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Strategic Outcome: An environmentally sustainable agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector

Program Activity: On-Farm Action

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Program (AGGP) (Voted)

Start date: September 1, 2010

End date: August 31, 2015

Description:
AGGP is a program to develop and transfer knowledge to help farmers mitigate Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. The focus is on both science and knowledge creation, and on knowledge and technology transfer activities. The objective of the AGGP is to enhance the understanding and accessibility of agricultural technologies, Beneficial Management Practices (BMPs) and processes that can be adopted by farmers to mitigate GHG emissions in Canada. The main priority issue areas include: livestock, crops, agroforestry and agricultural water-use efficiency. Eligible recipients must be legal entities and capable of entering into legally binding agreements and must demonstrate a capacity to achieve results consistent with the accountability framework as well as criteria specific to each program or initiative.

Expected results:

1. Increased knowledge by farmers about GHG mitigation BMP's and technologies, and
2. Increased adoption by farmers of GHG mitigation BMP's and technologies.

Performance Indicators:

1. Number of farmers with an increased level of understanding of GHG mitigation BMPs and technologies;
2. Number of farmers adopting GHG mitigation practices;
3. Number of new BMPs demonstrated through field days and workshops;
4. Number of technologies developed, verified and validated; and
5. Number of methodologies and approaches developed.

Summary of the 3-Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Forecast Spending 2010-11 reflects the authorized funding levels to the end of the fiscal year 2010-11 (not necessarily forecast expenditures). Planned Spending reflects funds already brought into the Department's reference levels as well as amounts to be authorized through the Estimates process (for the 2011-12 through to 2013-14 planning years) as presented in the Annual Reference Level Update.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk

Program Activity: Business Risk Management

Name of Transfer Payment Program: AgriInsurance Program (Statutory)

Start date: April 1, 2008

End date: March 31, 2012
AgriInsurance is statutory and ongoing; however, the current policy and program authorities expire March 31, 2012.

Description:
The AgriInsurance program is one of the core pillars of the business risk management suite available to producers under Growing Forward.

AgriInsurance (formerly the Production Insurance program), will aim to reduce the financial impact on producers of production losses caused by uncontrollable natural perils.

Authorities for the program include Section 4 of the Farm Income Protection Act (FIPA), as well as Growing Forward: A Federal-Provincial-Territorial Framework Agreement on Agriculture, Agri-Food and Agri-Based Products Policy and Federal Provincial AgriInsurance Agreement.

Federal AgriInsurance website
British Columbia
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Ontario
Quebec
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
Newfoundland

Expected results:
The financial impacts of production losses are mitigated by providing effective insurance protection.

Performance Indicators:

1. Value of insured production compared to the total value of all agricultural products eligible for insurance reported as follows: Percentage of Crops - Target 60 percent.
2. Value of crops eligible for insurance compared to the value of all agricultural products reported as follows: Percentage of Crops – Target 85 percent.

Summary of the 3-Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Forecast Spending 2010-11 reflects the authorized funding levels to the end of the fiscal year 2010-11 (not necessarily forecast expenditures). Planned Spending reflects funds already brought into the Department's reference levels as well as amounts to be authorized through the Estimates process (for the 2011-12 through to 2013-14 planning years) as presented in the Annual Reference Level Update.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk

Program Activity: Business Risk Management

Name of Transfer Payment Program: AgriInvest Program (Statutory)

Start date: December 19, 2007
Agreements were signed with the provinces to implement the program starting in the 2007 program year.

End date: March 31, 2012
AgriInvest is statutory and ongoing; however, the current policy and program authorities expire March 31, 2012.

Description:
The AgriInvest program is one of the core pillars of the business risk management suite available to producers under Growing Forward.

AgriInvest allows producers to self-manage, through producer-government funded savings accounts, the first 15 percent of their margin losses for a production year and/or make investments to reduce on-farm risks or increase farm revenues. Under the program, annual producer deposits of up to 1.5 percent of their allowable net sales are matched by government deposits. Government deposits are cost-shared 60:40 by federal and provincial/territorial governments. In combination with the AgriStability program, AgriInvest is the successor to the Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization (CAIS) program. AgriInvest replaces coverage for smaller income declines, while AgriStability assists producers in managing larger losses.

AgriInvest provides producers with a secure, accessible, predictable and bankable source of income assistance to address small drops in farm income and manage on-farm risks.

Federal AgriInvest Website
AgriInvest in Quebec (La Financière agricole du Québec)

Expected results:
Producers have the flexibility in managing small financial risks.
Producers use program account balances to address income declines or to make investments to reduce on-farm risks or increase farm revenues.

Performance Indicators:

1. Percentage of AgriInvest producers receiving AgriStability payments and making withdrawals from their AgriInvest saving accounts. Target is at least 60 percent of AgriInvest producers.
2. Percentage of producers indicating that they use their funds to address income declines or make investments to reduce on-farm risks or increase farm revenues. Target is at least 75 percent of producers.

Summary of the 3-Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
As required, the allocations to Grant versus Contribution may be adjusted and these would be reflected in the Supplementary Estimates, the Departmental Performance Report and Public Accounts.

Forecast Spending 2010-11 reflects the authorized funding levels to the end of the fiscal year 2010-11 (not necessarily forecast expenditures). Planned Spending reflects funds already brought into the Department's reference levels as well as amounts to be authorized through the Estimates process (for the 2011-12 through to 2013-14 planning years) as presented in the Annual Reference Level Update.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk

Program Activity: Business Risk Management

Name of Transfer Payment Program: AgriStability Program (Statutory)

Start date: December 19, 2007
Agreements were signed with the provinces to implement the program starting in the 2007 program year.

End date: March 31, 2012
AgriStability is statutory and ongoing; however, the current policy and program authorities expire March 31, 2012.

Description:

The AgriStability program is one of the core pillars of the business risk management suite available to producers under Growing Forward.

AgriStability is a margin-based program that provides support when a producer experiences larger farm income losses, which are drops in their margin (eligible farm income, less eligible farm expenses) for the program year of more than 15 percent of the producer's average margin from previous years (i.e., their reference margin). Thus, a payment is triggered under the program when a producer’s program year margin drops below 85 percent of their reference margin. AgriStability also includes coverage for negative margins, as well as mechanisms to advance a participant a portion of their expected payment during the year when a significant decline in income is expected (interim payments and Targeted Advance Payments). In combination with the AgriInvest program, it is the successor to the Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization (CAIS) program. AgriInvest replaces coverage for smaller income declines where AgriStability assists producers in managing larger losses.

Federal AgriStability Website
AgriStability in Alberta (Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC))
AgriStability in Ontario (Agricorp)
AgriStability in Quebec (La Financière agricole du Québec)
AgriStability on Prince Edward Island (PEI Agricultural Insurance Corporation)

Expected results:
The short-term impacts of larger income losses (losses of over 15 percent relative to their historical reference margin) are mitigated.

Performance Indicators:

1. Participants' farm market revenues compared to total farm market revenues for the industry. Target - 75 percent of farm market revenues are covered by the program.
2. Participants' production margin with payments compared to reference margin. Target - Program payments bring producer's margin up to 65 percent of reference margin on average (for producers receiving a payment).

Summary of the 3-Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
As required, the allocations to Grant versus Contribution may be adjusted and these would be reflected in the Supplementary Estimates, the Departmental Performance Report and Public Accounts.

Forecast Spending 2010-11 reflects the authorized funding levels to the end of the fiscal year 2010-11 (not necessarily forecast expenditures). Planned Spending reflects funds already brought into the Department's reference levels as well as amounts to be authorized through the Estimates process (for the 2011-12 through to 2013-14 planning years) as presented in the Annual Reference Level Update.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk

Program Activity: Trade and Market Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canadian Cattlemen’s Association Legacy Fund (Statutory)

Start date: June 27, 2005

End date: March 31, 2015

Description:
The purpose of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association Legacy Fund is to support the Canadian beef sector to develop markets for beef cattle, beef cattle genetics, beef and beef products in a post-BSE environment. A grant totalling $50 million over 10 years will be provided.

Expected results:
Growth in traditional, existing, new and emerging markets for Canadian beef and genetics products; and to maximize the total value realized by the Canadian beef and cattle genetics industry through optimization of genetics and beef product values.

Performance Indicators:

• Change in consumer recognition and perceptions of Canadian beef and beef products (measured by consumer surveys and benchmark studies);
• Increase in total beef export volumes to key markets; and
• Change in international and target country market share.

Summary of the 3-Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Forecast Spending 2010-11 reflects the authorized funding levels to the end of the fiscal year 2010-11 (not necessarily forecast expenditures). Planned Spending reflects funds already brought into the Department's reference levels as well as amounts to be authorized through the Estimates process (for the 2011-12 through to 2013-14 planning years) as presented in the Annual Reference Level Update.

After 2010-11, it is expected that approximately $11.5 million of the total $50 million authorized will be available for the remaining years of the program. Planned Spending will be adjusted in the future once annual forecasts become available.

Strategic Outcome: An innovative agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector

Program Activity: Rural and Co-operatives Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions for Rural and Co-operatives Development (Voted)

Start date: April 1, 2009

End date: March 31, 2013

Description:
The programming for Rural and Co-operatives Development covers the following two initiatives:

Rural development programming, whose objective is to support local, regional, and national stakeholders to develop collaborative activities that contribute to the engagement, knowledge development and knowledge transfer activities to address barriers to rural competitiveness, innovation and amenities development. This is part of Canada's Rural Partnership (CRP).

Co-operative Development Initiative (CDI) which provides support for the development, innovation and growth of co-operatives, by:

• Providing advisory services and funding innovative co-op projects, delivered by the two national co-operative associations; and
• Funding research to build knowledge contributing to co-op development.

Expected results:
Rural development
New economic activities are being developed in rural communities.
Measured by: The number of communities in 20 selected rural regions where new economic activities are implemented as a result of CRP collaborative activities.
Target: 30 communities by March 31, 2013

Co-operative Development
Canadians are better able to utilize the co-operative model to meet their economic and social needs.
Measured by: Number of co-operatives created, which have received CDI support.
Target: 150 co-operatives by March 31, 2013

Summary of the 3-Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Forecast Spending 2010-11 reflects the authorized funding levels to the end of the fiscal year 2010-11 (not necessarily forecast expenditures). Planned Spending reflects funds already brought into the Department's reference levels as well as amounts to be authorized through the Estimates process (for the 2011-12 through to 2013-14 planning years) as presented in the Annual Reference Level Update.

Strategic Outcome: An innovative agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector

Program Activity: Science, Innovation and Adoption

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions to Accelerate the Pace of Innovation and Facilitate the Adoption of New Technologies (Voted)

Start date: April 1, 2009

End date: March 31, 2013

Description:
The program is designed to accelerate industry led innovation activities leading to the development and commercialization of new products, practices and processes by supporting the required academia, industry and government foresight and applied science, technology and development activities.

The program initiatives are designed to work systematically along the three phases of the innovation continuum; they are:
Discovery Phase: the creation of new knowledge and ideas;
Pre-commercialization Phase: the further development of ideas into new technologies to address challenges and opportunities; and
Commercialization, Adoption and Marketing Phase: the realization of economic and social benefits from the technologies that generate new practices, products and processes.

Expected results:
Accelerated pace of innovation and new technologies adopted.
Performance Indicator: Percentage increase in number of applied agri-science research and development projects.
Target: 400 percent increase in number of applied agri-science research and development projects by March 2013.

Summary of the 3-Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Forecast Spending 2010-11 reflects the authorized funding levels to the end of the fiscal year 2010-11 (not necessarily forecast expenditures). Planned Spending reflects funds already brought into the Department's reference levels as well as amounts to be authorized through the Estimates process (for the 2011-12 through to 2013-14 planning years) as presented in the Annual Reference Level Update.

Strategic Outcome: An innovative agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector

Program Activity: Agri-Business Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions to Enable Competitive Enterprises and Sectors (Voted)

Start date: April 1, 2009

End date: March 31, 2013

Description:
Agri-Business Development provides support for provincial and territorial activities and to national organizations to increase the use of sound business management practices by producers and agri-businesses to enable businesses to be profitable.

Eligible programs and initiatives equip producers and agri-businesses with the skills, knowledge and expertise needed to understand their businesses’ financial situation, assess opportunities, respond to change, and realize business goals. It also enables agri-businesses to be profitable and invest where needed to manage the natural resource base sustainably, and produce and market safe food and other products.

Expected results:
Increased realization of business goals.
Performance Indicator: Percentage of participating businesses in Agri-Business Development activities meeting their career/business goals.
Target: 55 percent of participants will be meeting their business and career goals. This target will be met by March 2013.

Summary of the 3-Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Forecast Spending 2010-11 reflects the authorized funding levels to the end of the fiscal year 2010-11 (not necessarily forecast expenditures). Planned Spending reflects funds already brought into the Department's reference levels as well as amounts to be authorized through the Estimates process (for the 2011-12 through to 2013-14 planning years) as presented in the Annual Reference Level Update.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk

Program Activity: Food Safety and Biosecurity Risk Management Systems

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions to Enhance the Safety and Security of Canada's Food System (Voted)

Start date: April 1, 2009

End date: March 31, 2013

Description:
Programming for the Contributions to Enhance the Safety and Security of Canada's Food System is comprised of the following components:

Food Safety Systems Development
Food Safety Systems Development focuses on the development of voluntary science-based food safety systems by national organizations to effectively minimize food safety risks. It supports national (or equivalent) organizations in developing on-farm and/or post-farm Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) based food safety systems. Intended clients are national or regional non-profit organizations that are not represented by entities at the national level.

Food Safety Systems Implementation
Food Safety Systems Implementation facilitates the early adoption of government-recognized food safety systems by producers and non-federally registered food-processing enterprises through financial incentives. Eligible projects could include the implementation of good manufacturing practices towards HACCP or ISO 22000 standards in non-federally registered processing plants and the implementation of government reviewed HACCP-based food safety systems on farms. Implementation is administered by provinces and territories under Growing Forward.

Expected results:
Food Safety Systems Development
Increased number of national on-farm and post-farm organizations with food safety systems ready to submit to Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) for recognition. Government-recognized on-farm food safety programs are technically based on the internationally accepted food safety control system known as HACCP.
Performance Indicator: Number of organizations that submit to CFIA for recognition.
Targets: On-Farm target is six organizations and Post-Farm is seven organizations. The date to achieve target is March 31, 2013.

Food Safety Systems Implementation
Increased number of producers and non-federally registered food processing enterprises engaged in food safety activities.
Performance Indicator: Number of provinces and territories with food safety activities as Growing Forward cost-shared programs.
Target: Specific targets for designated programs covering food safety activities are set out in individual bilateral agreements.

Summary of the 3-Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Forecast Spending 2010-11 reflects the authorized funding levels to the end of the fiscal year 2010-11 (not necessarily forecast expenditures). Planned Spending reflects funds already brought into the Department's reference levels as well as amounts to be authorized through the Estimates process (for the 2011-12 through to 2013-14 planning years) as presented in the Annual Reference Level Update.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk

Program Activity: Food Safety and Biosecurity Risk Management Systems

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions to Minimize the Occurrence and Extent of Risk Incidents (Voted)

Start date: April 1, 2009

End date: March 31, 2013

Description:
Programming for the Contributions to Minimize the Occurrence and Extent of Risk Incidents is comprised of the following components:

Biosecurity Standards Implementation
The approved national Biosecurity Standards form the basis for implementation of the minimum biosecurity requirements for a particular sector at the farm level. Provinces and territories are responsible for farm-level implementation and are able to impose additional standards to respond to a particular, unique need of the local industry.

