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Canadian Heritage

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Aboriginal Peoples' Program
Previously known as Aboriginal Programs (13 different programs)

Start Date: 1971-1972
Renewal date: 10/2005

End Date: N/A

Description: For over 30 years, the Department of Canadian Heritage (and its predecessor the Department of the Secretary of State) has been delivering Aboriginal-specific programs and initiatives that support the full participation of Aboriginal people in Canadian life and supporting the continuation of Aboriginal living cultures as key elements of the Canadian cultural landscape.

Specifically they:

• Strengthen Aboriginal cultural identity and languages;
• Facilitate the inclusion of Aboriginal people in Canadian society in a manner that recognizes their cultures and fosters their contribution to Canada; and
• Provide Aboriginal peoples living off-reserve with a representative voice and ensure that Aboriginal perspectives are reflected in government.

The Aboriginal Peoples' Program is organized around three broad themes:

Aboriginal Organizations Component supports the capacity of national and regional Aboriginal organizations to represent the interests of their communities with the intent of reflecting Aboriginal perspectives in government policies and programs.

Aboriginal Communities Component supports the efforts of Aboriginal communities to develop innovative and culturally appropriate solutions to the social, cultural, economic and other obstacles that impede either community and personal prospects.  It focuses specifically on the unique challenges faced by Aboriginal women, youth and urban communities with the intent of strengthening Aboriginal cultural identity and participation of Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian society.

Aboriginal Living Cultures Component supports the preservation, revitalization and promotion of Aboriginal languages and cultures. Specifically, this component focuses on access to programs and activities that preserve, revitalize and promote Aboriginal languages and cultures as well as the production and distribution of Aboriginal radio and television programming.

Strategic outcomes:

• Canadians live in an inclusive society built on intercultural understanding and citizen participation.
• Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Expected Results:

Intermediate outcomes of the Aboriginal Peoples' Program:

• Aboriginal Organizations – Aboriginal organizations contribute to and participate in government policy and program development.
• Aboriginal Communities – Aboriginal women and youth are able to improve their skills, knowledge and leadership while enhancing their cultural identity.
• Urban Aboriginal population served by a network of Aboriginal Friendship Centres.
• Aboriginal Living Cultures – Aboriginal communities have the capacity to enhance Aboriginal languages and cultures.
• Aboriginal achievements and contributions are recognized and appreciated in Canadian society.
• Aboriginal communities watch and/or listen to culturally radio and television programming.

Final outcomes of the Aboriginal Peoples' Program:

• Aboriginal Organizations – Aboriginal perspectives are reflected in the development of government policies and programs.
• Aboriginal Communities – Strengthened cultural identity and participation of Aboriginal women, youth and urban population.
• Aboriginal Living Cultures – Aboriginal languages and cultures are preserved, revitalized and promoted as living cultures.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Acknowledgement, Commemoration and Education Program
(Historical Redress)

Start Date: 2005-06

End Date: 2007-08

Description:  The objective of the ACE Program is to acknowledge, commemorate and educate Canadians about the historical experiences of ethnocultural communities impacted by wartime measures and/or immigration restrictions. The ACE Program aims to focus on forward-looking measures that will highlight the valuable contributions made by these communities to Canadian society. This will help to build a better understanding among all Canadians of the strength of diversity and a shared sense of Canadian identity.

Strategic outcomes: Canadians live in an inclusive society built on intercultural understanding and citizen participation.

Expected Results:

• Acceptance by impacted communities of the Government of Canada acknowledgement of historical experiences related to wartime measures or immigration restrictions.
• Commemoration of these historical experiences.
• Education of the Canadians on these historical experiences.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Arts Presentation Canada

Start Date: 2001-2002

End Date: 2009-2010

Description: The program supports arts presenters in the performing arts, arts festivals and their service organizations to help them strengthen their presentation practices by encouraging diverse programming, organizing audience development, diversification and outreach activities, developing initiatives that bring professional artists into contact with residents of their community, and supporting networking and professional development for presenters. It also supports the emergence of presenters and presenter networks for under-served communities or artistic practices. Its objective is to give Canadians direct access to a diversity of artistic experiences.

Strategic outcome: Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Expected Results: Canadians have access to more arts activities in Canada.

