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Details of Transfer Payment Programs (TPP)

Strategic Outcome
The Canadian Marketplace is Efficient and Competitive

International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Switzerland

Start Date: April 1, 2007		End Date:    December 31, 2011
Description: Canada is a signatory to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) treaty agreement negotiated every four years at a plenipotentiary conference, in accordance with its treaty obligations of the ITU Constitution and Convention. Canada’s membership, contribution and standing in the ITU, and its involvement in related events, allow us to achieve results internationally across a broad range of issues affecting radiocommunications, standardization and telecommunications development. Canada’s contribution to the ITU is commensurate with its international standing and commitment to the United Nations and UN specialized agencies.
Expected Results: Secure Canada’s interests in the international regulation of the radio frequency spectrum and in international telecommunications regulation to protect Canadian interests in the access to the spectrum and satellite orbit resource. This will contribute to the facilitation of communications across Canada; monitoring and protecting Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic and other remote areas through modern digital technologies; as well as for scientific, environmental, weather-related, transportation, public safety national and defence matters. Provide leadership and focus in promoting the competitiveness of the Canadian telecommunications industry by working closely with Canadian stakeholders to obtain, inter alia, spectrum allocations at global ITU conferences, and to develop global standards that advance their product lines, technologies, services and R&D activities. Work with other countries to harmonize policy and regulatory frameworks, promote interconnection and interoperability of global telecommunication networks and services, and to facilitate access to key markets for Canadian manufacturers and service providers. Build effective consultation and information dissemination processes with Canada’s key trading partners.
Program Activity:   Marketplace Frameworks and Regulations for Spectrum, Telecommunications and the Online Economy
($ millions)	Forecast Spending 2008–2009	Planned Spending 2009–2010	Planned Spending 2010–2011	Planned Spending 2011–2012
Total Grants	6.8	6.8	6.8	6.8
Total Program Activity:	6.8	6.8	6.8	6.8
Planned Evaluations and Audits: Not applicable

Strategic Outcome
Science and Technology, Knowledge, and Innovation are Effective Drivers of a Strong Canadian Economy

Bombardier CSeries Program

Start Date: September 2008		End Date:    October 2015
Description: In July 2008, the government announced its intention to contribute $350 million to Bombardier Aerospace for research and development of aircraft technologies related to the CSeries, a new 110–130-seat family of commercial aircraft. The research and development projects will support the Canadian aerospace industry's goal of developing new technologies for the next generation of more fuel-efficient and safe commercial aircraft. The contribution is being provided by Industry Canada and is conditionally repayable.
Expected Results: The development of new aerospace technologies that will lead to more fuel-efficient and safe aircraft.
Program Activity:    Knowledge Advantage in Targeted Canadian Industries
($ millions)	Forecast Spending 2008–2009	Planned Spending 2009–2010	Planned Spending 2010–2011	Planned Spending 2011–2012
Total Contributions	0.0	52.9	66.9	70.4
Total Program Activity:	0.0	52.9	66.9	70.4
Planned Evaluations and Audits:

 

Automotive Innovation Fund

Start Date: May 29, 2008		End Date:    March 31, 2013
Description: The Automotive Innovation Fund supports strategic, large-scale research and development projects to develop innovative, greener and more fuel-efficient vehicles.
Expected Results: An enhanced capacity for automotive research and development in order to position Canada’s automotive industry to be able to meet the demands for cars of the future.
Program Activity:   Knowledge Advantage in Targeted Canadian Industries
($ millions)	Forecast Spending 2008–2009	Planned Spending 2009–2010	Planned Spending 2010–2011	Planned Spending 2011–2012
Total Contributions	9.0	68.8	68.6	68.7
Total Program Activity:	9.0	68.8	68.6	68.7
Planned Evaluations and Audits: Recipient audits will be scheduled upon completion of each project. A summative evaluation is planned for fiscal year 2012–2013.

 

Industrial Technologies Office — Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative

Start Date:             April 2, 2007		End Date:    March 31, 2012
Description: This program provides repayable contributions to the aerospace and defence (A&D) sector to support strategic industrial research and pre-competitive development projects. The program helps to encourage the development of innovative products and services; enhance the competitiveness of Canadian A&D firms; and foster collaboration between research institutes, universities, colleges, and the private sector.
Expected Results: Increased private sector investment in innovative and competitive aerospace, defence, space and security (A&D) firms. Collaborative partnerships in research and development between aerospace, defence, space and security industries and research institutes, universities, colleges and/or non-profit organizations.
Program Activity:  Industrial Technologies Office — Special Operating Agency
($ millions)	Forecast Spending 2008–2009	Planned Spending 2009–2010	Planned Spending 2010–2011	Planned Spending 2011–2012
Total Contributions	-	51.1	43.0	72.3
Total Program Activity: Note: Current budget does not include additional funding available for SADI through its annual access to repayments and re-profiling authorities.	-	51.1	43.0	72.3
Planned Evaluations and Audits: Internal audit (planned for 2008–2009) Implementation review (start of 2008–2009) Formative evaluation — mid-term (end of 2009–2010) Summative evaluation — end of term (Dec. 31, 2011)

