Are Canoes Required To Be Registered

The federal authorities is taking immediate steps to change the constabulary requiring people to register their canoes and kayaks.

Canoes and kayaks won't have to be registered afterward all, Transport Government minister Chuck Strahl said in Calgary on Thursday. A registration exemption for human-powered watercraft expired final fall. (Ted Grant)

The federal government is taking immediate steps to change the police requiring people to annals their canoes and kayaks.

An exemption from registration for human-powered vessels expired final autumn, causing some confusion about whether or non small watercraft had to exist signed up.

Send Minister Chuck Strahl said in Calgary on Thursday the government heard complaints from camping and scouting organizations that didn't support registration for the canoes and kayaks.

Strahl said the forcefulness of that lobby convinced him to driblet the requirement.

"They made a very stiff instance for removing the current requirement for mandatory registration for canoes and kayaks. They told us the registration process… was burdensome, it was complicated, it was open up to misinterpretation and nosotros don't believe frankly that Canadian boaters should have to face onerous regulations to go canoeing and kayaking," Stahl said.

"This clarifies it then that people can merely go out and enjoy the water, and y'all tin can do your concern without having to wait over your shoulder."

Strahl said camps or canoe clubs can choose to annals all of their vessels for $50 for 5 years, and in so doing help trace the boats in example of theft.

Any small craft with an engine output of more than 10 horsepower will however have to be registered, he said.

"We're relieved to hear information technology," said Tony Palmer, a representative of Paddle Canada on hand at the announcement. "There were five different forms that needed to be completed, one of which was a tonnage calculation.

"Really all the legislation is aimed at large freighters and commercial vehicles similar that and they were trying to shoehorn canoes and kayaks into that, and it just doesn't fit."