Transport Canada Multimodal Safety and Security Enforcement Actions by Fiscal Quarter

Transport Canada's Multimodal Safety and Security Programs Oversight Delivery Indicators include enforcement actions. The data covers the type and number of actions by program, starting from the first quarter of the 2019-2020 federal fiscal year. Statistics Canada publishes this data in CSV, HTML, and XML formats under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in enforcement actions over time based on quarterly reporting.
• Compare the frequency of different enforcement types across safety and security programs.
• Monitor regulatory oversight activity in Canada's multimodal transportation sector based on program-level data.

Strengths

• Data begins in Q1 of the 2019-2020 federal fiscal year, providing a multi-year time series.
• Published in multiple machine-readable formats (CSV, HTML, XML).
• Released under the permissive OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Statistics Canada | Statistique Canada via Transport Canada's oversight programs.

Collection Method

Likely compiled from administrative records of enforcement activities.

Time Range

From Q1 of the 2019-2020 federal fiscal year onward.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-06 12:48:44.968443; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada