Marine
Transport Canada is responsible for the waterways inside and surrounding Canada. These responsibilities include:
- responding and investigating marine accidents within Canadian waters
- enforcing marine acts and regulations
- establishing and enforcing marine personnel standards and pilotage
- Marine Safety
- Marine Security
- regulating the operation of marine vessels in Canadian waters
- As of 2003 the Office of Boating Safety and the Navigable Waters Protection Program were transferred back to Transport Canada. As was certain regulatory aspects of Emergency Response (Oil pollution)
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Famous quotes containing the word marine:
“People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)