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Name of Transfer Payment Program: Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy (ASETS)

Start date: April 1, 2010

End date: March 31, 2015

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: 2009-2010 (With a minor amendment in December 2011).

Strategic Outcome: A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour market

Program Activity: Skills and Employment

Description: The Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy (ASETS) provides funding to over 80 Aboriginal organizations with over 400 points of service which deliver services to prepare First Nations, Métis and Inuit individuals for sustainable, meaningful employment. In addition, ASETS services assist Aboriginal youth to make successful transitions from school to work or to support their return to school; and support First Nations and Inuit child care for people in training. ASETS is not a repayable contribution.

ASETS has three strategic priorities: supporting demand-driven skills development; fostering partnerships with the private sector and the provinces and territories; and improved accountability and results.

Expected results: It is expected that skills and training through ASETS organizations will result in approximately 14,000 to 16,500 Aboriginal people employed per year.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	-	-	-	-
Total Contributions	246.1	249.7	249.7	249.7
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	246.1	249.7	249.7	249.7

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2009-2010 - The evaluation was carried out under the Aboriginal Human Resources Development Strategy (AHRDS) which is the predecessor of ASETS

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2013-2014

General Targeted Recipient Group: Aboriginal Organizations (may include incorporated for-profit and not-for-profit Aboriginal controlled organizations, Aboriginal controlled unincorporated organizations, Indian Act Bands, Tribal Councils and Aboriginal self-government entities).

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: HRSDC works with Aboriginal Agreement Holders throughout the life of their contribution agreement. In particular, HRSDC interacts with Agreement Holders in the development and negotiation of the multi-year ASETS Strategic Business Plans which form the basis of their contribution agreements. Midyear dialogues and review of Annual plans as well as ongoing communications at the regional level are part of the strategy.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Skills and Partnership Fund (SPF)

Start date: April 1, 2010

End date: March 31, 2015

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: 2009-2010 (With a minor amendment in December 2011).

Strategic Outcome: A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour market

Program Activity: Skills and Employment

Description: The Skills and Partnership Fund (SPF) is a partnership-based, opportunity-driven fund that supports projects aiming to encourage innovation and partnerships, test new approaches to the delivery of employment services and address systemic gaps in service delivery. SPF is not a repayable contribution.

The SPF will fund innovative Aboriginal labour market development projects under the following three priority areas:

• Skills Development: Pilot innovations that provide skills training to clients with multiple barriers to employment;
• Training-to-Employment: Respond to small to mid-sized economic partnership opportunities with targeted labour force development initiatives; and
• Service Delivery Improvement: Pilot innovations in organizational systems through partnership to address labour market program delivery weaknesses/gaps.

Expected results: It is expected that the SPF will result in approximately 8,000 to 10,000 Aboriginal people employed over the entire five years.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	-	-	-	-
Total Contributions	29.0	69.0	76.5	33.0
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	29.0*	69.0	76.5	33.0

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: N/A

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2013-2014

General Targeted Recipient Group: Aboriginal Organizations (may include incorporated for-profit and not-for-profit Aboriginal controlled organizations, Aboriginal controlled unincorporated organizations, Indian Act Bands, Tribal Councils and Aboriginal self-government entities).

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: Calls for Proposals are posted on the HRSDC website and all eligible applicants can submit an application. HRSDC engages applicants to seek clarification on the details of their proposal. For funded initiatives, there is ongoing communication with project recipients through monitoring.

* From the approved funding of $57.5M in 2011-2012, $28.5M has been reprofiled into future years.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Youth Employment Strategy (YES)

Start date: April 1, 2003

End date: Ongoing

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: 2008-2009

Strategic Outcome: A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour market

Program Activity: Skills and Employment

Description: Through the Youth Employment Strategy (YES), the Government of Canada is working to provide young Canadians with both valuable work experience and earnings, to help them transition to the labour market and support them in furthering their education. Transfer payments made under the YES are predominantly in the form of contributions from participating departments for wage subsidies for participating youth, or for the development and delivery of youth support services. Such support services include client assessment, case management services and the provision of employability tools, which help participants acquire needed skills. Transfer payments contribute directly to the program objectives by encouraging organizations to create meaningful, skill-enhancing opportunities for youth. Financial assistance in support of eligible activities may be provided to eligible recipients in the form of contributions, including repayable contributions.

Expected results: Programs respond to the varied labour market needs of youth and employers.

The common key results commitments for all initiatives receiving funding under the Youth Employment Strategy are:

• Enhanced youth employability skills through work experience or tailored interventions; and
• A portion of youth participants will return to school to further their education/skills development and/or become employed or self-employed.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	-	-	-	-
Total Contributions	230.5	223.5	218.5	218.5
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	230.5	223.5	218.5	218.5

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2009-2010

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2014-2015

General Targeted Recipient Group: Eligible recipients are individuals, other levels of government, institutions, agencies, Crown corporations, not-for-profit, for-profit and aboriginal organizations.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: Engaging both employer applicants/recipients and youth participants through the summative evaluation currently underway. Service Canada also engages employers and youth via the youth.gc.ca internet site and Service Canada centres.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Targeted Initiative for Older Workers (TIOW)

Start date: October 17, 2006

End date: March 31, 2014

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: 2011-2012

Strategic Outcome: A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour market

Program Activity: Skills and Employment

Description: The Targeted Initiative for Older Workers (TIOW) is a federal-provincial/territorial cost-shared initiative providing support to unemployed older workers in communities affected by significant downsizing or closures and/or ongoing high unemployment, through programming aimed at reintegrating them into employment. In situations where there is little likelihood of immediate employment, programming may be aimed at increasing the employability of older workers and ensuring they remain active and productive labour market participants while their communities undergo adjustment.

Provinces and territories are responsible for identifying affected communities to target for activities, design and delivery of projects, and monitoring and reporting on projects. TIOW is cost-shared between the federal government (to a maximum of 70% of total initiative costs) and each participating province and territory (a minimum of 30% of total initiative costs).

To be eligible to participate in the Initiative, older workers must be unemployed, legally entitled to work in Canada, lack skills needed for successful integration into new employment, live in an eligible community, and normally be aged 55 - 64. Projects must include employment assistance activities, such as résumé writing, interview techniques, counselling and job finding clubs, and at least two other employability improvement activities such as prior learning assessment, skills training, work experience, or assistance to start a small business.

See: Web site of HRSDC for further details.

The Targeted Initiative for Older Workers (TIOW) was announced in 2006 as a temporary cost-shared federal-provincial/territorial employment initiative. Approval included $66M (program funding) in Consolidated Revenue Funds (CRF) for programming until March 31, 2009. A three year extension with an additional $86M in program funding was approved in December 4, 2008, and an additional $60M in program funding for three years was approved on March 9, 2009, as part of the Economic Action Plan. Recently, to further help unemployed older workers, Budget 2011 announced an extension of TIOW by $48M (program funding) over two years, until March 31, 2014.

TIOW is not a repayable contribution.

Expected results: Programs respond to the needs of older workers, employers and other stakeholders. The TIOW will increase the employability of older workers.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	-	-	-	-
Total Contributions	60.9	41.1	32.5	-
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	60.9	41.1	32.5	-

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2010-2011

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2013-2014

General Targeted Recipient Group: Provincial and Territorial Governments.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: TIOW is managed through federal-provincial/territorial (F-P/T) agreements between the Government of Canada and each province and territory. Under these agreements, provinces and territories are responsible for the design and delivery of projects, including targeting communities.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Enabling Fund for Official Language Minority Communities

Start date: April 1, 2005

End date: March 31, 2013

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: 2009-2010

Strategic Outcome: A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour market

Program Activity: Skills and Employment

Description: The objective of the Enabling Fund for Official Language Minority Communities (OLMC) is to enhance the development and vitality of the official language minority communities by strengthening capacity in the areas of community economic development and human resource development and by promoting partnerships at all levels. The Enabling Fund provides funding to 14 OLMC designated organizations: a national umbrella organization, the Réseaux de développement économique et d'employabilité (RDÉE), 12 Francophone Provincial/Territorial organizations, and the Community Economic Development and Employability Committees (CEDEC) through contribution agreements. The Enabling Fund program also provides a secretariat for two national committees. The national Francophone committee and national Anglophone committee bring community and government representatives together and allow for an exchange of ideas on the development of more coordinated and responsive policies, programs and services.

The Enabling Fund has an annual budget of $13.8 million, with $12 million in contribution agreements and $1.8 million in operating expenses, which support the national committee secretariat, program policy research, monitoring and evaluation. The Program aligns with the strategic direction of the Government of Canada's Roadmap for Canada's Linguistic Duality 2008-2013: Acting for the Future and is HRSDC's main contribution to the initiative. The Enabling Fund is also the Government of Canada's cornerstone initiative in community economic development and human resource development and is designed to complement the efforts of others to create conditions that enable sustainable community-wide economic development. This is reflected in the types of activities supported by the program:

• Human resource planning in OLMC and preparing community plans;
• Research and analysis;
• Creating, consolidating and sustaining partnerships, alliances and networks and facilitating the exchange of information;
• Mobilizing stakeholders;
• Strengthening the capacity of community stakeholders to be self-reliant and implement their development projects and enabling the creation and coordination of proposals and projects;
• Developing human resources within the national and local Enabling Fund infrastructure;
• Creating and sustaining linkages among relevant government departments and OLMC through national collaboration (National Committees) and consultation processes, to develop joint strategic plans and manage implementation; and
• Participating in and conducting consultations on policies and programs.

Enabling Fund for Official Language Minority Communities is not a repayable contribution.

Expected results: Programs respond to the needs of Official Language Minority Community workers, employers and other stakeholders as follows:

• Contribution recipients are informed and contribute to knowledge building and program/policy issues;
• Knowledge is shared among federal partners, contribution recipients and Official Language Minority Communities;
• Official Language Minority Community economic and human resources issues continue to be integrated into the government's policy/program development;
• Contribution recipients continue to develop and implement effective community plans and projects with concrete results; and,
• There is sustained collaboration across federal institutions working with Official Language Minority Community stakeholders.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	-	-	-	-
Total Contributions	12.0	12.0
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	12.0	12.0	-	-

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2010-2011

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2012-2013

General Targeted Recipient Group: Not-for profit. Eligible Recipients are:

1. Réseau de développement économique et d'employabilité (RDÉE) Canada for the Francophone Linguistic Minority;
2. Le Réseau de développement économique et d'employabilité (RDÉE) – Francophone;
3. The Community Table of the National Human Resources Development Committee for the English Linguistic Minority;
4. The Community Economic Development and Employability Committees (CEDEC) – Anglophone in Quebec; and
5. Organizations selected or mandated to represent the interests of their OLMC to promote economic growth and employability in official language minority communities.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: Annual call for proposals, meetings of working groups on specific issues of interest, National Committee meetings, workshops and other meetings (symposium), on site visits.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Labour Market Agreements for Persons with Disabilities

Start date: April 1, 2004

End date: March 31, 2013

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: 2009-2010

Strategic Outcome: A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour market

Program Activity: Skills and Employment

Description: Through the Labour Market Agreements for Persons with Disabilities (LMAPDs), the Government of Canada transfers funding annually to the provinces for programs and services to improve the employment situation for persons with disabilities.

