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Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
DepartmentEnterprise Cape Breton Corporation
Ministry Summary
| Vote | (thousands of dollars) | 2009–10 | 2008–09 | Difference |
| Main Estimates | Main Estimates | |||
| Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency | ||||
| Department | ||||
| 1 | Operating expenditures | 79,640 | 81,862 | (2,222) |
| 5 | Grants and contributions | 245,178 | 238,346 | 6,832 |
| (S) | Contributions to employee benefit plans | 7,599 | 8,017 | (418) |
| Total Department | 332,418 | 328,225 | 4,193 | |
| Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation | ||||
| 10 | Payments to the Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation | 8,650 | 8,650 | . . . . . |
| Total Agency | 8,650 | 8,650 | . . . . . | |
| Note: Details may not add to totals due to rounding. | ||||
Department
Strategic Outcome
A competitive Atlantic Canadian economy.
Program Activity Descriptions
Enterprise Development
Notwithstanding recent overall economic progress, some significant challenges remain and great opportunities exist for development. One of the most telling indicators of this is that, in a number of sectors, productivity remains significantly lower than in leading countries and other regions of Canada. The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) will work in partnership with Atlantic Canadian enterprises, stakeholders, industry and institutions to improve the growth and productivity of Atlantic Canada’s economy, leading to increased competitiveness, earned incomes and job creation.
ACOA works to improve the region’s capacity for economic growth through a variety of strategically focused mechanisms, which includes: assisting enterprises, particularly small and medium-sized ones, to help them start, expand or modernize their businesses, and establish and expand export activities; partnering with universities and other institutions to increase the region’s research and development capacity, commercialization and productivity; and promoting and participating in the region’s transition to the knowledge economy.
Community Development
The Atlantic economy is built on the region’s many geographic, linguistic, and cultural communities. From small remote villages to larger urban centres, the opportunities and challenges vary significantly. Communities are the foundation of economic development and are critical for economic prosperity. The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) recognizes the importance of these communities in an economic development framework and supports their efforts to develop the resources they need to assume full responsibility for their own economic development. For those reasons, ACOA focuses targeted efforts and strategies toward community development and also aims to provide and maintain quality public infrastructure. ACOA works in co-operation with other levels of government, other federal government departments, non-government organizations, and community groups to lever support, coordinate economic development, react to economic challenges, and finally, work with Infrastructure Canada and the Provinces to oversee/ensure the flow of federal funds allocated to each region through the various infrastructure funding streams. This requires a flexible, holistic approach, based on the realities of a given community’s capacities, strengths and challenges. Community development is a bottom-up process that helps to develop the tools, resources and initiatives that support individual and unique strategic development.
Policy, Advocacy and Coordination
ACOA’s Policy, Advocacy and Coordination (PAC) Program Activity is central to identifying and effectively responding to opportunities and challenges facing the regional economy. PAC provides intelligence, analysis and well-grounded advice on a broad range of issues and topics, and informs and supports decision making by the Agency and the Minister. In offering strategic, researched policy positions that reflect the region’s potential; influencing national policies and programs that affect Atlantic Canada’s development and interests; and in coordinating other policies and programs within the region to form integrated approaches to development, PAC helps carry the Agency’s agenda forward and helps ensure that ACOA overall remains relevant and responsive to the opportunities and challenges in Atlantic Canada.
Strategic Outcome
The following program activity supports all strategic outcomes within this organization.
Program Activity Descriptions
Internal Services
Internal Services are groups of related activities and resources that are administered to support the needs of programs and other corporate obligations of an organization. These groups are: Management and Oversight Services; Communications Services; Legal Services; Human Resources Management Services; Financial Management Services; Information Management Services; Information Technology Services; Real Property Services; Materiel Services; Acquisition Services; and Travel and Other Administrative Services. Internal Services include only those activities and resources that apply across an organization and not to those provided specifically to a program.
