Airport Vehicle Parking Charges Regulations — Regulations Repealing the Aeronautics Act

• Date: 25 August 2026
• Reference: DORS
• Published date: 09 September 2026
• Section: Part II - Official regulations
• Gazette Issue: Édition régulière - DORS/2026-182 à 183 et 185

Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 160, Number 18

Registration
SOR/2026-182 August 25, 2026

AERONAUTICS ACT

The Minister of Transport makes the annexed Regulations Repealing the Airport Vehicle Parking Charges Regulations under subsection 4.4(2)^{footnote a} of the Aeronautics Act ^{footnote b} and section 2 of the Ministerial Regulations Authorization Order ^{footnote c}.

Ottawa, May 12, 2026

Steven MacKinnon
Minister of Transport

Regulations Repealing the Airport Vehicle Parking Charges Regulations Repeal

1 The Airport Vehicle Parking Charges Regulations ^{footnote 1} are repealed.

Coming into Force

2 These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are published in the Canada Gazette, Part II.

REGULATORY IMPACT ANALYSIS STATEMENT

(This statement is not part of the Regulations.)

Issues

As the Airport Vehicle Parking Charges Regulations (the Regulations) were last amended in 2012, the charges set by these regulations do not reflect current market rates for parking. The annual costs of operating the five airports owned and operated by Transport Canada (TC or the Department), listed in the schedule of the Regulations, are growing, and these airports are presently running at a deficit.

Updating the parking charges via the Regulations is a long and resource-intensive process, and amendments to the Aeronautics Act made in 2017 allow the Minister of Transport (the Minister) to spend revenue collected from fees set by contract in the same or following fiscal year. Setting fees for vehicle parking at TC-owned and operated airports via contracts would allow for more timely updates to match market rates. However, it would be confusing to the user as well as open Transport Canada to legal liability to set fees by contract via the Aeronautics Act at these five airports while the Regulations remain in place.

Background

As of 2017, subsection 4.401(1) of the Aeronautics Act provides the Minister of Transport with the authority to enter into agreements (contracts) for cost recovery purposes for the use of any facility or service provided on behalf of the Minister at any aerodrome, and subsection 4.401(5) enables the Minister to spend any such revenue collected in the same or next fiscal year. The Aeronautics Act goes on to further state in subsection 4.401(2), “If both an agreement entered into under subsection (1) and a regulation made under subsection 4.4(1) or (2) relate to the same matter, the regulation does not apply…”. While this section is clear in that the Regulations do not require repealing in order to increase vehicle parking rates under subsection 4.401(1) of the Aeronautics Act, the Regulations are nonetheless being repealed to reduce any perceived ambiguity that would arise from implementing updated vehicle parking rates while leaving in place the antiquated Regulations.

The agreement fulfilling subsection 4.401(1) of the Aeronautics Act will be between Transport Canada and the user to provide parking at a parking facility on airport land via the posted terms and conditions of sale for the determined fee. The user is deemed to have entered into a contract of adhesion with Transport Canada, simply by purchasing the parking ticket and thereby having agreed to the terms and conditions associated with the provision of that parking service. The new fees will be reflective of benchmarking against parking facilities at similar airports/communities and allow Transport Canada to recover a greater proportion of the costs associated with providing these services than presently set in the Regulations, reducing the burden on Canadian taxpayers.

Along with the existing authority to charge fees by contract, the Minister has the direct authority to repeal the Regulations, via subsection 4.4(2) of the Aeronautics Act and section 2 of the Ministerial Regulations Authorization Order, made by Order in Council P.C. 1986-1348 of June 5, 1986.

Objective

The intent of the Regulations Repealing the Airport Vehicle Charges Regulations is to repeal the Regulations to allow Transport Canada to align parking fees at the five TC-owned and operated airports listed in the schedule of the Regulations with market rates in a more timely manner, through existing authorities for cost recovery in the Aeronautics Act, without the risk of confusing users by leaving the obsolete Regulations in place.

Description

The Airport Vehicle Parking Charges Regulations are repealed in their entirety. The Regulations set out the vehicle parking fees at five airports owned and operated by Transport Canada:

• Penticton, Port Hardy, and Ki’l Kun Xidgwangs Daanaay (Sandspit) airports in British Columbia;
• Sept-Îles airport in Quebec; and
• Wabush airport in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Regulatory development Consultation

Stakeholders for this regulation are limited in scope, namely those users of the airports and the associated communities. Repealing the Regulations will allow TC to adjust parking fees at the airports via agreements to reflect market-appropriate based rates, though it is not anticipated that it will have a marked impact on users of the airport (the fee is not a mandatory expense, as parking at an airport is a voluntary activity and users have...