The Government of Canada contributes 50 percent of the costs incurred by provinces for funded programs and services up to the amount of the federal allocation identified in each bilateral federal-provincial agreement. (Territories have not entered into any LMAPDs given the Territorial financing formula.) Transfers to provinces are made as 'other transfer payments'. These transfer payments are not repayable contributions.

Expected results: The goal of the Labour Market Agreements for Persons with Disabilities is to improve the employment situation of Canadians with disabilities, by enhancing their employability, increasing the employment opportunities available to them and building on the existing knowledge base. Reporting under the Agreements includes selected societal indicators (employment income, educational attainment and employment rate of working age people with disabilities) and the following program indicators:

• Number of participants in programs and services;
• Number of participants completing a program or service where there is a specific start and end point to the intervention; and
• Number of participants who were assisted in obtaining and maintaining employment by programs or services funded through Labour Market Agreements for Persons with Disabilities.

Provinces report annually to their citizens on outcomes and program results and share these reports with HRSDC.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	-	-	-	-
Total Contributions	-	-	-	-
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	222.0	222.0	222.0	222.0
Total Transfer Payments	222.0	222.0	222.0	222.0

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2009-2010 (Canada-Manitoba LMAPD)

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2016-2017 (Canada-Nova Scotia LMAPD)

General Targeted Recipient Group: The Government of Canada transfers funding annually to all ten provinces who design and deliver programs and services for persons with disabilities in their jurisdictions.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: The Government of Canada engages the provinces multilaterally. The provinces produce annual reports, annual plans and statements of expenditure.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities

Start date: April 1, 2007

End date: Ongoing

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: 2009-2010

Strategic Outcome: A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour market

Program Activity: Skills and Employment

Description: Transfer payments made under the Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities are in the form of contribution agreements with individuals, businesses, and organizations. These transfer payments are not repayable contributions. Transfer payments contribute directly to the program objectives by assisting unemployed persons with disabilities having little or no labour market attachment to prepare for, find and maintain employment or self-employment. Examples of activities supported under this program include:

• Encouraging employers to provide individuals with work opportunities and experience;
• Working in partnership with organizations for people with disabilities to address barriers to clients' labour market participation;
• Helping individuals increase their employment skill level;
• Helping individuals to start their own businesses; and
• Increasing employer awareness.

For more information about this program, please visit: Web site of HRSDC

Expected results: The objective of the Opportunities Fund is to increase the labour market participation of persons with disabilities thereby increasing their economic independence. The Opportunities Fund has four performance measurement indicators which are:

• Number of clients served;
• Number of clients employed;
• Number of clients who have returned to school; and
• Number of clients who have enhanced employability

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	-	-	-	-
Total Contributions	26.8	26.8	26.8	26.8
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	26.8	26.8	26.8	26.8

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2008-2009

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2014-2015

General Targeted Recipient Group: Businesses, organizations (including non-profit organizations), individuals and participants.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: Ongoing assessment of proposals and applications for assistance. Ongoing monitoring of performance measurement indicators.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Labour Market Agreements (LMAs)

Start date: April 1, 2008

End date: March 31, 2014

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: 2009-2010 (amended)

Strategic Outcome: A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour market

Program Activity: Skills and Employment

Description: In Advantage Canada, the Government of Canada set out the goal to create "the best educated, most skilled and most flexible workforce in the world." In Budget 2007, the Government of Canada delivered on this commitment through a New Labour Market Architecture, which included new, six-year bilateral Labour Market Agreements (LMAs) with the provinces and territories supported by $500M per year of new federal investments. LMAs are not repayable contributions.

Through these agreements, the Government of Canada provides funds for provincial and territorial skills and employment programming and training to non-EI eligible unemployed Canadians, as well as employed individuals who are low skilled, in particular, employed individuals who do not have a high school diploma or a recognized certification or who have low levels of literacy and essential skills.

Labour Market Agreements, which have been signed with all 10 provinces and 3 territories, are intended to increase labour force participation of under-represented groups, ensure that Canadians have the right skills to compete, and encourage employers to provide more training to their workers.

Labour Market Agreements were designed to allow provinces/territories (P/Ts) to develop and deliver labour market programming based on their specific priorities and objectives. Nevertheless, LMAs have broad objectives:

• Quantity - To increase the participation of Canadians and newcomers in the workforce to meet current and future labour requirements;
• Quality - To enhance the quality of skills development and training; and,
• Efficiency - To facilitate workforce mobility and provide the information necessary to make informed labour market choices.

Expected results: The Labour Market Agreements include a robust accountability framework to allow the Government of Canada to measure results against policy objectives and demonstrate value for money to Canadians. Reporting under the Agreements includes the following indicators:

Eligible Client indicators:

• Total number of eligible clients served/in training by employment status (employed, unemployed, self-employed);
• Education level of eligible clients prior to intervention; and
• Number of eligible clients served in an intervention by designated client group (Aboriginal peoples, immigrants, older workers, persons with disabilities, women and youth).

Service Delivery Indicators:

• Number of eligible clients participating in interventions by intervention type; and,
• Proportion of eligible clients 'satisfied' with service received upon completion of the intervention.

Eligible Client Outcome and Impact Indicators:

• Proportion of eligible clients who have completed their intervention, by intervention type;
• Proportion of eligible clients employed 3 months and 12 months after leaving the intervention;
• Number of eligible clients who have earned credentials or certification through participation in the intervention;
• Average hourly earnings of Eligible Clients following the intervention; and,
• Proportion of Eligible Clients who, 3 months and 12 months after leaving the intervention, indicate their training helped prepare them for future employment.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	-	-	-	-
Total Contributions	-	-	-	-
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	508.5	542.4	506.1	-
Total Transfer Payments	508.5	542.4*	506.1

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: N/A - The LMAs were established in 2008

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: Pending

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2013-2014

General Targeted Recipient Group: Includes employed individuals who are low skilled, and also unemployed individuals who are determined to be non-EI clients but not limited to:

• social assistance recipients
• immigrants
• Persons with Disabilities
• Older Workers
• Youth
• Aboriginal Canadians
• New entrants and re-entrants to the labour market
• Unemployed individuals previously self-employed

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: The Government of Canada provides the funding under the LMAs, but it is the responsibility of the P/Ts to determine the delivery of employment programs and services as well as how to engage applicants and recipients.

The LMAs enable P/Ts to design and deliver active employment programming targeted to low-skilled workers and those not eligible for programs under the Employment Insurance (EI) Act.

* Variance between fiscal years can be explained by funding reprofiles.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Sector Council Program (SCP)

Start date: April 1, 2002

End date: Ongoing

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: 2007-2008 for SCP
2011-2012 EI part II

Strategic Outcome: A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour market.

Program Activity: Skills and Employment

Description: The Sector Council Program (SCP) is being refocused to an open calls for concepts program supporting the development of labour market intelligence, national occupational standards and related certification/accreditation regimes. In key economic sectors to address skill shortages. This new approach will be an EI Part II funded grant and contribution program that will fund partnership-based projects and eligible recipients will be not-for-profit organizations.

Funding supports the development of:

• Sectoral labour market intelligence and labour market information products;
• National occupational standards; and
• Certification and accreditation regimes.

SCP does not use repayable contributions.

Expected results: The expected result for the refocused program is an increased capacity in key economic sectors to address skills gaps, specifically that:

• Stakeholders gather and produce high quality sector specific labour market intelligence on which to develop solutions for labour market issues;
• Workers, employers, and educators develop a better understanding of skills, occupational needs and labour market issues to support a better match between supply and demand for skills and labour mobility; and
• An increase of industry recognized skilled workers through accreditation and certification regimes.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	-	-	-	-
Total Contributions	25.5	24.6	5.7	5.7
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	25.5	24.6	5.7	5.7

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2011-2012

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: Amendment

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2015-2016

General Targeted Recipient Group: The targeted recipients are not-for-profit organizations that represent a partnership of key players within a sector such as employers, employees and educational institutions.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: Competitive processes will be used to solicit concepts and proposals from applicants from spring 2012 onward.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Apprenticeship Grants

Start date: January 1, 2007 (Apprenticeship Incentive Grant) / January 1, 2009 (Apprenticeship Completion Grant)

End date: Ongoing

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: 2011-2012

Strategic Outcome: A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour market

Program Activity: Skills and Employment

Description: Apprenticeship Incentive Grant

The Apprenticeship Incentive Grant promotes access to apprenticeships and improves labour mobility by providing a $1,000 grant to registered apprentices in the designated Red Seal trades during the first two years/levels of their apprenticeship program, up to a maximum of $2,000 per apprentice. This taxable cash grant is designed to reward advancement in the first two years of an apprenticeship program in one of the designated Red Seal trades, building momentum for apprentices to complete their apprenticeship programs and receive journeyperson certification. Registered apprentices who completed their first or second year of their apprenticeship program in a Red Seal trade designated in the province/territory where they are registered as an apprentice, on or after January 1, 2007, are eligible to apply.

Apprenticeship Completion Grant

Introduced in Budget 2009 as part of Canada's Economic Action Plan, the Apprenticeship Completion Grant provides a taxable grant of $2,000 to those registered apprentices who successfully complete their apprenticeship program and obtain provincial/territorial journeyperson certification in one of the designated Red Seal trades on or after January 1, 2009. The Apprenticeship Completion Grant builds on and enhances the existing Apprenticeship Incentive Grant by providing an additional incentive for Canadians to finish their apprenticeship training and launch rewarding careers in the skilled trades.

The Apprenticeship Grants encourage more Canadians to pursue apprenticeships and, taken together with the Apprenticeship Job Creation Tax Credit for employers and the Tradesperson's Tool Deduction, are intended to meet the future need for skilled tradespeople that is crucial to the sustained growth of the economy. Building on the grants as announced in the June 2011 Budget, trade examination fees incurred by apprentices to become certified in their trade are now eligible for the Tuition Tax Credit. By focusing on the Red Seal trades, for which there are national occupational standards, the Apprenticeship Grants also support inter-provincial mobility.

Apprenticeship Grants are not repayable contributions.

Expected results: Apprenticeship Incentive Grant

Registered apprentices in designated Red Seal trades are encouraged to progress in the early years of their apprenticeship program, and ultimately to obtain journeyperson certification in the Red Seal trades. The Grant has been designed to meet the following objectives:

• To increase access to apprenticeships in the Red Seal Program trades by helping apprentices to cover expenses such as the purchase of tools and other materials required for learning on-the-job and travel expenses associated with classroom training;
• To encourage the apprentice's progression through the technical and on-the-job training requirements in the early years of their apprenticeship program, thus building the momentum towards certification; and,
• To promote inter-provincial mobility by increasing the number of apprentices working in the Red Seal trades and obtaining their Red Seal certification.

