The proposed legislative amendments have been put together in one bill since they collectively support the commitments made in the government's strategic plan for transportation 2030. All of these elements are included in the five themes that the minister announced last November when he put forward the plan to modernize Canada's transportation system. The majority of the proposed legislative amendments also include input from the CTA review panel report that was made public on February 25, 2016. Their genesis is in those recommendations.
Further, almost 90% of the amendments will be to one act, which in and of itself is an omnibus act. The Canada Transportation Act is the main piece of legislation for the economic regulation of the air sector and rail sector, and with the powers of the agency in dealing with disputes, and all of those kinds of things. So the majority of them are amendments. A small portion of them are consequential amendments from the amendments made to the Canada Transportation Act, such as the change in the foreign ownership for airlines, which results in consequential amendments to the Air Canada Public Participation Act or the CN privatization act and others.
So to us it makes sense to package all of these together, based on the rooting in those three pieces. As well, I must say that this committee has given us a wealth of information in some of the reports that you've done over the past year on rail safety, on the rail freight legislation, and we thought that putting them together would provide a holistic and wholesome approach to the amendments we are proposing in this bill.