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Table 6: Foundations (Conditional Grants)


1) Name of Recipient:  Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Inc.
2) Start Date: February 25, 2004 3)End Date: N/A 4) Total Funding: $27,000,000
5) Description: Establishment of a museum for human rights in Winnipeg
6) Strategic Outcome: Community Economic Development
7) Summary of Results Achieved by the Recipient: Planning and development of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights ( CMHR ), with an estimated total capital cost of $265 million and containing roughly 5,600 square meters of permanent exhibition space. It will examine the development of human rights in a historical and global context, focusing on the experience of Canadians, and teaching respect for human rights, as well as the consequences of not respecting them. It will place a major emphasis on the history and development of Aboriginal rights in Canada, and will be the first major Canadian Museum to do so. It will also showcase human rights successes and the heroic responses to challenge by leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Finally, through interactive displays, multi-media activities, and educational programming, it will work to build commitment to a better future. The museum will be a major new tourist attraction for Winnipeg. 
The grant of $27.0 million was paid to the Recipient in 2003/04. Under the terms of the funding agreement,  it has been kept by the Recipient in an investment account, with total drawdowns for eligible expenses of $4,787,247. A Definitive Agreement has been reached by the Recipient, Canadian Heritage, Manitoba, Winnipeg and the Forks Renewal Corporation. It stipulates the financial obligations of all the parties and obligates the federal government to create a new national museum to own and operate the CMHR. Parliament unanimously approved the bill creating this new museum, which received Royal Assent on March 13, 2008. A new Museum Corporation is currently being established by Canadian Heritage to take over development of the CMHR. Subject to a final drawdown for further design work, the remaining amount of the grant will be returned to the Museum Corporation to be part of the federal government contribution of $100 million for the cost of the museum building.
($ thousands) 8) Actual Spending 2005-06 9) Actual Spending 2006-07 10) Planned Spending 2007-08 11) Total Authorities 2007-08 12) Actual Spending 2007-08 13) Variance(s) Between 10) and 12)
14) Community Economic Planning, Development and Adjustment           $0
TOTAL $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
15) Comment(s) on Variance(s):  Not appliable.  Grant issued in fiscal year 2003-2004.
16) Significant Evaluation Findings and URL to Last Evaluation(s)/Future Plans: The WD funding agreement requires an independent evaluation of the museum within 5 years of its completion. Project not yet completed therefore no evaluation conducted to date.
17) Significant Audit Findings and URL to Last Audits(s)/Future Plans: The WD funding agreement requires the submission of audited financial statements from the recipient. No WD initiated audits conducted to date. 
18) URL to Recipient's Site: http://www.canadianmuseumforhumanrights.com/
19) URL to Recipient's Annual Report: http://www.canadianmuseumforhumanrights.com/

 


1) Name of Recipient:  Primrose Lake Economic Development Corporation
2) Start Date: March 30, 2007 3)End Date: March 31, 2027 4) Total Funding: $15,000,000
5) Description: Create a community controlled trust fund for economic development
6) Strategic Outcome(s): Community Economic Development
7) Summary of Results Achieved by the Recipient: Over the past year the Board was active at getting organized and completing the research and payout of the Elders component of the parallel agreement with the Province.  In total, 178 Elders or their estates were recognized through this process.  The Board was also busy building Board capacity, establishing financial accounts and addressing the issue of changing Board membership.  All interest earned in the trust was re-invested in the trust at year-end or directed towards outstanding legal obligations associated with the establishment of the non-profit corporation and negotiations with the federal government.
($ thousands) 8) Actual Spending 2005-06 9) Actual Spending 2006-07 10) Planned Spending 2007-08 11) Total Authorities 2007-08 12) Actual Spending 2007-08 13) Variance(s) Between 10) and 12)
14) Community Economic Planning, Development and Adjustment $0 $15,000 $0 $0 $0 $0
TOTAL $0 $15,000 $0 $0 $0 $0
15) Comment(s) on Variance(s): not applicable
16) Significant Evaluation Findings and URL to Last Evaluation(s)/Future Plans: WD agreement requires that an evaluation be completed by March 2012.
17) Significant Audit Findings and URL to Last Audits(s)/Future Plans: Audit by the recipient is due by July 2008.
18) URL to Recipient's Site: not applicable
19) URL to Recipient's Annual Report: not applicable

