# Transport Canada

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/transport-canada/  
**Website:** https://tc.canada.ca/en  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Transport Canada (Transports Canada) is the federal department that regulates aviation, marine, rail and road transportation in Canada under the Aeronautics Act and the Canadian Aviation Regulations. In travel it is the safety-and-security regulator rather than a participant in distribution — it certifies air operators, registers aircraft on the Canadian Civil Aircraft Register, licenses pilots and drone operators, runs the Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System (CADORS) and the Air Cargo Security program, and publishes the Canadian airports layer. It sits entirely outside the GDS/NDC distribution chain; airline economic licensing, all-in fare advertising and the Air Passenger Protection Regulations belong to the separate Canadian Transportation Agency. Its API posture is thin but genuinely open — no developer portal exists at tc.canada.ca, developer./developers./docs. subdomains do not resolve, and no OpenAPI is published anywhere. What does exist is real and ungated: a self-describing JSON/XML Vehicle Recalls Database API at data.tc.gc.ca, an ArcGIS REST and OGC WMS service for Canadian airports with air navigation services, and bulk CSV/XML extracts of CADORS, the Air Cargo Security members list and the vessel registers, all indexed through the Treasury-Board-operated open.canada.ca CKAN Action API under the Open Government Licence – Canada. No key, no account, no accreditation, no contract.

## Kin Score — 22.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-19 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (-0.2 from 22.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 26.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 46.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 12.0 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (3)

- **Transport Canada Vehicle Recalls Database API** — Transport Canada's only first-party public REST API. Returns safety-related recall records for vehicles, tires and child restraints recorded by the Defect Investigations and Rec...
- **Transport Canada Canadian Airports ArcGIS REST API** — Queryable Esri ArcGIS REST MapServer (currentVersion 10.81) published by Transport Canada through the Government of Canada geospatial platform, covering Canadian airports served...
- **Transport Canada Canadian Airports OGC WMS** — OGC Web Map Service 1.3.0 endpoint for the same Canadian Airports with Air Navigation Services layer. GetCapabilities returns a conformant WMS_Capabilities document declaring Ge...

## Security (2)

- **Transport Canada Authentication** — none · 0 schemes
- **Transport Canada Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Travel, Canada, Aviation, Regulator, Government, Airports, Aircraft Registry, Aviation Safety, Drones, Open Data, Transportation

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/transport-canada/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.