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Corporate Offenders

Transport Canada has revised its policy regarding publication of the names of corporations violating the Aeronautics Act and the Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs).

Corporate offenders will have their names published on this website along with a summary of the offence and resulting sanctions. The names will be published in accordance with the following criteria:

  • after payment of a monetary penalty,
  • acceptance of suspension of a document,
  • or a final decision of the Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada or a court and only after all appeals have been exhausted.

Previously, all enforcement information related to aviation companies was available to the public only after a specific request was made under the Access to Information Act. That process was considered cumbersome and it did not achieve fair and consistent treatment for all affected parties as not all information on offenders ended up in the public domain. This new policy will allow for consistent and equitable treatment of corporate offenders by making all offences public.

The information published on this site will be updated monthly and will remain posted for 6 months before being moved to archive pages of the Civil Aviation web site. Because of the various delays inherent with the enforcement and Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada processes, it is not abnormal to see the date of a published violation posted 12 to 18 months after the infraction.

It should also be noted that only infractions for which a corporate entity is charged will be posted on the web. This means that when charges are laid only against an employee of a corporation, without parallel charges being laid against the corporation, the information will not be published.

Date modified:
2010-05-03