Footnotes

1 A strategic outcome is a long-term, enduring benefit to Canadians that stems from a department or agency's mandate, vision, and efforts. It represents the difference a department or agency wants to make for Canadians. There are over 200 strategic outcomes in the Government of Canada, and they are displayed in the Estimates documents of federal organizations to which they relate.

2 A program activity is the highest-level program in a federal department or agency's program structure. In these structures—called "program activity architectures"—program activities, subactivities, and sub-subactivities are depicted in their logical relationship to each other and to the strategic outcome(s) to which they contribute. There are over 400 program activities in the Government of Canada, and they are displayed in the Estimates documents of federal organizations to which they relate.

3 As this report covers events up to March 31, 2008, it does not discuss the federal government's response to the current economic crisis. This will be covered in the 2009–10 RPP Overview, which rolls up departmental planning information according to the whole-of-government framework. The RRP Overview will be accessible online through the Government of Canada Planning and Performance Gateway.

4 Excluding the Canada Health Transfer ($21.5 billion), which is included under the healthy Canadians outcome area in the Social Affairs spending area.

5 The Canada Social Transfer (CST) is a federal block transfer to provinces and territories in support of social assistance and social services, post-secondary education, and programs for children. The CST consists of a cash transfer—allocated on a per capita basis to ensure equal support to all Canadians regardless of their province or territory of residence—and a tax point transfer.

6 Employment Insurance (EI) provides temporary financial assistance to unemployed Canadians while they look for work or upgrade their skills. EI also helps Canadians who are sick, pregnant, or caring for a newborn or adopted child, as well as those who must care for a family member who is seriously ill with a significant risk of death.

7 This includes $2.4 billion in statutory payments for Atlantic Offshore as follows: Nova Scotia Offshore Revenue Account $493.2 million; Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Resource Revenue Fund $1.7 billion (of which $1.1 billion was received via the Supplementary Estimates); and Newfoundland Fiscal Equalization Offset Payments, which received $188.6 million via the Supplementary Estimates.

8 Funding increased from $1.7 billion to $1.9 billion as a result of the inclusion of $200 million in additional funding for clean transportation initiatives.

9 Note that while all of National Defence's program activities have been aligned to the safe and secure world through international cooperation outcome area, the Department makes a much broader contribution to the government's economic, social, and international outcomes. For information on how National Defence contributes to other outcome areas, refer to the National Defence 2007–08 Departmental Performance Report.