The Commission is responsible for recommending and establishing grades and standards for those grades and implementing a system of grading and inspection for Canadian grain to reflect adequately the quality of that grain and meet the need for efficient marketing in and outside Canada. It establishes and applies standards and procedures regulating the handling, transportation and storage of grain and the facilities used therefore, and it conducts investigations and holds hearings on matters within the powers of the Commission. The Commission manages, operates and maintains every elevator constructed or acquired by Her Majesty in right of Canada, the administration of which is assigned by the Governor in Council to the Commission. It also undertakes sponsors and promotes research in relation to grain and grain products.

Winnipeg, Manitoba

The Canadian Grain Commission shall consist of three Commissioners appointed by the GiC to hold office during good behaviour for a renewable term of up to seven years.

The GiC shall designate one of the Commissioners to be Chief Commissioner and another Commissioner to be Assistant Chief Commissioner. The Assistant Chief Commissioner may exercise all the powers and functions of the Chief Commissioner in the event of the absence or incapacity of the Chief Commissioner or if the office of the Chief Commissioner is vacant.

The Commissioners shall devote the whole of their time to the performance of their duties. A person is not eligible to be a Commissioner if, directly or indirectly, the person is engaged in commercial dealings in grain or the carriage of grain, other than as a producer of grain.

The GiC may appoint six persons as officers of the Commission to be known as Assistant Commissioners to hold office during good behaviour for a renewable term of up to five years.

A person is not eligible to be appointed or to continue as a commissioner if, directly or indirectly, as owner, shareholder, director, officer, partner or otherwise, that person is engaged in commercial dealings in grain or the carriage of grain or has any pecuniary or other interest in grain or the carriage of grain, other than as a producer of grain. Any commissioner in whom any property giving rise to such an interest vests by will or succession for the commissioner’s own benefit shall, within six months after the vesting, dispose of that property.