Traceability Industry Infrastructure
Investment in Traceability Industry Infrastructure will enhance the industry's ability to follow the movement of a food through specific stages of production, processing and distribution. It supports the development and implementation of industry infrastructure to participate in the National Agriculture and Food Traceability System. This program invests in the development of industry-led systems that collect and verify identification and movement data, and accelerates industry capacity.

Traceability Enterprise Infrastructure
The Traceability Enterprise Structure provides funding to individual businesses to assist in the purchase and installation of traceability infrastructure and the training of staff to implement traceability systems for plants, animals and products. This could include implementation of animal handling systems, equipment and data systems necessary to record and report data to industry databases. These actions will enable recipients to participate fully in the National Agriculture and Food Traceability System.

Expected results:
Biosecurity Standards Implementation
Increased review and approval of biosecurity systems being implemented.
Performance Indicator: Number of biosecurity systems implemented.
Target: Specific targets for designated programs covering food safety activities are set out in individual bilateral agreements.

Traceability Industry Infrastructure
Increase in the development of industry-led traceability systems.
Performance Indicator: Number of organizations and private entities implementing industry-led traceability systems.
Target: Ten organisations and/or private entities. The date to achieve target is March 31, 2013.

Traceability Enterprise Infrastructure
All provinces and territories implementing traceability activities as Growing Forward cost-shared programs.
Performance Indicator: Number of provinces and territories with traceability activities as Growing Forward cost-shared programs.
Target: Specific targets for designated programs covering food safety activities are set out in individual bilateral agreements.

Summary of the 3-Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Forecast Spending 2010-11 reflects the authorized funding levels to the end of the fiscal year 2010-11 (not necessarily forecast expenditures). Planned Spending reflects funds already brought into the Department's reference levels as well as amounts to be authorized through the Estimates process (for the 2011-12 through to 2013-14 planning years) as presented in the Annual Reference Level Update.

Strategic Outcome: An environmentally sustainable agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector

Program Activity: Environmental Knowledge, Technology, Information and Measurement; and On-Farm Action

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions to Promote Environmentally Responsible Agriculture (Voted)

Start date: April 1, 2009

End date: March 31, 2013

Description:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) supports farmers through agri-environmental risk assessment and planning; providing expertise, information and incentives to increase the adoption of sustainable agriculture practices at the farm and landscape levels; investigating and developing new approaches that encourage and support the adoption of sustainable agriculture practices; and increasing the recognition of the value of sustainable agriculture practices. This program supports environmental stewardship and helps reduce the sector’s overall impact on the environment. It contributes to a cleaner environment and healthier living conditions for Canadian people, and a more profitable agriculture sector.

Expected results:
Improved agri-environmental risk assessment and planning by agricultural producers.

Performance Indicator:
Increase in adoption levels of Beneficial Management Practices (BMPs). Environmental Farm Plans set out out priorities for each farm once an environmental scan is performed. BMPs are based on priorities set out in that plan.

Target:
Ten percent increase from previous program baselines by 2013. Baselines are from the Environmental Indicators for the National Agri-Health Analysis and Reporting Program (NAHARP).

Summary of the 3-Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Forecast Spending 2010-11 reflects the authorized funding levels to the end of the fiscal year 2010-11 (not necessarily forecast expenditures). Planned Spending reflects funds already brought into the Department's reference levels as well as amounts to be authorized through the Estimates process (for the 2011-12 through to 2013-14 planning years) as presented in the Annual Reference Level Update.

Strategic Outcome: An innovative agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector

Program Activity: Agri-Business Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions to Strengthen the Competitiveness of Canada's Red Meat Packing and Processing Industry (Voted)

Start date: June 4, 2009

End date: March 31, 2012

Description:
The national, applications-based Slaughter Improvement Program (SIP) provides eligible red meat packers and processors with repayable federal contributions to implement sound business plans for projects aimed at improving the operations of federally inspected packing plants. The program aims to allow industry stakeholders to strengthen their competitiveness by supporting new investments that could support profitability for red meat packers. These new investments focus on reducing operating costs, increasing revenues, adopting innovation to meet future business conditions and consumer expectations and addressing slaughter capacity gaps in regions where it can be demonstrated that this factor is constraining sector growth.

Recipients must also be involved or present a business plan to be involved in the slaughter of red meat. They must be federally inspected red meat packing and processing plants; provincially inspected plants implementing projects to become federally inspected to market their products beyond provincial boundaries; or legal entities planning to establish a federally inspected plant in a region where a deficit in slaughter capacity is constraining sector growth. The program is applications-based, and functions under a request-for-applications approach.

Expected results:
The SIP will lead to the following outcomes: investment in operational performance among red meat packers and processors; and improved operational and financial performance among red meat packers and processors.

Performance indicators may include, but are not limited to, the following: percentage of recipients that increase their operational performance; amount of program funds invested by red meat packers and processors in operational improvements (as documented in their business plans); and percentage of recipients that increase their financial performance.

Summary of the 3-Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Forecast Spending 2010-11 reflects the authorized funding levels to the end of the fiscal year 2010-11 (not necessarily forecast expenditures). Planned Spending reflects funds already brought into the Department's reference levels as well as amounts to be authorized through the Estimates process (for the 2011-12 through to 2013-14 planning years) as presented in the Annual Reference Level Update.

Strategic Outcome: An innovative agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector

Program Activity: Science, Innovation and Adoption

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions to Support the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (Voted)

Start date: May 28, 2009

End date: On-going, subject to evaluation of relevance and effectiveness by March 31, 2014.

Description:
The Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP)'s objective is to facilitate the agriculture, agri-food, and agri-based products sector's ability to seize opportunities, to respond to new and emerging issues, and to pathfind and pilot solutions to new and ongoing issues in order to help it adapt and remain competitive. Launched as a successor to the Advancing Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food (ACAAF) program, CAAP will continue to support industry-led initiatives at the national, regional and multi-regional levels.

Expected results:

• Industry implements strategies to respond to emerging issues and opportunities;
• Conversion of applied research into commercial products;
• Adoption of innovative, value-added products, processes and technologies by the sector; and
• Improved competitiveness of the sector.

Performance Indicators:

• Number of strategies to respond to emerging issues developed and implemented by industry;
• Number of commercial products created;
• Number of innovative, value-added products, processes and technologies adopted by the sector; and
• Number of projects resulting in: reduction of producing and processing costs; improved product quality; improved market share or preservation of market share.

Summary of the 3-Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Forecast Spending 2010-11 reflects the authorized funding levels to the end of the fiscal year 2010-11 (not necessarily forecast expenditures). Planned Spending reflects funds already brought into the Department's reference levels as well as amounts to be authorized through the Estimates process (for the 2011-12 through to 2013-14 planning years) as presented in the Annual Reference Level Update.

Strategic Outcome: An innovative agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector

Program Activity: Agri-Business Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contribution to Support the Specified Risk Material Innovation Program (Voted)

Start date: June 17, 2010

End date: March 31, 2013

Description:
The three-year, up to $40 million Specified Risk Material Innovation Program (being delivered under the name of Slaughter Waste Innovation Program (SWIP)) provides industry with the ability to capitalize on the knowledge, experience and technology advancement gained in dealing with the first three years of the Enhanced Feed Ban (EFB) and to move towards implementing longer term solutions that have the potential to improve the competitiveness of the sector. The objective of SWIP is to support research, development and commercialization or adoption of innovative technologies or processes related to the removal, disposal or use of Specified Risk Material (SRM) to reduce handling costs and to create potential revenue sources from SRM.

Eligible recipients include provincially and federally inspected slaughterhouses, and standalone businesses handling SRMs, including rendering plants, and to support pre-commercial research and development work, research or engineering firms in partnership with livestock industry associations or slaughter facilities. Recipients must be Canadian legal entities, including Canadian subsidiaries of foreign companies, and capable of entering into legally binding contracts.

Expected results:

• Revenue generation (energy production and co-products) or cost-reduction from SRM removal, disposal or destruction;
• Increased competitiveness of the beef industry, as a whole, along the value chain due to reduced handling costs and/or new revenues;
• New knowledge of technologies and processes related to SRM removal, disposal or destruction with wide application and broad benefits domestically and internationally;
• New capacity and infrastructure for the destruction of prions (infectious agent in a variety of human and non-human neurodegenerative diseases, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)) thus contributing to the reduction of human and animal health risks associated with BSE; and
• Increase in or preservation of regional capacity for SRM removal, disposal or destruction.

Performance Indicators:

• Amount of funds invested by federally and provincially inspected slaughter plants and other businesses handling SRMs, including rendering plants;
• Percentage of recipients that reduced their SRM handling, removal or disposal costs and increased revenues from such activities;
• Share of Canadian beef processing capacity (slaughter plants) with reduced SRM handling, removal and destruction costs; and
• Share of Canadian beef processing capacity (slaughter plants) with new access to prion deactivation facilities.

Summary of the 3-Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Forecast Spending 2010-11 reflects the authorized funding levels to the end of the fiscal year 2010-11 (not necessarily forecast expenditures). Planned Spending reflects funds already brought into the Department's reference levels as well as amounts to be authorized through the Estimates process (for the 2011-12 through to 2013-14 planning years) as presented in the Annual Reference Level Update.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk

Program Activity: Trade and Market Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions to Transform Canada's Strengths into Domestic and Global Success (Voted) (related funding is found under Grant payments for the Organisation for the Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (Voted))

Start date: April 1, 2009

End date: March 31, 2013

Description:
The programming for Transforming Canada's strengths into Domestic and Global Success is composed of the following:

The AgriMarketing Program provides a platform to equip industry, including small and medium-sized enterprises, for success in global markets. AgriMarketing cost-shares with industry associations for international market development, export promotion activities and in-depth research to form long-term international strategies that contribute and build on the Canada Brand.

The Enabling Research for Competitive Agriculture (ERCA) Program supports research, complements AAFC policy analysis and development, and contributes to a more informed policy dialogue by engaging the external policy research community on priority issues that can be used by industry groups and producers to assist them in identifying new opportunities, markets and ways to enhance productivity and improve competitiveness to improve their success in global and domestic markets.

A small component of the ERCA initiative provides a grant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to enhance research on priority issues for Canada in the global context through collaborative activities, thereby providing a unique, global perspective on Canada's competitiveness.

Expected results:
AgriMarketing Program:

• Contribution agreements with industry associations, alliances and technical marketing institutions;
• Increased capacity of industry associations to deliver market development and branding projects;
• Increased effectiveness of market development and branding projects undertaken by industry associations; and
• Enhanced market opportunities for Canadian agriculture and food producers in key international markets.

Performance measures and indicators are:

• Number of agreements implemented annually;
• Percentage of market development and branding projects undertaken by industry associations outside Canada with the program funding as compared to promotional activities undertaken without the program funding; and
• Percentage increase in exports for AgriMarketing Program supported sectors with a long-term international strategy.

ERCA Contribution Program:

• The establishment of communities of experts with broad representation from universities and other institutions;
• Broadly disseminated research results that are used by industry and government to enhance competitiveness and prosperity;
• Strengthened policy research capacity addressing priority issues for the sector;
• Participation of industry and representatives from other departmental initiatives such as the Value Chain Roundtables (VCRT) and Agri-foresighting at ERCA events and workshops;
• Publication of research reports, policy briefs, professional journal articles and newspaper articles by ERCA members; and
• A large pool of graduate students knowledgeable in agricultural policy from which to recruit at AAFC.

Performance measures and indicators are:

• The number of researchers involved in ERCA;
• The number of meetings, workshops, seminars and Parliamentary Committees where ERCA policy research results are presented for use by government, industry and other stakeholders;
• The number of graduate students recruited into agriculture programs at universities in Canada through ERCA;
• The number of participants at ERCA events from industry, VCRT or Agriforesighting, government and other organizations;
• The number of research reports/policy briefs/ professional journal articles and newspaper articles published by ERCA members; and
• The number of graduate students who graduate from their programs.

ERCA - Grant to the OECD:

• Broadly disseminated research results that are used by industry and government to enhance competitiveness and prosperity;
• Enhanced economic and policy research capacity addressing priority issues for the Canadian agriculture and agri-food sector in a global context;
• Increased information for the use of provinces and territories on key issues impacting the sector; and
• A further influence on the research agenda of the OECD in order to broaden policy research to include topics of importance for Canada.

Summary of the 3-Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Forecast Spending 2010-11 reflects the authorized funding levels to the end of the fiscal year 2010-11 (not necessarily forecast expenditures). Planned Spending reflects funds already brought into the Department's reference levels as well as amounts to be authorized through the Estimates process (for the 2011-12 through to 2013-14 planning years) as presented in the Annual Reference Level Update.

Strategic Outcome: An innovative agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector

Program Activity: Science, Innovation and Adoption

Name of Transfer Payment Program: EcoAgriculture Biofuels Capital Initiative (Voted)

Start date: March 29, 2007

End date: March 31, 2013

Description:
The ecoAgriculture Biofuels Capital initiative (ecoABC) is a six-year, federal initiative that provides conditionally repayable contributions towards the construction or expansion of biofuel facilities that have equity investments from farmers and use agricultural feedstock. The initiative, which is part of the federal renewable fuels strategy, is providing an opportunity for farmers to benefit from the emerging renewable fuels industry while helping the government to achieve its targets for renewable fuel content in gasoline and diesel fuel through domestic production. Eligible recipients include corporations (including but not restricted to co-operatives), individuals, and partnerships, which are not subject to a controlling interest by a federal, provincial or municipal government, which can demonstrate that their equity investments from agricultural producers are equal to or exceed five percent of projected eligible project costs, and which intend to build plants or expand existing facilities to produce renewable transportation fuels in Canada from agricultural feedstock.

Expected results:
To provide agricultural producers with an opportunity for equity investment in biofuel production facilities, and to facilitate achieving the federal government’s target of renewable fuel content equal to 5 percent of the gasoline pool by 2010 and 2 percent in diesel and heating oil by 2012 through domestic production.

Specific results include:

• New biofuels facilities are built;
• Increased (domestic) ethanol production;
• Broadened economic base of communities where facilities are built; and
• Increased and diversified off-farm revenues for producers.

Performance Indicators:

• Number of new facilites built or expanded for renewable fuels (8-12 facilities);
• Change in annual production of ethanol and biodiesel by funded facilities (overall increase in production of 1 billion to 1.5 billion litres of renewable fuel);
• Number of new jobs in funded facilties (200-360 overall);
• Increased spending in communities with funded facilities (specific targets determined later); and
• Change in primary producers' revenue from investment ($6 million to $12 million annually).

Summary of the 3-Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Forecast Spending 2010-11 reflects the authorized funding levels to the end of the fiscal year 2010-11 (not necessarily forecast expenditures). Planned Spending reflects funds already brought into the Department's reference levels as well as amounts to be authorized through the Estimates process (for the 2011-12 through to 2013-14 planning years) as presented in the Annual Reference Level Update.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk

Program Activity: Business Risk Management

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Loan Guarantees under the Canadian Agricultural Loans Act (CALA) (Statutory) (previously known as FIMCLA)

Start date: June 18, 2009

End date: On-going under the CALA legislation

Description:
The CALA program is a financial loan guarantee program that gives farmers easier access to credit. Under the CALA program, the Government of Canada guarantees loans issued through financial institutions to farmers and agricultural co-operatives. Farmers use these loans to establish, improve and develop farms, while agricultural co-operatives also access loans to process, distribute or market the products of farming.

Expected Results:

• Provide producers with greater access to affordable credit to make investments in their farm properties: As of November 29, 2010, farmers and agricultural co-operatives have received 3,538 loans worth approximately $191 million since Royal Assent on June 18, 2009.
• Administer program in a prudent manner (default rate under 2 percent): As of fiscal year 2009-10, CALA's default rate is 1 percent; with recoveries factored in, the net default rate is 0.65 percent.