Apprenticeship Completion Grant

The Apprenticeship Completion Grant is intended to increase the number of apprentices completing an apprenticeship program and obtaining journeyperson certification in a designated Red Seal trade. The Grant has been designed to build on the objectives of the Apprenticeship Incentive Grant, specifically progression through apprenticeship training and interprovincial mobility, by increasing the number of apprentices who complete their apprenticeship program and obtain journeyperson certification in a designated Red Seal trade.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	114.6	114.6	114.6	114.6
Total Contributions	-	-	-	-
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments*	114.6	114.6	114.6	114.6

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2009-2010

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2014-2015

General Targeted Recipient Group: Eligible recipients are registered apprentices who meet the eligibility criteria of the Apprenticeship Grants program.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: A 4^th six-week national advertising campaign aimed at promoting the Apprenticeship Grants took place between January 9 - February 19, 2012. It featured a broad outreach approach including radio ads brochures, posters, Web banners and social media press releases. An evaluation of the campaign will be conducted and will include a short telephone survey with apprentices.

Apprenticeship is a provincial/territorial responsibility. Accordingly, HRSDC continues to work with Apprenticeship Authorities to encourage apprentices to apply for the Grants.

* In Supplementary Estimates (A) 2011-12, HRSDC requested the merging of the "Apprenticeship Incentive Grant" (AIG) and the "Apprenticeship Completion Grant" (ACG) into "Apprenticeship Grants" (AG) in order to provide HRSDC with the necessary flexibility to meet a potential increase in awareness and take-up for either grant.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Adult Learning, Literacy and Essential Skills Program (ALLESP)

Start date: April 1, 2006

End date: March 31, 2012

A renewal of terms and conditions will be sought for the beginning of 2012-2013.

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: 2010-2011 (ALLESP Ts&Cs were continued for one year from April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2012).

Strategic Outcome: A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour market

Program Activity: Skills and Employment

Description: The Adult Learning, Literacy and Essential Skills Program (ALLESP) works with partners to facilitate the creation of opportunities for Canadians to acquire the learning, literacy and essential skills they need to participate in a knowledge-based economy and society.

ALLESP is not a repayable contribution.

Expected results: Through Literacy and Essential Skills programming, the capacity exists to deliver employment, training and assessment services to Canadians.

The expected long-term outcomes are that adult Canadians increase their literacy and essential skills so that they can participate in and adapt to a knowledge-based economy and society.

The expected intermediate outcomes are:

• Enhanced opportunities and resources for adult Canadians in learning, literacy and essential skills; and
• Enhanced literacy and essential skills integration into programming, services and policies.

The expected immediate outcomes are:

• Increased awareness of the benefits and opportunities for adult learning, literacy and essential skills among partners, stakeholders and employers;
• Improved capacity of partners, stakeholders and employers; and
• Improved dissemination, transfer and application of knowledge and information among partners, stakeholders and employers.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	18.3	18.3	18.3	18.3
Total Contributions	3.2	3.2	3.2	3.2
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	21.5	21.5	21.5	21.5

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2010-2011

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: Pending

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2012-2013

General Targeted Recipient Group: Contributions: not-for-profit organizations (voluntary sector); professional associations; provincial/territorial governments and their organizing bodies; provincial/territorial institutions including Crown corporations; universities, colleges and other educational and training bodies; workplace organizations, including sector councils, unions and business associations; international non-profit organizations (e.g. OECD); municipalities.

Grants: Not-for profit (voluntary sector)

Note: Provincial/territorial governments departments and agencies are eligible to receive funding only if specified in a federal-provincial/territorial agreement or Memorandum of Understanding, or specifically approved by the Minister.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: Office of Literacy and Essential Skills (OLES) revised the call for proposals/concepts assessment process to include greater input from Provinces/Territories. The changes included providing Provinces/Territories representatives with executive summaries and budgets of proposed projects within their jurisdictions as well as conducting conference calls to provide Provinces/Territoriess the opportunity to provide feedback on projects within their respective jurisdictions. OLES also instituted a regular cycle of meetings with key stakeholders (including P/Ts) to disseminate information and to consult on learning and essential skills issues from across the country.

The program has launched a consultation with multiple stakeholders including provincial/ territorial governments, employers, employer associations, workforce training organizations, colleges, and academics with expertise in LES. The consultation aims to solicit views of what is needed for creating a more efficient and effective LES system within Canada.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Foreign Credential Recognition Program (FCRP)

Start date: May 26, 2010

End date: Ongoing

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: 2010-2011

Strategic Outcome: A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour market

Program Activity: Skills and Employment

Description: HRSDC's Foreign Credential Recognition Program (FCRP) is a contribution program designed to (1) develop and strengthen Canada's foreign qualification recognition (FQR) capacity; and (2) contribute to improving the timely labour market integration of internationally-trained workers (ITW). Through the FCRP, the Federal Government works with its partners and key stakeholders to break down the barriers to the recognition of foreign qualifications and enhance the labour market integration of internationally-trained workers.

The program provides strategic financial support to provincial and territorial partners and key stakeholders (e.g., regulatory bodies) so they can develop tools and processes for facilitating the assessment and recognition of foreign qualifications in targeted occupations and sectors.

The FCRP supports the research and project-based activities of partners and stakeholders to develop structural changes in the tools and processes institutions and/or organizations use to evaluate and recognize foreign qualifications. The FCRP is one of the key Government of Canada initiatives that supports the implementation of the Pan-Canadian Framework for timely assessment and recognition of foreign qualifications across Canada, announced in November 2009.

FCR is not a repayable contribution.

Expected results: The Foreign Credential Recognition Program works with partners and stakeholders to achieve the following immediate, medium and long-term outcomes:

Immediate Outcome:

• Understanding, consensus, collaboration and commitment among stakeholders and partners on issues and potential solutions related to FCR;
• Promotion, information sharing and transfer of best practices in developing Pan-Canadian FCR processes; and
• Partnership among key stakeholders, provinces and territories to advance the FCR agenda.

Medium-term Outcome:

• Availability of tools and processes to assess and recognize foreign credentials across organizations.

Long-term Outcome:

• Standardization of Pan-Canadian FCR processes and tools in targeted occupations and other sectors; and
• Enhanced, more effective use of tools and processes to improve the assessment and recognition of the credentials of internationally-trained workers, ensuring they are fair, sufficient, timely and cost-effective.

Ultimate Outcome:

• Enhanced labour market outcomes of internationally-trained workers in targeted occupations and sectors.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	-	-	-	-
Total Contributions	23.9	21.4	21.4	21.4
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	23.9	21.4	21.4	21.4

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2010-2011

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2014-2015

General Targeted Recipient Group: Eligible recipients include, but are not limited to not-for-profit organizations, regulatory bodies, national organizations, provincial governments, sector and cross-sectoral councils, professional associations, industry associations, unions, school boards, municipal governments, public health institutions, universities, colleges, Collèges d'enseignement général et professionnel (CEGEP) and consortia composed of all or some of the aforementioned types of recipient organizations.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: HRSDC will conclude the formal consultation with FQR regulatory authorities, and engage recipients through periodic conferences, as well as participate in regular Federal/Provincial/Terrirotial activities through the Forum of Labour Market Ministers (FLMM) working groups e.g. the Foreign Qualification Recognition Working Group and the Labour Mobility Coordination Group.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canada Student Loans Program – Interest Payments and Liabilities

Start date: August 1, 1995

End date: Ongoing

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: Canada Student Financial Assistance Act (S.C. 1994, c. 28)

Strategic Outcome: A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour market

Program Activity: Learning

Description: From August 1, 1995 to July 31, 2000, the Canada Student Loans Program operated a risk-shared loans regime with Canadian financial institutions. This transfer payment represents consolidated costs related to that regime, including interest subsidy, repayment assistance benefits, the amount of loans forgiven, risk premium put-backs and administrative costs net of recoveries on affected loans.

These are not considered repayable contributions. They are payments to financial institutions by agreement under the Canada Student Financial Assistance Act.

Expected results:

• As a result of this transfer payment, students who borrowed under the risk-shared regime continue to receive in-study student financial assistance and debt management assistance in repayment; and,
• Canada meets its obligations as set out under the Canada Student Financial Assistance Act in agreements with financial institutions.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	-	-	-	-
Total Contributions	11.1	11.3	10.5	7.8
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments
Total Transfer Payments	11.1	11.3	10.5	7.8

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2011-2012

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: Termination

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2015-2016

General Targeted Recipient Group: Financial institutions who provided Canada Student Loans to low- and middle-income students pursuing post-secondary education.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: N/A

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canada Student Loans Program (CSLP) – Direct Financing Arrangement

Start date: August 1, 2000

End date: Ongoing

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: Canada Student Financial Assistance Act S.C. 24, c. 28

Strategic Outcome: A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour market

Program Activity: Learning

Description: This transfer payment provides alternative payments to non-participating jurisdictions given that provinces and territories may choose not to participate in the Canada Student Loans Program. Provinces and territories who make this choice receive an alternative payment to assist in the cost of delivering a similar student financial assistance program.

The transfer payment also provides repayment assistance benefits to borrowers, and the value of loans forgiven according to prescribed criteria. Since 2009, the Repayment Assistance Plan has been offered as an optional program for students facing difficulty in making their student loan payments.

Finally, this transfer payment is used to ensure that full-time student military reservists who interrupt their studies for a deployment on designated operations will not be charged interest or have to start paying back their student loan while they are away from their studies and on duty.

This transfer payment is a non-repayable contribution to provinces and territories who have elected to deliver programs comparable to the CSLP in their jurisdictions.

Expected results: Post-secondary education students in the province of Québec, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut continue to access financial assistance similar to the assistance provided to students in those jurisdictions that participate in the Canada Student Loans Program.

Students in participating jurisdictions with financial difficulty are able to receive repayment benefits.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	-	-	-	-
Total Contributions	397.4	405.5	425.0	433.3
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	397.4	405.5	425.0	433.3

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2011-2012

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2015-2016

General Targeted Recipient Group: Non-participating provinces and territories for the benefit of resident low- and middle-income students.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: N/A

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canada Education Savings Program (CESP)

Start date: January 1, 1998 (Canada Education Savings Grant)
January 1, 2005 (Canada Learning Bond)

End date: Ongoing

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: Canada Education Savings Act (S.C. 2004, c. 26) Canada Education Savings Regulations (SOR/2005-151)

Strategic Outcome: A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour market

Program Activity: Learning

Description: The Canada Education Savings Program encourages saving for a child's post-secondary education savings, in Registered Education Savings Plans (RESPs). It is intended to make post-secondary education more affordable for families by providing the Canadian Education Savings Grant (CESG), a matching savings grant on RESP savings for children aged 0 – 17. Eligible low-income families can also benefit from the Canada Learning Bond (CLB). The Program's main clients include families with children.

The program's infrastructure is also used to administer the Alberta Centennial Education Savings Grant on behalf of the Province of Alberta, on a cost-recovery basis.

