Crown corporation documents tabled in Parliament

This section provides consolidated information on Crown corporation documents tabled in Parliament, including deadlines and tabling dates for corporate plan summaries, budget summaries and annual reports, pursuant to section 151 of the Financial Administration Act (FAA).

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Overview of documents tabled in Parliament

Crown corporations report to Parliament through three types of documents: the corporate plan summary, the capital and operating budget summaries, and the annual report.

Corporate plan and budget summaries tabled in Parliament are based on approved annual corporate plans and budgets that cover the planned business, activities and investments of a Crown corporation and its wholly owned subsidiaries. The Crown corporation’s annual report informs Parliament of the corporation’s actual performance on the objectives, strategies and activities approved by the government and on previously tabled corporate plans and budget summaries.

Unless a corporation is exempt through legislation from approval requirements for allFootnote 1 or someFootnote 2 of these documents, they are tabled in Parliament by the responsible minister.

The section below provides the criteria used to calculate the deadlines for tabling in Parliament and the related legislative provisions.

Deadlines for tabling documents in Parliament

The Crown Corporation Corporate Plan, Budget and Summaries Regulations and subsection 150(1) of the Financial Administration Act set out the deadlines for the tabling of Crown corporation reports before each House of Parliament. The reports and their tabling deadlines are as follows:

  • Corporate plan or amended corporate plan summary: Tabled within 30 sitting days after Governor in CouncilFootnote 3 approval of the corporate plan.
  • Capital or operating budget summary: Tabled within 30 sitting days after Treasury Board approval of the budget. When the operating or capital budgets are incorporated into the corporate plan, the deadline is the same as that for the corporate plan summary.
  • Annual report: Tabled within 15 sitting days after receipt by the responsible minister. The corporation must submit the report as soon as possible but, at the latest, within three months after the termination of its financial year-end.

Current reporting period

Information on the dates of individual Crown corporations’ tabled documents is posted on Open Government and retained in accordance with Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat information management practices.Footnote 4

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All documents tabled in Parliament are proactively disclosed by Crown corporations on their own websites within 30 days of tabling, as required by section 84 of the Access to Information Act.

About Crown corporation tabling of documents

Information about the tabling of Crown corporations’ corporate plan summaries, budget summaries and annual reports in Parliament, including due dates and dates tabled, is consolidated pursuant to section 151 of the Financial Administration Act (FAA).

The President of the Treasury Board maintains this consolidation of financial and tabling information on the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat website with links to Open Government, and Crown corporations are required to proactively disclose all tabled documents and reports on their own websites.

Individual Crown corporations’ annual reports and summaries continue to be laid before Parliament pursuant to section 150 of the FAA.

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