Outputs: Projects are funded through grants and contributions. Projects completed according to agreed criteria (reports received). Practices and tools developed to enhance expertise within the Department and within the presentation milieu.

Immediate outcomes: Consolidated support towards best practices in arts presentation; targeted strategic investments toward the development of arts presentation; enhanced skills and knowledge development opportunities offered to arts presenters

Intermediate outcomes: Increased opportunity for all Canadians to participate in a broad range of artistic experiences; enhanced integration of the arts and community life.

Long-term outcomes: Canadians participate in and benefit from access to activities provided through skilled and dynamic programming of arts festivals and presenters.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Athlete Assistance Program*

Start Date: 1971

End Date: N/A

Description: The overall objective of the Athlete Assistance Program (AAP) is to enable athletes to combine their sport and academic or working careers without undue financial burden, while training intensively in pursuit of world-class performances.

The main goal of the AAP is to contribute to improved Canadian athlete performances at major international sporting events.  To this end, the AAP identifies and supports athletes already at or having the potential to be in the top sixteen in the world.

The AAP has five specific objectives:

• To identify and support Canadian athletes performing at or having the greatest potential to achieve top sixteen level at international sporting events;
• To help Canada's international-calibre athletes excel at the highest level of competition while enabling them to prepare for a future career or engage in full- or part-time work or post-secondary education activities;
• To facilitate the attainment of athletes' long-range goals of excellence in Olympic/Paralympic or world competition;
• To complement support provided through other government and National Sport Organizations (NSO) programs; and
• To contribute toward broad government policy objectives.

Strategic outcome: Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Expected Results:
The expected results for the AAP centre on:

• The number of athletes achieving positions within the top sixteen level at international sporting events.  This will be measured in overall terms and by sport;
• The number of athletes attending post-secondary education institutions and accessing deferred tuition assistance.  This will be measured for attendance at university, college and other venues.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Book Publishing Industry Development Program

Start Date: 1980-1981

End Date: N/A

Description: The Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) supports the activities of Canadian book publishers and other sectors of the book industry in order to ensure choice of and access to Canadian-authored books, which reflect Canada's cultural diversity and linguistic duality both at home and abroad. The BPIDP aims to meet that objective by fostering a strong, viable Canadian book industry that publishes and promotes Canadian-authored books.

Strategic outcome: Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Expected Results:

Outputs

• Formula funding for Canadian-owned book publishers based on sales of eligible titles.
• Funding for professional development, research and Canadian book supply chain improvements.
• Funding for the domestic and international promotion of Canadian books and authors.

Outcomes - Immediate

• A strong, diverse population of Canadian-owned book publishers across all regions of Canada.
• Enhanced professional skills and industry knowledge.
• Adoption of new technologies for a more efficient and effective Canadian book supply chain.
• Collective and individual promotional opportunities for Canadian books and authors in Canada and abroad.

Outcomes – Intermediate

• Production of Canadian-authored titles.
• Development of a diverse range of Canadian books and authors.
• A competitive, strategic and informed Canadian book industry.
• Increased awareness of Canadian-authored books in Canada and abroad.

Ultimate Outcome

• Increased access to and choice of Canadian-authored books in Canada and abroad.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canada Magazine Fund

Start Date: 1999-2000

End Date: N/A

Description:  The Canada Magazine Fund provides support to Canadian magazine publishers and not-for profit organizations representing periodical publishers in order to: foster the creation of Canadian editorial content in Canadian magazines, increase Canadian's access to Canadian magazines, enhance the quality and diversity of Canadian magazines; and to strengthen the infrastructure of the Canadian magazine industry.   It achieves these goals by providing formula funding for magazines to support and enhance their editorial content, and to arts and literary magazines, and through project support for business development for small magazine publishers and for projects that develop the periodical industry as a whole.  

Strategic outcome: Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Expected Results:
Outputs

• Contribution agreements for formula funding.
• Contribution agreements for industry-wide or association-sponsored projects that encourage development.
• Contribution agreements for small magazine publishers for marketing, circulation, promotion and professional development initiatives.

Outcomes – Immediate

• Strengthened industry infrastructure and capacity.
• Decreased cost of producing Canadian editorial content.