 

Industrial Technologies Office – Program for Strategic Industrial Projects

Start Date:  October 3, 2005		End Date:    March 31, 2011
Description: This program provides the mechanism to fund larger strategic projects within the automotive sector (in whole or in part) from the fiscal framework. Strategic investments in industrial research, pre-competitive development and technology adaptation and adoption within the automotive sector will help to increase economic growth within Canada and improve sustainable industrial developments.
Expected Results:  Increased private sector investment in research and development activities in the automotive industry.
Program Activity:  Industrial Technologies Office — Special Operating Agency
($ millions)	Forecast Spending 2008–2009	Planned Spending 2009–2010	Planned Spending 2010–2011	Planned Spending 2011–2012
Total Contributions	41.5	9.8	-	-
Total Program Activity:	41.5	9.8	-	-
Planned Evaluations and Audits: Evaluation (by December 31, 2010)

 

Industrial Technologies Office — Technology Partnerships Canada

Start Date:  March 11, 1996		End Date:    December 31, 2006
Description: This program provides funding to support strategic research and development, and demonstration projects in the aerospace and defence, environment, and enabling technologies sectors to produce economic, social and environmental benefits for Canadians. The terms and conditions of the program expired on December 31, 2006; however, the program continues to manage existing contribution agreements for previously contracted projects.
Expected Results:  Increased private sector investment in research and development activities in the aerospace, defence, environmental and enabling technology industries.
Program Activity:  Industrial Technologies Office — Special Operating Agency
($ millions)	Forecast Spending 2008–2009	Planned Spending 2009–2010	Planned Spending 2010–2011	Planned Spending 2011–2012
Total Contributions	325.3	165.5	72.0	38.4
Total Program Activity:	325.3	165.5	72.0	38.4
Planned Evaluations and Audits: Summative evaluation (by December 31, 2011)

Strategic Outcome
Competitive Businesses are Drivers of Sustainable Wealth Creation

Canada Small Business Financing Program

Start Date: 1961		End Date:    Ongoing
Description: The Canada Small Business Financing Program (CSBF) is a key federal financing program for small business. It helps small and medium-sized business get access to adequate financing. It also helps fill a gap in the range of financing instruments available to these small businesses, which otherwise have difficulty qualifying for financing that meets their needs.
Expected Results: Facilitate access to more than $1 billion in debt financing Increase awareness of CSBF among lenders, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and intermediaries Continuous communication with financial institutions to improve program delivery
Program Activity:   Entrepreneurial Economy
($ millions)	Forecast Spending 2008–2009	Planned Spending 2009–2010	Planned Spending 2010–2011	Planned Spending 2011–2012
Total Contributions	81.7	83.9	81.5	81.5
Total Program Activity:	81.7	83.9	81.5	81.5
Planned Evaluations and Audits: An evaluation is planned for 2009–2010

 

Structured Financing Facility

Start Date: September 13, 2001		End Date:    March 31, 2011
Description: This program provides financing support to qualifying domestic and foreign ship owners to build or refit vessels in Canada, in order to stimulate economic activities in the Canadian shipbuilding and industrial marine industry and to help position the industry to meet government procurement requirements.
Expected Results: Investments in support of Canadian shipbuilding industry to help develop necessary critical infrastructure to position the industry for future procurement efforts.
Program Activity:    Global Reach and Agility in Targeted Canadian Industries
($ millions)	Forecast Spending 2008–2009	Planned Spending 2009–2010	Planned Spending 2010–2011	Planned Spending 2011–2012
Total Contributions	18.3	18.1	18.1	-
Total Program Activity:	18.3	18.1	18.1	-
Planned Evaluations and Audits: The program is currently undergoing an implementation review by the Audit and Evaluation Branch.

