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Section III - Supplementary Information
Financial Highlights
The financial highlights presented here offer an overview of Environment Canada’s future-oriented financial statements. The Statement of Management Responsibility, the future-oriented statement of operations, and all accompanying notes can be found at the following website: http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=31D9FF32-1.
| Future-oriented Condensed Statement of Operations* For the Year (Ended March 31) |
% change | Future-oriented 2011–12 |
Future-oriented 2010–11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Expenses | (13%) | 1,082,397 | 1,245,177 |
| Total Expenses | 1,082,397 | 1,245,177 | |
| Revenues | (2%) | (75,938) | (77,121) |
| Total Revenues | (75,938) | (77,121) | |
| Net Cost of Operations | (14%) | 1,006,459 | 1,168,056 |
*Beginning in the 2011–2012 RPP, all departments are required to present future-oriented financial statements. As departments are encouraged to prepare the full set of financial statements, the minimum requirement for Environment Canada (being one of the departments implementing these statements for the first time) is to produce a Statement of Operations and accompanying notes that will be posted on EC’s website and linked to the RPP.
Total departmental expenses are expected to decrease by $162.8M or 13%, from $1,245 million in 2010–2011 to $1,082 million in 2011–2012. The overall decrease is explained by $185 million of sunsetting programs that include the Chemicals Management Plan, a portion of the Clean Air Agenda and a considerable reduction in funding to the Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan and National Vehicle Scrappage Program. This major decrease is partially offset mainly by an augmentation of $21 million of the amortization of tangible capital assets.
Supplementary Information Tables
All electronic supplementary information tables found in the 2011–2012 Report on Plans and Priorities can be found on the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat’s website at http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/rpp/st-ts-eng.asp.
- Details of Transfer Payment Programs (TPP)
- Up-Front Multi-Year Funding
- Greening Government Operations
- Horizontal Initiatives
- Upcoming Internal Audits and Evaluations over the Next Three Fiscal Years
- Sources of Respendable and Non-Respendable Revenue
- Summary of Capital Spending by Program Activity
- User Fees
Services received without charge
A table detailing the information on Services Received Without Charge by the Department during the planning period is available electronically on the Department’s website at www.ec.gc.ca/dpr-rpp/index_e.htm.
Section IV – Other Items of Interest
Sustainable development
Based on the FSDS, Environment Canada commits to
- Providing more specific information on departmental sustainable development activities appropriate to the Department’s mandate;
- Strengthening the application of Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) by ensuring that the government’s environmental goals are taken into account when pursuing social and economic goals; and
- Pursuing best practices on reporting on summary information on the results of SEAs linked to the FSDS goals and targets, in order to ensure that environmental decision making is more transparent.
For additional details on the Department's activities to support sustainable development, please see the departmental website, and for complete details on the FSDS please see the FSDS website.
Official languages
Environment Canada is fully committed to embracing the spirit, intent and provisions of the Official Languages Act and its regulations. The departmental Official Languages (OL) Action Plan identifies the priorities at the departmental level and guidance to all branches and services in the Department with regard to improving the quality of service rendered to clients and to fostering an exemplary work environment where the rights and entitlements of all employees are respected. The following priorities from the action plan were identified for 2011–2012:
- Develop and communicate a tool to help managers identify the language requirements and linguistic profiles of positions to ensure they are done in a more consistent manner; and
- Finalize and communicate the tool on language of work at Environment Canada to promote and facilitate a workplace that is conducive to the use of both official languages.
Furthermore, other ongoing initiatives are planned for 2011–2012, including the monitoring of services to the public offered by Environment Canada, the monitoring of the use of non-imperative staffing and the coordination and monitoring of statutory cases (employees appointed non-imperatively). A draft of the action plan for 2012–2015 will also be developed, based on the main challenges and priorities related to official languages at Environment Canada.
[Footnotes]
1 Temporary funding refers to funding that is associated with programs and services that are not permanent, and as such have a defined end date. Sunsetters refer to temporary programs that are ending within the year(s) being reported, and are often referred to as “sunsetting programs”.
2 Program Activity descriptions are included under each Strategic Outcome in Section II.
3 Program Activity descriptions are included under each Strategic Outcome in Section II.
4 Program Activity descriptions are included under each Strategic Outcome in Section II.
5 Program Activity descriptions are included under each Strategic Outcome in Section II.
6 Program Activity descriptions are included under each Strategic Outcome in Section II.
7 In order to identify linkages between the Department’s programming and the Federal Sustainable Development Strategy (FSDS), relevant icons representing FSDS Themes (where applicable) are placed at the margin in the Planning Highlights segment of the Program Activity discussion. Appropriate FSDS goals, targets and indicators associated with each of the FSDS Themes are also aligned with the Program Activity discussion. For additional details on Environment Canada’s activities to support sustainable development, please see http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=31D9FF32-1, and for complete details on the FSDS, please see http://ec.gc.ca/dd-sd/default.asp?lang=En&n=C2844D2D-1
8 Applies to oceans.
9 Negotiations are currently underway and will include, among others, the municipal, agricultural and industrial sectors.
10 An approach that seeks to integrate science, regulatory and outreach activities to improve ecosystem health.
11 E.g. air, marine and defence.
12 Environment Canada will ratify an amendment to add five substances to the Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants under the LRTAP.
13 Environment Canada will ratify an amendment to add nine substances to the Stockholm Convention.
14 Environment Canada will also complete negotiations of the “Toxics” annex to the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA), and continue to participate in negotiations of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) under the Stockholm Convention and the Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP).
15 This contributes to Environment Canada’s efforts to address air pollution as well.
16 E.g. Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), Canadian Environmental Technology Advancement Centres (CETACs), the Green Municipal Fund (GMF), and Strategic Technology Applications of Genomics in the Environment (STAGE).
17 This includes continental action through joint verification initiatives with the United States and international action through the coordination of the International Working Group (IWG-ETV).
18 This will provide a dual benefit for both climate and ozone layer protection.
19 “No-regrets” measures are those which provide a net benefit to the environment, society and the economy and would be justified under all plausible future scenarios.
20 E.g. support South Africa in its role as President of CoP 17 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference; participate in discussions to revise the UNECE Gothenburg Protocol on the long-range transport of air pollutants; continue bilateral partnerships in key countries (China, Mexico, India), including clean technology projects; and address marine and aviation greenhouse gas emissions under the International Marine Organization and International Civil Aviation Organization.
21 For instance, the National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) collects and provides information on air pollutant emissions that helps inform policy development and decision making.
