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Section III: Supplementary Information

3.1 Financial Tables

The following tables are located on the Treasury Board Secretariat web site:

• Internal Audits
• Evaluations
• Summary of Capital Spending by Program Activity
• Green Procurement
• Sources of Respendable and Non-Respendable Revenue
• Horizontal Initiatives

Endnotes

• ¹ Strategic outcome: Long-term and enduring benefit to Canadians that stems from the Agency’s mission and vision. It represents the difference the Agency intends to make for Canadians.
• ² Zoonotic: Zoonotic diseases are diseases transmissible from animals to humans
• ³ The CFIA’s responsibilities flowing from 13 federal statutes and 42 sets of regulations comprise the Agency’s regulatory framework. Regulatory tools include, among others, guidelines, brochures, forms, manuals and technological processes such as e-certification.
• ⁴ Full Time Equivalent (FTE): A measure of human resource consumption. It calculates the number of assigned hours of work over the total hours of regularly scheduled work (37.5 hours per week over 12 months). For example, an employee who works    half-time (18.75 hours per week) over a 12 month period would generate a 0.5 FTE.
• ⁵ Performance Indicator: The CFIA uses performance indicators to measure the performance of the Agency or a regulated party against an expected result.
• ⁶ Target: a target represents the desired result/value or level of compliance.
• ⁷ The planned spending figures for each program activity, including Internal Services planned spending figures found in section 2.4.1, comprise the financial resources found in section 1.5.1.
• ⁸ The amount reflects the Agency’s best estimates; the official amounts will be published in 2008-09 Public Accounts. The 2008-09 Forecast Spending is greater than the 2009-10 Planned Spending due to incremental authorities received this year but not yet approved for future years. These authorities include items such as the results of collective bargaining, adjustments for severance and parental benefits, carry forward of resources from the previous fiscal year as well as initiatives approved after Main Estimates for which funding was provided.
• ⁹ Food safety and nutrition risks : Food safety and nutrition risk management programming works with federal, provincial and municipal partners and organizations to improve the overall health of Canadians. A primary contribution to this effort is minimizing and managing risks and deliberate threats to food and food production systems. Consumers are also provided with appropriate information on which to base safe and nutritious food choices. The Agency achieves this by developing and delivering programs designed to verify that food safety and nutrition information is accurate. Programs and services are developed and delivered to protect Canadians from preventable food safety hazards by managing food safety emergencies effectively and supporting public awareness of, and the contribution to, food safety in imported and domestic food.
• ¹⁰ Zoonotic risks: Zoonotic risks programs work with federal and provincial partners and organizations to improve the overall health of Canadians. A primary contribution to this effort is protecting Canadians from the spread of diseases transmissible, or potentially transmissible, from animal populations to humans. Zoonotic risks are managed and minimized through the development and delivery of programs and services focused on the animal health aspect and designed to help prevent and control the spread of zoonotic diseases, support public awareness, conduct inspections, and monitor and test.
• ¹¹ This indicator reflects only foreign animal diseases. The CFIA also conducts a wide variety of activities with regard to animal diseases already established in Canada. Performance measures to illustrate performance in this regard will be developed and will be reported on in future years.
• ¹² Major deviations include (1) Feed Ban: evidence of cross-contamination of ruminant feed with prohibited material (PM), required written procedures related to BSE Feed Ban not available, required records related to BSE Feed Ban not available, and PM statement missing from labels for feed containing PM; and (2) Feeds Regulations: evidence of cross-contamination with medications, required records related to Feed Regulations not available, and type A label violations identified.
• ¹³ A target will be set over the course of the year and will be reflected in the Agency’s corresponding Performance Report.
• ¹⁴ Animal Health Risks and Production Systems : Protection of the animal resource base is integral to the Canadian food supply and critical to the well-being of all Canadians. The animal heath risks and production systems programming plays an important role in minimizing and managing risk by protecting Canada's animals (including livestock and aquatics) from regulated disease, including deliberate threats to the resource base. Programs and services are developed and delivered to protect Canadian animal resources, feeds and animal products, as well as to manage animal disease emergencies effectively. Public confidence in animals, production systems, animal products and their by-products is significantly enhanced by Canada's reputation for effectively mitigating the risk of serious diseases.
