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2011-12
Report on Plans and Priorities



Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency





Supplementary Information (Tables)





Table of Contents




Details of Transfer Payment Programs (TPP)


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

($ millions)
  Forecast Spending
2010–11		 Planned Spending
2011–12		 Planned Spending
2012–13		 Planned Spending
2013–14
Total grants 0 0 0 0
Total contributions 18.157 18.157 18.157 18.157
Total other types of transfer payments 0 0 0 0
Total transfer payments 18.157 18.157 18.157 18.157

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

($ millions)
  Forecast Spending
2010–11		 Planned Spending
2011–12		 Planned Spending
2012–13		 Planned Spending
2013–14
Total grants 0 0 0 0
Total contributions 11.8 11.8 11.8 11.8
Total other types of transfer payments 0 0 0 0
Total transfer payments 11.8 11.8 11.8 11.8

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.



Greening Government Operations (GGO)

Overview

The GGO supplementary table applies to departments and agencies bound by the Federal Sustainable Development Act, the Policy on Green Procurement, or the Policy Framework for Offsetting Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Major International Events.

Please note:

  • RPP refers to Reports on Plans and Priorities and represents planned / expected results.
  • DPR refers to Departmental Performance Reports and represents actual results.

Printing Unit Reduction Target


8.7 By March 31, 2013, each department will achieve an 8:1 average ratio of office employees to printing units. Departments will apply target where building occupancy levels, security considerations, and space configuration allow.
Performance Measure RPP DPR
Target Status  
Ratio of departmental office employees to printing units at the end of the given fiscal year, where building occupancy levels, security considerations and space configuration allow. FY 2011–12 8 : 1  
FY 2012–13 8 : 1  
FY 2013–14 8 : 1  


Green Meetings Target


8.9 By March 31, 2012, each department will adopt a guide for greening meetings.
Performance Measure RPP DPR
Target Status  
CanNor will produce a green meeting guide 100%  

Strategies / Comments

  1. CanNor offices are distributed across more than 40 percent of Canada’s land mass. The majority of Agency meetings are conducted by teleconference and by using electronic media. This reduces paper use as well as reduces greenhouse gases that might be generated in transporting employees to face-to-face meetings.

Green Procurement Reporting for Departments and Agencies Not Bound by the Federal Sustainable Development Act

8.10 As of April 1, 2011, each department will establish at least 3 SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound) green procurement targets to reduce environmental impacts.


Green Procurement Training: All CanNor procurement staff will be trained in Green Procurement by March 2012
Performance Measure RPP DPR
Target Status  
All CanNor procurement staff will be trained in Green Procurement by March 2012 100%  

Strategies / Comments

  1. CanNor continues to staff corporate services functions. Staff engaged to provide procurements services will be trained in green procurement practices. The same training will be provided to administrative staff who use acquisition cards.


Green Informatics Procurement: Where not in contradiction with comprehensive land claim objectives, all CanNor informatics procurement will be conducted using Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) consolidated procurement instruments, which are greened through PWGSC’s Commodity Management Framework
Performance Measure RPP DPR
Target Status  
All informatics procurement will follow PWGSC green procurement instruments where not in contradiction with land claims objectives 100%  

Strategies / Comments

  1. CanNor will conduct all informatics procurement using PWGSC tools and instruments, which are greened through the PWGSC Commodity Management Framework.
  2. In some cases, the use of these instruments may contradict the objectives of comprehensive land claims agreements in communities where CanNor has offices. In these instances, CanNor will determine how to meet the principles of green procurement while responding to the objectives of these agreements.


Greening Office Equipment Procurement: CanNor will ensure that 75 percent of shared-use office equipment procured by the Agency, such as photocopiers, will be multifunction (including scanning, faxing, copying and printing functions) with the goal of reducing the total number of machines.
Performance Measure RPP DPR
Target Status  
75% shared-use equipment will be multifunction 75%  

Strategies / Comments

  1. Multifunction machines can significantly reduce production and end-of-life waste created in the production of office equipment. CanNor will focus on ensuring that all shared-use equipment is multifunction.

8.11 As of April 1, 2011, each department will establish SMART targets for training, employee performance evaluations, and management processes and controls, as they pertain to procurement decision-making.


Training: All CanNor procurement staff will be trained in green procurement by March 2012
Performance Measure RPP DPR
Target Status  
All CanNor procurement staff will be trained in green procurement by March 31, 2012 100%  

Strategies / Comments

  1. CanNor continues to staff corporate services functions. Staff engaged to provide procurement services will be trained in green procurement practices. The same training will be provided to administrative staff who use acquisition cards.


Employee Performance: CanNor’s Director of Corporate Services (the Agency’s head of procurement and materiel management) and procurement staff will be required to integrate goals for green procurement into their performance agreements.
Performance Measure RPP DPR
Target Status  
Head of procurement will integrate green procurement goals into performance accord 100%  

Strategies / Comments

  1. CanNor is a small agency. Its head of procurement is also its Director of Corporate Services. Green procurement objectives will be integrated into the Director’s performance accord. 


Management processes and controls: The CanNor contracting review committee will incorporate considerations for green procurement in all deliberations on contract proposals.
Performance Measure RPP DPR
Target Status  
Decisions of the CanNor contracting review committee will include green procurement considerations 100%  




Upcoming Internal Audits and Evaluations Over the Next Three Fiscal Years

CanNor manages its internal audit and evaluation functions in close collaboration with the Office of the Comptroller General (OCG) and Treasury Board Secretariat. OCG plays the primary role as CanNor’s auditor — as part of the arrangements for small departments and agencies under Treasury Board Secretariat’s Policy on Internal Audit.

In 2011–2012, the Agency participated extensively in a horizontal (OCG-led) audit of Grants and Contributions Management Control Framework in Small Departments and Agencies. In addition, the Agency has developed a comprehensive Performance Measurement Framework covering all of its program activities. Implementation of the supporting data gathering system will be a priority in 2011–2012.

Further, the Agency is developing a detailed corporate risk profile to help guide decisions on where audit projects may be undertaken by the Agency as a supplement to OCG audit activities. At present CanNor’s audit plans for the coming three fiscal years are to participate in OCG-led core control audits and in a planned OCG horizontal audit of human resources planning.

All upcoming evaluations over the next three fiscal years


Name of Evaluation Program Activity Status Expected Completion Date
Community Adjustment Fund — Summative Evaluation (Input to Horizontal Initiative) Transfer Planned

2011–2012

Recreational Infrastructure Canada (Input to Horizontal Initiative)

 Transfer Planned

2011–2012
CanNor Support for Northern Federal Councils — Internal Management Operations Planned

2012–2013

Electronic link to evaluation plan: CanNor will be finalizing an Internal Audit Plan for the Agency in fiscal year 2011–2012, which will be posted to the Agency’s website.