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Details of Transfer Payment Programs (TPP)

1. Strategic Outcome: Not applicable*

2. Program Activity: Not applicable*

3. Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions to support Environment Research & Development*

4. Start date: June 1999

5. End date: March 31, 2010*

6. Description: The purpose of this class is to stimulate, increase or improve scientific knowledge and information, to support the promotion and coordination of research and development in areas that support Environment Canada's objectives, such as wildlife, toxicology, climate change and atmospheric studies.

7. Expected results:

  • Reduced adverse human impact on the atmosphere and on air quality;
  • Understanding, and prevention or reduction of the environmental and human health threats posed by toxic substances and other substances of concern;
  • Conservation of biological diversity;
  • Understanding and reduction of human impacts on the health of ecosystems;
  • Conservation and restoration of priority ecosystems;
  • Reduced impact of weather and related hazards on health, safety and the economy; and
  • Adaptation to day-to-day and longer-term changes in atmospheric, hydrological and ice conditions.
($ millions)

12.

8. Forecast Spending
2009–10

9. Planned Spending
2010–11 *

10. Planned Spending
2011–12 *

11. Planned Spending
2012–13 *

Total grants

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Total contributions

7.2

10.6

9.0

7.5

Total other types of transfer payments

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

13. Total Transfer payments

7.2

10.6

9.0

7.5

14. Link to 3 year Transfer Payment Program Plan: http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=390AF41B-1

* Note: Environment Canada is seeking approval from Treasury Board to redesign the existing class transfer payment programs (i.e. Contributions to support Environmental Research and Development, Contributions to support Environmental and Sustainable Development Initiatives, and Contributions to support Canada's international commitments) so that they align to the department's revised 2010-2011 Program Activity Architecture (PAA). The redesign and alignment to the PAA will improve performance measurement and reporting and clarify accountability arrangements.


1. Strategic Outcome: Not applicable*

2. Program Activity: Not applicable*

3. Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions to support environmental and sustainable development initiatives*

4. Start date: June 1999

5. End date: March 31, 2010*

6. Description: The objective of this class contribution is to enable Canadian groups, associations and organizations to become actively involved in environmental and sustainable development initiatives while accommodating regional ecosystem and socio-economic considerations. Contributions enable recipients to plan, manage and complete environmental and sustainable development initiatives at the regional or ecosystem level. This funding also serves to increase awareness and understanding of environmental and sustainable development issues and to encourage environmentally responsible action.

7. Expected results:

  • Reduced adverse human impact on the atmosphere and on air quality
  • Understanding, and prevention or reduction of the environmental and human health threats posed by toxic substances of concern
  • Conservation of biological diversity
  • Understanding and reduction of human impacts on the health of ecosystems
  • Conservation and restoration of priority ecosystems
  • Reduced impact of weather and related hazards on health, safety and the economy
  • Adaptation to day-to-day and longer-term changes in atmospheric, hydrological and ice conditions
($ millions)

12.

8. Forecast Spending
2009–10

9. Planned Spending
2010–11 *

10. Planned Spending
2011–12 *

11. Planned Spending
2012–13 *

Total grants

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Total contributions

21.1

22.8

18.6

20.4

Total other types of transfer payments

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

13. Total Transfer payments

21.1

22.8

18.6

20.4

14. Link to 3 year Transfer Payment Program Plan: http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=390AF41B-1

*Note: Environment Canada is seeking approval from Treasury Board to redesign the existing class transfer payment programs (i.e. Contributions to support Environmental Research and Development, Contributions to support Environmental and Sustainable Development Initiatives, and Contributions to support Canada's international commitments) so that they align to the department's revised 2010-2011 Program Activity Architecture (PAA). The redesign and alignment to the PAA will improve performance measurement and reporting and clarify accountability arrangements.


1. Strategic Outcome: Not applicable*

2. Program Activity: Not applicable*

3. Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions to support Canada's international commitments*

4. Start date: June 1999

5. End date: March 31, 2010*

6. Description: The objectives of this class contribution are to ensure that Canadian interests are represented in international environmental fora; to sustain and enhance Canada's participation in international multilateral and bilateral environmental organizations, agreements and protocols; to facilitate developing countries' participation in global environmental and sustainable development issues; and to build, strengthen and maintain Canada's linkages with the international community on global environmental and sustainable development issues.

7. Expected results:

  • Reduced adverse human impacts on the atmosphere and on air quality;
  • Understanding, reduction or prevention of the environmental and human health threats posed by toxic substances and other substances of concern;
  • Conservation of biological diversity;
  • Understanding and reduction of human impacts on the health of ecosystems;
  • Conservation and restoration of priority ecosystems;
  • Reduced impact of weather and related hazards on health, safety and the economy; and
  • Adaptation to day-to-day and longer-term changes in atmospheric, hydrological and ice conditions.
($ millions)

12.

