Editing Marc Garneau (section)

=== Minister of Transport in the 42nd Parliament ===
In the [[2015 Canadian federal election|2015 elections]] held on October 19, 2015, Garneau was re-elected as MP in the newly created riding of [[Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount]]. Two weeks later, on November 4, 2015, Garneau was appointed the minister of transport by Prime Minister [[Justin Trudeau]].

In May 2017, Garneau introduced an airline passenger bill of rights to standardize how passengers can be treated by airlines which operate any flights in and out of Canada. The legislation would create minimum compensation rates for overbooking, lost or damaged luggage, and bumping passengers off flights. It would also prohibit airlines from removing people from the flight if they have purchased a ticket and set the standard for [[Airport apron|tarmac]] delays and airline treatment of passengers when flights are delayed or cancelled over events in the airline's control, or because of weather conditions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39930241|title=Canada government tables airline passenger bill of rights|date=May 16, 2017|website=[[BBC News]]|access-date=May 17, 2017}}</ref>
[[File:Secretary Blinken Meets with Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau (51191398390).jpg|thumb|Garneau meets with [[United States Secretary of State|U.S. Secretary of State]] [[Antony Blinken|Antony J. Blinken]] in [[Reykjavík|Reykjavik]] in May 2021.]]

In March 2019, after days of initial refusal to take actions following the crash of [[Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302]], Garneau who had even gone so far as to say on 11 March that he would board 737 MAX 8 "without hesitation" as an apparent show of support for the Boeing Company,<ref name=hupo>{{cite news |title=Transport Minister Marc Garneau Would Board Boeing 737 'Without Hesitation' Despite Crash |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2019/03/11/transport-minister-marc-garneau-would-board-boeing-737-without-hesitation-despite-crash_a_23689978/ |work=HuffPost Canada |date=March 11, 2019 |access-date=March 13, 2019 |archive-date=April 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190409132241/https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2019/03/11/transport-minister-marc-garneau-would-board-boeing-737-without-hesitation-despite-crash_a_23689978/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> finally agreed on 13 March to [[Boeing 737 MAX groundings|ground]] and prohibit all [[Boeing 737 Max]] aircraft from flying in Canadian airspace.<ref name=grounds>{{cite web| url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/garneau-boeing-ethiopia-crash-1.5054234| title = Canada grounds Boeing 737 Max 8, bans jet from airspace following fatal crashes |publisher= CBC News |first=Catharine |last=Tunney |date=13 March 2019}}</ref> The [[First presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]] followed suit later that day.<ref name="klcnn">{{cite news |last1=Liptak |first1=Kevin |title=Trump administration grounds Boeing 737 Max planes |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/13/politics/donald-trump-boeing-faa/index.html |publisher=CNN |date=13 March 2019}}</ref> This stood in contrast to the ministry's previous stance, where Garneau insisted the plane was safe to fly, thus making Canada one of the only two nations still flying a substantial number of Boeing 737 Max planes at the time.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/12/africa/airlines-suspend-boeing-flights-intl/index.html|title=US and Canada are the only two nations still flying many Boeing 737 Max planes|agency=CNN|date=March 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Canada's transport minister has no plans to ground Boeing 737|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-s-transport-minister-has-no-plans-to-ground-boeing-737-1.4332697|date=March 12, 2019|agency=CTV news}}</ref>