Trevor Heaver
The Statement of National Transportation Policy: Assessment and Suggestions for 
Change

The report examines and comments on the development of the declaration of national 
transportation policy in the Canada Transportation Act. It describes the origin and intent of the first such declaration in the 1967 act, then the policy debates and motivations for subsequent rewordings in the acts of 1987 and 1996. The paper's central argument is that the declaration has lost focus and needs radical re-thinking.