• ¹⁵ Plant Health Risks and Production Systems : Protection of the plant resource base is integral to the Canadian food supply and critical to the well-being of all Canadians. Plant health risks and production systems programming plays an important role in minimizing and managing risk by protecting Canada's plant resource base (crops and forests) from regulated pests and diseases, including deliberate threats to the resource base, and regulation of agricultural products. Programs and services are developed and delivered to protect Canadian plant resources, fertilizers and plant products. Public confidence in plants, production systems and plant products is significantly enhanced by Canada's reputation for effectively mitigating the risk of serious pests and diseases.
• ¹⁶ Biodiversity Protection : Protection of Canada's biodiversity is critical to the sustainability of Canada's environment. Biodiversity protection programming plays an important role in minimizing and managing risks to Canada's environment by developing and delivering programs and risk mitigation strategies to protect Canada's biodiversity from the spread of invasive species and other pests due to environmental change, and from novel agricultural products, including products of emerging technologies. Programs are developed and delivered to assess and manage environmental safety for the introduction of agricultural products. Through these programs, public confidence in Canada's ability to assess and manage the risks associated with the introduction of new species and/or new agricultural products is maintained and significantly enhanced.
• ¹⁷ There are instances where a regulatory initiative would be published in the Canada Gazette, Part II, without being prepublished in the Canada Gazette, Part I.
• ¹⁸ Based on highest risk, the Agency conducts targeted inspections of products, labels and advertisements to find those that are more likely to be in non-compliance. As a result, the target of 70 per cent is deemed appropriate.
• ¹⁹ Integrated Regulatory Frameworks : Integrated regulatory frameworks programming enables economic prosperity of Canadians through its contribution to the development and effective implementation of national and international regulatory frameworks for food, animals and plants, and their products that are transparent, science-based, rules-based and mutually reinforcing. By contributing to the development of these frameworks, the ability of different jurisdictions to protect against sanitary and phytosanitary risks and to pursue other legitimate objectives in a manner that is consistent with a fair and competitive market economy is reinforced.
• ²⁰ Domestic and International Market Access : Domestic and international market access programming contributes to securing the conditions for an innovative and prosperous economy. It does so primarily by enabling products to enter markets through the implementation and enforcement of an effective and efficient regulatory system that is accessible, understandable and responsive to domestic and international market requirements. Information provided to consumers by producers is verified as truthful and not misleading and Canadian products are verified as meeting high-quality and safety standards.
• ²¹ Type is defined as follows: previously committed—committed to in the first or second fiscal year prior to the subject year of the report; and ongoing—committed to at least three fiscal years prior to the subject year of the report.
• ²² The Main Estimates for 2009-10 are available on the Treasury Board Secretariat internet site at http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/est-pre/estimE.asp
• ²³ The jurisdiction for inspection of non-federally registered establishments is shared with provincial/territorial governments. These establishments are managed using a risk-based management model, where the CFIA prioritizes its compliance activities in areas of high risk, taking enforcement actions in areas of low compliance and gathering intelligence related to contraventions.
• ²⁴ Acceptable limits are currently defined in terms of established performance indicators. The CFIA is continuing an extensive exercise to review all of its indicators for fairness, reliability and validating that they comprehensively capture the extent to which the Agency has achieved its expected results. Phase I will result in the finalization of a new PAA and Performance Measurement Framework, scheduled for completion in the spring of 2009.
• ²⁵ Please see sections 1.5.1 and 1.8.1 for explanation on decrease of FTEs.
• ²⁶ Numbers include both contributions to Employee Benefit Plan and PWGSC Accomodation charges.

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