Mr. Aiden Ryan (Director, Marine Security Operations, Department of Transport) at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

To speak more broadly to the issue at play, the Canada Shipping Act already provides the legal framework for regulating marine navigation and safety for the purposes of protecting the public interest, using the term “public interest” rather than “well-being of communities” and “the environment”, where the community well-being and the environment can be taken into consideration as an element of the public interest.