Summary of the 3-Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Forecast Spending 2010-11 reflects the authorized funding levels to the end of the fiscal year 2010-11 (not necessarily forecast expenditures). Planned Spending reflects funds already brought into the Department's reference levels as well as amounts to be authorized through the Estimates process (for the 2011-12 through to 2013-14 planning years) as presented in the Annual Reference Level Update.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk

Program Activity: Business Risk Management

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Payments in Connection with the Agricultural Marketing Programs Act (AMPA) - Advance Payments Program (Statutory)

Start date: 1997

End date: On-going under AMPA

Description:
The Advance Payments Program (APP) is a financial loan guarantee program that guarantees cash advances to producers, enabling them to produce and market their agricultural products when conditions are most ideal. Producers can receive cash advances of up to $400,000 per production period, the first $100,000 of which is interest-free. Advances can be on a variety of crops and/or livestock and producers have up to 18 months (usually from April until September of the following year) to use their cash advance for whatever purpose they feel necessary. The producer must repay their advance (as they are selling/delivering their product) in full before the end of the 18 month production period.

Expected Results:

• Provide producers with greater access to credit (supplying advances to over 35,000 producers).
• Improved cash flow for producers receiving APP advances (achieving advance amount of approximately $2.5 billion).
• Administer the program in a prudent manner for eligible producers (achieving a default rate of under 2 percent of the total amount advanced).

Summary of the 3-Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Forecast Spending 2010-11 reflects the authorized funding levels to the end of the fiscal year 2010-11 (not necessarily forecast expenditures). Planned Spending reflects funds already brought into the Department's reference levels as well as amounts to be authorized through the Estimates process (for the 2011-12 through to 2013-14 planning years) as presented in the Annual Reference Level Update.

Strategic Outcome:
An environmentally sustainable agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector;
A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk; and
An innovative agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector

Program Activity:
Environmental Knowledge, Technology, Information and Measurement; On-Farm Action; Food Safety and Biosecurity Risk Management Systems; Trade and Market Development; Science, Innovation and Adoption; and Agri-Business Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Programming related to the Agricultural Flexibility Fund (Voted)

Start date: June 18, 2009

End date: March 31, 2014

Description:
Agricultural Flexibility Fund (AgriFlexibility) initiatives will fall under three project categories or elements:

1. Investments to help reduce the cost of production or improve environmental sustainability;
2. Investments in value-chain innovation and sectoral adaptation; and
3. Investments to address emerging opportunities and challenges.

Expected Results:

• Producers, partners and industry implement actions to improve their environmental practices;
• Producers, partners and industry implement actions to reduce costs of production;
• Improved food safety, biosecurity, traceability and risk management measures;
• Agri-processors upgrade their capacity (through the modernization of their facilities;
• Increase in value-chain efforts focussed on innovation and/or adaptation; and
• Agri-industry implements actions to respond to market threats and/or take advantage of emerging market opportunities.

Performance Indicators:

• Number of actions implemented by producers to improve their environmental practices;
• Number of actions implemented by producers to reduce their costs of production;
• Number of improved food safety, biosecurity, traceability and risk management measures;
• Number of agri-processors that upgrade their capacity;
• Number and types of activities that increased value-chain efforts focused on innovation and/or adaptation; and
• Number of actions implemented to respond to market threats and/or take advantage of emerging market opportunities.

Summary of the 3-Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Forecast Spending 2010-11 reflects the authorized funding levels to the end of the fiscal year 2010-11 (not necessarily forecast expenditures). Planned Spending reflects funds already brought into the Department's reference levels as well as amounts to be authorized through the Estimates process (for the 2011-12 through to 2013-14 planning years) as presented in the Annual Reference Level Update.

Strategic Outcome:
A competitive Atlantic Canadian economy

Program Activity:
Enterprise Development; Community Development; and Policy, Advocacy and Coordination

Name of Transfer Payment Program:
Business Development Program – Voted

Start date:
July 25, 1995

End date:
Not applicable.  Based on evaluations of ACOA's program sub-activities, ministerial approval for continuation of this program will be sought prior to March 31, 2011.

Description:
Through its Business Development Program (BDP), ACOA works to create opportunities for economic growth in Atlantic Canada by helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) become more competitive, innovative and productive by working with communities to develop and diversify local economies and by championing the strengths of the region in partnership with Atlantic Canadians.

The objectives of the BDP are:

• to improve the growth and competitiveness of Atlantic SMEs;
• to provide for dynamic and sustainable communities in Atlantic Canada; and
• to provide for policies and programs that strengthen the Atlantic economy.

Eligible commercial recipients include individuals, sole proprietorships, partnerships, co-operatives, a body corporate or a Crown corporation that carries on, or is about to carry on, for-profit activities in Atlantic Canada. This does not include a government or individual municipality.

Eligible non-commercial recipients include not-for-profit incorporated entities and may include a Crown corporation, a provincial government, a municipal government, a not-for-profit organization owned or controlled by a provincial or municipal government, local economic development associations or post-secondary educational institutions.

Expected results:
A performance measurement strategy (PMS) has been developed for the Agency, which includes performance indicators, expected results, methods for reporting on performance, evaluation criteria and evaluation plans to be used for determining the effectiveness of its program activities. The BDP focuses on improving SME growth and competitiveness through innovation, entrepreneurship, business skills development, trade, access to capital, business support and investments activities. The BDP also supports ACOA’s community mobilization sub-activity through some of its non-commercial projects.

Key results expected under the BDP include the following:

Enterprise Development
Objective: Improve growth and competitiveness of Atlantic SMEs

• strengthened Atlantic Canadian innovation and commercialization capacity (measured by indicators such as the amount leveraged per dollar invested by ACOA in innovation projects).
• more Atlantic Canadians with the motivation and skills required to successfully start, sustain or grow a business (measured by indicators such as the percentage of participants in entrepreneurship awareness and promotion activities, indicating that the activity increased their intent to start a business).
• access for Atlantic Canadians to accurate, timely and relevant business information (measured by indicators such as the level of client satisfaction).
• increased export capacity and sales for SMEs in Atlantic Canada (measured by indicators such as the export sales of ACOA-assisted firms).
• increased flow of foreign direct investment into Atlantic Canada (measured by indicators such as the number of leads and number of deals).
• SMEs have access to funding for expansion/modernization (measured by indicators such as the amount leveraged per dollar invested by ACOA in expansion/modernization projects for the domestic market).

Community Development
Objective: Provide for dynamic and sustainable communities for Atlantic Canada

• improved community capacity to identify economic development needs and opportunities (measured by indicators such as the number of partners involved in planning).
• Atlantic Canadian businesses have access to capital (measured by indicators such as the dollars leveraged on investments by other sources).
• Atlantic Canadian businesses have access to information and counselling (measured by indicators such as the number of CBDC/Seed clients who have taken part in training or business counselling).
• improved capacity to address economic and business development needs and opportunities (measured by indicators such as the dollars leveraged on investments).

Policy, Advocacy and Coordination
Objective: Provide for policies and programs that strengthen the Atlantic economy

• well-informed policy decisions reflecting opportunities and challenges of the Atlantic region’s economy, while considering enterprise and community development potential (measured by indicators such as the extent to which policy analysis and research, economic analysis and engagement activities are useful and provide input into decision making with respect to Atlantic Canadian regional economic development).

Summary of the Three-Year Plan:
See ACOA’s website.

Strategic Outcome:
A competitive Atlantic Canadian economy

Program Activity:
Enterprise Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program:
Atlantic Innovation Fund – Voted

Start date:
May 10, 2001

End date:
not applicable

Description:
The objectives of the program are:

• to increase activity in and to build capacity for innovation and research and development (R&D), which leads to technologies, products, processes or services that contribute to economic growth in Atlantic Canada;
• to increase the capacity for commercialization of R&D outputs;
• to strengthen the region’s innovation capacity by supporting research, development and commercialization partnerships and alliances among private-sector firms, universities, research institutions and other organizations in the Atlantic system of innovation, and to increase their critical mass; and
• to maximize benefits from the national R&D programs.

Eligible recipients include commercial and non-commercial entities such as, but not limited to, universities, colleges, other post-secondary educational institutions, business associations, research institutions and private-sector firms.

Federal departments, including federal research laboratories and institutes, and provincial government departments, are not eligible recipients.

Expected results:
A performance measurement strategy has been developed for the Agency that includes performance indicators, expected results, methods for reporting on performance, evaluation criteria and evaluation plans to be used for determining the effectiveness of program activities.

The key result expected for the Innovation program sub-activity, which is largely supported by the AIF program, is strengthened Atlantic Canadian innovation and commercialization capacity (measured by indicators such as the number of meaningful partnerships and collaboration for technology development and commercialization, amount leveraged per dollar invested by ACOA in innovation projects, and revenues resulting from commercialization).

Summary of the Three-Year Plan:
See ACOA’s website.

Strategic Outcome:
A competitive Atlantic Canadian economy

Program Activity:
Community Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program:
Innovative Communities Fund – Voted

Start date:
April 1, 2005

End date:
not applicable

Description:
Working with communities at various stages of economic development, this program supports non-commercial/non-profit strategic initiatives that target the economic needs of communities and stimulate economic development. Working in collaboration with Atlantic communities and stakeholders, the Innovative Communities Fund (ICF) builds on the strengths of communities and provides the tools needed to identify opportunities available for their sustainable economic growth.

Expected results:
The ICF targets both developmental and long-term program outcomes.
Short-term outcomes aimed at the economic development needs of rural communities are:

• community access to funding and/or expertise they require to develop proposals;
• the development of partnerships; and
• increased citizen engagement and buy-in.

In the long term, expected results are:

• improved community economic development planning capacity;
• improved project management capacity; and
• the engagement of project partners.

Summary of the Three-Year Plan:
See ACOA’s website.

Strategic Outcome:
A competitive Atlantic Canadian economy

Program Activity:
Community Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program:
Community Futures Program – Voted

Start date:
May 18, 1995

End date:
not applicable

Description:
The purpose of this national program is to help communities develop and implement local solutions to local problems. The program provides financial support to Community Futures organizations (CFOs) that, in collaboration with other partners and stakeholders, can assess a community’s situation and develop strategies to meet its needs, provide support to SMEs and social enterprise, and undertake community economic development initiatives. The objective of the program is to further the ultimate objective of helping communities to successfully pursue
(a) economic stability, growth and job creation;
(b) diversified and competitive local rural economies; and
(c) sustainable communities. In Atlantic Canada, the program provides funding to 41 CFOs, known in the region as Community Business Development Corporations (CBDCs), that provide financial and technical assistance to SMEs in rural areas. More information on services provided through the CBDCs can be found on ACOA’s website.

Expected results:
Assisting selected communities in the development of their economies and supporting the growth of small businesses, the Community Futures Program’s short-term results are:

• enhanced business development services (e.g. information, counselling, referrals, training);
• improved access to capital and leveraged capital through loans, loan guarantees and equity investments to businesses;
• strengthened community strategic plans and more effective implementation through projects, partnerships and other community economic development initiatives; and
• enhanced marketing to increase awareness and use of Community Futures organizations.

In Atlantic Canada, the short-term expected results of the program, based on the role and responsibilities of the CBDCs, are to ensure that Atlantic Canadian businesses have access to capital, and business information and counselling.

Summary of the Three-Year Plan:
See ACOA’s website.

Strategic Outcome:
A competitive Atlantic Canadian economy

Program Activity:
Enterprise Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program:
Saint John Shipyard Adjustment Initiative – Voted

Start date:
May 29, 2003

End date:
May 31, 2011 (as amended)

Description:
Aims to address the impact of the lack of manufacturing activities at the site of the former Saint John shipyard and its economic impact on the province of New Brunswick. Eligible recipients may include Irving Shipbuilding Inc. or affiliates.

The federal government's objective is to ensure the closure of the Saint John shipyard site and its evolution into long-term economic development use. Therefore, prior to disbursement of any funds under the Saint John Shipyard Adjustment Initiative (SJSAI), Irving Shipbuilding Inc. (ISI) had to agree not to use (nor allow the use of) the site to construct, refit or renovate ships for 20 years. ACOA will not disburse any funds for capital expenditures until it has received satisfactory proof that impediments to alternate industrial or commercial activities on the site have been removed to the Minister's satisfaction. ISI must demonstrate that projects included under the SJSAI provide a net economic benefit to Canada, with no adverse competitive impact on existing firms.

Expected results:
Mitigate the impact of major economic downturns.

Summary of the Three-Year Plan:
See ACOA’s website.

Strategic outcome: Canadian artistic expressions and cultural content are created and accessible at home and abroad.

Program activity: Arts

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Canada Arts Presentation Fund

Start date: 2001-02

End date: 2014-15

Description: The Canada Arts Presentation Fund (CAPF) aims to give Canadians access to a variety of professional artistic experiences in their communities. It provides financial assistance to Canadian not-for-profit organizations that professionally present arts festivals or performing arts series, as well as their support organizations. The CAPF also supports the emergence of presenters and presenter support organizations for under-served communities or artistic practices. The expected result is that Canadians, from all regions, experience and value professional artistic experiences.

Expected results:

1) Presenters offer a variety of professional artistic experiences to Canadians.

Performance indicator:

• Percentage of professional arts presenter recipients, by discipline.

2) Canadians, including those in underserved communities across Canada, engage and participate in a variety of professional artistic experiences.

Performance indicator:

• Percentage of professional arts presenters whose activities reach out to underserved communities, by type of underserved community.

Output:

1) Grants and contributions approved under the CAPF.

Performance indicator:

• Number of grants and contributions approved and total amount of funds awarded.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

Strategic outcome: Canadian artistic expression and cultural content are created and accessible at home and abroad.

Program activity: Arts

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Canada Cultural Spaces Fund

Start date: 2001-02

End date: 2014-15

Description: The Canada Cultural Spaces Fund (CCSF) seeks to contribute to the improvement of physical conditions for arts and heritage related to creation, presentation, preservation and exhibition. The program also aims to increase and improve access for Canadians to performing arts, visual arts, media arts, and to museum collections and heritage displays and/or exhibitions. To achieve these objectives, the CCSF provides financial assistance in the form of grants and contributions to Canadian not-for-profit arts and heritage organizations, other levels of government or agencies as well as equivalent Aboriginal people's institutions or organizations for construction/renovation projects, specialized equipment purchases and/or feasibility studies for cultural infrastructure projects. The expected result is that Canadians in all regions, including underserved communities, have access to new or improved arts and heritage spaces in their communities for creation, presentation, preservation and/or exhibition.

Expected results:

1) Arts and heritage organizations have resources to build and improve facilities and    
infrastructure.

Performance indicator:

• Number of new or improved arts and heritage facilities.

2) A variety of arts and heritage experiences are available in underserved communities.
Definition:
Underserved communities: Aboriginal, culturally diverse, official languages, young audiences.

Performance indicator:

• Percentage of Canadian Heritage supported infrastructure and specialized equipment projects located in underserved communities.

Output:

1) Grants and contributions approved under the CCSF.

Performance indicator:

• Number of grants and contributions approved and total amount of funds awarded.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

Strategic outcome: Canadian artistic expression and cultural content are created and accessible at home and abroad.

Program activity: Arts

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Canada Arts Training Fund

Start date: 1997-98

End date: 2012-13

Description: The Canada Arts Training Fund aims to contribute to the development of Canadian creators and future cultural leaders of the Canadian arts sector by supporting the training of artists with high potential through institutions that offer training of the highest calibre. It provides financial assistance to independent professional Canadian not-for-profit institutions that specialize in providing focused, intensive and practice-based studies. These schools provide professional training at the highest level in disciplines such as ballet, contemporary dance, theatre, circus arts, and music (opera, orchestral), etc. It also supports some training that reflects Aboriginal and culturally diverse artistic practices. The expected result is that Canadians and the world benefit from high-quality artistic achievements by Canadian artists trained in Canada.