Outcomes – Intermediate

• Greater diversity of titles and content reflective of Canada.
• Enhanced quality of Canadian magazines.
• Maintained or increased levels of Canadian editorial content in Canadian magazines.

Ultimate Outcome

• Canadian readers have maintained or increased access to Canadian editorial, and the maintained or increased competitiveness of Canadian publishers.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canada Music Fund
(Formerly known as New Musical Works)

Start Date: 2001-2002

End Date: N/A

Description: The component provides Canadian music creators, artists and entrepreneurs with opportunities to produce, promote and make available high-quality Canadian sound recordings. The beneficiaries can record demo tapes and full-length albums, produce music videos, promote new products and artists, and defray touring costs. 

Strategic outcome: Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Expected Results:

Output

• Funding is transferred to external administrators that in turn provide funding to artists, creators and enterprises to produce, promote and make available high-quality Canadian sound recordings.

Outcome – Immediate

• New Canadian music is produced and distributed.

Outcomes – Intermediate

• New audiences in Canada and abroad become aware of Canadian music and Canadian artists, sparking interest in and demand for Canadian music.
• A broader range of Canadian musical recordings, reflecting high production values and the diversity of Canadian music, are produced.

Outcomes – High-level

• The careers of Canadian music artists and creators are enhanced.

Ultimate Outcome

• New Canadian talent and new Canadian content works created by Canadian artists lead to greater and more diverse choices in music for Canadians.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canada New Media Fund

Start Date: 2000-2001

End Date: N/A

Description: The Canada New Media Fund, administered by Telefilm Canada, supports the development, production, marketing and distribution of high-quality, original, interactive Canadian new media cultural products, in both official languages, and that are intended for the general public.

Strategic outcome: Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Expected Results: Advance Canadian e-content produced for digital network.

Anticipated results include:

• more diverse and visible Canadian cultural content on-line;
• better distribution mechanisms for new media products;
• greater participation of Canadian-owned and controlled companies active in the new media sector or any national group, agency or association representing Canadian new media creators, in domestic and international trade fairs; iv) greater opportunities for professional development through participation in events such as conferences, symposiums, workshops as well as through mentoring activities in collaboration with specialized new media centres; and v) a leverage effect between cultural content creation on-line, enhanced distribution and sectoral awareness (for example, better distribution will encourage the creation of more content, which will lead to faster growth for the sector).

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canadian Arts and Heritage Sustainability Program (CAHSP)

Start Date: 2001-2002

End Date: 2009-2010

Description: The program is designed to strengthen organizational effectiveness, build operational and financial capacity within the arts and heritage sectors, and ensure that those organizations operate in communities which value their existence, see them as a key asset, and support them.  There are six components: Stabilization Projects; Capacity Building; Endowment Incentives; Limited Support to Endangered Arts Organizations; Networking; and Cultural Capitals of Canada.

Strategic outcome: Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Expected Results: Improvement in the governance of organizations, management capabilities of organizations and long-term financial health of organizations; development of national networks to support local cultural development; increased involvement by Canadian communities to sustain cultural activities at the local level.

The program enables recipient organizations to play their role in Canadian society by having a positive impact on Canadians' quality of life and fostering social cohesiveness, and building creative, sustainable and healthy communities.

Outputs: Projects are funded through grants and contributions; projects are completed according to agreed criteria (reports received); practices and tools are developed for efficient program delivery and for an enhanced understanding of the sustainability of Canadian arts and heritage organizations.

Immediate Outcomes: Improved organizational, administrative and financial health of arts and heritage organizations benefiting from the program; raised capital and created endowments for supporting long-term sustainability of arts organizations; ensured short-term survival of important arts institutions; development of national networks to support local cultural development; increased involvement by Canadian communities to sustain cultural activities at the local level.

Intermediate outcomes: Arts and heritage organizations are better anchored in their communities; maintained or increased number of healthy arts and heritage organizations in Canada.

Long-term Outcomes: Canadians participate in and benefit from access to activities provided through long-term sustainability of Canadian arts and heritage organizations in communities that value their existence and support them.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canadian Culture Online Program

Start Date: 2001-2002

End Date: 2009-2010

Description: Canadian Culture Online Program (CCOP) includes three sub-components: Access and Content, Research and Development and New Media Sector Development. These components replace and consolidate the former Partnerships Fund and the four components of the previous Canadian Culture Online Program: Gateway Fund, Canadian Works of Reference Fund, New Media Research Networks Fund and New Media Sector Development Fund.

