The responsibilities of Transport Canada include:
- Developing safety standards, policies, and criteria for elements such as, but not limited to physical characteristics of the manoeuvring area, marking and lighting, and obstacle limitation surfaces in the vicinity of airports, heliports and water airports
- Reviewing aeronautical studies where variances from airport certification safety standards are required
- Certifying and inspecting against the requirements and conditions of the respective operations manuals (for airports, heliports, or water airports)
- Verifying, amending, and relaying, as appropriate, pertinent airport information to be identified in the appropriate AIS publications