Expected result:

1) Graduates have professional careers in Canada and internationally.

Performance indicator:

• Percentage of graduates employed professionally in their field in Canada or abroad.

Output:

1) Contributions approved under the Canada Arts Training Fund.

Performance indicator:

• Number of grants and contributions and total amount awarded.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

Strategic outcome: Canadian artistic expression and cultural content are created and accessible at home and abroad.

Program activity: Arts

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Canada Cultural Investment Fund

Start date: 2001-02

End date: 2014-15

Description: The Canada Cultural Investment Fund (CCIF) aims to help arts and heritage organizations build and diversify their revenue streams, strengthen their organizational capacity, business skills and competencies, and to assist them in being better rooted and recognized in their communities. This will be achieved through four components: Endowment Incentives, Cultural Capitals of Canada, Strategic Initiatives, and Limited Support to Endangered Arts Organizations. The CCIF provides financial assistance to Canadian not-for-profit organizations in the arts and heritage sectors, foundations, Canadian municipalities, as well as First Nations, Métis, and Inuit equivalent governments. The expected result is to contribute to the long-term organizational, administrative and financial health of Canadian arts and heritage organizations.

Expected result:

1) Arts and heritage organizations are supported within Canadian communities that value their existence.

Performance indicators:

• Number of new or maintained partnerships and initiatives developed per applicant/recipient.
  Partnerships include: financial and non-financial investments in the delivery/execution of a project.
  Initiatives include: tools, strategies, activities, programs, approaches developed as a result of project funding.
• Number of types of demonstrated community support (by community constituency), other than Canadian Heritage, per applicant/recipient.
  Types of community support include: private sector, foundations, schools, community associations, other levels of government, etc.
• Amount of funds raised through private-sector donations by arts organizations applying to and eligible for Endowment Incentives component.

Output:

1) Grants and contributions approved under the CCIF.

Performance indicator:

• Total amount of funds awarded.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

Strategic outcome: Canadian artistic expression and cultural content are created and accessible at home and abroad.

Program activity: Cultural Industries

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Canada Media Fund

Start date: 2010-11

End date: 2014-15

6. Description: The Canada Media Fund (CMF), a public/private partnership, provides funding for the creation of television convergent digital content in both official languages and leading-edge non-linear content and applications designed for distribution on multiple platforms (e.g. television broadcast, the Internet, and/or mobile phones). The CMF focuses investments on the creation of content Canadians want and harnesses the opportunities provided by new technologies to deliver the content to Canadians where and when they want it. Organizations supported by the CMF include, but are not limited to, Canadian television and interactive production companies, broadcasters, broadcast distribution undertakings, Internet service providers and mobile communications operators. Canadians as consumers of convergent programs and creators of leading-edge content and applications represent to ultimate target group. Aboriginal communities and Francophones in minority language communities are also targeted by specific production envelopes.

Expected results:

1) Leading-edge non-linear content and applications are created for commercial potential or public use.
Definitions:
Leading-edge, non-linear content and applications: innovative content or applications presented on or developed for a digital platform that allows for interaction, such as offering user choices to control progress or to direct a story or presentation.
Commercial potential: potential uptake of products by mainstream media companies.
Public use: taking the form of projects whose products are used freely and/or directly by the public.

Performance indicator:

• Number of leading-edge non-linear content and applications projects supported by the CMF.

2) Canadians watch or interact with CMF supported television programs or digital convergent content.

Performance indicators:

• Audience share for CMF-funded television productions as a percentage of total audiences, by genre and by language.
• Number of users of digital convergent content from platforms other than television.

Output:

1) Contribution agreement with the CMF Corporation.

Performance indicator:

• A contribution agreement between Canadian Heritage and the Canada Media Fund Corporation is signed.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

* Variance between fiscal year 2010-11 and 2011-12 is mainly due to the wind down of the Canada's Economic Action Plan, which included funding for the Canada Media Fund.

Strategic outcome: Canadian artistic expression and cultural content are created and accessible at home and abroad.

Program activity: Cultural Industries

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Canada Interactive Fund

Start date: 2010-11

End date: 2014-15

Description: The Canada Interactive Fund (CIF) provides funding for the creation of online Canadian content developed by Official Language Minority Community (OLMC), Aboriginal, ethnocultural and other not-for-profit cultural organizations by focusing on the creation of interactive cultural products and applications. Examples of projects supported under the CIF could be where not-for-profit cultural organization partners with a targeted community to develop a living history of a community which combines a blog, an interactive timeline, community photos and stories of individual members. As Canadians increasingly adopt new technologies, the CIF is needed to ensure that OLMC, Aboriginal, ethnocultural and other not-for-profit cultural organizations contribute to leading-edge content online. This will complement action the Government has taken to update cultural programs, in particular the Canada Media Fund, which ensures the for-profit sector to create and distribute Canadian programming on multiple platforms.

Expected results:

1) Digital interactive content and applications are created by official language minority community, Aboriginal, ethnocultural and other not-for-profit cultural organizations.

Performance indicator:

• Number of digital interactive products created with support from the CIF.

2) Canadians access digital interactive content produced by official language minority community, Aboriginal, ethnocultural and not-for-profit cultural organizations.

Performance indicator:

• Number of annual visitors to projects supported through the CIF.

Output:

1) Contributions issued under the CIF.

Performance indicator:

• Number of contribution agreements signed and total amount of funds awarded.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

Strategic outcome: Canadian artistic expression and cultural content are created and accessible at home and abroad.

Program activity: Cultural Industries

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Canada Music Fund

Start date: 2001-02

End date: 2014-15

Description: The Fund supports activities of music creators, artists and entrepreneurs to ensure Canadians' access to a diverse range of Canadian music choices. The Fund consists of the following components: 1) Music Entrepreneur, which provides financial assistance to established firms with a track record for the creation, production, distribution and marketing of Canadian music, including touring activities; 2) New Musical Works, which provides financial assistance to small and medium music entrepreneurs for the creation, production, distribution and marketing of Canadian music, including attendance to music showcases; 3) Collective initiatives, which provides financial assistance to a diverse range of collective activities aiming to enhance presence of Canadian music artists at home and abroad; 4) Creators' Assistance, which provides financial support to professional development and acquisition of business knowledge of music creators; 5) Canadian Music Memories, which provides financial support for the preservation of Canada's musical heritage for future generations.

Expected results:

1) A range of Canadian music is produced by Canada Music Fund recipients.

Performance indicator:

• Number of Canadian music releases that were supported by the Canada Music Fund (by genre, language, province, etc.).

2) The portion of the Canadian-owned music industry targeted by the Canada Music Fund is sustainable.

Performance indicator:

• Gross revenues, in Canadian dollars, of Canada Music Fund - Music Entrepreneur Component recipients.

3) Canadian music supported by the Canada Music Fund is accessed in Canada and abroad.

Performance indicator:

• Total number of domestic and international unit sales of Canada Music Fund supported music.

Output:

1) Grants and contributions issued under the Canada Music Fund.

Performance indicator:

• Number of grants and contributions issued and total dollar amount awarded.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

Strategic outcome: Canadian artistic expression and cultural content are created and accessible at home and abroad.

Program activity: Cultural Industries

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Canada Book Fund

Start date: 2010-11

End date: 2014-15

Description: The Fund supports the activities of Canadian book publishers and other sectors of the book industry to ensure access to a broad range of Canadian-authored books. This support is delivered through the following streams of funding:

1) Support for Publishers, which provides funding distributed primarily through a formula that rewards success in delivering content that Canadians value. This funding contributes to the sustainable production and marketing of Canadian-authored books by offsetting the high costs of publishing in Canada and building the capacity and competitiveness of the sector;

2) Support for Organizations, which provides project funding to develop the Canadian book industry and the market for its products by assisting industry associations and related organizations to undertake collective projects offering a broad benefit to the industry and, ultimately, to readers everywhere.

Expected results:

1) A range of Canadian-authored books is produced by the Canada Book Fund (CBF) recipients.

Performance indicator:

• Number of Canadian-authored titles published by CBF recipients (by genre, language, province, etc.).

2) The portion of the Canadian-owned book publishing industry targeted by the CBF is sustainable.

Performance indicator:

• Aggregate profit margin (%) of CBF recipient publishers.

3) Canadian-authored books supported by the CBF are accessed in Canada and abroad.

Performance indicator:

• Value, in Canadian dollars, of domestic and international sales of CBF recipient publishers.

Output:

1) Grants and contributions issued under the CBF.

Performance indicator:

• Number of grants and contribution agreements issued and total dollar amount awarded.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

Strategic outcome: Canadian artistic expression and cultural content are created and accessible at home and abroad.

Program activity: Cultural Industries

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Canada Periodical Fund

Start date: 2010-11

End date: N/A

Description: The Fund supports the activities of Canadian publishers and magazines and non-daily newspaper associations to ensure that Canadians have access to diverse Canadian magazines and non-daily newspapers. It is delivered through the following components: 1) Aid to Publishers, which provides formula funding to Canadian magazines and non-daily newspapers for publishing activities, such as distribution, content creation, online activities and business development; 2) Business Innovation, which provides project funding to print and online magazines for business development and innovation; 3) Collective Initiatives, which provides project funding to Canadian magazines and non-daily newspaper associations for industry-wide projects to increase the overall health of the Canadian magazine and non-daily newspaper industries.

Expected results:

1) A range of Canadian periodicals is produced by the Canada Periodical Fund (CPF) recipients.

Performance indicator:

• Number of Canadian periodicals (titles) published by the CPF recipients (by genre, language, region, etc.).

2) The portion of the Canadian-owned periodicals industry targeted by the CPF is sustainable.

Performance indicator:

• Aggregate profit margin (%) of CPF recipient publishers.

3) Canadian periodicals supported by the CPF are accessed by Canadian readers.

Performance indicator:

• Number of copies of CPF-supported periodicals distributed to Canadians per year.

Output:

1) Grants and contributions issued under the CPF.

Performance indicator:

• Number of grants and contributions issued and total dollar amount awarded.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

Strategic outcome: Canadian artistic expression and cultural content are created and accessible at home and abroad.

Program activity: Cultural Industries

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: TV5

Start date: 1990-91

End date: 2012-13

Description: The international French-language TV channel TV5 is a partnership between France, Belgium's Francophone community, Switzerland, Canada and Quebec. The Department of Canadian Heritage provides annual funding to channels (single-recipient program) through a contribution agreement to TV5 Québec Canada and a grant to TV5 MONDE. Funding from Canadian Heritage and the Government of Quebec enables Canadian productions to be presented both in Canada, through TV5 Québec Canada, and around the world, through TV5 MONDE, alongside a rich diversity of programming from the international Francophonie.

Expected results:

1) Canadian content is part of TV5 MONDE's international programming.

Performance indicator:

• Percentage of Canadian content broadcast on TV5 MONDE.

2) Canadians have access to the wealth and diversity of the international Francophonie through TV5 Québec Canada (TV5 QC).

Performance indicator:

• Number of Canadian households with access to TV5 QC.

Outputs:

1) Contribution agreement (TV5 Québec Canada).

Performance indicator:

• Implementation of contribution agreement.

2) Grant to TV5 MONDE.

Performance indicator:

• Implementation of grant agreement.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

Note:            

As of 2011-12, the Grants to institutions and public authorities in Canada in accordance with section 35 of the Cultural Property Export and Import Act are included in the Museum Assistance Program.

Strategic outcome: Canadians share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity.

Program activity: Promotion of and Attachment to Canada

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Celebration and Commemoration Program

Start date: 2008

End date: 2013

Description: The Celebration and Commemoration Program aims to support or create opportunities for Canadians to celebrate/commemorate their history, diversity and achievements through a two-fold approach that includes the Celebrate Canada 11-day period culminating on July 1 with Canada Day celebrations and a five-year plan which is a theme-based dynamic approach to celebrating and commemorating significant people, places, symbols, anniversaries and events. These activities are delivered in collaboration with other federal departments, agencies, regions, partners and stakeholders. The Program provides opportunities to bring Canadians together in their communities to discover and appreciate the richness and diversity of Canadian society and to show their sense of belonging to Canada and pride in being Canadian.

Expected results:

1) Canadians participate in community celebrations and commemorations, and celebrations of national significance.

Performance indicator:

• Number of participants at local and national activities.

2) Increased sense of pride and belonging to Canada.

Performance indicator:

• Percentage of Canadians who agree that national celebrations and commemorations are a good way to share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity.

3) Coordinated federal approach to celebrations and commemorations.

Performance indicator:

• Percentage of members attending meetings of the Interdepartmental Commemorations Committee.

Outputs:

1) Grants and contribution agreements signed under the Celebration and Commemoration Program.

Performance indicator:

• Number of grants and contributions agreements signed.

2) Five-year Commemoration Plan.

Performance indicator:

• Number of updates to the Five-year Commemoration Plan.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

Strategic outcome: Canadians share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity.

Program activity: Promotion of and Attachment to Canada

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Exchanges Canada Program

Start date: 2000-01

End date: Ongoing

Description: The Exchanges Canada Program provides grants and contributions in support of youth participation initiatives that allow young Canadians to learn about Canada, create linkages with each other and better appreciate the diversity and shared aspects of the Canadian reality. The Program supports not-for-profit organizations to provide Canadian youth with a range of exchange and forum activities to strengthen their sense of belonging to Canada and therefore their sense of Canadian identity. The program has two components: Youth Exchanges Canada (YEC) and Youth Forums Canada (YFC). YEC funds reciprocal homestay exchanges for young Canadians, and also includes the Summer Work / Student Exchange sub-component, which provides summer job opportunities for 16 and 17 year-olds in their second official language. YFC enables young Canadians to connect with one another through forums, study sessions and workshops of interest to them. The Exchanges Canada website also provides a single window to information on a wide range of exchanges available in Canada.

Expected results:

1) Young participants enhance their knowledge and understanding of Canada.

Performance indicator:

• Percentage of participants who report enhanced knowledge and understanding of Canada.

2) Young participants connect and create linkages with one another.

Performance indicator:

• Percentage of participants who report having created new ties with other young Canadians as a result of the exchange.
  

3) Young participants enhance their appreciation of the diversity and shared aspects of the Canadian experience.

Performance indicator:

• Percentage of participants who report enhanced appreciation for diversity and commonalities.

Outputs:

1) Grants and contribution agreements in support of youth exchanges.

Performance indicator:

• Number of grants and contribution agreements.

2) Information available to Canadians about youth exchanges.

Performance indicator:

• Number of people accessing information about youth exchanges.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

Strategic outcome: Canadians share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity.

Program activity: Promotion of and Attachment to Canada

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Katimavik Program

Start date: 1997-98

5. End date: March 31, 2011

Description: The Katimavik Program, delivered by an independent, not-for-profit organization, the Katimavik-OPCAN Corporation, is a national youth volunteer and training program that provides young Canadians with the opportunity to learn more about their country and create ties with communities and with other Canadians. The objectives of the Program are to contribute significantly to the personal, social and professional development of the participants; to promote community service; and to offer a diverse experience, fostering a better understanding of the Canadian reality. Groups of youth aged 17 to 21 participate in a six- or nine-month program and collaborate on projects that involve volunteer work, training and group interaction, in various regions of Canada, including French-speaking and English-speaking communities.

Expected results:

1) Participants value Canada and its diversity.