The objectives of the Program are to: provide Canadians access to and participation in interactive digital resources that reflect our diverse heritage, cultures, languages and history and to ensure that the program contributes to a supportive environment for the new media sector in Canada.

Strategic outcome: Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Expected Results:
The short term expected results of the CCOP are increased:

• Opportunities for Canadians of diverse backgrounds to learn about and share their heritage, contemporary expressions of culture and perspectives online;
• Production and availability of content in French online;
• Development of innovative tools to help new media producers and cultural organizations to create and manage digital cultural content; and
• Opportunities for the new media sector to build potential and capacity.

These results are expected to contribute to the intermediate outcomes of increased:

• Participation of Canadians in interactive digital resources that reflect our diverse heritage, cultures, languages and history;
• Access to Canadian digital cultural content in French;
• Awareness of and access to innovative tools for content creation and management by researchers and creators in the cultural sector; and
• Capacity in the Canadian new media sector.

Over the long term, expected results will contribute to the strategic outcome of:

• Canadians have access to and benefit from diverse Canadian cultural products and experiences in the digital interactive realm.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Celebration, Commemoration and Learning Program

Start Date: November 2003

End Date: N/A

Description: The Program is a theme-based dynamic approach to celebrating and commemorating significant people, places, symbols, anniversaries and events and is delivered in collaboration with other federal departments, agencies, regions, partners and stakeholders. It provides funding to non-profit organizations and Celebrate Canada committees to commemorate important aspects of Canadian history and carry out initiatives under the five-year plan, including supporting community activities and volunteer committee activities held as part of Canada's national celebrations from June 21 to July 1.

Strategic outcome:  
Canadians live in an inclusive society built on intercultural understanding and citizen participation.

Expected Results:

Outputs:

• Grants and Contributions;
• Funding and/or partnership agreements;
• National events, ceremonies, celebrations, commemorations;
• Learning resources for students and teachers (i.e. poster challenge);
• Promotional material (i.e. pins, posters, etc.);
• Media coverage.

Outcomes:

• Increased opportunities for Canadians to celebrate and commemorate Canada, its heritage, its people, their stories and key events;
• Increased awareness by Canadians of opportunities to celebrate Canada and its communities and to commemorate significant aspects of national and regional history, leading to increased participation;
• Increased knowledge and understanding of Canadians about Canada and its key events and about their shared history, values and interests;
• Increased sense of shared citizenship among Canadians;
• Increased sense of pride and belonging to Canada.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Community Partnerships Program

Start Date: 2002-03

End Date: N/A

Description: Through the Community Partnerships Program, the Department of Canadian Heritage works with other government departments and the voluntary sector to promote citizen participation and engagement in Canadian society.  The principal program managed by the Community Partnerships Program is the Canada Volunteerism Initiative (CVI) which aims to improve the ability of organizations to recruit and retain volunteers; to encourage Canadians to participate in voluntary organizations; and to enhance the experience of volunteering.

Strategic outcome: Canadians live in an inclusive society built on inter-cultural understanding and citizen participation.

Expected Results:

The expected results of the Community Partnerships Program are to:

• raise awareness of the contributions of volunteers and the voluntary sector to Canadian society;
• promote citizens' participation and engagement in Canadian society through volunteering and community involvement; and
• strengthen voluntary organizations' capacity to provide programs and services for the benefit of Canadians.

The expected results of the CVI are to:

• encourage Canadians to participate in voluntary organizations;
• improve the capacity of voluntary organizations to recruit and retain volunteers, and;
• enrich the experience of volunteering.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contribution in support of the Canadian Television Fund

Start Date: 1996-1997

End Date: 2005-2006

Description: Supports the creation and broadcast of high-quality prime-time Canadian programs in both official languages. The types of programs supported by the Fund are dramas, youth and children's programs, documentaries, variety shows and performing arts. The Fund also supports minority Aboriginal and Francophone productions.