Further information regarding the CESG can be found at:
Web site of HRSDC

Further information regarding the CLB can be found at:
Web site of HRSDC

Expected results: As a result of HRSDC's support for Canadian families through the Canada Education Savings Grant and the Canada Learning Bond:

• Canadian families will have savings for their children's future post-secondary education; and
• Canadian students will use these funds to help pay for their post-secondary education.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants - CESG	700.0	730.0	760.0	785.0
Total Grants - CLB	80.0	91.0	104.0	117.0
Total Contribution*	2.4	2.2	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	782.4	823.2	864.0	902.0

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2009-2010

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2014-2015

General Targeted Recipient Group: Canada Education Savings Grant beneficiaries are children aged 0-17.

The Canada Learning Bond is directed to children born on or after January 1, 2004 and who's primary caregiver is eligible for the National Child Benefit Supplement; or an agency receiving payments under the Children's Special Allowments Act for a chlid in care.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: Information on the Canada Education Savings Grant and the Canada Learning Bond is available through canlearn.ca; the Program's telephone, mail and email inquiry services and 1-800-O-Canada.

Canada Learning Bond-eligible families receive letters concerning their entitlement to receive this benefit.

* Referring to the Education Savings Incentive (Voted Contribution).

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canada Student Grants Program (CSGP)

Start date: August 1, 2009

End date: Ongoing

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: Canada Student Financial Assistance Act, S.C. 1994, c. 28

Strategic Outcome: A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour market

Program Activity: Learning

Description: The Canada Student Grants Program (CSGP) provides up-front grants to students from low- and middle-income families, students with dependants, part-time students and those with permanent disabilities. This program is simple, transparent, predictable and broad-based, providing certainty and predictability for students who qualify.

Students who received the former Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation (CMSF) general bursaries in past years receive transitional grants until they complete or withdraw from their program of study. Former CMSF recipients who are eligible for the new low and middle-income grants will have the difference between the amount of the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation general bursary and the amount of the new grant made up with a transition grant.

While Canada Student Loans are repayable, the Canada Student Grants, announced in the 2008 Budget, provide non-repayable assistance.

Expected results: The CSGP is designed to:

• Provide non-repayable assistance in an integrated, consistent, and predictable manner across the country;
• Enable disadvantaged students to better understand and benefit from Federal programs for student financial assistance;
• Encourage post-secondary education completion, and thereby support the full participation of individuals from disadvantaged groups in the labour market; and,
• Promote increased participation and equity in post-secondary education by providing higher levels of assistance and targeting assistance to lower- and middle-income groups.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	628.7	591.3	581.9	573.7
Total Contributions	-	-	-	-
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	628.7*	591.3	581.9	573.7

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: N/A - Introduced in 2009

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2015-2016

General Targeted Recipient Group: Low- and middle-income students pursuing post-secondary education.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: Ongoing outreach to current and prospective PSE students through multiple channels including Service Delivery Vision.

* Forecast spending for 2011-2012 has been updated in Supplementary Estimates
(C) due to higher than anticipated payments and in accordance with revised growth rate projections by the Chief Actuary.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Pathways to Education Canada

Start date: December 31, 2010

End date: March 31, 2014

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: 2010-2011

Strategic Outcome: A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour market

Program Activity: Learning

Description: Pathways to Education Canada, a charitable organization founded in the Regent Park area of Toronto in 2001, is the largest community-based early intervention program in Canada. The program was created to reduce poverty and its effects by lowering the high school dropout rate and increasing access to post-secondary education (PSE) among disadvantaged youth. The Pathways to Education program provides:

• Non-financial supports such as tutoring, mentoring, and counselling; and,
• Financial supports such as bursaries for PSE, and funding for certain immediate costs related to attending high school (e.g. bus tickets).

The program has proven successful in helping disadvantaged youth overcome barriers to high school completion and post-secondary education and is currently operating in eleven communities across Canada with programs in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Manitoba.

The funding provided to Pathways to Education Canada is in the form of a non-repayable contribution.

Expected results: Federal funding is expected to allow Pathways to Education Canada to strengthen its existing programming and to work with community partners to expand its activities into new communities across the country. Expansion efforts are underway, with community-based partners opening new programs in Kingston, Winnipeg and Halifax in 2010.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	6.0	6.0	6.0	-
Total Contributions	-	-	-	-
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	6.0	6.0	6.0	-

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: N/A

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2013-2014

General Targeted Recipient Group: The only eligible recipient of funding is Pathways to Education Canada, a non-profit organization.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: As stipulated in the funding agreement between Pathways to Education Canada and the Government of Canada, Pathways provides a series of reporting documents to HRSDC over the course of the fiscal year.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Wage Earner Protection Program (WEPP)

Start date: July 2008

End date: Ongoing

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: 2008-2009

Strategic Outcome: Safe, fair, and productive workplaces and cooperative workplace relations

Program Activity: Labour

Description: The Wage Earner Protection Program Act was part of Bill C-55, which set out a comprehensive reform of Canada's insolvency laws, including the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act. Passage of Bill C-55 was expedited with unanimous, all party consent in both Houses of Parliament. The Bill received Royal Assent on November 25, 2005, and became Chapter 47 of the Statutes of Canada, 2005. The Act was subject to technical amendments, which were contained in Bill C-12 and received Royal Assent on December 13, 2007. The Act and its Regulations came into force on July 7, 2008. Further amendments to the Program to include coverage for termination and severance pay were included in the Budget Implementation Act, 2009.

The Wage Earner Protection Program (WEPP) is a targeted federal Program providing financial support to workers who lose their job and are owed money when their employer goes bankrupt or becomes subject to receivership under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. Specifically, the Program reimburses eligible workers for unpaid wages, vacation, severance, and termination pay up to a current maximum of $3,531 (the equivalent of four weeks' maximum insurable earnings under the Employment Insurance Act). The Wage Earner Protection Program is administered by the Labour Program and is delivered by Service Canada.

There is no repayment of Statutory Transfer Payments, unless a WEPP recipient receives an overpayment.

Expected results: The expected result for this Program is a reduction in economic insecurity of Canadian workers with unpaid wages in insolvent workplaces.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	56.2	54.2	54.2	54.2
Total Contributions	-	-	-	-
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	56.2	54.2	54.2	54.2

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: N/A

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2012-2013

General Targeted Recipient Group: All employed workers in Canada, irrespective of jurisdiction.

WEPP helps ensure that wages, vacation, termination and severance pay owed to workers are paid if their employer goes bankrupt or is subject to a receivership.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: The WEPP Program engages stakeholders, including the Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals (CAIRP) and Trustees.

The WEPP utilizes Service Canada to convey information about WEPP to Canadians. Service Canada - WEPP website: Web site of Service Canada

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Old Age Security Pension (statutory payment)

Start date: 1952

End date: Ongoing

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: N/A

Strategic Outcome: Income security, access to opportunities and well-being for individuals, families and communities.

Program Activity: Income Security

Description: The Old Age Security pension contributes to the income security of seniors, in the form of a monthly payment to all Canadians who meet the age of eligibility, residence and legal status requirements. An applicant's employment history is not a factor in determining eligibility, nor does the applicant need to be retired.

The Old Age Security pension is a non-repayable contribution.

Expected results: Eligible seniors receive a basic pension to which they are entitled.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	28,751.9	30,574.3	32,248.7	34,022.6
Total Contributions	-	-	-	-
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	28,751.9	30,574.3	32,248.7	34,022.6

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2011-2012

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2014-2015

General Targeted Recipient Group: Individuals (seniors)

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: The Department undertakes a variety of initiatives to ensure individuals are aware of, and apply for, benefits to which they may be entitled. This includes proactive mailings to potential beneficiaries, inclusion of information with annual tax slips; enhancement of Service Canada channels (web, phone, in-person), outreach services directly for those potentially eligible, and discussions with other government departments, municipal governments and community service providers to identify opportunities for partnership to increase take-up.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Guaranteed Income Supplement (statutory payment)

Start date: 1967

End date: Ongoing

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: N/A

Strategic Outcome: Income security, access to opportunities and well-being for individuals, families and communities.

Program Activity: Income Security

Description: The Guaranteed Income Supplement contributes to the income security of low-income seniors living in Canada, in the form of an additional benefit that is on top of the Old Age Security pension. To be eligible for the Guaranteed Income Supplement, applicants must be receiving the Old Age Security pension and have an income below a certain threshold.

The Guaranteed Income Supplement is a non-repayable contribution.

Expected results: Canada's low-income seniors have a minimum guaranteed income and receive the benefits to which they are entitled.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	8,528.4	9,003.6	9,452.5	9,882.0
Total Contributions	-	-	-	-
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	8,528.4	9,003.6	9,452.5	9,882.0

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2010-2011

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2016-2017

General Targeted Recipient Group: Individuals (low-income seniors)

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: The Department undertakes a variety of initiatives to ensure individuals are aware of, and apply for, benefits to which they may be entitled. This includes proactive mailings to potential beneficiaries, inclusion of information with annual tax slips; enhancement of Service Canada channels (web, phone, in-person), outreach services directly for those potentially eligible, and discussions with other government departments, municipal governments and community service providers to identify opportunities for partnership to increase take-up.

In addition to simplifying application forms for GIS, a “lifetime list” was established which further enables automatic renewal of GIS benefits for tax filers.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Allowance Payments (statutory payments)

Start date: 1975 – Allowance

1985 – Allowance for the Survivor

End date: Ongoing

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: N/A

Strategic Outcome: Income security, access to opportunities and well-being for individuals, families and communities.

Program Activity: Income Security

Description: The Allowances are part of the Old Age Security Program. The Allowances contribute to the income security, of eligible spouses or common-law partners of low-income seniors who receive the Guaranteed Income Supplement. The Allowance for Survivors provides benefits to low-income survivors. To be eligible, applicants must meet specific age, income and residence requirements.

Allowance payments are a non-repayable contribution.

Expected results: Eligible low-income Canadians, who are the spouses/common-law partners of GIS recipients, or who are survivors, have a minimum guaranteed income and receive the benefits to which they are entitled.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	562.1	563.0	557.8	557.9
Total Contributions	-	-	-	-
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	562.1	563.0	557.8	557.9

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2011-2012

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2014-2015

General Targeted Recipient Group: Individuals (low-income seniors)

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: The Department undertakes a variety of initiatives to ensure individuals are aware of, and apply for, benefits to which they may be entitled. This includes proactive mailings to potential beneficiaries, inclusion of information with annual tax slips; enhancement of Service Canada channels (web, phone, in-person), outreach services directly for those potentially eligible, and discussions with other government departments, municipal governments and community service providers to identify opportunities for partnership to increase take-up.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canada Disability Savings Program (CDSP) – Canada Disability Savings Grants and Canada Disability Savings Bonds (statutory payment)

Start date: December 2008

End date: Ongoing

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: N/A

Strategic Outcome: Income security, access to opportunities and well-being for individuals, families and communities.