Performance indicator:

• Percentage of participants indicating that they value Canada and its diversity more since participating in the Program.

2) Host-community partner organizations improve their capacity to serve their community.

Performance indicator:

• Percentage of community partners indicating that they have seen their capacity to serve their community improve.

3) Participants improve their personal, social and professional skills.

Performance indicator:

• Percentage of participants indicating that they have improved their personal, social and professional skills during their participation in the Program (in accordance with each of the skills covered by the Program).

Output:

1) Contribution agreement signed under the Katimavik Program.

Performance indicator:

• Number of contribution agreements signed.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

* Of this amount, $1 M will be transferred to Action Canada pending approval by Parliament.  Refer to announcement by Minister Moore ‘Minister Moore Announces Renewed Youth Program Funding’, October 2009. http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/infoCntr/cdm-mc/index-eng.cfm?action=doc&DocIDCd=CJM091543

Strategic outcome: Canadians share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity.

Program activity: Promotion of and Attachment to Canada

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Youth Take Charge

Start date: April 1, 2010

End date: March 31, 2013

Description: The objective of the Youth Take Charge Program is to strengthen youth attachment to Canada through engagement in the fields of history and heritage, civic engagement and youth service, arts and culture, and economic activities. The Program provides grants and contributions to eligible organizations in support of youth-led projects involving youth generally aged 7 to 30, which demonstrate the ability to strengthen attachment to Canada while addressing one or more of the above-mentioned thematic areas. It is expected that the Program will increase awareness among youth participants of the importance of being an active and engaged citizen; will increase relevance of youth-serving organizations for youth; and will increase youth engagement in communities. These outcomes will, in the long-term, lead to increased youth attachment to Canada and an increased sense of shared Canadian identity among youth.

Expected results:

1) Youth have a sense of attachment to Canada.

Performance indicator:

• Percentage of youth participants who have a sense of attachment to Canada.

2) Youth have a sense of shared Canadian identity.

Performance indicator:

• Percentage of youth participants who have a sense of shared Canadian identity.

Output:

1) Grants and contribution agreements.

Performance indicator:

• Number of signed agreements.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

* Funding for the Youth Take Charge Program ends in 2013-14.

Strategic outcome: Canadians share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity.

Program activity: Engagement and community participation

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Building Communities through Arts and Heritage

Start date: September 1, 2007

End date: March 31, 2012

Description: The Building Communities through Arts and Heritage (BCAH) program provides grants and contributions in support of local festivals and capital projects. Funding is made available to eligible stakeholders presenting arts and heritage festivals, events and activities that place emphasis on local engagement. Its objective is to engage citizens in their communities through performing and visual arts as well as through the expression, celebration and preservation of local historical heritage. The program has three components: 1) Local Festivals supports festivals, events and activities that involve the whole community and give opportunities to local artists and artisans and/or celebrate local history and heritage; 2) Community Anniversaries supports one-time commemorations through festivals or other activities that celebrate a major anniversary of a significant local person or event; and 3) Legacy Fund supports tangible, lasting capital projects that commemorate or celebrate a major anniversary of a significant local person or event.

Expected result:

1) Canadians are engaged in the expression, celebration and preservation of local arts and heritage.

Performance indicators:

• Number of volunteers at BCAH supported events.
• Number of local artists, artisans, and performers of historical heritage activities at BCAH supported events.
• Number of visitors/attendees at BCAH supported events.

Outputs:

1) Grants and contribution agreements signed under the BCAH Program.

Performance indicator:

• Number of grant letters and agreements signed.

2) Regional coordination and consultation

Performance indicator:

• Number of annual coordination and consultation meetings.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

Strategic outcome: Canadians share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity.

Program activity: Engagement and community participation

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Aboriginal Peoples' Program

Start date: 1971-72

End date: 2010-11

Description: The Aboriginal Peoples' Program (APP) focuses primarily on strengthening cultural identity, encouraging the full participation of Aboriginal peoples in Canadian life, and on supporting the continuation of Aboriginal cultures and languages as living elements of Canadian society. APP programming incorporates Aboriginal values, cultures and traditional practices into community-driven activities designed to strengthen cultural identity and enable positive life choices. The APP is composed of two complementary components:

• The Aboriginal Communities Component supports the efforts of Aboriginal communities to develop innovative and culturally appropriate solutions to the social, cultural, economic and other obstacles that impede community and personal prospects.
  
  
• The Aboriginal Living Cultures Component supports the preservation and revitalization of Aboriginal languages and cultures.

Expected results:

1) Aboriginal languages are preserved and revitalized.

Performance indicator:

• Degree to which Aboriginal language resources produced (printed materials, electronic materials, video productions) are utilized by Aboriginal people in the preservation and revitalization of their language.

2) Aboriginal peoples are engaged in their communities and have the opportunity to participate in social and cultural aspects of life in Canada.

Performance indicator:

• Number of Aboriginal peoples engaged and participating in community activities.

3) Aboriginal youth are empowered with leadership skills and a sense of community.

Performance indicator:

• Number of Aboriginal youth participating in projects that promote leadership in urban Aboriginal communities.

Output:

1) Grants and contribution agreements signed under the APP.

Performance indicator:

• Number and type of agreements.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

Strategic outcome: Canadians share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity.

Program activity: Official Languages

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Development of Official-Languages Communities Program

Start date: 2009-10

End date: 2013-14

Description: The Development of Official-Languages Communities Program has three components: Community Life, Minority Language Education and Language Right Support. The Program fosters the vitality of Canada's English- and French-speaking minority communities and enables them to participate fully in all aspects of Canadian life. Through partnerships and agreements with community organizations, provinces, territories, municipalities and federal departments and agencies, the Program aims to enhance the capacity of minority official language communities to have greater access to quality education, different programs and services in their language in their communities, as well as linguistic rights support, as guaranteed by the Constitution.

Expected results:

1) Members of official language minority communities (OLMC) have access to programs and services in their language, in their communities.

Performance indicator:

• Number of Sectors in which Federal-Provincial-Territorial provide programs and services to OLMC's.

2) Section 41 of the Official Languages Act (OLA) responsibilities and OLMC perspectives in federal institutions are better known and integrated in development of initiatives and programs.

Performance indicator:

• Quality of measures taken by Federal Institutions to integrate section 41 OLA and OLMC perspectives (low, medium, high).

Outputs:

1) Agreements (ex.: cooperation agreements with communities, intergovernmental agreements, agreements with the Council of Education Ministers (Canada), etc.).

Performance indicator:

• Number of bilateral agreements with communities and PTs.

2) Grants and contributions.

Performance indicator:

• Number of grant and contribution agreements with communities and PTs.

3) Support and coordination mechanisms and summaries of action plans and section 41 records of achievement.

Performance indicator:

• Number of action plans submitted by federal institutions.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

Strategic outcome: Canadians share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity.

Program activity: Official Languages

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Enhancement of Official Languages Program

Start date: 2009-10

End date: 2013-14

Description: The Enhancement of Official Languages Program has three components: Promotion of Linguistic Duality, Second Language Learning and Language Right Support. The Program promotes a better understanding and appreciation of the benefits of linguistic duality while offering linguistic rights support as guaranteed by the Constitution. Through partnerships and agreements with the provinces and territories and non-governmental organizations in support of second-language learning and initiatives that foster understanding between Anglophone and Francophone Canadians, the Program encourage the public to recognize and support linguistic duality as a fundamental value of Canadian society.

Expected results:

1) Greater number of Canadians have a better understanding of and appreciation for the benefits of linguistic duality.

Performance indicator:

• Percentage of Canadians that have a working knowledge of the second official language.

2) Knowledge and Integration of section 41 of the Official Languages Act (OLA) responsibilities toward linguistic duality perspectives in federal institutions' development of initiatives and programs.

Performance indicator:

• Number of Federal Institutions that have taken measures in regards to their responsibilities toward section 41 OLA and linguistic duality perspectives.

Outputs:

1)  Grants and contributions.

Performance indicator:

• Number of grant and contribution agreements with communities and provinces and territories.

2) Support and coordination mechanisms and summaries of action plans and section 41 records of achievement.

Performance indicator:

• Number of action plans submitted by federal institutions.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

Strategic outcome: Canadians participate and excel in sport.

Program activity: Sport

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Hosting Program

Start date: 1967

End date: June 2011. The continuation of the terms and conditions is underway.

Description: The Hosting Program is a key instrument in the Government of Canada’s overall approach to sport development in Canada and aims to enhance the development of sport excellence and the international profile of sport organizations by assisting sport organizations to host the Canada Games and international sport events in Canada. These events are expected to produce significant sport, economic, social and cultural benefits. The Program has four components:

1) International Major Multisport Games; 2) International Single Sport Events; 3) International Multisport Games for Aboriginal Peoples and for Persons with a Disability;
and 4) the Canada Games. The Hosting Program offers Canada-at-large a planned and coordinated approach to realizing direct and significant benefits, from bidding and hosting projects, in the areas of sport development, economic, social, cultural and community impacts, across a broad range of government priorities. The Program is characterized by active liaison with collaborators/stakeholders and by a diligent contribution system.

Expected result:

1)  Canadian athletes, coaches and officials have opportunities to participate at sport events in Canada funded by Sport Canada.

Performance indicators:

• Number of competition opportunities for Canadian athletes, coaches and officials at funded events.
• Number of athletes from under-represented groups participating at funded events.

Output:

1)  Contribution agreements.

Performance indicator:

• Number of events funded.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

Strategic outcome: Canadians participate and excel in sport.

Program activity: Sport

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Sport Support Program

Start date: 1961

End date: June 2011. The continuation of the terms and conditions is underway.

Description: The Sport Support Program is the primary funding vehicle for initiatives associated with the delivery of the Canadian Sport Policy. The Sport Support Program funding is aimed at developing athletes and coaches at the highest international levels; providing sound technically-based sport programming for all athletes; increasing the number of Canadians from all segments of society involved in sport; and advancing Canadian interests and values in Canada and abroad. This funding is provided to eligible organizations in support of programming that supports the goals of the Canadian Sport Policy.

Expected result:

1) Canadians have access to quality sport programs and services.

Performance indicators:

• Percentage of funded National Sport Organizations that have their coaching programs aligned with Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) tenets.
• Percentage of funded organizations that have adopted the current Canadian Anti-Doping Program.
• Number of projects that are completed, as proposed in domestic and international bilateral agreements. Activity/project refers to a set of activities or functions that a recipient proposes to undertake as per the bilateral agreement.

Output:

1) Contribution/bilateral agreements.

Performance indicator:

• Number of agreements in place during the fiscal year. Note: Agreements represent any domestic or international contribution or bilateral agreement.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

Strategic outcome: Canadians participate and excel in sport.

Program activity: Sport

Name of the Transfer Payment Program: Athlete Assistance Program

Start date: 1971

End date: June 2011. The continuation of terms and conditions is underway.

Description: The Athlete Assistance Program (AAP) contributes to the pursuit of excellence through its support for improved Canadian athlete performances at major international sporting events, enabling athletes to combine their sport and academic or working careers while training intensively in pursuit of world-class performances. To this end, the program identifies and supports athletes already at or having the potential to be in the top 16 in the world in their sport.

Expected results:

1) Canadian athletes have the financial resources to achieve higher levels of athletic performance.

Performance indicator:

• Percentage of athletes agreeing that AAP has made it possible to achieve higher levels of athletic performance (scale is 1 [strongly disagree] to 7 [strongly agree]). Note: A score of 5-7 on the scale indicates agree.

2) Canadian athletes access academic opportunities.

Performance indicator:

• Number of currently and formerly carded athletes using tuition grant (including deferred tuition).

Output:

1) Direct support for high-performance athletes.

Performance indicators:

• Total dollar amount of AAP support allocated to high-performance athletes, per fiscal year.
• Number of athletes supported (Living & Training, Tuition, Deferred Tuition, Special Needs).

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/publctn/3yr-pln/index-eng.cfm

Strategic Outcome: A world-class health-research enterprise that creates disseminates and applies new knowledge across all areas of health research.

Program Activity: 1.1 – Health Knowledge, 1.2 – Health Researchers, 1.3 – Health Research Commercialization, and 1.4 – Health and Health Services Advances

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Grants for research projects and personnel support

Start date: October, 2000

End date: N/A

Description:

CIHR provides a wide array of funding programs under this transfer payment program. This includes grant programs which are programs that provide support for the direct costs of research projects, for the training of researchers, or for activities that support the translation of research findings. Other programs provide direct salary and stipend support to individual researchers/scientists and research trainees.

Expected results:

• Health research advances knowledge
• Health research is conducted and translated
• A strong and talented health research community with the capacity to undertake health research
• Commercial activity-products patents and intellectual property, companies and employment generated

Performance Indicators:

• Outputs and impacts of CIHR funded research
• Number of publications from CIHR supported research per million dollars funded
• Number, types and share of PhD, graduates in Canada compared to international levels
• Number and fields of investigators and trainees funded

Strategic Outcome: A world-class health-research enterprise that creates disseminates and applies new knowledge across all areas of health research.

Program Activity: 1.2 – Health Researchers

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canada Graduate Scholarships

Start date: 2003-04

End date: N/A

Description:

The Canada Graduate Scholarship program (CGS) is a federal class grants program jointly administered by CIHR, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). CIHR's portion of the tri-agency class grants CGS program provides financial support to develop future health researchers at both the Masters and Doctoral levels in all health related fields in Canada, providing them with an opportunity to gain research experience.

Expected results:

• Increased capacity to meet demand for highly qualified personnel in the academic, public and private sectors.

Performance indicators:

• Percentage of recipients completing degrees
• Average completion rates versus general population
• Average time to degree completion among recipients versus general population

Strategic Outcome: A world-class health-research enterprise that creates disseminates and applies new knowledge across all areas of health research.

Program Activity: 1.3 – Health Research Commercialization

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Networks of Centres of Excellence

Start date: October, 2000

End date: N/A

Description:

The Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) program is a federal class grants program jointly administered by CIHR, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), in partnership with Industry Canada. Networks are not-for-profit corporations with an established Board of Directors and are unique partnerships among the academic, private, public and not-for-profit sectors. These nation-wide, multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral partnerships connect excellent research with industrial know-how and strategic investment. Networks put in place well-defined strategies to transfer knowledge to users-ensuring that discoveries and technological advances are turned into social and economic benefits for all Canadians.

Expected results:

• World-class Networks and Centres connect leading-edge research with industrial know-how and strategic investment
• Strong linkages and partnerships created between university, government and industry, and other users (NGOs), resulting in the transfer of knowledge and exploitation of leading-edge research results with economic or societal benefits to Canada.

Performance indicators:

• Significant demonstration of impact (i.e. Number of patents, licenses, copyrights, number of new products or processes, policies influenced or created, health delivery influenced stemming from networks and centres).

Strategic Outcome: A world-class health-research enterprise that creates disseminates and applies new knowledge across all areas of health research.

Program Activity: 1.4 – Health and Health Services Advances

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Institute Support Grants

Start date: October, 2000

End date: N/A

Description:

The Institute Support Grant program provides funding to select Canadian academic institutions, including universities and teaching hospitals, to assist them in hosting the 13 Institutes of CIHR. The Institutes help CIHR maintain strong ties to Canada's research communities and to understand their needs. Each CIHR-appointed Institute Director is among the top scientists in his/her field. Institutes help CIHR define its strategic health research priorities and develop research partnerships with other interested parties concerned with health research. Institutes also organize conferences, seminars, and workshops, all with the goal of developing and disseminating health-related knowledge and best practices.

Expected results:

• Effective domestic and international health research agendas as well as alliances and partnerships in areas related to the mandate of each Institute.