 

Canadian Apparel and Textile Industries Program

Start Date: January 1, 2003		End Date:    March 31, 2010
Description: The objective of the Canadian Apparel and Textile Industries Program (CATIP) is to assist the Canadian apparel and textile industries with initiatives that will help to maximize productivity, identify high-value niche markets, improve e-commerce capabilities, enhance global marketing and branding strategies, and facilitate access to capital. The program has a firm component (private sector applicants) and a national initiatives component (non-profit industry associations that represent either the apparel or textile sectors on a national scale). Since 2004, the program has also had a component, the Canadian Textiles Program (CANtex), targeted at textile producers. CANtex supports projects to improve production efficiency or to re-orient at least a portion of current textile production from lesser value-added products to higher value-added textile products targeted at growth niche markets.
Expected Results: Firms in the service and consumer products industries are enabled (i.e., enabled to invest or offer attractive sales terms)
Program Activity:    Global Reach and Agility in Targeted Canadian Industries
($ millions)	Forecast Spending 2008–2009	Planned Spending 2009–2010	Planned Spending 2010–2011	Planned Spending 2011–2012
Total Contributions	2.2	2.2*	-	-
Total Program Activity:	2.2	2.2*	-	-
Planned Evaluations and Audits: A recipient audit is scheduled for 2009–2010. A summative evaluation is scheduled for 2009–2010.

• Figures do not include $2.3 million to be transferred from the Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions which is included in the 2009–2010 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). Final approval pending.

FedNor — Community Futures Program

Start Date: 1986		End Date:    October 2, 2010
Description: The Community Futures (CF) Program supports community economic development and builds the capacity of non-metropolitan communities to realize their full sustainable potential. Funding is made available through transfer payments that provide contributions to designated CF organizations in support of repayable business financing through local investment funds, strategic community planning and socio-economic development, business services, and community-based projects and special initiatives.
Expected Results: Communities and businesses in rural Ontario are sustainable and competitive.
Program Activity:    Community, Economic and Regional Development
($ millions)	Forecast Spending 2008–2009	Planned Spending 2009–2010	Planned Spending 2010–2011	Planned Spending 2011–2012
Total Contributions	24.6	21.8	18.1	18.1
Total Program Activity:	24.6	21.8	18.1	18.1
Planned Evaluations and Audits: A summative evaluation of the Ontario CF Program is scheduled to be completed by June 2008. Results from this evaluation will roll into the national CF Program evaluation to be completed by March 2009.

 

FedNor — Northern Ontario Development Program

Start Date: April 1, 2006		End Date:    June 30, 2011
Description: The Northern Ontario Development Program promotes economic development and diversification in Northern Ontario. It builds upon the assets and strengths of communities to maximize the sustainable potential of Northern Ontario to succeed in the knowledge-based economy. Funding through transfer payments provides contributions to not-for-profit organizations and small and medium-sized enterprises in six areas: information and communications technology, innovation, community economic development, business financing support, trade and tourism and human capital.
Expected Results: Communities and businesses in Northern Ontario are sustainable and competitive
Program Activity:    Community, Economic and Regional Development
($ millions)	Forecast Spending 2008–2009	Planned Spending 2009–2010	Planned Spending 2010–2011	Planned Spending 2011–2012
Total Contributions	50.4	37.8	36.8	36.5
Total Program Activity:	50.4	37.8	36.8	36.5
Planned Evaluations and Audits: A formative evaluation is scheduled to be completed by March 31, 2008, and a summative evaluation is scheduled to be completed by March 31, 2011.

 

FedNor — Eastern Ontario Development Program

Start Date: October 12, 2004		End Date:    March 31, 2009
Description: The Eastern Ontario Development Program promotes socio-economic development in Eastern Ontario that leads to business and job opportunities, sustainable self-reliant communities, and a competitive and diversified regional economy. Delivered through Community Futures Development Corporations in Eastern Ontario, the program makes funding available through transfer payments to provide contributions in five areas: business and community development, access to capital, skills development, retention and attraction of youth, and technological enhancement.
Expected Results: Communities and businesses in rural Eastern Ontario are sustainable and competitive.
Program Activity:    Community, Economic and Regional Development
($ millions)	Forecast Spending 2008–2009	Planned Spending 2009–2010	Planned Spending 2010–2011	Planned Spending 2011–2012
Total Contributions	9.4	9.6	-	-
Total Program Activity:	9.4	9.6	-	-
Planned Evaluations and Audits: There are no planned evaluations or audits for this program.

 

Computers For Schools

Start Date: 1993		End Date:    March 31, 2013
Description: Computers and the Internet have emerged as critical tools for information processing and sharing. The work and life of Canadians is increasingly undertaken in the context of a global, knowledge-based economy, which demands a high level of skill in the area of information and communications technologies (ICTs). In order to develop proficiency in ICT skills, access to its tools, especially computers, has become essential for Canadians. Youth in particular require access to computers in K–12 school settings, where the demand for computers often exceeds the available supply. By delivering refurbished computers, Computers for Schools helps fill the gap in demand and helps ensure that more Canadians may better avail themselves of the tools necessary to live and work successfully in the knowledge economy.
Expected Results: Distribution of 85,000 refurbished computers to schools, libraries and not-for-profit organizations at low or no cost.
Program Activity:    Community, Economic and Regional Development
($ millions)	Forecast Spending 2008–2009	Planned Spending 2009–2010	Planned Spending 2010–2011	Planned Spending 2011–2012
Total Contributions	3.4	3.4	3.4	3.4
Total Program Activity:	3.4	3.4	3.4	3.4
Planned Evaluations and Audits: The evaluation plan consists of an implementation review within the first year of new funding (2008–2009) to be completed by June 30, 2009. A summative evaluation is also to be completed by August 31, 2012, in concert with ongoing program monitoring.