Program Activity: Income Security

Description: This program helps Canadians with severe and/or prolonged disabilities, and their families, save for the future, through Registered Disability Savings Plans (RDSPs). Canadian residents, under the age of 60, who have a Social Insurance Number (SIN) and are eligible for the Disability Tax Credit (DTC), can open an RDSP. The Program provides matching grants of up to 300%, depending on the amount contributed and the beneficiary's family income. The maximum amount paid in grants is $3,500 each year, with a $70,000 lifetime limit. The Program also provides bonds of up to $1,000 per year to the RDSPs of low and modest income Canadians, with a lifetime limit of $20,000. Grants and bonds are paid until the year the beneficiary turns 49. The Program has no impact on other federal benefits, such as the Canada Child Tax Benefit, the Goods and Services Tax Credit, Old Age Security, and Employment Insurance.

The Canada Disability Savings Grant & Bond are payments to individuals under a statutory program. They are not part of a G and C program, and therefore, there are no terms and conditions with respect to repayable provisions.

Expected results:

• People with severe and/or prolonged disabilities have a measure of long-term financial security
• Eligible beneficiaries receive Canada Disability Savings Bonds
• Eligible beneficiaries receive Canada Disability Savings Grants

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	144.3	115.4	122.1	125.7
Total Contributions	-	-	-	-
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	144.3	115.4	122.1	125.7

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: N/A - Canada Disability Savings Program (CDSP) was introduced in 2008

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2012-2013

General Targeted Recipient Group: Individuals (persons with disabilities)

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: Ongoing and planned activities - to increase program awareness, understanding and take-up - include:

• a comprehensive, plain-language web site and Program brochure;
• meetings with community-based organizations;
• exhibit booths at conferences;
• information kits (paper based and electronic) to community-based organizations, provincial/ territorial income and social support offices, health care facilities and social work departments, and MPs;
• mail-outs to Canada Pension Plan Disability and Disability Tax Credit recipients;
• pan-Canadian print, radio and internet advertising campaigns; and
• contracts with non-governmental organizations to provide information sessions and one-on-one support to help address program awareness and low financial literacy.

* Forecast spending for 2011-2012 has been updated in Supplementary Estimates (B) and (C) due to higher than expected take up of the program.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Homelessness Partnering Strategy (HPS)

Start date: April 1, 2011

End date: March 31, 2014

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: 2010–2011

Strategic Outcome: Income security, access to opportunities and well-being for individuals, families and communities.

Program Activity: Social Development

Description: This program supports the implementation of effective, sustainable and community-based solutions to prevent and reduce homelessness across Canada. The HPS is a community-based program that provides grant and contribution funding to communities and service providers to create new partnerships and structures that will develop and deliver services to Canada's homeless people or those most at risk of homelessness, as well as develop longer-term housing solutions such as transitional and supportive housing. These services target individuals, families and Aboriginal people in major urban centres, rural communities, and the North. In addition, it provides funding to address gaps in homelessness research. The renewed HPS emphasizes: developing arrangements with provinces and territories to ensure a greater alignment of priorities and investments; providing greater support for rural and remote communities; ensuring culturally-relevant programming and services for Aboriginal people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness; developing linkages on mental health and homelessness; increasing the relevance and dissemination of research; reinforcing accountability for results; and improving data sharing and collection.

The HPS is a TPP with non-repayable contributions, however some repayment clauses are outlined in the Terms and Conditions.

Expected results: Housing stability for homeless individuals and those at risk of becoming homeless.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	0.8	3.0	0.8	-
Total Contributions	110.1	124.0	105.5	-
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	110.9	127.0	106.3	-

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2009-2010

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: Amendment

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2013-2014

General Targeted Recipient Group: The following class of recipients is eligible for both grant and contribution funding for all HPS funding streams: not-for-profit organizations; individuals; municipal governments; for-profit enterprises; research organizations and institutes; public health and educational institutions; Band/tribal councils; and other Aboriginal organizations. These groups are eligible to receive funding and act as coordinators for activities. In Quebec, Health and Social Services Agencies are eligible for funding consistent with a formal Canada-Quebec agreement.

For-profit enterprises are eligible for funding provided that the nature and intent of the activity is non-commercial, does not generate profit, and fits within the community plan or identified local need where community plans are not required. Individuals, for-profit enterprises and research organizations and institutes may also receive funding to carry out research that aims to help communities understand and address homelessness issues.

Where municipalities serve as a community entity, concurrence from the province or territory should be sought.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: As a community-based and partnership-enhancing program, the HPS engages and seeks to build relationships with a wide range of partners and stakeholders. To engage applicants and recipients, the HPS uses various methods, such as Calls for Proposals, Targeted Solicitation of Applications, Unsolicited Proposals, and Expressions of Interest or Letters of Intent.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Social Development Partnerships Program (SDPP) (voted payments)

Start date: April 1, 2009

End date: Ongoing

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: SDPP Ts&Cs were last amended in 2010-2011

Strategic Outcome: Income security, access to opportunities and well-being for individuals, families and communities.

Program Activity: Social Development

Description: The Social Development Partnerships Program (SDPP) provides grant and contribution funding to not-for-profit organizations working to meet the social development needs of persons with disabilities, children and their families, and other vulnerable or excluded populations in Canada.

The SDPP has two funding components: Children and Families, and Disability.

The SDPP-Children and Families supports not-for-profit organizations working in communities across Canada to tackle local challenges that individuals and families experience in accessing participation opportunities for learning, labour market attachment, and social inclusion. In addition, the SDPP provides funding for early childhood development in Official Language Minority Communities as part of the Roadmap for Canada's Linguistic Duality, 2008-2013.

Web site of HRSDC.

The Disability component of the Social Development Partnerships Program (SDPP-D) supports projects intended to improve the participation and integration of people with disabilities in all aspects of Canadian society. More specifically, the Program supports not-for-profit organizations across Canada in tackling barriers faced by persons with disabilities in accessing learning, employment and social inclusion.

Web site of HRSDC.

This is a grant and contribution program with non-repayable contributions in general. Under certain circumstances provisions may specify repayment terms.

Expected results: The desired outcome for SDPP is:

Not-for-profit sector and partners have capacity to respond to existing and emerging social issues for target populations.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	16.7	14.3	14.3	14.3
Total Contributions	6.0	5.9	5.9	5.9
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	22.7	20.2	20.2	20.2

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2009-2010

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: Pending

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2014-2015

General Targeted Recipient Group: Not-for-profit organizations, including registered charities and social enterprises actively pursuing activities in line with the SDPP’s objectives.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: Information on Call for Proposals (CFP's) for SDPP is posted publicly on HRSDC's website.

SDPP-Children and Families

Immediately after contract signing, stakeholders were invited to sessions to discuss key elements of the agreement, reporting schedules, and general Q&As.

In spring 2011, 7 agreement holders addressing caregiving met to share knowledge, lessons learned, and to examine how to sustain and then scale out their projects. The stakeholders continue to network and collaborate as an online community.

Community Development and Partnerships Directorate will be engaging stakeholders, to communicate on the Directorate's social finance workplan.

SDPP-Disability

The Office for Disability will be engaging stakeholders to communicate key aspects of SDPP-D.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: New Horizons for Seniors Program (NHSP) (voted payments)

Start date: Original program: October 1, 2004;

Expanded Program: September 27, 2007

Enhanced Program: September 30, 2010

End date: Ongoing

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: NHSP Ts&Cs were last amended in 2010-2011

Strategic Outcome: Income security, access to opportunities and well-being for individuals, families and communities.

Program Activity: Social Development

Description: The New Horizons for Seniors Program (NHSP) was created in 2004 to enable seniors to contribute to their communities through continued involvement and volunteering, in recognition that their social participation is key to maintaining their well-being, dignity and quality of life. By encouraging seniors' participation in community activities, NHSP contributes to the quality of life in communities and to that of seniors who are an important and growing segment of our population. The program supports projects that meet one or more of the following five key objectives:

• Promoting volunteerism among seniors and other generations;
• Engaging seniors in the community through the mentoring of others;
• Expanding awareness of elder abuse, including financial abuse;
• Supporting the social participation and inclusion of seniors; and
• Providing capital assistance for new and existing community projects and/or programs for seniors.

NHSP does not use repayable contributions.

Expected results: The direct outcomes for NHSP are:

• Recipient organizations equip community members to recognize abuse of seniors;
• Participating seniors share their knowledge and experience with peers and different generations;
• Recipient organizations adopt approaches to engage volunteers; and,
• Recipient organizations have capacity to support seniors' initiatives in their communities.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	36.3	36.3	36.3	36.3
Total Contributions	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.8
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	38.1	38.1	38.1	38.1

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2010-2011

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: Amendment

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2014-2015

General Targeted Recipient Group: NHSP has a broad array of eligible recipients, including not-for-profit organizations, coalitions, for-profit enterprises*, aboriginal organizations, municipal governments, and research and educational institutions.

*for-profit enterprises are eligible provided that the nature and intent of the NHSP activity is non-commercial, does not generate profit, and meets the objectives of the NHSP.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: Information about NHSP Calls for Proposals (CFPs) is posted publicly on HRSDC's website. Products such as an NHSP fact sheet, brochure and Questions and Answers were used to inform a broader base of communities/eligible organizations about program enhancements made in 2010.

For pan-Canadian projects, the new twitter feature on HRSDC's website was used to further broadcast the CFP launched in 2011 throughout its duration. Additionally, an email announcing the 2011 CFP went out to an extensive list of community stakeholders and to the National Review Committee (for further broadcasting to possible interested stakeholders known to them). The Seniors and Pensions Policy Secretariat F/P/T Ministers of Seniors were also advised of the CFP via teleconference. A well-received January 2011 meeting of all pan-Canadian NHSP agreement holders enabled networking, knowledge transfer, sharing of lessons learned, and tools produced within the funded projects.

For community-based projects, the program area works with regions to develop a community engagement plan in each province/territory. As part of this plan, regional staff deliver community engagement sessions to explain the program, to seek new ideas and to engage potential partners, as well as to identify opportunities to address community priorities. Public notices have also been prepared and distributed to the regions for insertion into community newspapers. To promote the CFP launched in 2011, information packages were also prepared for MPs to provide them with greater detail about the program and inform them of the launch dates for the CFP, so they could promote the CFP in their own ridings.

Further, the program promotes CFPs through other departmental websites such as the Public Health Agency of Canada, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, Financial Consumer Agency of Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and Veterans Affairs Canada through the use of the NHSP web icon.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Enabling Accessibility Fund (EAF)

Start date: The Program was created in 2008

The Program was revised in 2010.

End date: The program is schedule to sunset on March 31, 2013

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: Small Project Component: The terms and conditions came into effect on June 17, 2010

Mid-sized Project Component: The terms and conditions have come into effect on June 17, 2010

Major Project Component: January 1, 2008 to March 31, 2012

Abilities Centre Durham: September 22, 2009 to March 31, 2013

Strategic Outcome: Income security, access to opportunities and well-being for individuals, families and communities.