Performance indicators:

• Evidence of Institute's emerging leadership within the Canadian research and research user community, including examples of Institute innovation in identifying and responding to national and international health threats and opportunities.

Strategic Outcome: A world-class health-research enterprise that creates disseminates and applies new knowledge across all areas of health research.

Program Activity: 1.2 – Health Researchers

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canada Excellence Research Chairs

Start date: 2010-11

End date: 2017-18

Description:

The Canada Excellence Research Chair program is a federal class grants program jointly administered by CIHR, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). This program aims to support the development of a world-class workforce crucial to the innovation process, positioning Canada as a magnet for the world's top researchers and graduate students, and promoting the development and application of leading-edge knowledge.

Expected results:

• Centres with strong commercialization orientation are created that will become self-sufficient.
• Centres with strong research orientation are created that will yield significant public benefits within the funding period.

Performance indicators:

• Number of self-sufficient centres.
• Percentage of Centres with significant public benefits or research outcomes (for Centres with a research focus).

Strategic Outcome: A world-class health-research enterprise that creates disseminates and applies new knowledge across all areas of health research.

Program Activity: 1.2 – Health Researchers

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships

Start date: 2008-09

End date: N/A

Description:

The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship program is a federal class grants program jointly administered by CIHR, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships program is designed to attract and retain world-class doctoral students by offering them a significant financial award to assist them during their studies at Canadian universities. Vanier Scholars demonstrate leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering, and health-related fields.

Expected results:

• Contribute to making Canada a more attractive destination for international students and making Canada's scholarship initiatives more internationally competitive.

Performance indicators:

• Percentage of foreign Vanier candidates put forward by universities
• Recipients' perception of Canada as an attractive destination for research

Details on transfer payments programs

CIDA grants, contributions and other transfer payments of $3,207 million account for 93% of CIDA's 2011-2012 total planned spending, excluding non-budgetary expenditures. Further information is given below.

Strategic Outcome: Developed and diversified territorial economies that support prosperity for all Northerners

Program Activity: Business Development and Community Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Strategic Investments in Northern Economic Development (SINED) (voted)

Start date: April 1, 2009

End date: March 31, 2014

Description: Strategic Investments in Northern Economic Development is a project-based suite of programs to strengthen the driver sectors of the territorial economies; diversify them; and encourage Northerners’ participation in the economy. Eligible recipients include social enterprises, individuals, other levels of government and other non-federal entities, public or private, that have an interest in economic development in the North.

Expected results:

• Strengthened northern innovation and technology capacity
• Increased access to funding for northern and Aboriginal entrepreneurs
• Increased uptake of economic opportunities in existing, expanding and emerging sectors
• Increased capacity through training and business skills development activities of northern individuals and communities to identify and respond to economic opportunities
• Enhanced quality infrastructure for northern communities

Summary of the three-year plan: The first preliminary phase of a summative evaluation of SINED was conducted in 2010–2011. No specifically focused evaluations or audits are planned for this program in 2011–2012. (A fully finalized summative evaluation is planned for 2013–2014)

Strategic Outcome: Developed and diversified territorial economies that support prosperity for all Northerners

Program Activity: Community Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Aboriginal Economic Development (voted)

Start date: April 1, 2009

End date: Ongoing

Description: Aboriginal Economic Development funding is designed to increase Aboriginal participation in the Canadian economy. Through community investment, community infrastructure programming, and individual and community business development, CanNor provides funding and other supports to viable and sustainable proposals brought forward by First Nations, Métis and Inuit entrepreneurs in the North, as well as by northern communities, Aboriginal businesses and financial organizations.

Expected results:

Northern and Aboriginal communities ready to benefit from economic development opportunities

• Viable Aboriginal economic businesses
• A skilled Aboriginal workforce

Summary of the three-year plan: Program renewal for these programs is being led by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. No evaluations or audits are planned for 2011–2012.

Strategic Outcome: Newcomers and citizens participate to their full potential in fostering an integrated society.

Program Activity: Settlement and Integration of Newcomers

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canada–Quebec Accord Grant / Subvention versée en vertu de l’Accord Canada–Québec

Start date: Financial compensation to the province (in the form of a grant) is based on the Canada–Quebec Accord, which came into force on April 1, 1991.

End date: The Accord does not have an expiry date.

Description: The Canada–Quebec Accord relating to immigration gives Quebec the responsibility for providing settlement and integration services to all immigrants in Quebec, including all refugees. Quebec receives an annual grant from the federal government to support these settlement and integration services. For more information, please see the Canada–Quebec Accord.

Objective/anticipated outcomes: An objective of the Canada–Quebec Accord is, among other things, the preservation of Quebec’s demographic importance within Canada and the integration of immigrants to the province in a manner that respects the distinct identity of Quebec.

Activities: Quebec has responsibility for the selection, reception and integration of immigrants to Quebec. In accordance with section 26 of the Canada–Quebec Accord, Canada is required to pay compensation to Quebec, where it is established that:

• the reception and integration services offered by Quebec correspond, when considered in their entirety, with those offered by Canada in the rest of the country; and
• those services are offered without discrimination to all permanent residents in the province, whether or not they have been selected by Quebec.

Expected results: The Government of Quebec is responsible for developing and publishing its own expected results related to immigration.

Summary of the three-year plan: As per the Policy on Transfer Payments, CIC is required each year to provide a three-year plan for its Transfer Payment Programs.

Strategic Outcome: Newcomers and citizens participate to their full potential in fostering an integrated society.

Program Activity: Settlement and Integration of Newcomers

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP)

Start date: 1970s (under another name; RAP in its current form implemented 1998)

End date: September 30, 2011 (CIC) will seek continuation of program terms and conditions when they expire)

Description: The RAP provides immediate settlement assistance and orientation to government-assisted refugees who have been resettled in Canada. The program provides income support and immediate essential services to government-assisted refugees who lack the resources to provide for their own basic needs. In addition, it provides referrals to settlement programs for newcomers. The evaluation of the RAP is expected to be complete in the first quarter of 2011.

Expected results: Refugees are able to live safely and independently.

Summary of the three-year plan: As per the Policy on Transfer Payments, CIC is required each year to provide a three-year plan for its Transfer Payment Programs.

Strategic Outcome: Newcomers and citizens participate to their full potential in fostering an integrated society

Program Activity: Multiculturalism for Newcomers and All Canadians

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Community Historical Recognition Program (CHRP)

Start date: 2006–2007

End date: 2011–2012

Description: CHRP provides funding for community-based projects that commemorate or recognize the historical experiences of selected ethnocultural communities affected by federally legislated wartime measures and immigration restrictions or prohibitions. The program also educates the Canadian public concerning the contributions made by these communities to shaping Canada. Eligible communities include: Chinese-Canadians, Jewish-Canadians, Indo-Canadians and Italian-Canadians.

Expected results: The expected results are:

• historical experiences of affected communities are recognized in a way that is meaningful to the respective communities and serves to preserve their stories for future generations; and
• educational information on the historical experiences of affected communities is available to the communities and the general public, acknowledging and commemorating the experiences and elaborating on the contributions of these communities to building Canada and promoting a pluralistic society.

Summary of the three-year plan: As per the Policy on Transfer Payments, CIC is required each year to provide a three-year plan for its Transfer Payment Programs.

Strategic Outcome: Newcomers and citizens participate to their full potential in fostering an integrated society

Program Activity: Multiculturalism for Newcomers and All Canadians

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Multiculturalism Program

Start date: 1982–1983

End date: 2011–2012

Description: The program objectives are to:

• build an integrated socially cohesive society;
• improve the responsiveness of institutions to the needs of a diverse population; and
• engage in discussions on multiculturalism and diversity at an international level.

The Multiculturalism Program works to build an integrated cohesive society by fostering intercultural understanding, citizenship, civic memory and pride, and respect for core democratic values grounded in our history, and by promoting equal opportunity for individuals of all origins.

Expected results: The expected results are:

• program participants and beneficiaries take action toward increasing awareness of Canadian history and institutions; Canadian values; cultural diversity; and the cultural, racial, ethnic and religious barriers to full participation in society and economy;
• federal and targeted institutions demonstrate an increased responsiveness to the needs of a diverse society; and
• increased policy awareness in Canada about international approaches to diversity and increased implementation of international best practices in Canadian multiculturalism policy, programming or initiatives.

Summary of the three-year Plan: As per the Policy on Transfer Payments, CIC is required each year to provide a three-year plan for its Transfer Payment Programs.

Strategic Outcome: Newcomers and citizens participate to their full potential in fostering an integrated society

Program Activity: Settlement and Integration of Newcomers

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Settlement Program

Start date: May 15, 2008

End date: March 31, 2013

Description: The Settlement Program provides services that make a difference in the lives of newcomers. These services include: language training; information and referrals; assistance matching employment with newcomers’ skills and education; and help with establishing networks and contacts in their communities.

The terms and conditions for the Settlement Program describe both eligible recipients of contribution funding and eligible clients. The eligible recipients (often referred to as service providers) for settlement services include the following:

• provincial, territorial or municipal governments;
• not-for-profit organizations including non-governmental organizations, non-profit corporations, community groups and umbrella organizations;
• businesses;
• educational institutions (including school boards, districts and divisions); and
• individuals.

Eligible clients for settlement services are primarily permanent residents. However, they may also include some prospective immigrants and refugees who are highly likely to obtain permanent residency, but have not yet received their permanent resident visa. These include, for example, individuals who have been selected by CIC pending completion of medical, security and criminal verification requirements.

Expected results: The program’s ultimate outcomes are that:

• newcomers are better able to find employment commensurate with their skills and experience;
• newcomers enjoy their rights and act on their responsibilities in Canadian society;
• Canadians provide a welcoming community to facilitate the full participation of newcomers into Canadian society; and
• newcomers contribute to the economic, social and cultural development needs of Canada.

Note: The Foreign Credentials Referral Office will undertake a summative evaluation in 2011–2012.

Summary of the three-year plan: As per the Policy on Transfer Payments, CIC is required each year to provide a three-year plan for its Transfer Payment Programs.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Transfer and Taxation Payment Programs

Name of transfer payment program: Compensation to Canadian Agencies or Entities Established by an Act of Parliament for Reduction of Debts of Debtor Countries (Vote 5)

Start date: 1991–92

End date: Ongoing

Description: Compensation to Export Development Canada and the Canadian Wheat Board for reduction of debts of debtor countries

Expected results: Payments to Canadian creditors consistent with Government of Canada commitments

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Transfer and Taxation Payment Programs

Name of transfer payment program: Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Initiative (Vote 5)

Start date: April 2001

End date: March 31, 2014

Description: The Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Initiative is both an infrastructure and an urban renewal investment. The goals of the initiative include positioning Canada, Ontario and Toronto in the new economy, thereby ensuring Canada’s continued success in the global economy. This includes increasing economic growth and development opportunities; recognizing the intrinsic links between economic, social, and environmental health; enhancing the quality of life in Toronto; and encouraging sustainable urban development.

Expected results: Sustainable urban development and infrastructure renewal in Toronto’s waterfront area, including increased accessibility to and use of the waterfront area and a revitalized urban infrastructure.

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Transfer and Taxation Payment Programs

Name of transfer payment program: Harbourfront Centre Funding Program (Vote 5)

Start date: March 2006

End date: March 31, 2011

Description: The primary objective of the Harbourfront Centre Funding Program has been to provide operational funding to Harbourfront Centre until March 31, 2011. Such support has assisted the Harbourfront Centre in covering its fixed operational costs. The funding program has also facilitated Harbourfront Centre’s ability to leverage funding from other levels of government and to pursue other revenue-generating strategies that allow the organization to provide the general public with continued access to cultural, recreational, and educational programs and activities held in Toronto’s waterfront area.

Expected results: A self-reliant and financially viable organization that supports the economic, social, and cultural development of Toronto’s waterfront area

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Transfer and Taxation Payment Programs

Name of transfer payment program: Payments to the International Development Association

Start date: 1960

End date: Ongoing

Description: This program provides encashment of demand notes to allow the International Development Association to disburse concessional financing for development projects and programs in the world’s poorest countries.

Expected results: Payments to international organizations consistent with Government of Canada commitments

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Transfer and Taxation Payment Programs

Name of transfer payment program: Fiscal Equalization (Part I—Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act)

Start date: 1957

End date: Ongoing

Description: Formula-based Equalization payments are made to eligible provincial governments to enable them to provide reasonably comparable levels of public services at reasonably comparable levels of taxation. Equalization payments are unconditional.

Expected results: Timely and accurate administration of Equalization payments to provinces

* Forecast spending for 2010–11 includes a Total Transfer protection payment of $509,503,000.

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

More information on major federal transfers to provinces and territories can be found on the Department’s website at http://www.fin.gc.ca/access/fedprov-eng.asp.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Transfer and Taxation Payment Programs

Name of transfer payment program: Territorial Formula Financing (Part I.1—Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act)

Start date: 1985

End date: Ongoing

Description: Territorial Formula Financing payments are made to territorial governments to provide the resources they need to deliver services comparable to those delivered by provincial governments, taking into account the high costs and unique challenges in the North. Territorial Formula Financing payments are unconditional.

Expected results: Timely and accurate administration of payments to territories

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

More information on major federal transfers to provinces and territories can be found on the Department’s website at http://www.fin.gc.ca/access/fedprov-eng.asp.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Transfer and Taxation Payment Programs

Name of transfer payment program: Canada Health Transfer (Part V.1—Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act)

Start date: 2004

End date: Ongoing

Description: The Canada Health Transfer (CHT) provides equal per capita support for health care through cash and tax transfers to provincial and territorial governments. The CHT supports the government’s commitment to maintain the Canada Health Act’s national criteria (comprehensiveness, universality, portability, accessibility and public administration), conditions, and prohibitions against user fees and extra-billing.

Expected results: Timely and accurate administration of CHT payments to provinces and territories

* Forecast spending for 2010–11 includes a Total Transfer protection payment of $15,712,000.

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

More information on major federal transfers to provinces and territories can be found on the Department’s website at http://www.fin.gc.ca/access/fedprov-eng.asp.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Transfer and Taxation Payment Programs

Name of transfer payment program: Canada Social Transfer (Part V.1—Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act)

Start date: 2004

End date: Ongoing

Description: The Canada Social Transfer (CST) provides equal per capita cash support to provincial and territorial governments to assist them in financing social assistance and social services, post-secondary education, and programs for children. The CST gives provinces and territories the flexibility to allocate payments to those areas according to their own priorities and supports the government’s commitment to prohibit minimum residency requirements for social assistance.

Expected results: Timely and accurate administration of CST payments to provinces and territories

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

More information on major federal transfers to provinces and territories can be found on the Department’s website at http://www.fin.gc.ca/access/fedprov-eng.asp.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Transfer and Taxation Payment Programs

Name of transfer payment program: Wait Times Reduction Transfer (Part V.1—Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act)

Start date: 2004–05

End date: 2013–14

Description: As part of the 10-Year Plan to Strengthen Health Care, the Government of Canada committed to support to provinces and territories to help reduce wait times in the health care system—primarily in support of human resources and tools to manage wait times. A total of $4.25 billion was provided through a third-party trust fund in 2004 and was notionally allocated over 5 years, from 2004–05 to 2008–09. This amount has been paid in full. From 2009–10 to 2013–14, annual funding of $250 million will be provided to provinces and territories through a transfer on an equal per capita basis.

Expected results: Timely and accurate administration of payments to provinces and territories for targeted support

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

More information on major federal transfers to provinces and territories can be found on the Department’s website at http://www.fin.gc.ca/access/fedprov-eng.asp.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Transfer and Taxation Payment Programs

Name of transfer payment program: Statutory Subsidies (Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1982, and Other Statutory Authorities)

Start date: 1867

End date: Ongoing

Description: The statutory subsidies provide a source of funding to provinces in accordance with terms of entry into Confederation.

