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Strategic Outcome: The Government

Program Activity: Governance and Institutions of Government

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Transfer payments for Governance and Institutions of Government

Start date: N/A

End date: ongoing

Description: The efforts related to this program activity assist in achieving social and economic vibrancy in First Nation and Inuit communities. It supports individual community and aggregate based governments and governance systems by assisting them establishing effective governance and associated capacities, processes and mechanisms (such as by-law making authority, election processes). Particularly, support is provided to First Nation and Inuit governments as well as their respective institutions of government. These institutions include but are not limited to those that provide services in the areas of governance, land claim organizations and professional associations.

Expected results:

• Governance Capacity in First Nations communities and institutions.
• Stable First Nation governments.

($ millions)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	319.7	407.5	437.2	438.7
Total contributions	319.1	239.1	236.0	236.0
Total Transfer payments	638.8	646.7	673.1	674.7

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: INAC's Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs

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Strategic Outcome: The Government

Program Activity: Co-operative Relationships

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Transfer payments for Co-operative Relationships

Start date: N/A

End date: ongoing

Description: This program activity addresses constitutional and historic obligations, reduce conflict through negotiation and enable all parties to work together toward reconciliation. Co-operative Relationships are about mutual respect. They establish an atmosphere of trust, accountability and respectful partnerships among governments, First Nations and Inuit. This atmosphere, in turn, supports social, economic and cultural growth in First Nation and Inuit communities and increases their self-reliance. Co-operative Relationships are the basis for mutually reached resolution of claims and other rights issues. Through Co-operative Relationships, land claims and self-government agreements are negotiated and implemented, treaty relations between the Crown and First Nations are clarified and supported, certainty is obtained over the ownership, use, and management of land and resources, and Inuit are effectively represented in federal policy decisions.

Expected results:

• Relationships between parties based on trust, respect, understanding, shared responsibilities, accountability, rights and dialogue.
• Strengthened regional partnerships and improved information base.

($ millions)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	—	—	—	—
Total contributions	95.2	83.0	82.8	81.7
Total Transfer payments	95.2	83.0	82.8	81.7

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: INAC's Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs

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Strategic Outcome: The Government

Program Activity: Claims Settlements

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Transfer payments for Claims Settlements

Start date: N/A

End date: ongoing

Description: This program activity consists in providing approved payments to First Nations for the settlement of special, specific and comprehensive claims which were successfully concluded through a negotiation process.

Expected results:

• Canada honours its negotiated obligations.

Program Activity:
($ millions)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	640.4	464.1	471.1	448.3
Total contributions	12.6	—	—	—
Total Transfer payments	653.0	464.1	471.1	448.3

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: INAC's Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs

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Strategic Outcome: The People

Program Activity: Education

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Transfer payments for Education

Start date: N/A

End date: ongoing

Description: This program activity provides First Nations and Inuit communities with tools to achieve educational outcomes comparable to those of other Canadians. INAC has primary responsibility under the Indian Act for the elementary and secondary education of status-Indians living on reserve. As a matter of social policy, INAC also supports on-reserve status-Indians and Inuit students in the pursuit of post-secondary education. Support provided through the Education programs includes provisions for instructional services, special education services as well as targeted initiatives which aim to enhance First Nation education management, improve teacher recruitment and retention, and encourage parental and community engagement. New targeted funds have been recently included to improve the provision of elementary and secondary education services through both a partnership and a student success program.

Expected results:

• First Nation students achieve comparable educational outcomes to those achieved by students in the provincial system where the reserve is located.

($ millions)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	36.8	39.5	41.3	42.9
Total contributions	1,712.4	1,699.3	1,739.9	1,777.9
Total Transfer payments	1,749.2	1,738.8	1,781.1	1,820.7

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: INAC's Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs

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Strategic Outcome: The People

Program Activity: Social Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Transfer payments for Social Development

Start date: N/A

End date: ongoing

Description: Supports the provision of: income assistance to meet basic needs for food, clothing and shelter to ensure the safety and well-being of individuals and families consistent with provincial programs and standards; First Nations child and family services to improve their well-being and security; assisted living for social support services of a non-medical nature such as in-home care, short term respite care, foster care and institutional care to improve their well-being and security; Family Violence Program to improve safety and security, particularly of women and children at-risk; National Child Benefit Re-investment to support low-income families with children to help prevent or reduce the depth of child poverty; and other social services to build self-reliant, sustainable, healthy and stable First Nation communities.  