Program Activity: Social Development

Description: This program contributes to the improvement of accessibility for people with disabilities in their communities. Funding is provided to eligible recipients through grants and contributions to support community based projects across Canada that improve accessibility, remove barriers, and enable Canadians with disabilities to participate in and contribute to their community.

The program has the following four components:

• The Small Project Component provides funding to projects that improve the built environment through renovation, construction and retrofitting of buildings, modification of vehicles for community use and through the provision of accessible information/communication technologies.
• The Mid-sized Project Component provides funding for retrofits, renovations or new construction of facilities within Canada that house services and programs that emphasize a holistic approach to the social and labour market integration needs of people with disabilities.
• The Major Project Component provides funding for the construction of abilities centres that assist people with disabilities to have increased access to opportunities for social and economic participation in the community.
• The Abilities Centre Durham receives funding for the construction of an abilities centre that serves as a model approach to accessibility in communities. This component provides contribution funding in the amount of $15 million to the Abilities Centre Durham.

The Enabling Accessibility Fund is a grant and contribution program with non-repayable contributions.

Expected results: Removing barriers to help people with disabilities have access to opportunities to participate in their communities.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	10.0	10.7	-	-
Total Contributions	9.5	7.0	-	-
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	19.5	17.7	-	-

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: N/A - The EAF was announced in Budget 2007

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2014-2015

General Targeted Recipient Group: Eligible funding recipients under the Small and Mid-sized Project Components are:

• Not-for- profit organizations;
• Small Municipalities (with a population under 250,000 as per census data);
• Small private-sector organizations (fewer than 50 employees and under $5 million in gross revenue per year);
• Colleges and universities;
• Territorial governments; and,
• Aboriginal governments.

Eligible funding recipients under the Major Project Component:

• Non-governmental organizations such as community-based groups and non profit organizations;
• Small municipalities (with a population under 250,000 as per the latest census data);
• Small private-sector organizations (fewer than 50 employees and under $5 million in gross revenue per year);
• Territorial governments; and,
• Aboriginal government and organizations.

The Abilities Centre Durham is the only eligible recipient under the Abilities Centre Durham Terms and Conditions.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: N/A

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB)

Start date: July 1, 2006

End date: Ongoing

Fiscal Year for Ts & Cs: 2006-2007

Strategic Outcome: Income security, access to opportunities and well-being for individuals, families and communities.

Program Activity: Social Development

Description: Effective July 2006 families receive $100 per month (up to $1,200 per year) for each child under six. Payments are made directly to families so that they can choose the child care that best meets the family's needs. The Universal Child Care Benefit is provided in addition to existing federal programs such as the Canada Child Tax Benefit, which includes the National Child Benefit Supplement, the new Child Tax Credit and the Child Care Expense Deduction. The Universal Child Care Benefit does not affect the benefits families receive under these programs. Further information can be found at Web site of HRSDC.

UCCB is not a repayable contribution.

Expected results: Canada's families with children under six years of age receive financial support through the Universal Child Care Benefit for their child care choices.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-2012	Planned Spending 2012-2013	Planned Spending 2013-2014	Planned Spending 2014-2015
Total Grants	2,696.0	2,747.0	2,786.0	2,817.0
Total Contributions	-	-	-	-
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	-	-	-	-
Total Transfer Payments	2,696.0	2,747.0	2,786.0	2,817.0

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2011-2012

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2014-2015

General Targeted Recipient Group: Families with children under the age of six.

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: Service Canada promotion and outreach activities to raise awareness of the UCCB through is various service channels.

8.5 The federal government will take action now to reduce levels of greenhouse gas emissions from its operations to match the national target of 17% below 2005 by 2020.

Performance Measure		RPP	DPR
Target Status
Departmental Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reduction target: Percentage of absolute reduction in GHG emissions by fiscal year 2020-2021, relative to fiscal year 2005-2006.		17%
Departmental GHG emissions in fiscal year 2005-2006, in kilotonnes of CO2 equivalent.		1.44
Departmental GHG emissions in the given fiscal year, in kilotonnes of CO2 equivalent.	FY 2012-2013	1.41
	FY 2013-2014
	FY 2014-2015
	FY 2015-2016
	FY 2016-2017
	FY 2017-2018
	FY 2018-2019
	FY 2019-2020
	FY 2020-2021	1.20
Percent change in departmental GHG emissions from fiscal year 2005-2006 to the end of the given fiscal year.	FY 2012-2013	-2%
	FY 2013-2014
	FY 2014-2015
	FY 2015-2016
	FY 2016-2017
	FY 2017-2018
	FY 2018-2019
	FY 2019-2020
	FY 2020-2021	-17%
Existence of an implementation plan to reduce GHG emissions.		Yes, by March 31, 2012

Strategies / Comments

1. The targeted GHG emissions sources are for fleet vehicles only. All fleet vehicles will be considered with respect to this target.
2. The 2005-2006 baseline calculation of GHG emissions has been updated to reflect the best available data source. This same data source and methodology is repeatable for reporting purposes for the duration of the target period.
3. Implementation plan is anticipated to be approved by March 31, 2012.

8.6 By March 31, 2014, each department will reuse or recycle all surplus electronic and electrical equipment (EEE) in an environmentally sound and secure manner.

Performance Measure		RPP	DPR
Target Status
Existence of implementation plan for the disposal of all departmentally-generated EEE		Yes, by March 31, 2012
Total number of departmental locations with EEE implementation plan fully implemented, expressed as a percentage of all locations, by the end of the given fiscal year.	FY 2012-2013	40% of locations
	FY 2013-2014	100% of locations

Strategies / Comments

1. The word “location” is defined according to a regional breakdown reflected at HRSDC that includes 5 regions (Atlantic, National Capital, Ontario, Quebec and Western regions).
2. HRSDC has good regional processes in place to ensure that surplus electronic and electrical equipment is reused or recycled. Each regional process will be evaluated systematically in fulfillment of the requirements of this target.
3. Implementation plan is anticipated to be approved by March 31, 2012.

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
Ratio of departmental office employees to printing units in fiscal year 2010-2011, where building occupancy levels, security considerations and space configuration allow. (Optional)		Data not available
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 2011-2012	2:1
	FY 2012-2013	8:1

Strategies / Comments

1. In fiscal year 2011–2012, HRSDC has commenced two related initiatives that will increase the ratio of employees to printing devices (i.e. printers, scanners, photocopiers and faxes) to meet the TBS targets and achieve departmental savings.
2. IITB has initiated a Printer Rationalization project which has as its objective, to remove most local printers and migrate these users to network printers thereby reducing the overall number of printing devices in operation. The result of this project, will be an increase in the ratio of employees to printing devices to the rate of 8:1 by March 31, 2013.
3. It is also commencing a procurement initiative during 2012/2013 that will lead to a change in how print services are managed and delivered. This change involves entering into a contractual arrangement with a private sector vendor to provide a Managed Print Service that will meet all print, scan, photocopy and fax needs of the department. This will involve introducing a larger fleet of Multi-functional devices which will eventually replace government-owned equipment.

8.8 By March 31, 2014, each department will reduce internal paper consumption per office employee by 20%. Each department will establish a baseline between 2005-2006 and 2011-2012, and applicable scope.

Performance Measure		RPP	DPR
Target Status
Number of sheets of internal office paper purchased or consumed per office employee in the baseline year selected, as per departmental scope.		7,406 sheets per office employee
		Baseline 2007 - 2008
Cumulative reduction (or increase) in paper consumption, expressed as a percentage, relative to baseline year selected. (Optional in RPP 2011-2012)	FY 2012-2013	5% reduction
	FY 2013-2014	20% reduction

Strategies / Comments

1. HRSDC has implemented a number of initiatives to reduce paper consumption related to its programs and these include electronic paper processing for Employment Insurance, Old Age Security, Canada Pension Plan and Canada Student Loans. Internal administrative processes have also adopted an electronic format and include travel arrangements and pay stubs.
2. The scope of this target will include all employees as recorded in the Departmental Performance Report and all internal office paper purchases (e.g. letter, legal and ledger).
3. The method to calculate paper consumption is based on the annual cost of all internal office paper purchases made each fiscal year. This cost is divided by the price per sheet.
4. The chosen baseline year is fiscal year 2007 – 2008. The number of office employees (22,034 employees) is extracted from HRSDC’s Departmental Performance Report 2007–2008. Paper purchase data ($979,148 of paper purchases) is provided through procurement statistics for 2007–2008. The cost of $0.006 is determined as the price per sheet of the most commonly purchased copy paper sourced in the National Capital Region.

8.9 By March 31, 2012, each department will adopt a guide for greening meetings.

Performance Measure	RPP	DPR
Target Status
Presence of a green meeting guide.	Yes, adopted May 2010

Strategies / Comments

1. HRSDC has adopted Environment Canada’s Guide for Greening Meetings and this is available to employees via HRSDC’s Environmental Management Services intranet site.
2. HRSDC is promoting Environment Canada’s Guide for Greening Meetings through its Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy Director General Committee with the first meeting held on November 25, 2011.

By March 31, 2014, 90% of desktop computer purchases will be environmentally preferred models.

Performance Measure		RPP	DPR
Target Status
Dollar value of desktop computer purchases that meet the target relative to total dollar value of all purchases of desktop computers (expressed as a percentage).		N/A
Progress against measure in the given fiscal year.	Fiscal Year 2012-2013	80% of desktop computer purchases
	Fiscal Year 2013-2014	90% of desktop computer purchases

Strategies / Comments

1. This target is SMART as follows:
   
   • Specific: The target is unambiguous with clear timelines and measurements for success.
   • Measurable: Desktop computer purchases can be measured and environmentally-preferred portion of same verified using pre-existing systems and procedures.
   • Achievable: Purchasing of environmentally-preferred desktop computers is readily achieved using existing PWGSC standing offer(s) and can be implemented nationally.
   • Relevant: Results in real energy (electricity) savings and provides opportunities to engage and motivate all departmental employees during desktop computer replacement initiatives.
   • Time-bound: Date established for target implementation and completion.
2. The implementation of the national procurement process, including commodity-based preferred procurement approaches, will ensure the consistent purchases of environmentally preferred desktop computers.
3. HRSDC uses PWGSC’s mandatory standing offer for the procurement of desktop computers which provides environmentally preferred models.

By March 31, 2014, 90% of copy paper purchases contain a minimum of 30% recycled content and have forest management certification, or equivalent.

Performance Measure		RPP	DPR
Target Status
Dollar value of copy paper purchases that meet the target relative to total dollar value of all purchases of copy paper (expressed as percentage).		N/A
Progress against measure in the given fiscal year.	Fiscal Year 2012-2013	80% of copy paper purchases
	Fiscal Year 2013-2014	90% of copy paper purchases

Strategies / Comments

1. This target is SMART as follows:
   
   • Specific: The target is unambiguous with clear timelines and measurements for success, provided that the scope is clearly defined.
   • Measurable: Paper purchases can be measured and recycled content of same verified using pre-existing systems and procedures.
   • Achievable: Purchasing of recycled paper is readily achieved using existing PWGSC standing offer(s) and can be implemented nationally.
   • Relevant: The target is relevant to the daily work of nearly all employees, thus motivating individual employees to change their practices in paper usage, thereby reducing the amount of waste.
   • Time-bound: Date established for target implementation and completion.
2. The implementation of the national procurement process, including commodity-based preferred procurement approaches, will ensure the consistent purchases of environmentally preferred copy paper.
3. HRSDC uses PWGSC’s mandatory standing offer for the procurement of environmentally preferred copy paper.

