Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada
Homepage confirmed (review/appeal request functions, Ottawa address); about-us subpage guess 404'd this review so strategy doc left empty.
Completeness
- Document shelf: 18 rows (18 archived · 0 staged · 0 pending · 0 missing)
- Backgrounder: on file
- Strategy-evolution brief: not written yet
- Custody audit: 18 of 18 row(s) audited, all clean
- Last verified: 2026-07-30 · this org has had a full discovery-verification pass (our discovery-verification log)
Endpoints
- Website
- Open data: not yet verified
- API: not yet verified
- RSS: not yet verified
- Newsroom: not yet verified
- FOI / access requests: not yet verified
Document shelf (18 rows)
Backgrounder
Source: this library's internal records — a mechanical research draft, not independently reviewed for publication; reproduced as-is.
Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada - backgrounder
Backgrounder / GOV-Q10-WAVE1-d1 / 2026-08-04 / registry row: fed-transportation-appeal-tribunal-canada (this library's government-document registry) / lens file for this org's series briefs
Mandate & statutory basis
The Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada (TATC) was established by the Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada Act, S.C. 2001, c. 29, an "Act to establish the Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada and to make consequential amendments to other Acts" (https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/t-18.5/FullText.html; confirmed via search of the Justice Laws site, this review). The Act "establishes the Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada, replacing the Civil Aviation Tribunal and extending the new Tribunal's jurisdiction to the marine and railway sectors" (same source). The Tribunal "provides an independent process to review administrative actions taken by the Minister of Transport or the Canadian Transportation Agency" (https://tatc.gc.ca/en, fetched this review).
Roles, responsibilities & scope
TATC hears review and appeal requests, holds case management conferences and hearings, and issues formal decisions arising from administrative and enforcement actions across the aviation, marine, rail, motor vehicle safety, and international bridges and tunnels sectors (https://tatc.gc.ca/en; TATC 2024-2025 Annual Report summary, https://www.tatc.gc.ca/en/annual-reports/2024-2025-annual-report, both fetched/searched this review). In fiscal 2024-25 the Tribunal received 189 new requests for review and 4 requests for appeal, and held 28 of 82 scheduled hearings during the period (same Annual Report).
Governance & reporting line
Under the enabling Act, "the Governor in Council shall appoint as members of the Tribunal persons who, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, collectively have expertise in the transportation sectors in respect of which the federal government has jurisdiction," with members appointed full-time or part-time; the Governor in Council designates one full-time member as Chairperson and one full-time member as Vice-Chairperson (Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada Act, S.C. 2001, c. 29, https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/t-18.5/FullText.html). In fiscal 2024-25 the Tribunal operated with 1 full-time member (the Chairperson) and 37 part-time members, against a target roster of 40 to 50 part-time members for full capacity (TATC 2024-2025 Annual Report). As an adjudicative body reviewing actions of the Minister of Transport and the Canadian Transportation Agency, the Tribunal is administratively independent of Transport Canada; it receives "registry, legal, communications and administrative services" from the Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada (ATSSC) "through an integrated secretariat dedicated to eight tribunals" (same Annual Report).
Budget scale
TATC does not publish a standalone budget; per its 2024-2025 Annual Report, "financial resources come from an integrated budget managed by the ATSSC" alongside seven other federal administrative tribunals, with the report directing readers to ATSSC's own financial disclosures for figures (TATC 2024-2025 Annual Report, https://www.tatc.gc.ca/en/annual-reports/2024-2025-annual-report). ⚠️ still being checked — no Tribunal-specific dollar figure was isolated this review.
Institutional history
TATC "was established on June 30, 2003, when it replaced the former Civil Aviation Tribunal" (TATC 2024-2025 Annual Report, https://www.tatc.gc.ca/en/annual-reports/2024-2025-annual-report), under authority of the Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada Act, S.C. 2001, c. 29, which broadened the predecessor tribunal's aviation-only jurisdiction to include the marine and railway sectors (https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/t-18.5/FullText.html). The registry's archived-document shelf for the Tribunal runs continuously from its 2007-2008 annual report through 2024-2025 (fed-transportation-appeal-tribunal-canada-ar-2008 through -ar-2025), and its 2024-2025 report describes operating "amid budget constraints, reduced staffing, and a reorganization of the Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada" that year (same Annual Report).
Strategy evolution brief
No strategy evolution brief written for this org yet.