Expected results:

• Reduced dependence on Income Assistance.
• First Nation families and children have a safe environment.

($ millions)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	4.7	10.0	10.0	10.0
Total contributions	1,582.4	1,475.2	1,505.9	1,538.4
Total Transfer payments	1,587.1	1,485.2	1,515.9	1,548.4

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: INAC's Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs

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Strategic Outcome: The People

Program Activity: Managing Individual Affairs

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Transfer payments for Managing Individual Affairs

Start date: N/A

End date: ongoing

Description: The Managing Individual Affairs Program Activity ensures responsible Federal stewardship of the provisions of the Indian Act that pertain to Estates, Band moneys, registration and Band membership through direct client-services as well as partnerships with First Nations to deliver select services including the administration of Estates and the Indian Registration Program.  The Program Activity is also responsible for administering the portions of the First Nations Oil and Gas and Moneys Management Act (FNOGMMA) that pertain to Indian Moneys as well as the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, implemented on September 19, 2007, which oversees the federal obligations outlined within the Agreement and other federal initiatives related to the impact of Residential schools on Aboriginal people in Canada.

Expected results:

• Well managed affairs for First Nation individuals and efficient delivery of Settlement Agreement payments to former students of residential schools.

($ millions)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.4
Total contributions	10.5	18.3	17.6	13.0
Total Transfer payments	11.9	19.7	19.0	14.4

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: INAC's Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs

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Strategic Outcome: The Land

Program Activity: Responsible Federal Stewardship

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Transfer payments for Responsible Federal Stewardship

Start date: N/A

End date: ongoing

Description: This program activity contributes to the objective established by the Priorities and Planning Committee of Cabinet in September 2007 to promote economic development and good governance on reserve. It establishes the conditions for First Nations under the Indian Act to accelerate the pace at which they are able to exercise greater control over the management of their reserve land, resources and environment and effectively implementing and expanding the First Nations Land Management (FNLM) regime to facilitate the movement of more First Nations beyond the Indian Act. It involves a close collaboration with First Nations, Aboriginal associations and organizations, other government departments and private stakeholders such as oil and gas companies.  

Expected results:

• Responsible federal stewardship of reserve lands, resources and environment.

($ millions)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	—	—	—	—
Total contributions	104.4	81.1	32.4	32.4
Total Transfer payments	104.4	81.1	32.4	32.4

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: INAC's Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs

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Strategic Outcome: The Land

Program Activity: First Nations Governance over Land, Resources and the Environment

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Transfer payments for First Nations Governance over Land, Resources and the Environment

Start date: N/A

End date: ongoing

Description: The overall program framework for the assumption of governance responsibility of First Nations is composed of several programs which may act either as an incremental process toward Self government or as individual, discrete, optional programs which First Nations may select and opt into. The Reserve Land and Environmental Management Program (RLEMP) program builds First Nations Capacity through training and participation in land management in conjunction with INAC officers. The Regional Land Administration Programs (RLAPs) involve delegation of some Ministerial authorities that allow First Nations to act on their own behalf. First Nation Land Management (FNLM) offers First Nations the opportunity to assume full control over their land, transferring from the Indian Act to an individual land code.

Expected results:

• First Nations assume full control over reserve land, resource and environmental management under the FNLM regime, or oil and gas and moneys management under FNOGMMA.

($ millions)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	—	—	—	—
Total contributions	14.4	12.3	12.3	12.3
Total Transfer payments	14.4	12.3	12.3	12.3

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: INAC's Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs

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Strategic Outcome: The Land

Program Activity: Clarity of Title to Land and Resources

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Transfer payments for Clarity of Title to Land and Resources

Start date: N/A

End date: ongoing

Description: This program activity aims to provide legal certainty on ownership over on-reserve land and resources. It enables financial institutions and other investors to partner with First Nations in economic development opportunities on reserve. This includes adding land to reserve, providing clarity of title to reserve lands and resources through surveys, ensuring that the government's fiduciary obligations are met, implementing land transfers under specific and comprehensive claims, and negotiating restoration of mineral title to INAC for the benefit of First Nation communities.  

Expected results:

• Land added to reserve to fulfill legal obligations.