As of April 1^st, 2011, 75% of vehicles purchased annually are leadership vehicles in its class, as per the Government Motor Vehicle Ordering Guide, where operational requirements allow.

Performance Measure		RPP	DPR
Target Status
Number of vehicle purchases that meet the target relative to the total number of all vehicle purchases in each fiscal year		N/A
Progress against measure in the given fiscal year.	Fiscal Year 2012-2013	75% of vehicles purchased
	Fiscal Year 2013-2014	75% of vehicles purchased

Strategies / Comments

1. This target is SMART as follows:
   
   • Specific: The target is unambiguous with clear timelines and measurements for success.
   • Measurable: Vehicle (fleet) purchases can easily be measured and the leadership (environmentally-preferred) portion of same verified using pre-existing systems and procedures.
   • Achievable: The target is achievable using existing PWGSC procurement mechanism(s) and TBS guides, and can be implemented nationally.
   • Relevant: Results in real energy (fuel) savings and provides the chance to engage and motivate many individual departmental employees about greener choices when older in-use vehicles are replaced with greener models.
   • Time-bound: Date established for target implementation and completion.
2. Owing to operational requirements, this target only applies to the purchase of light-duty vehicles.
3. The implementation of the national procurement process, including commodity-based preferred procurement approaches, will ensure the consistent purchases of leadership vehicles.
4. All leadership vehicles purchased will meet Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat’s Guide to Fleet Management, Chapter 1: Light-Duty Vehicles and will be purchased through PWGSC’s National Master Standing Offers.

Training for Select Employees.

By March 31, 2014, 90% of designated procurement specialists will have Green Procurement training.

Performance Measure		RPP	DPR
Target Status
Number of designated procurement specialists with Green Procurement training relative to the total number of designated procurement specialists.		N/A
Progress against measure in the given fiscal year.	Fiscal Year 2012-2013	50% of designated procurement specialists
	Fiscal Year 2013-2014	90% of designated procurement specialists

Strategies / Comments

1. This target is SMART as follows:
   
   • Specific: The target is unambiguous with clear timelines and measurements for success.
   • Measurable: The recently-implemented national structure of the departmental procurement group facilitates measurement, tracking, communication and encouragement of identified procurement specialists.
   • Achievable: The department will make use of existing, freely available CSPS resource course C215.
   • Relevant: The web-based nature of the training itself furthers environmental objectives, and succeeding at this target will provide essential tools to critical departmental employees best positioned to be change-leaders in fostering environmentally-friendly purchasing habits within the department.
   • Time-bound: Date established for target implementation and completion.
2. Implementation plan is anticipated to be approved by March 31, 2012.

Employee performance evaluations for managers and functional heads of procurement and materiel management.

By March 31, 2014, 90% of designated managers and functional heads of procurement and materiel management will have environmental objectives included within their performance evaluations.

Performance Measure		RPP	DPR
Target Status
Percentage of performance evaluations of designated managers and functional heads of procurement and materiel management that incorporate environmental objectives, relative to total number of performance evaluations of designated managers and functional heads of procurement.		N/A
Progress against measure in the given fiscal year.	Fiscal Year 2012-2013	50% of performance evaluations of designated managers and functional heads
	Fiscal Year 2013-2014	90% of performance evaluations of designated managers and functional heads

Strategies / Comments

1. This target is SMART as follows:
   
   • Specific: The target is unambiguous with clear timelines and measurements for success.
   • Measurable: Review of Performance Management Agreements
   • Achievable: Performance Management Agreements are done annually by designated authorities.
   • Relevant: Ties personal performance to environmental performance and a reduction in environmental impacts from internal operations.
   • Time-bound: Date established for target implementation and completion.
2. Designated managers and functional heads of procurement and materiel management will require environmental objectives in their Performance Management Agreement.
3. Implementation plan is anticipated to be approved by March 31, 2012.

Management processes and controls.

By March 31, 2014, all designated management processes and controls pertaining to the purchase of fleet vehicles will include environmental considerations.

Performance Measure		RPP	DPR
Target Status
Percentage of designated management processes and controls pertaining to the purchase of fleet vehicles that include environmental considerations relative to the total number of designated management processes and controls pertaining to the purchase of fleet vehicles.		N/A
Progress against measure in the given fiscal year.	Fiscal Year 2012-2013	100% of designated management processes and controls
	Fiscal Year 2013-2014	100% of designated management processes and controls

Strategies / Comments

1. This target is SMART as follows:
   
   • Specific: The target is unambiguous with clear timelines and measurements for success.
   • Measurable: Vehicle purchases can easily be tracked and environmental considerations can be implemented to all designated management processes and controls using pre-existing systems and procedures.
   • Achievable: The target is achievable using existing PWGSC procurement mechanism(s), TBS directives and internal processes and controls. Additionally, HRSDC is required under its DSDS target to ensure that 75% of vehicles purchased are leadership vehicles.
   • Relevant: Designated management processes and controls which are centralized determine whether or not vehicles are purchased with environmental considerations.
   • Time-bound: Date established for target implementation and completion.

Name of Horizontal Initiative: Homelessness Partnering Strategy (HPS)

Name of lead department(s): Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

Lead department program activity: Social Development

Start date of the Horizontal Initiative: April 1, 2011

End date of the Horizontal Initiative: March 31, 2014

Total federal funding allocation (start to end date): $396.8M over three years

Description of the Horizontal Initiative (including funding agreement):

The Homelessness Partnering Strategy (HPS) promotes strategic partnerships and structures, including transitional and supportive housing solutions and supports, to assist homeless persons and those at risk of homelessness to move toward self-sufficiency. The HPS recognizes that a stable living arrangement is a basic requirement for improving health, parenting, education, and employment. As a result, communities are encouraged to develop longer-term solutions to address their homelessness-related needs.

The Homelessness Partnering Strategy:

• Serves as a catalyst for partnerships at the community level, between governments and across the federal government;
• Provides communities with resources and information to target homelessness supports and services to the areas of greatest need based on local circumstances;
• Invests funds in a manner that targets the greatest needs and affected client groups while ensuring that those investments complement those of other stakeholders and partners; and,
• Enhances understanding of homelessness among communities, partners and stakeholders, as well as all orders of government, through knowledge development and dissemination as well as results reporting and analysis.

The Homelessness Partnering Strategy has seven funding streams:

The first three funding streams focus on the needs of homeless and at-risk individuals at the local level, and provide funding to help them gain and maintain a stable living arrangement. These streams are delivered regionally through the Program Operations Branch:

• Designated Communities;
• Rural and Remote Homelessness; and,
• Aboriginal Homelessness.

The remaining four streams, delivered nationally through the Income Security and Social Development Branch (Homelessness Partnering Secretariat), provide the means to develop and explore innovative methods, as well as horizontal approaches, to address issues related to homelessness including: effective reporting; accountability; data development and collection; evidence-based knowledge development; the sharing of best practices; and making surplus federal real properties available to communities:

• Federal Horizontal Pilot Projects (FHPP);
• Homelessness Knowledge Development (HKD);
• National Homelessness Information System (NHIS); and
• Surplus Federal Real Property for Homelessness Initiative (SFRPHI).

For more information, please visit the Homelessness Partnering Strategy website: Web site of HRSDC

Shared outcome(s): Income security, access to opportunities and well-being for individuals, families and communities.

Governance structure(s): The Homelessness Partnering Strategy community-based program is delivered via two models:

• Community Entity model: Under this model, the federal government entrusts a community body, often the community's municipal government, through a single contribution agreement with the ability to select and manage HPS projects in their area. This includes: publishing Calls for Proposals based on the priorities identified in the Community Plan; approving projects recommended by a Community Advisory Board (CAB); contracting and monitoring all agreements it holds with third-party service providers; reporting on CAB activities and disbursements; and, reporting on the results and outcomes for these agreements.
• Shared Delivery model: Under this model, HRSDC works in partnership with the community, through a CAB, to support funding priorities resulting in a joint selection of projects and decision-making process. Where appropriate, partners also include the province/territory. HRSDC is responsible for project approvals, negotiation of contribution agreements, and monitoring.

A formal Canada-Quebec Agreement defines how the program is delivered in Quebec.

Work will continue to strengthen bilateral arrangements with provinces and territories in order to better coordinate policy and program priorities and complement efforts to address the needs of individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Areas of engagement with provinces and territories will vary according to the interests of each jurisdiction and could include, for example: facilitating officials' membership on HPS Community Advisory Boards and Regional Advisory Boards; data collection and sharing; exchanging research and knowledge; and, consultations on program development.

The Surplus Federal Real Property for Homelessness Initiative (SFRPHI) makes surplus federal real properties available to community organizations, the not-for-profit sector, and other levels of government for projects to help prevent and reduce homelessness. The SFRPHI is a horizontal initiative under HPS, which HRSDC manages in partnership and in collaboration with Public Works and Government Services Canada as well as the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Planning Highlights: Planning highlights for 2012–2013 focus on implementing the renewed HPS to better prevent and reduce homelessness across Canada while introducing several enhancements for the 2011–2014 period.

Specific 2012–2013 planning highlights include:

• Strengthening accountability through increased data collection;
• Increasing the relevance and dissemination of research;
• Engaging with provinces and territories on HPS at the corporate and local level to complement efforts in the prevention and reduction of homelessness;
• Focusing on labour market integration to help homeless individuals access the labour market;
• Working horizontally with other federal departments and agencies to address homelessness among key populations of federal interest;
• Using early findings from the Mental Health Commission of Canada to inform future directions; and
• Strengthening the community based model by revitalizing community infrastructure (CABs/CEs).

Federal Partner: Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

Federal Partner Program Activity (PA)	Names of Programs for Federal Partners	($ millions)
		Total Allocation (from Start to End Date)	Planned Spending for 2012-2013
Social Development	Homelessness Partnering Strategy - regionally Delivered Projects	$381.0M	$147.4M
	Federal Horizontal Pilot Projects (Examples of federal partners for this initiative include Health Canada, Justice Canada, Veteran Affairs, and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada)	$2.6M	$1.0M
	Homelessness Knowledge Development	$2.6M	$1.0M
	National Homelessness Information System	$1.6M	$0.6M
Total		$387.8M	$150M

Expected Results:

• Continued availability of essential supports and facilities within communities for individuals who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
• New projects funded based on identified priorities from 2011-2014 Community Plans.
• Projects that receive funding through the Designated Communities funding stream demonstrate cost-matching by other partners.
• Pilot projects are developed and implemented to facilitate broader involvement of federal departments and agencies in developing solutions to homelessness.
• Understanding of homelessness issues and improved dissemination of research findings at the community level is increased.
• Increased number of shelters with data exported to NHIS.