Strategic outcome: Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Expected Results:

Outputs:

•  An integrated annual business plan is prepared prior to the commencement of contributions for any fiscal year.
•  Annual guidelines are published, detailing eligibility criteria for each of the program's funding streams and genres.
•  Applications are processed and funding assistance is provided to eligible productions to the extent of available financial resources.
•  Integrated interim activity reports are gathered and sent to Canadian Heritage at regular intervals during the year to initiate payments as prescribed by the contribution agreement.
•  An integrated report on activities is published annually, in July, highlighting the results of the Fund (this is a general document intended to present a snapshot of the Fund's activities at year-end).
•  An integrated annual report is published, covering all aspects of the Fund's activities, including integrated audited financial statements for the Fund and statistical data, and a list of supported projects (this document is more detailed, including Canadian Television Fund  (CTF) overall objectives, results and analysis).

Direct Outputs:

• Canadian producers create and broadcasters licence and schedule more high quality, distinctively Canadian television programs in CTF eligible genres.
• Approximately 2,000 new hours of culturally significant programming is produced and broadcast each year in key genres of drama, children's and youth, documentary and variety/performing arts, in both official languages and Aboriginal languages.
• Appropriate support levels are attained for official-language minority productions and regional balance is achieved in project disbursements and programming hours.
• Strengthened ability to attract private partners and support, using funding from the CTF as leverage.
• Enhanced capabilities for the broadcasting and production sectors to undertake a wide range of production projects of varying complexity.

Ultimate Impacts

• Availability of eligible Canadian programming choices for Canadian viewers in prime time broadcasting.
• More Canadians watch distinctively Canadian productions, in English, French and Aboriginal languages.
• Availability of more Canadian English-language drama programs and their ability to capture a larger share of viewing audiences to all television drama programming.
• Continued availability of French-language drama programs with capacity to maintain high level of viewing audiences.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Cultural Spaces Canada (CSC)

Start Date: 2001-2002

End Date: 2009-2010

Description: The program supports the construction, renovation and improvement of not-for-profit facilities dedicated to arts and heritage.  As a complement to the programs offered by Infrastructure Canada, it will help improve the physical conditions that foster creativity and artistic innovation. 

Strategic outcome: Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Expected Results: Canadians participate in and benefit from access to performing arts, visual arts, media arts, and museum collections and heritage exhibitions as a result of funded projects that contribute to the improvement of physical conditions that foster creativity and artistic innovation in Canada.
Outputs:  Projects funded through grants and contributions. Projects completed according to agreed criteria (reports received). Practices and tools developed for efficient program delivery and for an enhanced understanding of the state of cultural infrastructure.

Short term outcomes: Increased number of facilities and improved infrastructures; improved quality and standards of facilities and infrastructures.

Intermediate outcomes: Enhanced effectiveness of operations of funded organizations.

Long-term Outcomes: Canadians participate in and benefit from access to activities provided through increased and improved arts and heritage facilities for creation, presentation and exhibitions.

Name of Transfer Payment Program:  Development of Official-Language Communities Program

Start Date:  2003-04

End Date:  N/A

Description:  Foster the vitality of Canada's English- and French-speaking minority communities and enable them to participate fully in all aspects of Canadian life. Through partnerships and agreements with community organizations, provinces, territories, municipalities and federal departments and agencies, enhance the capacity of minority official-language communities to have greater access to quality education and different programs and services in their language in their communities.

Strategic outcome: Canadians live in an inclusive society built on inter-cultural understanding and citizen participation. 

Expected Results: 

• Members of Official Languages Minority Communities (OLMC) have greater access to programs and services, in their language, offered by community organizations, provincial and territorial governments, municipalities and federal departments and agencies.
• Members of OLMC have greater access to quality education in their language, in their community.

Name of Transfer Payment Program:  Enhancement of Official Languages

Start Date: 2003-04

End Date: N/A

Description: Promote among Canadians a better understanding and appreciation of the benefits of linguistic duality. Through partnerships and agreements with the provinces and territories and non-governmental organizations in support of second-language learning and initiatives that foster understanding between Anglophone and Francophone Canadians, encourage the public to recognize and support linguistic duality as a fundamental value of Canadian society.

Strategic outcome: 
Canadians live in an inclusive society built on inter-cultural understanding and citizen participation.

Expected Results:

• A greater proportion of Canadians have a better understanding and appreciation of the benefits of linguistic duality and accept the rights of linguistic minorities.
• A greater proportion of Canadians have a working knowledge of both official languages.