Expected results: Timely and accurate administration of payments to provinces and territories for targeted support

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Transfer and Taxation Payment Programs

Name of transfer payment program: Youth Allowances Recovery (Federal-Provincial Fiscal Revision Act, 1964)

Start date: 1964

End date: Ongoing

Description: The Youth Allowances Recovery is a recovery from the Province of Quebec for an additional tax point transfer (three points) above and beyond the Canada Health Transfer and Canada Social Transfer tax point transfers. In the 1960s, Quebec chose to use the federal government’s contracting-out arrangements for certain federal-provincial programs. Taken together, the Alternative Payments for Standing Programs and the Youth Allowances Recovery are known as the "Quebec Abatement." These arrangements ensure that all provinces and territories are treated the same through cash and tax transfers in support of health and social programs.

Expected results: Timely and accurate administration of payments to provinces and territories for targeted support

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Transfer and Taxation Payment Programs

Name of transfer payment program: Alternative Payments for Standing Programs (Part VI—Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act)

Start date: 1977

End date: Ongoing

Description: The Alternative Payments for Standing Programs is a recovery from the Province of Quebec for an additional tax point transfer (13.5 points) above and beyond the Canada Health Transfer and Canada Social Transfer tax point transfers. In the 1960s, Quebec chose to use the federal government’s contracting-out arrangements for certain federal-provincial programs. Taken together, the Alternative Payments for Standing Programs and the Youth Allowances Recovery are known as the "Quebec Abatement." These arrangements ensure that all provinces and territories are treated the same through cash and tax transfers in support of health and social programs.

Expected results: Timely and accurate administration of payments to provinces and territories for targeted support

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Transfer and Taxation Payment Programs

Name of transfer payment program: Incentive for Provinces to Eliminate Taxes on Capital (Part IV—Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act)

Start date: 2007–08

End date: 2010–11

Description: Financial incentive to encourage provinces to eliminate provincial capital taxes or restructure an existing capital tax on financial institutions into a minimum tax.

Expected results: Increased competitiveness of Canadian businesses by strengthening Canada’s business tax advantage

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Transfer and Taxation Payment Programs

Name of transfer payment program: Payment to Ontario Related to the Canada Health Transfer (Budget Implementation Act, 2009)

Start date: 2009–10

End date: 2010–11

Description: Direct payments are made to the Government of Ontario to ensure its per capita cash entitlements in relation to the Canada Health Transfer are the same as for other Equalization-receiving provinces.

Expected results: Timely and accurate administration of payments to provinces and territories for targeted support

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Economic and Fiscal Policy Framework

Name of transfer payment program: Establishment of a Canadian Securities Regulation Regime and a Canadian Regulatory Authority (Budget Implementation Act, 2009)

Start date: 2009–10

End date: 2010–11

Description: In Budget 2009, the Government of Canada committed to move forward quickly with willing provinces and territories to establish a Canadian securities regulator that respects regional interest and expertise as well as constitutional jurisdiction. These funds will be used to compensate participating provinces and territories for matters relating to the transition toward a Canadian securities regulator.

Expected results: A more efficient and streamlined regulatory system that reinforces financial stability, strengthens enforcement, protects investors, and is more accountable

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Transfer and Taxation Payment Programs

Name of transfer payment program: Debt Payments on Behalf of Poor Countries to International Organizations pursuant to section 18(1) of the Economic Recovery Act (stimulus)

Start date: 2010

End date: 2054

Description: Payments for Canada’s commitment to the G8-led Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative

Expected results: Payments to international organizations and Canadian creditors consistent with Government of Canada commitments

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Transfer and Taxation Payment Programs

Name of transfer payment program: Transitional Assistance to Provinces Entering into the Harmonized Value-Added Tax Framework (Part III.1—Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act)

Start date: 2010

End date: 2011

Description: The Provinces of Ontario and British Columbia decided to enter into the harmonized value-added tax framework and signed Comprehensive Integrated Tax Coordination Agreements. The Government of Canada entered into these Agreements under the authority of Part III.1 of the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act. As part of the Agreements, the Government of Canada has committed to providing Ontario with $4.3 billion and British Columbia with $1.599 billion in transitional assistance, to help offset transition costs and to facilitate economic growth and job creation. In 2009–10, British Columbia received $250 million. In 2010–11, Ontario received $3 billion and British Columbia received $769 million. Planned spending for 2011–12 is $1.88 billion: $1.3 billion for Ontario and $580 million for British Columbia.

Expected results: Implementation of the harmonized value-added tax in Ontario and British Columbia

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Transfer and Taxation Payment Programs

Name of transfer payment program: Subsidy Resources to the International Monetary Fund's Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (Bretton Woods and Related Agreements Act, Section 8)

Start date: 2010–11

End date: 2010–11

Description: A grant contribution of $40 million is made to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust to support concessional lending to poor countries.

Expected results: To be used, along with other donor and IMF resources, to provide $6 billion in additional concessional lending by the IMF to the world’s poorest countries in order to support their development goals and help them cope with the recent financial and economic crisis.

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Transfer and Taxation Payment Programs

Name of transfer payment program: Small and Medium Enterprise Finance Challenge (SME) (Bretton Woods and Related Agreements Act, Section 8)

Start date: 2010–11

End date: 2010–11

Description: Canada’s contribution toward fulfillment of the commitment made by G20 Leaders to finance the implementation of the best solutions received through the Small and Medium Enterprise Finance Challenge for scaling up private sector financing for growth-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries.

Expected results: Increased private sector financing for growth-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises, which will result in economic growth and job creation benefits in developing countries.

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

Strategic outcome: A strong and sustainable economy, resulting in increasing standards of living and improved quality of life for Canadians

Program activity: Transfer and Taxation Payment Programs

Name of transfer payment program: Fast Start Climate Change Financing (Bretton Woods and Related Agreements Act, Section 8)

Start date: 2010–11

End date: 2010–11

Description: Two separate payments are made to the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank. The first payment is a grant of $5.83 million for technical assistance grants that developing countries can use to build in-country capacity for evaluating and funding clean energy investments. The second payment is a loan of $285.72 million that will be disbursed as concessional financing to support private sector financing of clean energy projects in developing countries. These payments contribute to meeting commitments made by the Government of Canada during climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in 2009, and in the 2010 Speech from the Throne.

Expected results: To be used to assist developing countries in their efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to the impact of climate change

Link to three-year transfer payment program plan: A summary of the Department of Finance Canada’s three-year plan for transfer payment programs can be found on the Department’s website.

1. Strategic Outcome: A fair, relevant and accessible justice system that reflects Canadian values

2. Program Activity: Justice policies, laws and programs

3. Name of Transfer Payment Program: Access to Justice in Both Official Languages Support Fund (Voted)

4. Start date: April 1, 2003

5. End date: Ongoing

6. Description:The purpose of the Initiative in Support of Access to Justice in Both Official Languages is to improve the capacity of the justice system to serve Canadians in both official languages. The Initiative is part of the Roadmap for Canada's Linguistic Duality 2008-2013: Acting for the Future,announced by the federal government in June 2008. It includes a consulting mechanism, a justice training component, and a grants and contributions funding program titled "Access to Justice in both Official Languages Support Fund." Its objectives are to increase the capacity of the justice system and its stakeholders to offer justice services in both official languages and to increase awareness in the legal community and official language minority and majority communities concerning their rights and issues related to access to justice in both official languages.

Recipients:

• Canadian not-for-profit organizations
• Provincial and territorial governments, regional and municipal governments, provincial and territorial Crown corporations
• institutions/boards of education, including centers for jurilinguistics

7. Expected results: Continued and improved access to justice services for the official languages minority communities.

1. Strategic Outcome: A fair, relevant and accessible justice system that reflects Canadian values

2. Program Activity: Justice policies, laws and programs

3. Name of Transfer Payment Program:Aboriginal Justice Strategy Fund (Voted)

4. Start date:1991-1992 as Aboriginal Justice Initiative

5. End date: March 31, 2012

6. Description:The Aboriginal Justice Strategy (AJS) enables Aboriginal communities to have increased involvement in the local administration of justice and provides timely and effective alternatives to mainstream justice processes in appropriate circumstances. AJS programs are also aimed at reducing the rates of victimization; crime and incarceration among Aboriginal people in communities operating AJS programs; and, helping the mainstream justice system become more responsive and sensitive to the needs and culture of Aboriginal communities.

Recipients: (a) bands, First Nations, Tribal Councils, local, regional and national Aboriginal organizations; (b) agencies and institutions of regional/municipal governments; (c) non-profit community organizations, societies, and associations which have voluntarily associated themselves for a non-profit purpose; (d) provincial and territorial governments; (e) individuals; and (f) for-profit corporations, so long as these corporations will not make a profit on the work performed.

7. Expected results: Aboriginal communities continue to have increased involvement in the local administration of justice by providing timely and effective alternatives to mainstream justice processes in appropriate circumstances. Over time, the AJS Fund will contribute to reducing rates of victimization, crime and incarceration among Aboriginal people in communities operating AJS programs and help the mainstream justice system become more responsive and sensitive to the needs and culture of Aboriginal communities.

1. Strategic Outcome: A fair, relevant and accessible justice system that reflects Canadian values

2. Program Activity: Justice policies, laws and programs

3. Name of Transfer Payment Program:Aboriginal Courtwork Program (Voted)

4. Start date: 1978-1979

5. End date: Ongoing

6. Description:The objective of the Aboriginal Courtwork Program is to improve access to justice by helping Aboriginal people involved in the criminal justice system obtain fair, just, equitable and culturally sensitive treatment. It is the only ongoing justice related program available to all Aboriginal people (adult and youth), regardless of status and residency. The Program provides Aboriginal persons charged with an offence with timely and accurate information on their rights, obligations, roles and responsibilities at the earliest possible stage of the criminal justice process. Services also include referring clients to appropriate legal and social resources in their community. Aboriginal Courtworkers serve as a "bridge" between criminal justice officials and Aboriginal people and communities by providing information, cultural context, and liaison, and promoting communications and understanding.

Recipients: Federal contributions will be made to provincial governments to provide Aboriginal Courtwork services to Aboriginal persons (adults and youths) charged with an offence under any federal or provincial statute or municipal by-law. A province may authorize one or more agencies to deliver Aboriginal Courtwork services on its behalf.  All designated delivery agencies will be accountable to the funders. In addition, the Projects in Support of the Aboriginal Courtwork Program component provides modest support for projects that further the mandate of the Program.

7. Expected results: Contribution agreements with the provinces will support delivery of Aboriginal Courtwork services to ensure access to justice for Aboriginal people within the mainstream Canadian justice system, which will promote fair, equitable and culturally relevant treatment before the courts.

1. Strategic Outcome: A fair, relevant and accessible justice system that reflects Canadian values

2. Program Activity: Justice policies, laws and programs

3. Name of Transfer Payment Program: Legal Aid Systems (Voted)

4. Start date: August 17, 1971

5. End date: March 31, 2012

6. Description:The objective of the federal Legal Aid Program is to contribute to sustaining a national system of justice that helps to ensure that economically disadvantaged persons have access to the justice system, through contribution funding in support of criminal, youth criminal justice and immigration and refugee legal aid services provided by the provinces (funding for criminal and civil legal aid in the territories is provided through the Access to Justice Services Agreements).

Recipients: Provinces

7. Expected results: Provinces are enabled to provide legal aid services to eligible persons involved in serious criminal, youth criminal justice, and immigration and refugee matters.

1. Strategic Outcome: A fair, relevant and accessible justice system that reflects Canadian values

2. Program Activity: Justice policies, laws and programs

3. Name of Transfer Payment Program:Youth Justice Services Funding Program (Voted)

4. Start date:April 2, 1984

5. End date: Ongoing

6. Description:The overall objective of this Program is to support the policy directions of the Youth Justice Initiative. The specific objectives of the individual agreements are to support and promote an appropriate range of programs and services that encourage accountability measures for unlawful behavior that are proportionate and timely; encourage the effective rehabilitation and reintegration of young persons into their communities; target the formal court process to the most serious offences; and target detention and custody to the most serious offences.

Recipients: Provinces and territories

7. Expected results: The contribution agreements will support a sustainable youth justice system that is capable of innovation and supports federal youth justice priorities

1. Strategic Outcome: A fair, relevant and accessible justice system that reflects Canadian values

2. Program Activity: Justice policies, laws and programs

3. Name of Transfer Payment Program:Supporting Families Fund (Voted)

4. Start date: April 1, 2009

5. End date: March 31, 2014

6. Description: The SF Fund is a key component of the Supporting Families Experiencing Separation and Divorce Initiative (SFI), which was announced by the Minister of Justice in September 2008. The fund is aimed at facilitating access to the family justice system for families experiencing separation and divorce through various services, programs, and information resources, particularly those that promote compliance with financial support and custody/access obligations. The Fund also supports projects that promote public awareness about parental obligations, compliance, and the family justice system.

Recipients: Provincial and territorial departments, agencies, or other organizations designated by provincial and territorial governments as responsible for child support, the enforcement of support orders and agreements and parenting arrangement programs and services, are eligible to apply for contribution funding under the Family Justice Initiatives and the Pilot Projects components of the Fund.

Any of the following may apply for contribution or class grant funding under the Fund's Public Legal Education and Information and Professional Training component:

• individuals
• non-profit professional organizations, societies or associations
• other non-profit organizations, societies or associations
• educational institutions
• private sector organizations sponsoring non-profit projects in partnership with federal, provincial, or territorial governments

7. Expected results:

Expanded accessibility of custody/access, support and enforcement services;

Enhanced awareness and understanding of parental obligations, compliance, and the family justice system.

1. Strategic Outcome: A fair, relevant and accessible justice system that reflects Canadian values

2. Program Activity: Justice policies, laws and programs

3. Name of Transfer Payment Program:Victims of Crime Initiative

4. Start date:Victims of Crime Initiative (VCI) April 1, 2005, and Federal Victims Strategy (FVS) April 1, 2007

5. End date: VCI ongoing, and FVS March 31, 2011

6. Description:The Victims Fund is a grants and contributions fund with broad terms and conditions designed to raise awareness and enhance services and assistance to victims of crime. The Victims Fund is administered by the Policy Centre for Victim Issues and provides support to victims of crime as well as to governmental and non-governmental organizations to implement a wide range of victim-focused projects and activities. Planned spending for 2011-12 and onwards does not reflect the Funding for the Federal Victim Strategy which sunsets on March 31, 2011 however, its renewal is being sought by the Department.

Recipients: (a) individuals; (b) national, provincial, territorial, municipal, Aboriginal, community or professional organizations, societies or associations; (c) Canadian educational institutions/boards of education; (d) International governmental and non-governmental organizations, including bodies associated or affiliated with organizations of which Canada is a member, which have as their purpose victim advocacy, services, assistance or raising awareness about the impact of victimization; (e) private sector organizations sponsoring non-profit projects; (f) bands, tribal councils and self-governing First Nations who are working to provide services and assistance to victims of crime in Aboriginal communities; (g) provincial, territorial, municipal and regional governments and agencies.