8. Forecast Spending
2009-10

9. Planned Spending
2010-11 *

10. Planned Spending
2011-12 *

11. Planned Spending
2012-13 *

Total grants

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Total contributions

8.9

8.9

3.6

3.6

Total other types of transfer payments

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

13. Total Transfer payments

8.9

8.9

3.6

3.6

14. Link to 3 year Transfer Payment Program Plan: http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=390AF41B-1

*Note: Environment Canada is seeking approval from Treasury Board to redesign the existing class transfer payment programs (i.e. Contributions to support Environmental Research and Development, Contributions to support Environmental and Sustainable Development Initiatives, and Contributions to support Canada's international commitments) so that they align to the department's revised 2010-2011 Program Activity Architecture (PAA). The redesign and alignment to the PAA will improve performance measurement and reporting and clarify accountability arrangements.


1. Strategic Outcome: 1. Canada's natural environment is conserved and restored for present and future generations

2. Program Activity: 1.1 Biodiversity - Wildlife and Habitat

3. Name of Transfer Payment Program: Habitat Stewardship Program for Species at Risk (HSP)

4. Start date: August 20, 2000

5. End date: Ongoing (Terms and Conditions have been continued indefinitely under the new Transfer Payment Policy of TBS; Current approval of sunsetting resources portion ends in 2011-2012)

6. Description:

  • The overall goal of the Habitat Stewardship Program (HSP) is to contribute to the recovery of endangered, threatened, and other species of concern, and to prevent other species from becoming a conservation concern, by engaging Canadians in conservation actions to benefit wildlife
  • Within this overall goal, the HSP has worked with its stakeholders to identify three objectives:
    • To support habitat projects that benefit species at risk;
    • To enable Canadians to become actively and concretely involved in stewardship projects for species at risk that will result in tangible, measurable environmental benefits; and
    • To improve the scientific, sociological, and economic understanding of the role stewardship has as a conservation tool.
  • The HSP enables non-government organizations, landowners, the private sector, Aboriginal organizations, educational institutions, community groups, and other levels of government to plan, manage and complete projects that will achieve the program goal.

7. Expected results:

In support of these main objectives, the expected results of approved HSP projects are:

  1. Important habitat for species at risk recovery is secured or otherwise protected;
  2. Important habitat for species at risk recovery is improved (restored/enhanced) and/or managed to meet their recovery needs;
  3. Threats to individual species at risk, and/or their habitat, caused by human activities are stopped, removed and/or mitigated; and
  4. Project benefits are sustained over time by engaging Canadians (landowners, resource users, volunteers) to participate directly in activities that support the recovery of species at risk.

The activities undertaken to achieve these results are largely driven by species at risk recovery strategies and action plans, or through consultation with recovery experts where these are not yet in place.

($ millions)

12.

8. Forecast Spending
2009–10

9. Planned Spending
2010–11

10. Planned Spending
2011–12

11. Planned Spending
2012–13

Total grants

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Total contributions

13.0

13.0

13.0

9.0

Total other types of transfer payments

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

13. Total Transfer payments

13.0

13.0

13.0

9.0

14. Link to 3 year Transfer Payment Program Plan: http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=390AF41B-1


1. Strategic Outcome: 1. Canada's natural environment is conserved and restored for present and future generations

2. Program Activity: 1.3 Sustainable Ecosystems

3. Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contribution to EcoAction 2000 Community Funding Initiative (voted)

4. Start date: 1998

5. End date: March 31, 2009, Minister of Environment approved extension for one year to March 31, 2010. The Minister of Environment has approved renewal of the program's terms and conditions with minor modifications, as per authorities granted under the new Transfer Payment Policy (2008).

6. Description: Provide financial support to non-profit organizations to undertake environmental projects that yield positive, measurable results and increase capacity to take action and environmental awareness at the community level.

7. Expected results:

  • Support for and promotion of environmental improvements through funding to community groups undertaking action, outreach and/or capacity building activities that address the Government of Canada and Environment Canada priorities of climate change, nature, clean water and clean air.
  • Leveraging of monetary and voluntary in-kind support for environmental activities that have measurable environmental benefits.
  • Provide the tools Canadians need as individuals and members of communities to act on their knowledge and values in support of sustainable development.
  • The successful completion of community-based projects that support action, capacity building and outreach on priority environmental issues at the local and regional levels.
($ millions)

12.

8. Forecast Spending
2009–10

9. Planned Spending
2010–11

10. Planned Spending
2011–12

11. Planned Spending
2012–13

Total grants

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Total contributions

4.5

5.1

5.1

5.1

Total other types of transfer payments

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

13. Total Transfer payments

4.5

5.1

5.1

5.1

14. Link to 3 year Transfer Payment Program Plan: http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=390AF41B-1

Approved decision following the last evaluation: Continuation of the program.


1. Strategic Outcome: 3. Threats to Canadians and their environment from pollution are minimized.

2. Program Activity: 3.2 Climate Change and Clean Air

3. Name of Transfer Payment Program: Grant to the Foundation for Sustainable Development Technology of Canada (SDTC) -- NextGen Biofuels Fund (NGBF)

4. Start date: March 2001

5. End date: September 2027

6. Description: Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada provide oversight of Sustainable Development Technology Canada, also referred to as the Foundation, which administers the NGBF on behalf of the Government of Canada.

