In fact, the instantaneous nature of e-commerce challenges the transportation sector to deliver these goods faster, cheaper and more efficiently than ever before. How Canada responds to this new world is the focus for your discussions today, and I'd like to offer my perspective on how we can keep Canada competitive and productive in the global context. As for Transport Canada, we've directed our policy and legislative regime to reflect these global changes and to give Canada's transportation community more control of key sections of our transportation infrastructure. Transport Canada's Approach Take our National Airports Policy and the Canada Marine Act , for instance, two hallmark examples of our renewed approach. Our goal was to allow our airports and ports to be managed and operated by locally based organizations better-placed to run them according to established business principles.
Shippers are now able to benefit from facilities that are more directly responsive to their needs.
Lawrence Seaway system to the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation in 1998. A vital part of Canada's freight transportation system, the Seaway is now operated and guided by those who understand it best. We're now building on our success to date and finding other ways to make the system more responsive to our needs. My department is working hard to update our policy and legislative regime through such key acts as the Canada Shipping Act , the proposed Marine Liability Act, the Shipping Conferences Exemption Act , and the Motor Vehicle Transport Act . Perhaps the most significant development is the upcoming review of the Canada Transportation Act , in which we'll measure our progress in the four years since the Act's implementation.