7. Expected results:

• Give victims a more effective voice in the criminal justice system
• Increased access to services for victims
• Increased awareness and understanding among criminal justice system personnel, service providers and victims about victim issues, legislation and services available
• Reduced financial hardship for victims

1. Strategic Outcome: A fair, relevant and accessible justice system that reflects Canadian values

2. Program Activity: Justice policies, laws and programs

3. Name of Transfer Payment Program: Youth Justice Services - Intensive Rehabilitative Custody and Supervision Program (voted)

4. Start date:April 1, 2002

5. End date: Ongoing

6. Description:The overall objective of this Program is to financially assist the provinces and territories in providing the specialized services required for the implementation of the Intensive Rehabilitative Custody and Supervision sentence pursuant to paragraph 42(2)(r) and subsection 42(7) of the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other sentencing options applicable under the Act to serious violent youth offenders with mental health problems. It is expected that these services might reduce the likelihood of further violence in those convicted of the most serious violent offences.

Recipients: Provinces and territories

7. Expected results: Through the contributions signed under this Program, provinces and territories will have the financial capacity to implement sentencing options that involve specialized treatment programs to address the mental health issues of serious violent youth offenders.

1. Strategic Outcome: A fair, relevant and accessible justice system that reflects Canadian values

2. Program Activity: Justice policies, laws and programs

3. Name of Transfer Payment Program:Implementation of Official Languages Requirements under the Contraventions Act (Voted)

4. Start date:April 1, 2008

5. End date: Ongoing

6. Description: The Contraventions Act provides an alternative to the summary conviction procedure of the Criminal Code for the prosecution of certain offences under federal statutes and regulations. It allows certain federal offences to be prosecuted, using provincial court processes, by means of a ticketing scheme. Following a 2001 Federal Court decision concerning the implementation of the Act, the Department of Justice initiated the process of modifying existing Contraventions Act implementation agreements to ensure that the language rights requirements identified by the Court are respected.  To support this process, the Department of Justice received funding to establish the Contraventions Act Fund. The overall program has three main areas of activities:

• Implementing the Contraventions Act with the consent and cooperation of each province and territory by permitting, through a regulatory incorporation, federal contraventions to be prosecuted in accordance with the provinces' and territories' respective offence schemes, together with their processes and procedures, and giving enforcement authorities a new tool to better enforce federal regulatory offences that have been designated as contraventions 
• Allowing for the effective implementation of the Act through the negotiation with each province and territory of implementation agreements dealing with the administrative and procedural aspects of such implementation and, which are consistent with the Federal Court decision, by identifying the means and mechanisms to address the language-rights requirements identified in that decision 
• Administering the Contraventions Act Fund to support provinces and territories in respect of judicial activities and extra-judicial services in both official languages to conform with the Federal Court decision in respect of proceedings instituted under the Contraventions Act

Recipients:
Provincial and territorial departments and agencies and municipalities designated by provincial and territorial governments as being responsible for judicial activities and for providing extra-judicial services in both official languages.

7. Expected results:

• Increased capacity to offer in both official languages judicial activities and extra-judicial services in relation to the prosecution of federal contraventions
• Implementation of theContraventions Act in all jurisdictions of Canada in a manner that is respectful of the quasi-constitutional language rights of Canadians

1. Strategic Outcome: A fair, relevant and accessible justice system that reflects Canadian values

2. Program Activity: Justice policies, laws and programs

3. Name of Transfer Payment Program:Youth Justice Fund (Voted)

4. Start date:1999-2000

5. End date: Ongoing

6. Description:The overall objective of funding under the Youth Justice Fund is to encourage a fairer and more effective youth justice system. Funding is available for community and Aboriginal organizations, provinces/territories and their agencies, and other youth justice stakeholders for innovative pilot projects and related activities, such as training and evaluation. Priorities are set annually based on identified needs and emerging federal youth justice priorities.

A variety of activities are eligible for funding support under the Youth Justice Fund. These include, among others:

• The development, implementation, testing and evaluation of pilot projects dealing with youth involved in the criminal justice system. These projects often address youth with specific issues, such as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, mental health issues, substance abuse or gang involvement;
• Training and educational activities for youth justice professionals and community service providers; and
• Research activities which contribute to policy development

Recipients: Community and Aboriginal organizations, provinces/territories and their agencies and other youth justice stakeholders.

7. Expected results: The overall expected result is a fairer, more effective youth justice system.

Short-Term and Intermediate Outcomes:

• Increased responsiveness to emerging issues
• Increased community involvement
• Increased collaboration and knowledge development
• More effective rehabilitation and reintegration of young persons
• A more integrated coordinated approach

1. Strategic Outcome: A fair, relevant and accessible justice system that reflects Canadian values

2. Program Activity: Justice policies, laws and programs

3. Name of Transfer Payment Program: Access to Justice Services Agreements in the Territories (in the areas of Legal Aid, Aboriginal Courtwork and Public Legal education and Information Services) (Voted)

4. Start date:1996

5. End date: Ongoing

6. Description:The goal of the Access to Justice Services Agreements is to integrate federal government funding support to Canada's three territories for access to justice services (including criminal and civil legal aid, Aboriginal Courtwork, and Public Legal Education and Information) through ongoing contribution agreements that allow the territories the flexibility needed to provide these services in a challenging environment (vast distances, harsh climate, cultural/linguistic differences). The overarching goal of federal support for Aboriginal Courtwork services is to facilitate and enhance access to justice by assisting Aboriginal people involved in the criminal justice system to obtain fair, just, equitable and culturally sensitive treatment. With regard to legal aid services in the territories, the federal goal is to enable the territories to provide legal aid services to economically disadvantaged persons involved in serious criminal, youth criminal justice and civil matters. And, with respect to public legal education and information, the goal is to assist the territories in providing members of the public with the legal information they need to make informed decisions and participate effectively in the justice system.

Recipients:Territorial governments that undertake to provide services to eligible persons and eligible young persons in matters relating to the overall objectives of the Access to Justice Services Agreements. The territories may authorize entities ("territorial access to justice services delivery entities") to provide services in these matters.

7. Expected results: Contribution agreements signed with the territories will allow greater flexibility to allocate resources which will enable the territories to deliver access to justice services in the areas of Legal Aid (criminal and civil), Aboriginal Courtwork and Public Legal Education and Information.

Community Diversification Program

Strategic outcome: A competitive and diversified economy for the regions of Quebec

Program activity: Community Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Community Diversification program. This program represents a voted item, except for 2009-10, for which the funding dedicated to Canada’s Economic Action Plan (CEAP) corresponds to a statutory appropriation, and 2010-11, for which the funding portion dedicated to CEAP also corresponds to a statutory appropriation.

Start date: April 1, 2007

End date: March 31, 2012

Description: The Community Diversification program helps Quebec regions maintain and develop their economic activity base. A community’s vitality depends on its ability to develop by building on its own assets. The program has the following three objectives: to foster communities’ development and increase their mobilization by drawing up visions and projects of local and regional scope; assist communities through support for entrepreneurship and through creation or maintenance of viable enterprises; and increase communities’ capability to attract tourists and skilled individuals.

This program was also used for implementation of the Community Adjustment Fund (CAF), a temporary initiative under CEAP (2009-10 and 2010-11).

Eligible beneficiaries: Includes in particular small and medium-sized enterprises and non-profit organizations.

Expected results:

• Communities are pursuing a development vision and implementing resulting initiatives.
• Enterprises are contributing to community economic growth and maintenance.
• Communities are recognized for their distinctiveness, brand image or outreach.

Summary of Three-Year Plan: Hyperlink to the Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs : http://www.dec-ced.gc.ca/eng/agency/about/plan.html

Business and Regional Growth Program

Strategic outcome: A competitive and diversified economy for the regions of Quebec

Program activity:
Enterprise competitiveness
Competitive positioning of sectors and regions

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Business and Regional Growth program. This program represents a voted item, except for 2009-10, for which the funding dedicated to Canada’s Economic Action Plan (CEAP) corresponds to a statutory appropriation, and 2010-11, for which the funding portion dedicated to CEAP also corresponds to a statutory appropriation.

Start date: April 1, 2007

End date: March 31, 2012

Description: The Business and Regional Growth program reinforces conditions conducive to the sustainable growth of regions and SMEs. It aims to help enterprises improve their performance, become more competitive and engage in more innovation to facilitate their sustainable development; support the transfer of technology and research outputs to enterprises; and create the right conditions for attracting foreign investment and international organizations.

This program was also used for implementation of the Community Adjustment Fund (CAF), a temporary initiative under CEAP in 2009-10 and 2010-11.

Eligible beneficiaries: Includes in particular small and medium-sized enterprises and non-profit organizations.

Expected results:

• Assisted enterprises are using their strategic capabilities.
• Products and services derived from R&D are being commercialized.
• New enterprises and investment are consolidating the regions’ economic base.
• Competitiveness poles are being developed and consolidated.
• Clusters and networks of enterprises in the same sector or region are better structured.
• The innovation commercialization process is generating medium- and long-range economic and social spinoffs.
• Competitive regions are attracting foreign direct investment and international organizations

Summary of Three-Year Plan: Hyperlink to the Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs : http://www.dec-ced.gc.ca/eng/agency/about/plan.html

Community Futures Program

Strategic outcome: A competitive and diversified economy for the regions of Qubec

Program activity: Community Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Community Futures Program (CFP) (voted item)

Start date: May 18, 1995

End date: Indeterminate, in line with the Treasury Board of Canada’s Policy on Transfer Payments, in effect since October 1, 2008.

Description: This Canada-wide program provides support for communities in all parts of the country to help them take charge of their own local economic development.

Beneficiaries: In Quebec, the CFP financially supports local and regional development agencies, including Community Futures Development Corporations (CFDCs), Community Economic Development Corporations (CEDCs) and Business Development Centres (BDCs).

Expected results:

• Communities are pursuing a development vision and implementing resulting initiatives.
• Enterprises are contributing to community economic growth and maintenance.

Summary of Three-Year Plan: Hyperlink to the Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs : http://www.dec-ced.gc.ca/eng/agency/about/plan.html

Contribution program to fund construction of a gas pipeline between Vallée-Jonction and Thetford Mines

Strategic outcome: A competitive and diversified economy for the regions of Qubec

Program activity: Infrastructure

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contribution program to fund construction of a gas pipeline between Vallée-Jonction and Thetford Mines (voted item).

Start date: April 1, 2012

End date: March 31, 2014

Description: The goal of the program is to fund the project for construction of section of gas pipeline between Vallée-Jonction and Thetford Mines in order to provide the Thetford area with access to natural gas. The program targets an increase in enterprises’ competitiveness as well as economic diversification through infrastructure conducive to economic development and benefiting the community.

Eligible beneficiary: Gaz Métro Limited Partnership and/or related company.

Expected results:

• The gas pipeline reaches Thetford Mines, and gas is distributed to end users.
• Enterprises can adopt natural gas as the energy source for their activities.
• Enterprises are established in the region and use natural gas.

Summary of Three-Year Plan: Hyperlink to the Departmental Plan for Transfer Payment Programs : http://www.dec-ced.gc.ca/eng/agency/about/plan.html

1. Strategic Outcome: Canada’s natural capital 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: Program is ongoing. March 2012 is the end date for a portion of HSP funding ($4 M)

6. Description: The purpose of the 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. HSP fosters partnerships among organizations interested in the recovery of species at risk and provides funding for implementing activities that protect or conserve habitats for species at risk. It 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:

• Support habitat projects that benefit species at risk.
• Enable Canadians to become actively and concretely involved in stewardship projects for species at risk that will result in tangible, measurable environmental benefits.
• Improve understanding of the role stewardship has as a conservation tool.
• Securing or protecting important habitat to protect species at risk and support their recovery.
• Increased awareness and understanding among Canadians of the environmental impacts of their transportation choices.
• Mitigating threats to species at risk caused by human activities.

14. Summary of the 3 Year Plan:

Refer to the following link for reference to the summary of 3 Year Plans as per Section 6.6.1 of the Policy on Transfer Payments: http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=AA625E07-1

1. Strategic Outcome: 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: Contributions in support of Biodiversity – Wildlife and Habitat

4. Start date: June 10, 2010

5. End date: Ongoing – Evaluation to be completed by March 31, 2015

6. Description: Contributions in support of Biodiversity – Wildlife and Habitat are proposed in order to encourage and support individuals and organizations engaged in activities to maintain or restore wildlife populations, in particular migratory birds and species at risk, to target levels.

7. Expected results: Projects funded under these terms and conditions will contribute, together with other departmental activities and the actions of others, to the following key expected results*:

*The expected results listed above reflect current areas of focus where the numbers and scale of agreements are expected to be sufficient to enable measurement of the impact of the contributions. Should the areas of focus for projects under these terms and conditions change, additional expected results and indicators will be defined where warranted.

Projects having different expected results but which support the objectives of these terms and conditions may be undertaken. Evaluation and performance measurement of such projects, which tend to be unique and non-recurring, will focus on the specific expected results identified in individual funding agreements.

The results of the Program link to the Environment Canada Program Activity: Biodiversity – Wildlife and Habitat, which includes Program Sub-Activities: Biodiversity Policy and Priorities, Species at Risk, Migratory Birds and Wildlife Habitat Conservation, under the strategic outcome “Canada’s natural capital is conserved and restored for present and future generations” of the Program Activity Architecture.

a) Forecasted 2010–2011 expenditures are expected to change once the final list of deferred projects is finalized and approved by senior management (lists are expected to be approved in mid/late December).

b) The amounts shown in 2011–2012 and future years are subject to change pending decisions related to the allocation of the Strategic Review Reduction.

c) Amounts listed above do not include Assessed Contributions for the following Transfer Payment Programs:

• $160K - Convention on Wetlands of Int'l Importance (Ramsar)
• $175K - Convention on Int'l Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)

14. Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=AA625E07-1

1. Strategic Outcome: 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: In December 2009, the Minister of Environment approved the 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:

14. Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=AA625E07-1

1. Strategic Outcome: 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, 2017

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 or rehabilitation measures that reduce nutrient loads to lakes Winnipeg and Simcoe and their tributaries. The entities include domestic or international non-profit organizations, provincial and municipal governments, regional conservation authorities, individual Canadians, businesses, post-secondary institutions, Indian bands, and Aboriginal 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. Marys River, Thunder Bay, St. Clair River, Niagara River, and the Bay of Quinte) to reduce the release and impact of contaminated sediments on the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem;
• Support stewardship projects that will reduce pollutants, particularly nutrients loads, in priority areas in the Lake Winnipeg Basin; and
• Clean up 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.

Planned evaluations: A third-party program evaluation is being conducted for Lake Winnipeg and Lake Simcoe, and for the Great Lakes initiative, and will conclude in 2011.

14. Summary of the 3 Year Plan:

http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=390AF41B-1 (from 2010–2011 RPP input, update if required)

1. Strategic Outcome: 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: Contributions in support of Sustainable Ecosystems

4. Start date: June 10, 2010

5. End date: Ongoing – Evaluation to be completed by March 31, 2015

6. Description: Contributions under the Sustainable Ecosystems Program Activity are proposed in order to encourage and support individuals and organizations engaged in activities to manage ecosystem resources in a manner consistent with ecosystem sustainability.

7. Expected results: The purpose and overall objective of contributions made under these terms and conditions is to enhance or maintain the sustainability of ecosystems in Canada, through collaboration with other levels of government (provinces, territories as well as regional, municipal and local government), Aboriginal peoples and other stakeholders (such as non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, industry, businesses). Sustainable Ecosystems Program contributions will support the following key results*:

*For each of the results set out, the following are the key performance measurements and indicators that will be used to monitor and report on the efficacy of the activities and the progress of the various projects undertaken. Further details, including data sources, frequency of measurement and linkages to Program logic models are described in its Performance Measurement Strategy. Data for each of the indicators will be tracked at the level of individual planning units and may be aggregated to enable reporting at Sub-Activity or Program levels.

The Program Activity “Sustainable Ecosystems” supports the Strategic Outcome “Canada’s natural environment is conserved and restored for present and future generations.”