Under the NGBF, the Foundation provides grants with conditional repayment terms to eligible recipients for the establishment of first-of-kind large demonstration-scale facilities producing next-generation renewable fuels. These facilities must involve both non-conventional technologies and non-traditional feedstocks and be built in Canada, using representative Canadian feedstock. Selection is based on the technology's (rather than the plant's) potential for environmental and other (socio-economic) benefits. While the spending listed below captures the funds transferred from Environment Canada to the Foundation, the actual planned disbursements to NGBF projects in 2010-11 total $87.1 million.

7. Expected results: Net economic benefits from reduced consumption of hydrocarbon-based fuels and products, cleaner production processes, private returns to investors and owners.

($ millions)

12.

8. Forecast Spending
2009–10

9. Planned Spending
2010–11

10. Planned Spending
2011–12

11. Planned Spending
2012–13

Notes:

* $12.5 million was reprofiled from 2009-10 to 2010-11

** Please see also Up-Front Multi-Year Funding for Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC)

*** This represents EC's share of half of the amount to be transferred to SDTC's NGBF, with the other half coming from Natural Resources Canada

Total grants**

0.0*

37.5*

25.0

25.0

Total contributions

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Total other types of transfer payments

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

13. Total Transfer payments***

0.0*

37.5*

25.0

25.0

14. Link to 3 year Transfer Payment Program Plan: http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=390AF41B-1


1. Strategic Outcome: 1. Canada's natural environment is conserved and restored for present and future generations

2. Program Activity: 1.3 Sustainable Ecosystems

3. Name of Transfer Payment Program: Freshwater Program

4. Start date: April 1, 2008

5. End date: March 31, 2013

6. Description: The objective of this class contribution is to enable the clean-up of contaminated sediment in targeted areas of concern in the Great Lakes, and advance clean-up efforts to restore Lake Winnipeg and Lake Simcoe.

Transfer payments made under the Program will be in the form of contributions to a broad range of entities to support the remediation of contaminated sediment in Great Lakes Areas of Concern and/or rehabilitation measures that reduce nutrient loads to Lakes Winnipeg and Simcoe and their tributaries including: domestic or international non-profit organizations, Provincial and Municipal Governments, regional conservation authorities, Canadian individuals, businesses, post-secondary institutions, Indian Bands, and Aboriginal peoples' organizations and associations.

7. Expected results: Contribution funding under the Program will target the following results:

  • Implement contaminated sediment management plans in Areas of Concern in the Great Lakes (Detroit River, St. Mary's River, Thunder Bay, St. Clair River, Niagara River, and Bay of Quinte) to reduce the release and impact of contaminants on the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem;
  • Support stewardship projects that will reduce pollutants, particularly nutrients loads, in priority areas in the Lake Winnipeg Basin;
  • Clean up of Lake Simcoe by supporting projects to reduce excessive quantities of phosphorus and other nutrients in priority areas in the Lake Simcoe Basin and to make progress on the rehabilitation of priority habitat to restore the health of the aquatic ecosystem and coldwater fishery in Lake Simcoe; and

Planned evaluations: A third-party program evaluation will be conducted for the Lake Winnipeg and Lake Simcoe initiatives (2010-2011) and for the Great Lakes initiative (2013-2014).

($ millions)

12.

8. Forecast Spending
2009–10

9. Planned Spending
2010–11

10. Planned Spending
2011–12

11. Planned Spending
2012–13

Total grants

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Total contributions

7.1

8.4

7.1

1.8

Total other types of transfer payments

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

13. Total Transfer payments

7.1

8.4

7.1

1.8

14. Link to 3 year Transfer Payment Program Plan: http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=390AF41B-1


  1. Strategic Outcome: 3. Threats to Canadians and their environment from pollution are minimized
  2. Program Activity: 3.2 Climate Change and Clean Air
  3. Name of Transfer Payment Program: National Vehicle Scrappage Program
  4. Start date: April 1, 2007
  5. End date: March 31, 2011
  6. Description: The National Vehicle Scrappage Program is primarily a contribution program that provides funding to a national not-for-profit organization for program delivery and incentives to encourage Canadians to retire their old, high-polluting personal vehicles.
  7. Expected results:
    • 50,000 vehicles of model year 1995 and earlier retired every year.
    • Program continues to operate in all provinces
    • Adherence to Code of Practice for responsible recycling of vehicles retired through the program verified through on-site audits of participating recyclers
($ millions)
12. 8. Forecast Spending 2009–10 9. Planned Spending 2010–11 10. Planned Spending 2011–12 11. Planned Spending 2012–13
Total grants 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total contributions 27.9 41.2 0.0 0.0
Total other types of transfer payments 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
13. Total Transfer payments 27.9 41.2 0.0 0.0

14. Link to 3 year Transfer Payment Program Plan: http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=390AF41B-1