 


1) Name of Recipient:  Prince Rupert Port Authority (PRPA)
2) Start Date: October 6, 2005 3)End Date: July 31, 2008 4) Total Funding: $30,000,000
5) Description: Develop a three (3) crane container terminal at the existing Fairview break bulk terminal at Prince Rupert, BC
6) Strategic Outcome(s): Entrepreneurship and Innovation (previously Business Development and Entrepreneurship)
7) Summary of Results Achieved by the Recipient: The PRPA and its private partners CN Rail and Maher Terminals of Canada Corp. have proposed a two-phased container terminal construction project. In phase one, the Fairview general cargo terminal in Prince Rupert will be converted to a specialized state-of-the-art container facility capable of handling 500,000 TEUs per year. The terminal is now operational, having its first vessel dock on October 30, 2007.  The direct impact so far has been job creation in the areas of longshoremen, Canada Border Service Agency, container examination facility jobs etc.  One ship per week at present is docking at the terminal and this will increase to 2 to 3 ships per week in 2009.
($ thousands) 8) Actual Spending 2005-06 9) Actual Spending 2006-07 10) Planned Spending 2007-08 11) Total Authorities 2007-08 12) Actual Spending 2007-08 13) Variance(s) Between 10) and 12)
14) Entrepreneurship and Innovation $0 $30,000 $0 $0 $0 $0
TOTAL $0 $30,000 $0 $0 $0 $0
15) Comment(s) on Variance(s): not applicable
16) Significant Evaluation Findings and URL to Last Evaluation(s)/Future Plans: Evaluation findings can be found on the recipient's website: http://www.rupertport.com/
17) Significant Audit Findings and URL to Last Audits(s)/Future Plans: Audited Financial Statements for December 31, 2007 have not yet been released.  Unqualified audit opinion on the December 31, 2006 financial statements.  The $6 Million disbursement by WD in fiscal 2007 was selected by the department for audit by Audit Services Canada.  The audit will take place in fiscal year 2009.
18) URL to Recipient's Site: http://www.rupertport.com/
19) URL to Recipient's Annual Report:  http://www.rupertport.com/

 


1) Name of Recipient:  Flood Risk Structural Mitigation in British Columbia
2) Start Date: March 16, 2007  3) End Date: March 31, 2008 4) Total Funding: $16,500,000
5) Description: Improve physical structures to reduce flood risk in British Columbia.
6) Strategic Outcome(s): Community Economic Development
7) Summary of Results Achieved by the Recipient: In anticipation of serious spring flooding, the Government of British Columbia, in partnership with local municipal governments, identified a package of urgent structural mitigation projects. These projects added, upgraded, or reinforced existing floodwater structural mitigation works in several watersheds, increasing the level of protection and minimizing the potential for floodwater damage in communities within watersheds throughout the Fraser River Basin, including Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley communities along the lower Fraser River. As of April 2007, the projects were on-track for completion in mid-May. Please see http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/2007OTP0051-000501.pdf for project description of the 87 projects.
($ thousands) 8) Actual Spending 2005-06 9) Actual Spending 2006-07 10) Planned Spending 2007-08 11) Total Authorities 2007-08 12) Actual Spending 2007-08 13) Variance(s) Between 10) and 12)
14) Community economic planning, development and adjustment $0 $0 $0 $16,500 $16,500 -$16,500
TOTAL $0 $0 $0 $16,500 $16,500 -$16,500
15) Comment(s) on Variance(s): TB Submission approved and funding provided through Supplementary Estimates (A) in fiscal year 2007-2008.
16) Significant Evaluation Findings and URL to Last Evaluation(s)/Future Plans: No evaluations performed to date.
17) Significant Audit Findings and URL to Last Audits(s)/Future Plans: No audits performed to date. Date for an audit in the future has not yet been identified.
18) URL to Recipient's Site: http://www.pep.gov.bc.ca/emerg_mgmt_bc/emerg_mgmt_bc.html
19) URL to Recipient's Annual Report: http://www.bcbudget.gov.bc.ca/Annual_Reports/2006_2007/