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Name of Transfer Payment Program: Western Diversification Program

Start Date: 1987-88

End Date: On-going

Description: This program was designed to promote economic development and diversification in Western Canada and advance the interests of Western Canada in national policy, program and project development and implementation.

Strategic Outcome: The western Canadian economy is developed and diversified.

Results Achieved:

• A strengthened western innovation system;
• An expanded business sector in Western Canada;
• Increased investment in strategic federal/regional economic development priorities that improves the viability, prosperity and quality of life in communities across Western Canada; and
• A better understanding of Western Canada's needs, opportunities and aspirations inside and outside of the region leading to improved programs and services for western Canadians.

Program Activity: Policy, Advocacy and Coordination
($ thousands)

	2008-09 Actual Spending	2009-10 Actual Spending	2010-11 Planned Spending	2010-11 Total Authorities	2010-11 Actual Spending	Variance(s)
Total Contributions	923	369	1,036	1,036	317	719
Total Policy, Advocacy and Coordination	923	369	1,036	1,036	317	719

Program Activity: Community Economic Development
($ thousands)

	2008-09 Actual Spending	2009-10 Actual Spending	2010-11 Planned Spending	2010-11 Total Authorities	2010-11 Actual Spending	Variance(s)
Total Grants	0	0	1,475	1,000	1,000	475
Total Contributions	$41,774	$173,717	$182,493	$198,535	$185,742	(3,249)
Total Community Economic Developement	41,774	173,717	183,968	199,535	186,742	(2,774)

Program Activity: Business Development
($ thousands)

	2008-09 Actual Spending	2009-10 Actual Spending	2010-11 Planned Spending	2010-11 Total Authorities	2010-11 Actual Spending	Variance(s)
Total Grants	0	0	1,654	0	0	1,654
Total Contributions	21,382	21,459	12,681	16,423	23,372	(10,691)
Total Business Development	21,382	24,459	14,326	16,423	23,372	(9,046)

Program Activity: Innovation
($ thousands)

	2008-09 Actual Spending	2009-10 Actual Spending	2010-11 Planned Spending	2010-11 Total Authorities	2010-11 Actual Spending	Variance(s)
Total Grants	0	0	1,880	0	0	1,880
Total Contributions	70,151	82,687	50,670	65,661	73,270	(22,600)
Total Innovation	70,151	82,687	52,550	65,661	73,270	(20,720)

Total Western Diversification Program Grants & Contributions:
($ thousands)

	2008-09 Actual Spending	2009-10 Actual Spending	2010-11 Planned Spending	2010-11 Total Authorities	2010-11 Actual Spending	Variance(s)
Total Western Diversification Program Grants & Contributions	134,230	278,232	251,880	282,654	283,701	(31,821)

Comment(s) on Variance(s): Actual spending includes funding spent for the Community Adjustment Fund (CAF), under Canada’s Economic Action Plan. Variances in Community Economic Development, Business Development and Innovation, are the result of new funding provided through the Supplementary Estimates. This included the transfer of Community Adjustment Fund from previous year ($13.5 million) as well as increases to the Western Diversification Program ($13.0 million) and Rick Hansen Foundation ($4.5 million).

Audit Completed or Planned: Audit of CAF scheduled for 2011-12.

Previous WDP audit was completed September 2009.

Evaluation Completed or Planned: Next evaluation scheduled to take place in 2013-14.

Previous evaluation completed October 2008.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Community Futures Program

Start Date: May 18, 1995

End Date: On-going

Description: This program was designed to provide funding for a network of Community Futures Organizations (CFOs) across Canada with WD as the delivery department for the West. CFOs are volunteer-led, non-profit organizations that lead strategic economic planning, and provide advice and commercial loans to local entrepreneurs, which foster economic development.

Strategic Outcome: The western Canadian economy is developed and diversified.

Results Achieved:

• Strategic Community Planning: Working with communities to assess local problems, establish objectives, plan and implement strategies to develop human, institutional and physical infrastructures, entrepreneurship, employment, and the economy.
• Business Services: Delivering a range of business, counseling and information services to small and medium sized enterprises.
• Access to Capital: Provide capital to assist businesses or to help entrepreneurs to create new businesses.

Program Activity: Community Economic Development
($ thousands)

	2008-09 Actual Spending	2009-10 Actual Spending	2010-11 Planned Spending	2010-11 Total Authorities	2010-11 Actual Spending	Variance(s)
Total Contributions	18,508	14,154	12,804	13,647	14,594	(1,790)
Total Program Activity	18,508	14,154	12,804	13,647	14,594	(1,790)

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Recreational Infrastructure Canada Program (RInC)

Start Date: May 11, 2009

End Date: October 31, 2011

Description: RInC is a contribution program aimed at addressing the short-term impacts of the global economic downturn felt in communities across Western Canada. RInC will normally focus on the rehabilitation or repair of existing recreational infrastructure facilities.

Strategic Outcome: Communities in Western Canada are economically viable.

Results Achieved: The focus of RInC is to provide timely, targeted and temporary economic stimulus for local communities and help mitigate the impacts of the global recession by increasing the total amount of construction activity related to recreational infrastructure.

Program Activity: Community Economic Development
($ thousands)

	2008-09 Actual Spending	2009-10 Actual Spending	2010-11 Planned Spending	2010-11 Total Authorities	2010-11 Actual Spending	Variance(s)
Total Contributions	0	43,228	86,203	105,802	91,086	(4,883)
Total Program Activity	0	43,228	86,203	105,802	91,806	(4,883)

Comment(s) on Variance(s): This program was announced in Budget 2009 as part of Canada’s Economic Action Plan. In December 2010, the Government of Canada announced that this program would be extended to October 31, 2011 (previous program end date was March 31, 2011). The negative variance is the difference between the transfer of funds from previous fiscal year through Supplementary Estimates of $19.6 million and the request to transfer unspent 2010-11 funds of $14.5 million to 2011-12 to meet contractual obligations.

Audit Completed or Planned: Next audit scheduled for 2011-12

Previous WDP audit was completed September 2009.

Evaluation Completed or Planned: Next evaluation scheduled to take place in 2013-14.

Previous audit completed September 2009.

Evaluation completed or planned: Next evaluation scheduled for 2011-12.

Evaluation planned for 2010-11.