Name of Transfer Payment Program:  Exchanges Canada Program

Start Date: 2000-01

End Date: N/A

Description: The Exchanges Canada Program enables young Canadians to participate in one-way forums and two way exchanges with youth from communities across the country.  It also enables them to obtain information on opportunities for many different types of exchanges within Canada and abroad.

Strategic outcome: Canadians live in an inclusive society built on inter-cultural understanding and citizen participation. 

Expected Results:

• Young participants enhance their knowledge and understanding of Canada.
• Young participants connect and create linkages with one another.
• Young participants enhance their appreciation of the diversity and shared aspects of the Canadian experience.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Grants/Contributions to TV5

Start Date: 1990-91

End Date: N/A

Description: Contribute to the international showcasing of French-language Canadian television programs by participating in TV5 Monde, and offer Canadians a glimpse of the international Francophonie by participating in TV5 Québec-Canada.

Strategic outcome: Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Expected Results:

Immediate repercussions:

TV5 Monde retains and perhaps even expands its international audience; and the percentages and positioning of Canadian programs on TV5 Monde schedules are maintained.  TV5 Québec-Canada maintains a balance in the broadcast of programs from TV5 partners.

Long-term repercussions:

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Hosting Program*

Start Date: 1967

End Date: N/A

Description: The Hosting Program offers Canada the potential to bring direct and significant benefits, in the areas of sport, economic, social and cultural, across a broad range of government priorities.

Specific targets and objectives of Sport Canada that apply to the Hosting Program are:

• High Performance Athletes and Coaches: to enhance the ability of Canadian athletes to excel at the highest international levels through fair and ethical means;
• Sport System Development: to enhance the programming, co-ordination and integration of development activities aimed at advancing the Canadian sport system, through working with key partners;
• Strategic Positioning of Sport: to advance the broader federal government objectives through sport, to position sport in the federal government agenda and to promote the contribution of sport to Canadian society; and
• Access and Equity:  to increase access and equity in sport for targeted under-represented groups.

Strategic outcome: Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Expected Results: The impact of the Hosting Program will be assessed as follows:

• An increase in the public awareness and appreciation of international performances by Canadian athletes;
• An increase in the number of international competitive opportunities for Canadian high performance athletes;
• An increase in the number of sport programming and infrastructure legacies;
• An increase in the international profile of Canadian National Sport Organizations;
• An increase in the number of international single sport events hosted in Canada; and
• An increase in the participation of "under-represented groups" in hosted events.

Name of Transfer Payment Program:  Katimavik Program

Start Date: 1997-98

End Date: N/A

Description: Katimavik's mission is to foster the personal development of young Canadians through a stimulating 39-week program of community volunteerism, training and group interaction.  Katimavik contributes significantly to the personal, social and occupational development of its participants, who are between the ages of 17 and 21, by promoting community service and offering a unique experience that fosters a better understanding of life in Canada.

Strategic outcome:  Canadians live in an inclusive society built on inter-cultural understanding and citizen participation.

Expected Results:

• Enhanced understanding of Canada and its diversity.
• Improved personal, social and professional skills.
• Improved capacity of host community partner organizations.

Name of Transfer Payment Program:  Multiculturalism Program

Start Date: 1982-83

End Date: N/A

Description:  The Multiculturalism Program of Canadian Heritage is one important means by which the Government of Canada pursues the 3 goals of the Multiculturalism Policy: identity; social justice; and civic participation.  Funding provided under the terms and conditions supports these goals to achieve the following objectives:

• Ethno-cultural/racial minorities participate in decision making (Civic Participation)
• Communities in the broad public engage in informed dialogue and sustained action to combat racism (Anti-Racism, Anti-Hate, Cross Cultural Understanding)
• Public Institutions eliminate systemic barriers (Institutional Change)

Strategic outcome: Canadians live in an inclusive society built on inter-cultural understanding and citizen participation

Expected Results:

• Increased understanding among public institutions of the nature of, and the need to remove, barriers to access and participation.
• Increase the number of partners undertaking institutional change activities .
• Increased knowledge and awareness of racism and discrimination by individuals and communities targeted by program.
• Increased reach and participation in promotional campaigns.
• Increased knowledge and skills for civic engagement among program's clientele.
• Ethno-cultural/racial communities identify & take action towards resolving issues affecting their communities.

