Canada Marine Act

Canada Marine Act
Act of Parliament
Introduced byDavid Collenette
Dates
Royal assent11 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]

  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. ^ "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.