3 September 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "Port of Sydney". portofsydney.ca. 2022.
  5. ↑ "Fishing and Recreational Harbours Regulations SOR/78-767". laws.justice.gc.ca. 15 March 2024. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
  6. ↑ "Recently in the Canada Gazette". Transport Canada. 19 August 2019. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
  7. 1 2 "GFederal organizations Alphabetically". federal-organizations.canada.ca. Government of Canada. 26 March 2024. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
  8. ↑ "Letters Patent issued to the Oshawa Port Authority". Canada Gazette, Part 1. Vol. 146, no. 7: Supplement. 18 February 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
  9. ↑ "Projet de desserte ferroviaire au terminal maritime de Grande-Anse à Saguenay - Le rapport du BAPE est maintenant public". gaiapresse.ca (in French). 16 November 2012. Archived from the original on 11 January 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
  10. ↑ "2012 Annual Report Saguenay Port Authority" (PDF). 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  11. ↑ "Official opening of the Port of Saguenay rail link and intermodal rail yard - Vital rail link for the regional mining industry in Quebec". 29 May 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
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  15. ↑ "Port Metro Vancouver". Archived from the original on 23 January 2009. Retrieved 3 January 2014. In June 2006, the Federal Minister of Transport invited the Fraser River Port Authority, the North Fraser Port Authority and the Vancouver Port Authority to examine port amalgamation. The three port authorities subsequently commissioned a report on the potential benefits of an integrated port authority for the Lower Mainland. The report recommended that the three port authorities integrate to form the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority.
  16. ↑ "Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 - Order 2012-66-12-02 Amending the Non-domestic Substances List". Canada Gazette, Part 1. Vol. 147, no. 11: Government Notices. 16 March 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
  17. ↑ "Canada Marine Act & Letters Patent". Saint John Port Authority. Archived from the original on 17 April 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
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