Name of Transfer Payment Program:  Museums Assistance Program
(As known as Grant/Contribution to Canadian museums and heritage organizations to promote professional management of, and access to, Canada's diverse heritage)

Start Date: 1972-73

End Date: N/A

Description: The Museums Assistance Program helps current and future generations of Canadians gain access to and develop a better appreciation of their heritage.  The program provides financial support for activities that help exhibitions travel around the country, foster the adoption of best museum management practices, support Aboriginal peoples in protecting and presenting their heritage, and help improve museum associations' ability to serve their members.

Strategic outcome: Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Expected Results:

• Increased opportunities for Canadians to appreciate their heritage.
• Increased adoption of sound professional policies and practices by museums.
• Increased capacity of museum organizations in representing their sector.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Music Entrepreneur Program*

Start Date: 2001-2002

End Date: 2009-2010

Description: The Music Entrepreneur component assists established Canadian music entrepreneurs in developing and nurturing Canadian talent, positioning them for success in a digitized global economy and competing effectively in the national and international marketplace.

Strategic outcome: Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Expected Results:

Outputs

• Funding is transferred to establish Canadian music entrepreneurs based on sales of eligible sound recordings.

Outcomes – Immediate

• Canadian music enterprises build their skills and capacity.
• New Canadian music is produced and distributed.

Outcomes – Intermediate

• New audiences in Canada and abroad become aware of Canadian music and Canadian artists, sparking interest in and demand for Canadian music.
• A broader range of Canadian musical recordings, reflecting high production values and the diversity of Canadian music, are produced.

Outcomes– High-level

• The economic viability of the Canadian music industry is strengthened.

Ultimate Outcome

• A diverse range of Canadian musical choice is accessible to all Canadians.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: National Arts Training Contribution Program

Start Date: 2001-2002

End Date: 2006-2007

Description: The program is designed to assist independent Canadian not-for-profit corporations that specialize in training Canadians seeking a professional career in the arts. 

Strategic outcome: Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Expected Results: Development of Canadians in various artistic disciplines who will have professional careers in the arts and provide cultural leadership in Canada and abroad. Canadians benefit from high quality arts and activities products from Canadian artists and creators trained in Canada.

Outputs: Institutions provided with operating support through contributions. Results are evaluated through application process, on-site assessments, interim activity reports and annual surveys.

Outcomes: The National Arts Training Contribution Program (NATCP) funded national institutions provide high-calibre arts training to talented students from across Canada; graduates of national training institutions work professionally in their respective fields, in Canada and/or internationally; graduates of NATCP funded national training institutions reflect and express the diversity of Canadian society.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Publications Assistance Program (PAP)

Start Date: 1996–97

End Date: N/A

Description: The Publication Assistance Program (PAP) is delivered in partnership with the Canada Post Corporation and decreases the costs of eligible Canadian periodicals of mailing copies to Canadian readers.  Assistance is provided to more than 800 publishers of almost 1200 different Canadian periodicals, supporting the delivery of 210 million eligible copies of periodicals including: general or special interest paid circulation magazines, non-daily community newspapers, unpaid request circulation periodicals, religious, scholarly, Aboriginal, ethnocultural, farm, and official language minority periodicals. 

Strategic outcome: Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Expected Results:

Outputs

• Memorandum of Agreement with the Canada Post Corporation (CPC).
• Eligibility of titles established and communicated to the CPC.

Outcome – Immediate

• Decreased mailing costs for Canadian magazines and non-daily newspapers.

Outcomes – Intermediate

• Maintained or increased distribution of Canadian magazines and periodicals.
• Greater diversity of Canadian magazine and periodical titles.

Ultimate outcome

• Canadian readers have access to a diversity of Canadian magazines and periodicals with high levels of Canadian produced editorial content.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Sport Support Program*

Start Date: 1961

End Date: N/A

Description: The Sport Support Program is the primary funding vehicle for initiatives associated with the delivery of the Canadian Sport Policy.

