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Section III – Supplementary Information

Financial Highlights

The financial highlights presented within this Report on Plans and Priorities are intended to serve as a general overview of Canadian Heritage forecasted operations. The future-oriented statement of operations is prepared in accordance with accrual accounting principles.

**(in thousands of dollars)**
Condensed Future-oriented Statement of Operations For the Year (Ended March 31)	Estimated Results 2010-11	Forecasts 2011-12
Expenses
Transfer Payments Operating Expenses Total Expenses	1,051,265 291,924 1,343,189	969,112 232,665 1,201,777
Revenues
Total Revenues	70,932	71,824
Net Cost of Operations	1,272,257	1,129,953

The variance between the figures above and the planned spending amounts provided in other sections of the RPP is mainly explained by such items as non-respendable revenues, services provided without charge by other government departments, amortization, and severance and vacation pay liability adjustments. For more information, refer to note 5 in the Future-oriented Statement of Operations.

This pie-chart graphically distributes the forecasted expenses over three categories. The largest category, or 81% of all the forecasted expenses, is identified as Transfer payments. Salaries and employee benefits account for 11% of all the forecasted expenses, while other operating expenses account for 8% of the total.

[Graphic: Forecasted Expenses 2011-12 by Type]

Total forecasted expenses for 2011-12 are $1.202 million. Major forecasted expense areas include transfer payments of $969.1 million (81 percent) and salaries and employee benefits of $136.1 million (11 percent).

This pie-chart graphically distributes the forecasted revenues over two categories. The largest category is identified as Revenue from the 1979 Federal-Provincial Lottery Agreement, accounting for 94% of the total. Other revenues account for the remaining 6% of all the forecasted revenues.

[Graphic: Forecasted Revenues 2011-12 by Type]

Total forecasted revenues for 2011-12 are $71.8 million. The revenue from the 1979 Federal-Provincial Lottery Agreement, totalling $65 million, accounts for 94 percent of the forecasted revenues. As stipulated in the agreement, the amount received annually is adjusted to reflect inflation.

Future-oriented Statement

The Future-oriented Statement of Operations of the Department of Canadian Heritage for the years ending March 31, 2011 and March 31, 2012 is available on the Departmental Website.

Supplementary Information Tables

All electronic supplementary information tables found in the 2011-12 Report on Plans and Priorities can be found on the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat’s Web site at: http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/rpp/st-ts-eng.asp .

Details on Transfer Payment Programs
Up-Front Multi-Year Funding
Green Government Operations
Horizontal Initiatives
Upcoming Internal Audits and Evaluations over the next three fiscal years
Sources of Respendable and Non-Respendable Revenue
User Fees

Section IV - Other Items of Interest

Sustainable Development

Based on the Federal Sustainable Development Strategy (FSDS), the Department of Canadian Heritage 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;
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 of Canadian Heritage’s activities to support sustainable development please see the Departmental website, and for complete details on the FSDS please see Environment Canada website.

Other Items of Interest

¹ “Economic Contribution of the Culture Sector to Canada’s Provinces,” Culture, Tourism and the Centre for Education Statistics Research Papers, Statistics Canada, 2007.

² Includes revenues from recordings, concerts, commercial radio advertising revenues, and performing rights payments, International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, 2008.

³ 2008 Canadian Interactive Industry Profile, Canadian Interactive Alliance.