 

Community Access Program (CAP)

Start Date: October 1994		End Date:    March 31, 2008*
Description: The Community Access Program (CAP) was established under the Government's Connecting Canadians initiative to provide affordable access to the Internet and the services and tools it provides. The program's goal was to have all Canadians and communities participate fully in the knowledge-based economy. CAP sites are located in schools, libraries, community centres and friendship centres, and they operate through partnerships with provincial/territorial governments and non-profit organizations. CAP also has a complementary youth component, the CAP Youth Initiative, which is funded through Human Resources and Social Development Canada’s (HRSDC) Youth Employment Strategy (YES). For more information regarding YES, please see the Horizontal Initiatives table in HRSDC's Report on Plans and Priorities.
Expected Results: CAP provides Internet access to Canadians who are most affected by the digital divide, such as individuals with low incomes, Aboriginals, rural residents, francophones, Canadians with limited education, recent immigrants and people with disabilities.
Program Activity:    Community, Economic and Regional Development
($ millions)	Forecast Spending 2008–2009	Planned Spending 2009–2010	Planned Spending 2010–2011	Planned Spending 2011–2012
Total Contributions	17.7	-	-	-
Total Program Activity:	17.7	-	-	-
Planned Evaluations and Audits:

• CAP was to end on March 31, 2007. The program received Cabinet approval to operate for 2007–2008 at reduced levels. As in 2006–2007, Industry Canada internally re-allocated funding necessary for the successful delivery of a national program. The Government is presently reviewing the future of CAP and a decision about future spending is forthcoming.

New Architecture for Infrastructure Support — Building Canada Fund
The Ontario Potable Water Program (OPWP)

Start Date: December 13, 2007		End Date: March 31, 2011
Description: OPWP provides financial assistance in the form of grants to specific small and rural Ontario municipalities that incurred increased costs in the development of their Canada-Ontario Infrastructure Program drinking water projects.
Expected Results: Promotion of regional economic development in specific small and rural Ontario municipalities.
Program Activity: Community, Economic and Regional Development
($ millions)	Forecast Spending 2008–2009	Planned Spending 2009–2010	Planned Spending 2010–2011	Planned Spending 2011–2012
Total Grants	58.2	34.5	0.0	0.0
Total Program Activity:	58.2	34.5	0.0	0.0
Planned Evaluations and Audits: There are no planned evaluations or audits for this program.

 

Brantford Greenwich–Mohawk Remediation Project

Start Date: May 8, 2008		End Date: March 31, 2013
Description: The project is a Brownfield remediation. The site is located between Mohawk and Greenwich Streets with a total area of 50 acres. Once remediated, the land will be redeveloped according to a community design plan that includes residential development with some light commercial and a heritage/cultural component.
Expected Results: To promote regional economic development in specific small and rural Ontario municipalities.
Program Activity:   Community, Economic and Regional Development
($ millions)	Forecast Spending 2008–2009	Planned Spending 2009–2010	Planned Spending 2010–2011	Planned Spending 2011–2012
Total Grants	0.4	8.1	2.3	1.2
Total Program Activity:	0.4	8.1	2.3	1.2
Planned Evaluations and Audits: A Results-based Management and Accountability Framework (RMAF) and Risk-based Audit Framework (RBAF) are not necessary for this grant.

 

Canada-Ontario Infrastructure Program (COIP)

Start Date: October 25, 2000		End Date: March 31, 2009
Description: COIP uses a competitive process to provide funding assistance to municipalities for the construction, renewal, expansion or material enhancement of infrastructure that will contribute to improving the quality of life for Ontarians and to building the foundation for sustained, long-term economic growth in the 21st century.
Expected Results: To promote regional economic development in specific small and rural Ontario municipalities.
Program Activity:   Community, Economic and Regional Development
($ millions)	Forecast Spending 2008–2009	Planned Spending 2009–2010	Planned Spending 2010–2011	Planned Spending 2011–2012
Total Grants	23.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
Total Program Activity:	23.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
Planned Evaluations and Audits: A program audit and project audits will be conducted for Canada-Ontario Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund (COMRIF).  Approximately 50 project audits will be conducted for COIP.

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