Program by Activities
| (thousands of dollars) | 2009–10 Main Estimates | 2008–09 | |||
| Budgetary | Total | Main Estimates | |||
| Operating | Grants | Contributions | |||
| and other | |||||
| transfer | |||||
| payments | |||||
| Enterprise Development | 29,068 | 1,000 | 168,632 | 198,700 | 214,140 |
| Community Development | 13,344 | 1,000 | 73,354 | 87,698 | 100,931 |
| Internal Services | 34,884 | . . . . . | . . . . . | 34,884 | . . . . . |
| Policy, Advocacy and Coordination | 9,944 | . . . . . | 1,192 | 11,136 | . . . . . |
| Policy | . . .. . | . . . . . | . . . . . | . . . . . | 5,916 |
| Advocacy | . . . . . | . . . . . | . . . . . | . . . . . | 4,102 |
| Co-ordination | . . . . . | . . . . . | . . . . . | . . . . . | 2,217 |
| Infrastructure Programming | . . . . . | . . . . . | . . . . . | . . . . . | 919 |
| 87,240 | 2,000 | 243,178 | 332,418 | 328,225 | |
Note: Details may not add to totals due to rounding.
Transfer Payments
| (dollars) | 2009–10 | 2009–10 |
| Main Estimates | Main Estimates | |
| Grants | ||
| Grants to organizations to promote economic cooperation and | ||
| development | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 |
| Total grants | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 |
| Contributions | ||
| Contributions under the Business Development Program | 105,368,000 | 97,746,000 |
| Contributions for the Atlantic Innovation Fund | 69,800,000 | 68,000,000 |
| Contribution for the Innovative Communities Fund | 43,558,000 | 55,500,000 |
| Contributions under the Community Futures Program | 13,052,000 | 12,700,000 |
| Contribution for the Saint John Shipyard Adjustment Initiative | 10,000,000 | . . . . . |
| Contributions for the International Business Development Program | 700,000 | 1,700,000 |
| Contributions under the Atlantic Policy Research Initiatives | 700,000 | 700,000 |
| Total contributions | 243,178,000 | 236,346,000 |
| Total | 245,178,000 | 238,346,000 |
Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation
Strategic Outcome
Community economic development for Cape Breton and Mulgrave.
Program Activity Descriptions
Support to Business
ECBC’s objective for support to business is to grow the economy by encouraging private sector investment in projects that enhance the competitiveness of commercial enterprises and increase trade opportunities to produce long-term, sustainable jobs. Plans and priorities under this initiative include: Access to Capital, Human Resource Initiative and an E-Commerce Initiative for the Tourism Industry.
Support to Communities
The key objective for support to communities is to help communities plan and implement community development projects that have a direct link to long-term, self-sustaining economic activity. The Corporation undertakes a number of initiatives in this area including: community capacity building, festivals and events, convention and sporting events, community revitalization, and the Greater Cape Breton Partnership.
Investment
The key objective for investment is to attract new business investment to Cape Breton Island. Some of the initiatives that will be undertaken will include the production of investment-related promotional material as well as investment-attraction missions.
Policy and Research
The key objective for policy and research is to help provide a sound basis for the Corporation’s policy priorities and programs. Activities related to policy and research include research that is internally driven, research that is carried out with external partners and attendance at various seminars relating to economic development policy. Research is carried out in a number of areas including economic analysis, sector and issue analysis, and planning and performance management.
Strategic Outcome
The following program activity supports all strategic outcomes within this organization.
Program Activity Descriptions
Internal Services
Internal Services are groups of related activities and resources that are administered to support the needs of programs and other corporate obligations of an organization. These groups are: Management and Oversight Services; Communications Services; Legal Services; Human Resources Management Services; Financial Management Services; Information Management Services; Information Technology Services; Real Property Services; Materiel Services; Acquisition Services; and Travel and Other Administrative Services. Internal Services include only those activities and resources that apply across an organization and not to those provided specifically to a program.
Program by Activities
| (thousands of dollars) | 2009–10 Main Estimates | 2008–09 | ||
| Budgetary | Total | Main | ||
| Operating | Capital | Estimates | ||
| Support to Business | 4,720 | . . . . . | 4,720 | 6,304 |
| Support to Communities | 2,200 | . . . . . | 2,200 | 1,421 |
| Internal Services | 755 | 475 | 1,230 | . . . . . |
| Investment | 250 | . . . . . | 250 | 420 |
| Policy and Research | 250 | . . . . . | 250 | 420 |
| Advocacy | . . . . . | . . . . . | . . . . . | 80 |
| Delivery Agent | . . . . . | . . . . . | . . . . . | 5 |
| 8,175 | 475 | 8,650 | 8,650 | |
Note: Details may not add to totals due to rounding.