($ millions)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	1.2	5.8	2.0	2.0
Total contributions	0.8	—	—	—
Total Transfer payments	2.0	5.8	2.0	2.0

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: INAC's Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs

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Strategic Outcome: The Economy

Program Activity: Individual and Community Business Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Transfer payments for Individual and Community Business Development

Start date: N/A

End date: ongoing

Description: Activities under the Aboriginal Business Development Program aim to create a modern business climate for Aboriginal individuals and communities to participate in Canada's economy and further share in its economic prosperity by addressing the limited range of financing provided by commercial lenders. To support sustainable business development, the program enables access to private sector business financing at competitive rates, as well as essential business information/advice. It also facilitates private sector partnerships in major resource and energy business projects and strengthens Aboriginal-owned or controlled financing institutions to provide developmental lending and advisory services to Aboriginal businesses.

Expected results:

• Increased business ownership by First Nations, Inuit and Métis individuals and communities.
• Viable businesses.

($ millions)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	—	—	—	—
Total contributions	48.8	45.7	45.0	44.8
Total Transfer payments	48.8	45.7	45.0	44.8

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: INAC's Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs

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Strategic Outcome: The Economy

Program Activity: Community Investment

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Transfer payments for Community Investment

Start date: N/A

End date: ongoing

Description: For most First Nation and Inuit communities, economic development progress has been slow.   The Community Investment program activity provides project-based and core funding to support communities and individuals in their efforts to effectively identify, assess, organize and plan economic development pursuits.  This program activity is intended to enhance the ability of communities and individuals to participate in the economy and benefit from economic development opportunities.  The activity is expected to yield increased employment and income levels, leading to improvements in the overall economic well-being and prosperity of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people.  

Expected results:

• Increased FNs, Inuit and Métis participation within the federal Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Business.
• Enhanced capacity of FN and Inuit communities to identify and assess community economic development opportunities.

($ millions)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	—	—	—	—
Total contributions	88.1	114.5	115.3	115.3
Total Transfer payments	88.1	114.5	115.3	115.3

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: INAC's Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs

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Strategic Outcome: The Economy

Program Activity: Community Infrastructure

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Transfer payments for Community Infrastructure

Start date: N/A

End date: ongoing

Description: This program activity supports the provision of funding for the acquisition, construction, operation and maintenance of: community facilities such as roads, bridges, water and sewer, and administration offices; education facilities, such as schools and teacherages and on-reserve housing.  

Expected results:

• Decrease in number of high risk water systems.
• Education facilities are in good condition and meet health and safety standards.
• Housing infrastructure is in good condition.

($ millions)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Total contributions	1,164.5	1,268.0	1,022.9	998.6
Total Transfer payments	1,164.6	1,268.1	1,023.0	998.7

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: INAC's Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs

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Strategic Outcome: The North

Program Activity: Northern Governance

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Transfer payments for Northern Governance

Start date: N/A

End date: ongoing

Description: This program activity strengthens northern governments by devolving province-like responsibilities for the land and natural resources, adopting effective intergovernmental mechanisms, managing strategic issues, and strengthening domestic and international inter-governmental co-operation on circumpolar issues.  

Expected results:

• Devolution of land and resource management to the governments of the NWT and Nunavut.
• Devolution of land and resource management to the Government of Nunavut.
• Canadian interests are reflected in national and international Circumpolar cooperation activities.

($ millions)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	—	—	—	—
Total contributions	12.6	7.4	4.4	2.7
Total Transfer payments	12.6	7.4	4.4	2.7

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: INAC's Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs

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Strategic Outcome: The North

Program Activity: Healthy Northern Communities

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Transfer payments for Healthy Northern Communities

Start date: N/A

End date: ongoing

Description: This program activity benefits all Northerners by reducing the costs of transporting nutritious, perishable foods and other essential items to isolated northern communities and by researching the sources and effects of contaminants on the Arctic food chain. Through grants for hospital and physician services, the program activity also supports improvements to the health and well-being of members of First Nations communities and Inuit who live in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.  

Expected results:

• Perishable and other nutritious foods and other essential items are available in isolated Northern communities at more affordable prices.
• Reduced contaminant related risk to ecosystem and human health.

