Enhanced ability to deal with unsafe vehicles among amendments to improve safety for Canadians

Legislative amendments to the Motor Vehicle Safety Act (MVSA), the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act (TDGA), 1992, and the Railway Safety Act (RSA), included in the Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1 introduced today in Parliament, will enhance Canada’s ability to deal with unsafe vehicles and support regulatory alignment under the Canada-U.S. Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC).

The amendments to the MVSA introduce measures to accelerate and streamline the regulatory process, reduce the administrative burden for manufacturers and importers, improve oversight procedures and enhance the availability of vehicle safety information, thereby encouraging trade and competitiveness, while also improving safety for Canadians. Among these changes is the ability for the government to order a company to inform consumers of safety defects in their vehicles, through a notice of defect. A notice of defect may lead to a recall.

This has been excerpted from a 28 March 2014 news release by Transport Canada and is available in its entirety at:
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=831829