Specific objectives of the Program are to:

• Increase the pool of Canadian athletic talent and systematically achieve world class results at the highest international competitions, through fair and ethical means;
• Increase the proportion of Canadians from all segments of society, involved in quality sport activities at all levels and in all forms of participation;
• Have in place the essential components of an ethically-based, participant/athlete centred development system that is continually modernized and strengthened as required; and
• Have in place the components of the Canadian sport system that is more connected and harmonized as a result of the committed collaboration and communication amongst the stakeholders.

Strategic outcome: Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Expected Results: The program will deliver on the following outcomes:

• National Sport Organizations (NSOs) and Sport Organizations for Athletes with a Disability (SOADs), maintain the performance of their Canadian athletes at World Championships (Senior), Olympic and Paralympic Games.
• NSOs/SOADs, and other organizations increase participation in their sport/organization, including women, athletes with a disability and other members/participants.
• The number of full and part-time Level 4 and 5 coaches employed by NSOs/SOADs is maintained.
• Quality high performance and sport development programs and services are provided by NSOs/SOADs to athletes (able-bodied and disabled), coaches and officials.
• Quality mission services are provided by Games organizations to Team Canada athletes, coaches and support staff.
• Initiatives promoting values and ethics in sport are developed and implemented by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport in collaboration with NSOs/SOADs, Canadian Sport Centres (CSCs), and other organizations.
• Enhanced services (core and enriched) are provided to national level high performance athletes (Senior, Junior, Espoir, including carded athletes) by CSCs in collaboration with NSOs/SOADs.

Name of Recipient: Global Centre for Pluralism

Start Date: 2006-07

End Date: perpetual

Total Funding: $30M

Description: The Global Centre for Pluralism is a new not-for-profit non-governmental organization, founded by the Aga Khan Development Network, which will address a global gap in institutions that advocate pluralism as a foundation for good governance, peace and human development.

Strategic Outcome:
Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Summary of Annual Plans of Recipient:  The Centre has identified medium-term results for the next 5 to 7 years, including the following:

• research on the theory and practice of pluralism will have been conducted, and related findings, knowledge and new ideas disseminated widely;
• teaching, training and awareness-raising material and tools regarding pluralism will have been developed and used by various organizations around the world;
• public advocacy, dialogue and discourse on pluralism, its various facets and its benefits will have intensified;
• international networks on pluralism will have been developed; and
• a number of programs and projects will have been carried out and capacity will have been developed accordingly in selected countries that promote pluralism in practice.

The Centre's long-term results, over the next ten years, include the concept of pluralism, in all its dimensions and applications, being better understood, talked about, promoted and embraced in some parts of the world; and the governance of some states, including respect for human rights, improving as a consequence of embracing the principles and related practices of pluralism.

Name of Recipient:  National Aboriginal Achievements Foundation

Start Date: 2003-04

End Date: perpetual

Total Funding: $22M

Description:
The National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation (NAAF) promotes the development and education of Aboriginal peoples and their professional advancement in Canadian society through the implementation of such initiatives as - the Blueprint for the Future, Post-Secondary Education Program, the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards and Taking Pulse. Overall, the Foundation's programs are made possible through the generous support of the federal government, corporate sponsors, charitable foundations and individual donors.

The Foundations' core focus continues to be providing scholarships for Aboriginal students. NAAF is the largest supporter of Aboriginal education outside the federal government. Canadian Heritage has provided in 2003-04 a $12 million endowment fund for the establishment of an Aboriginal Post-Secondary Scholarship Program.

An additional endowment of $10M was announced in Budget 2005. This was not accessed in 2005-06 and deferred to 2006-07 through the ARLU. A Treasury Board submission is being prepared to access the funding.

This fund encourages higher levels of achievement in education to help Aboriginal Canadians gain the skills and learning needed to contribute fully to the economic life of their communities and Canadian society. More specifically, the scholarship program assists Status Indian, Non-Status Indian, Métis and Inuit post-secondary students engaged in fields of study that support and contribute to Aboriginal self-government and economic self-government.

Strategic Outcomes:

• Canadians live in an inclusive society built on intercultural understanding and citizen participation.
• Canadians express and share their diverse cultural experiences with each other and the world.

Summary of Annual Plans of Recipient:

• Maximize revenues of the Foundation in order to distribute more financial assistance to a greater number of Aboriginal students.
• Provide assistance to Aboriginal students based on need.