($ millions)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	47.3	48.3	49.2	50.2
Total contributions	12.1	4.8	4.8	4.8
Total Transfer payments	59.4	53.1	54.0	55.0

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: INAC's Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs

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Strategic Outcome: The North

Program Activity: Northern Land and Resources

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Transfer payments for Northern Land and Resources

Start date: N/A

End date: ongoing

Description: This program activity supports the sustainable development and regulatory oversight of the land and natural resources of the North. Oil and gas development, including offshore projects, as well as the management of mines and mineral activity are facilitated. Improved environmental management and stewardship is promoted through the continued development of the northern regulatory regime. The identification and clean-up of contaminated sites improves environmental conditions, while the development of arctic science and the increase to the knowledge base through, among others, the activities of the International Polar Year, helps in the development of strategies in response to the challenges of climate change and adaptation. The concerns and issues of climate change are addressed in the interests of maintaining sustainable Aboriginal and northern communities.  

Expected results:

• An operating environment that supports mineral development and mining.
• Contaminated sites are managed to ensure the protection of human health and the safety of the environment while bringing economic benefit to the North.
• Increased capacity of Aboriginal people and Northerners to adapt to climage change impacts.

($ millions)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.1
Total contributions	71.2	78.5	15.9	14.5
Total Transfer payments	72.4	79.6	16.9	15.6

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: INAC's Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs

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Strategic Outcome: The Office of the Federal Interlocutor

Program Activity: Urban Aboriginal Strategy

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Transfer payments for Urban Aboriginal Strategy

Start date: N/A

End date: ongoing

Description: This program activity helps respond to the needs of Aboriginal people living in urban centres. It promotes the self-reliance and economic participation of urban Aboriginal people and expands their life choices. Through the Urban Aboriginal Strategy (UAS), the federal government partners with other governments, community organizations and Aboriginal people to support (financially and through other means) projects that respond to local priorities. The Strategy enhances the federal government's ability to align expenditures directed toward urban Aboriginal people in key centres with provincial and municipal programming in a way that both advances federal objectives and responds effectively to local challenges and opportunities.

Expected results:

• Self-reliant urban Aboriginal people who participate in the economy.

($ millions)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	—	—	—	—
Total contributions	12.1	9.9	9.9	—
Total Transfer payments	12.1	9.9	9.9	—

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: INAC's Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs

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Strategic Outcome: The Office of the Federal Interlocutor

Program Activity: Métis and Non-Status Indian Organizational Capacity Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Transfer payments for Métis and Non-Status Indian Organizational Capacity Development

Start date: N/A

End date: ongoing

Description: This program activity is carried out by the Office of the Federal Interlocutor, the Government of Canada's principal point of contact for Métis and Non-Status Indian organizations, and an advocate within government on their key issues. The main mandate of the Office is to support (financially and through other means) the work of these organizations, and help find practical ways to reduce dependency and improve the self-reliance, and social and economic conditions of Métis, Non-Status Indians (MNSI) and off-reserve Aboriginal people. The Office fulfills this mandate by helping Métis and Non-Status Indian organizations develop their organizational and professional capacity, so that they can build effective partnerships with federal and provincial governments, and the private sector.  

Expected results:

• MNSI organizations have the capacity to participate, and represent their members, in federal policies and programs.
• MNSI organizations have the financial capacity to be accountable for public funds as well as engage with the private sector.
• Stable and democratically accountable MNSI organizations that represent their members' interests.

($ millions)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	—	—	—	—
Total contributions	12.1	12.1	12.1	12.1
Total Transfer payments	12.1	12.1	12.1	12.1

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: INAC's Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs

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Strategic Outcome: The Office of the Federal Interlocutor

Program Activity: Métis Rights Management

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Transfer payments for Métis Rights Management

Start date: N/A

End date: ongoing

Description: This program activity is the federal response to the 2003 Supreme Court of Canada's Powley decision, which affirmed that Métis hold section 35 Aboriginal rights under the Canadian Constitution. The program works with (through financial support and other means) nonprofit, representative Aboriginal organizations that have substantial Métis memberships to develop objectively verifiable membership systems for Métis members and harvesters in accordance with the Supreme Court's direction.  

Expected results:

• Reconciliation of section 35 Métis Aboriginal rights with the sovereignty of the Crown.

($ millions)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	—	—	—	—
Total contributions	8.0	—	—	—
Total Transfer payments	8.0	—	—	—

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: INAC's Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs