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Section III – Supplementary Information
List of Supplementary Tables
- Details of Transfer Payment Programs
- Up-Front Multi-Year Funding (table formerly called "Foundations")
- Green Procurement
- Sustainable Development Strategy
- Horizontal Initiatives
- Internal Audits
- Evaluations
- Sources of Respendable and Non-Respendable Revenue
- Summary of Capital Spending by Program Activity
- User Fees
Please note that these tables are available electronically and can be accessed on the Treasury Board Secretariat’s website at: http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/rpp/st-ts-eng.asp.
Other Items of Interest
Enforcement of Environmental Legislation
Canadians demand that the federal government ensures the protection of Canada’s environment. The components of a successful enforcement regime include: a sufficient number of enforcement officers; the ability to levy penalties where appropriate; sentencing that acts as a deterrent and is commensurate with the severity of the offence; adequate levels of program management and operational support and training; efficient data management; the ability to analyze forensic evidence; timely legal advice and support; access to the latest technology; and, an ability to effectively build cases and prosecute offenders. The Government made a significant investment in the enforcement program in Budget 2007 by providing $22 million over two years to hire and train 106 new enforcement officers. This investment enables the Department to plan and implement enforcement activities to prevent, detect, and deter regulatory non-compliance, focusing specifically on targeting high risk compliance areas; increasing capacity to respond to referrals and incidents; and increasing the ability to cover geographical areas.
Budget 2008 invested a further $21 million over two years to improve environmental enforcement outcomes through key capital investments, bolstered scientific and technical capacity to support enforcement operations, and enhanced enforcement planning and reporting.
Sustainable Development
The Federal Sustainable Development Act was passed in June 2008 in response to the need for a more coordinated approach to the implementation of sustainable development within the federal government. The Act requires that the Minister of the Environment table a federal sustainable development strategy in Parliament, complete with goals, targets and implementation strategies, by the spring of 2010. Federal departments are expected to table individual strategies in 2011 to reflect how their program activities will support the federal goals and targets. As a result, both the federal and departmental strategies will contribute to a more coherent approach to sustainable development as well as support and foster greater transparency and accountability both to the public and Parliament in terms of the practice of sustainable development within the federal government. Environment Canada’s next sustainable development strategy will be tabled in 2011 in compliance with the Act.
Mackenzie Gas Project
The machinery of government changes, announced on October 30, 2008, transferred responsibility for the Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP) from the Minister of Industry to the Minister of the Environment. The mission and expected results of the Project have not changed. This program concerns a proposed $16B natural gas field development and pipeline in the Northwest Territories. The project will connect stranded gas resources in the NWT and Beaufort Sea with markets in the rest of North America, thereby generating significant economic and fiscal benefits for both the territorial and federal governments. Environment Canada’s planned spending excludes funding for the Mackenzie Gas Project. The authority for this project will be transferred from Industry Canada through the 2009-2010 Supplementary Estimates. Budget 2009 provides $37.6 million in 2009-2010 to departments and agencies in support of environmental assessments, regulatory coordination, science, and Aboriginal consultations related to the Mackenzie Gas Project.
Official Languages
Under the Official Languages Act, Environment Canada’s obligations include providing bilingual services to the public and ensuring that the language of work provisions are respected at all times.
Environment Canada is committed to ensuring that members of the public can exercise their right to communicate with the Department, and obtain services in the official language of their choice and to create and maintain, for its employees, a work environment that is conducive to the use of both official languages. To this effect, Environment Canada identifies, on an ongoing basis, all employees who require language training to meet the language requirements of their position and ensures that they have access to and complete such training within the timeframe prescribed by the Public Service Official Languages Exclusion Approval Order. The Department also encourages employees to acquire or improve second official language skills in order to advance their careers and possibly fill bilingual positions in the future as part of their personal development plans and in accordance with the Departmental Guidelines on Second Language Learning for Career Development Purposes.
The Department also ensures that English-speaking and French-speaking Canadians have equal opportunities for employment and advancement and that the Department’s workforce reflects the presence of both official languages communities in Canada.
1 Responsibility for the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Initiative (TWRI) has been transferred to the Minister of Finance, effective October 30, 2008. Transfer of TWRI funds will occur through the Main Estimates in 2009-2010. Similarly, responsibility for the Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP) has been transferred to the Minister of the Environment from the Minister of Industry, effective October 30, 2008. [Back]
2 For information on initiatives under this Strategic Outcome, please visit: http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp. [Back]
3 For more information on Weather and Environmental Prediction Services, please go to: http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/contents_e.html. [Back]
4 For more information, please go to: http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=28DD35DC-1. [Back]
5 For more detailed information on the Chemicals Management Plan, please go to: http://www.chemicalsubstanceschimiques.gc.ca/plan/index_e.html. [Back]
6 For more information, please go to: http://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/default_e.cfm. [Back]
7 For detailed information, please visit: http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/est-pre/estime.asp. [Back]
8 For information on the Contaminated Sites Action Plan, please go to: http://www.federalcontaminatedsites.gc.ca/index-eng.aspx. [Back]
9 For more information, please go to: http://www.sdinfo.gc.ca. [Back]
10 For further information on the ecoACTION plan, please go to: http://www.ec.gc.ca/ecoaction/index_e.html. [Back]
11 Information on the federal Science and Technology Strategy can be found at: http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic1.nsf/eng/h_00231.html. [Back]
12 including $88 M services to be received without charge. [Back]
13 While this indicator does not measure the direct achievement of the entire scope of the Strategic Outcome, bird population trends are considered to be reasonably valid measures of the health of the ecosystems of which they are a part. Bird population trends also are directly related to Environment Canada’s responsibilities and programs. Other indicators may be developed in 2010. [Back]
14 The target does not include those species which are naturally rare and whose populations or ranges have not declined, or species at the edge of their range, as determined from information noted in the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) Status Report. The goal of the Species at Risk program is to recover all listed species. However, it must be recognized that success in achieving this goal depends on many partners, and that success may not be measurable in the short and medium term because biological responses to recovery actions will take time to become evident. [Back]
15 Each of Environment Canada’s six priority ecosystem initiatives have set out near term objectives related to reducing the impact of harmful substances and improving environmental quality. In order to assess overall performance across the six initiatives, an aggregate index of progress made against the stated objectives of the iniatives has been developed. The reported score is on a scale of 1 to 100, where 100 means that progress toward all stated objectives and expected results met planned levels and all established criteria. [Back]
16 Verification scores are computed by all major numerical weather prediction centres around the world based on World Meteorological Organization standards and are then shared with other centres. [Back]
17 http://www.ec.gc.ca/doc/ae-ve/ve-ae_124/tdm-toc_eng.htm [Back]
18 Similar measures of client satisfaction for other services, including services to other federal departments, are under development. [Back]
19 Performance indicators for the Strategic Outcome were selected based on the estimated relative impact on Canadians and on the environment. Measurement of outcomes related to chemicals management continues to pose a challenge due to the large number of substances involved. [Back]