Program directory · Transport Canada

Aviation Safety Oversight

Department

Transport Canada

Program code

BTW02 (TC)

Core responsibility

Safe and Secure Transportation System

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

Our Program oversees the safety of Canada’s national air transportation system through Surveillance of the Aviation System and Service to the Aviation Industry activities. Our Program verifies and assesses that the aviation industry is compliant with the Canadian Aviation Regulations, the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, 1992 and the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations. This is done through various oversight activities, including: assessments; validations; inspections; and when appropriate, enforcement actions and investigations.

Surveillance of the Aviation Systems actions we undertake include:

• education, outreach and evaluation activities;

• ensuring continuing airworthiness of in-service aircraft which includes producing and distributing safety-related documents;

• overseeing the safety of aerodromes;

• conducting oversight activities;

• audits and inspections.

Service to the Aviation Industry actions we undertake include:

• licensing personnel;

• administering medical assessments of licensed aviation personnel; providing operating certificates to organizations;

• certifying aeronautical products;

• issuing validations of foreign flight authorities;

• issuing alternate means of compliance or exemptions to Airworthiness Directive requirements where safety is not degraded as a result;

• producing and distributing education material to aviation industry stakeholders and the general public.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.