Federal Partner: Public Works and Government Services Canada

Federal Partner Program Activity (PA)	Names of Programs for Federal Partners	($ millions)
		Total Allocation (from Start to End Date)	Planned Spending for 2012-2013
	Surplus Federal Real Property for Homelessness Initiative	$9.0M	$3.0M
Total		$9.0M	$3.0M

Expected Results: Communities have enhanced capacity to provide facilities for use by individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Total Allocation For All Federal Partners (from Start to End Date)	Total Planned Spending for All Federal Partners for 2012-2013
$396.8M	$153.0M

Results to be achieved by non-federal partners (if applicable): Not Applicable

Contact information:
Barbara Lawless, Director General
Homelessness Partnering Secretariat
Income Security and Social Development Branch
Place du Portage, Phase IV
140 Promenade du Portage
Gatineau, Québec K1A 0J9
(819) 997-5464
barbara.lawless@hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca

Name of Horizontal Initiative: Youth Employment Strategy (YES)

Name of lead department(s): Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

Lead department program activity: Skills and Employment

Start date of the Horizontal Initiative: April 1, 2003

End date of the Horizontal Initiative: Ongoing

Total federal funding allocation (start to end date): Ongoing

Description of the Horizontal Initiative (including funding agreement): Through the Youth Employment Strategy (YES), the Government of Canada is working to provide young Canadians with both valuable work experience and earnings to help transition to the labour market and support their further education. The Youth Employment Strategy supports Canadian youth as they move into the workforce. The Strategy plays a role in developing Canada's workforce by providing young Canadians with access to programs and services to help them gain the skills, knowledge, career information and work experience they need to find and maintain employment and make a successful transition into the labour force.

The Youth Employment Strategy is designed to respond to labour market challenges facing youth, aged 15 to 30. The Strategy has three program streams: Skills Link, Career Focus and Summer Work Experience, which includes the Canada Summer Jobs initiative. Skills Link provides youth-at-risk with opportunities to develop the skills they need to find work or return to school. Career Focus helps post-secondary graduates find work in their area of specialization. Summer Work Experience helps secondary and post-secondary students acquire career-related skills and financing for their education through summer jobs.

The Government of Canada's support for young Canadians is a shared responsibility and a partnership effort among many departments and organizations. Human Resources and Skills Development, along with 10 other federal government departments, work cooperatively with other levels of government, Aboriginal organizations, educational institutions, the private sector, and not-for-profit and voluntary sector organizations to deliver Youth Employment Strategy initiatives.

Shared outcome(s):

The shared outcomes of partners for the common key results are:

• Number of youth served
• Number of youth employed / self-employed
• Number of youth returning to school

Governance structure(s): The Youth Employment Strategy has in place a horizontal Results-based Management and Accountability Framework that represents a commitment among the eleven participating federal departments to undertake ongoing collection of common performance management data to ensure effective overall performance management of the program.

Oversight of the Youth Employment Strategy horizontal initiative is provided through a collaborative committee structure. Human Resources and Skills Development Canada is responsible for facilitating coordination among the departments and agencies funding Youth Employment Strategy activities. As lead of this horizontal initiative, HRSDC chairs and is responsible for the coordination and management of the Youth Employment Strategy Interdepartmental Operations Committee and the Youth Employment Strategy Evaluation Sub-Committee. HRSDC is ultimately accountable for attaining the expected results for the Youth Employment Strategy and has the ultimate decision-making authority for issues related to the overall policy, design and implementation of the Youth Employment Strategy.

Youth Employment Strategy initiatives are delivered nationally, regionally and locally using a variety of funding instruments, such as contribution agreements and some direct delivery methods. Transfer payments are provided primarily by participating departments through contribution agreements and service delivery agreements in support of participants' remuneration and overhead costs.

Planning Highlights: As lead, HRSDC will continue to support implementation of the YES across the eleven participating federal departments with a focus on program results and performance monitoring, and preparing the YES summative evaluation scheduled to begin in 2012.

Federal Partner: Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

Federal Partner Program Activity (PA)	Names of Programs for Federal Partners	($ millions)
		Total Allocation (from Start to End Date)	Planned Spending for 2012-2013
Skills and Employment	Career Focus	Ongoing	$13.0M
	Skills Link	Ongoing	$123.3M
	Summer Work Experience	Ongoing	$111.5M
Total		Ongoing	$247.8M

Expected Results:

Career Focus:
Projected Range of Results

For POB-Service Canada:
Clients Served: 494
Employed or Self-Employed: 291
Return to School: 31
Contribution Agreements: 150
Funds Leveraged: $4.0M-$6.0M

For Sector Council:
Clients Served: 350
Employed or Self-Employed: 309
Return to School: 35
Contribution Agreements: 163
Funds Leveraged: TBD

Skills Link

For POB-Service Canada
Projected Range of Results

Clients Served: 12,283
Employed or Self-Employed: 3,876
Return to School: 1,351
Contribution Agreements: 750
Funds Leveraged: $50.0M-$65.0M

Federal Partner: Agriculture and Agri-food Canada

Federal Partner Program Activity (PA)	Names of Programs for Federal Partners	($ millions)
		Total Allocation (from Start to End Date)	Planned Spending for 2012-2013
Skills and Employment	Career Focus		$1.1M
Total			$1.1M

Federal Partner: Canadian International Development Agency

Federal Partner Program Activity (PA)	Names of Programs for Federal Partners	($ millions)
		Total Allocation (from Start to End Date)	Planned Spending for 2012-2013
Skills and Employment	Career Focus		$7.2M
Total			$7.2M

Federal Partner: Canadian Heritage

Federal Partner Program Activity (PA)	Names of Programs for Federal Partners	($ millions)
		Total Allocation (from Start to End Date)	Planned Spending for 2012-2013
Skills and Employment	Career Focus		$0.9M
	Summer Work Experience		$7.9M
Total			$8.8M

Federal Partner: Environment Canada

Federal Partner Program Activity (PA)	Names of Programs for Federal Partners	($ millions)
		Total Allocation (from Start to End Date)	Planned Spending for 2012-2013
Skills and Employment	Career Focus		$3.3M
Total			$3.3M

Federal Partner: Industry Canada

Federal Partner Program Activity (PA)	Names of Programs for Federal Partners	($ millions)
		Total Allocation (from Start to End Date)	Planned Spending for 2012-2013
Skills and Employment	Career Focus		$3.6M
	Summer Work Experience		$3.5M
Total			$7.1M

Federal Partner: National Research Council

Federal Partner Program Activity (PA)	Names of Programs for Federal Partners	($ millions)
		Total Allocation (from Start to End Date)	Planned Spending for 2012-2013
Skills and Employment	Career Focus		$5.4M
Total			$5.4M

Federal Partner: Natural Resources Canada

Federal Partner Program Activity (PA)	Names of Programs for Federal Partners	($ millions)
		Total Allocation (from Start to End Date)	Planned Spending for 2012-2013
Skills and Employment	Career Focus		$0.6M
Total			$0.6M

Federal Partner: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Federal Partner Program Activity (PA)	Names of Programs for Federal Partners	($ millions)
		Total Allocation (from Start to End Date)	Planned Spending for 2012-2013
Skills and Employment	Skills Link		$1.0M
Total			$1.0M

Federal Partner: Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada

Federal Partner Program Activity (PA)	Names of Programs for Federal Partners	($ millions)
		Total Allocation (from Start to End Date)	Planned Spending for 2012-2013
Skills and Employment	Skills Link		$15.9M
	Summer Work Experience		$8.1M
Total			$24.0M

Federal Partner: Parks Canada

Federal Partner Program Activity (PA)	Names of Programs for Federal Partners	($ millions)
		Total Allocation (from Start to End Date)	Planned Spending for 2012-2013
Skills and Employment	Summer Work Experience		$2.0M
Total			$2.0M

Total Allocation For All Federal Partners (from Start to End Date)	Total Planned Spending for All Federal Partners for 2012-2013
Ongoing	Total Career Focus: $35.1M Total Skills Link: $140.2M Total Summer Work Experience: $133.0M Total Youth Employment Strategy: $308.3M

Results to be achieved by non-federal partners (if applicable): Not Applicable

Contact information: John Atherton, Director General
Active Employment Measures
Skills and Employment Branch
Place du Portage, Phase IV
140 Promenade du Portage
Gatineau, Québec K1A 0J9
(819) 994-6916
john.atherton@hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca

Name of Horizontal Initiative: Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP)

Note: The June 2007 start date represents the latest authorities for the Temporary Foreign Worker program. The planned spending figures are for Citizenship and Immigration Canada and HRSDC only. Figures exclude planned spending for other government departments such as Department of Foreigh Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) and Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) and therefore do not represent the full Government of Canada costs for the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

Name of lead department(s): Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

Lead department program activity: Skills and Employment

Start date of the Horizontal Initiative: June 13, 2007

End date of the Horizontal Initiative: Ongoing

Total federal funding allocation (start to end date): Ongoing

Description of the Horizontal Initiative (including funding agreement): The Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) enables Canadian employers to hire foreign workers on a temporary basis to meet immediate skills and labour needs when Canadians are not available, subject to employers and workers meeting specified criteria. The Program is jointly managed by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC). The TFWP includes program streams such as: Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, Live-in-Caregiver Program, Pilot Project for Occupations Requiring Lower Levels of Formal Training, and several Labour Market Opinion (LMO) exempt streams.

In the province of Quebec, the TFWP is administered through a partnership with the Government of Quebec, as referenced in the Canada-Quebec Accord on Immigration.

The Temporary Foreign Worker Program is funded from the Consolidated Revenue Fund.
Web site of HRSDC

Shared outcome(s):

• Employers' temporary human resource needs are addressed;
• Temporary Foreign Workers' rights and protections are respected;
• Entry of eligible temporary foreign workers into Canada in a timely manner;
• Temporary migration that is consistent with federal, provincial and territorial regulations, standards and international obligations; and,
• Migration that significantly benefits Canada's economic, social, and cultural development.

Governance structure(s):

• HRSDC is responsible for providing a LMO to CIC and employers indicating whether the employment of the temporary foreign worker is likely to have a positive, negative or neutral impact on the labour market in Canada, and processes LMO applications to support the work permit application process.
• CIC is responsible for assessing work permit applications and issuing work permits to workers.
• Each Department is responsible for the design and management of those elements of the program under its Minister's responsibility.

Planning Highlights: HRSDC in partnership with CIC will implement TFWP regulatory changes, which will include enhancements to the Program that will strengthen worker protection and improve program integrity. A key part of the process will be to monitor the implementation of the Quality Assurance Framework training and materials in order to ensure consistency and compliance in the application of all program directives and guidelines. These directives include the evaluation of the genuineness of job offers made to foreign nationals, and restricting program access to employers failing to meet commitments to workers with respect to wages, working conditions and/or the occupation.

In addition, HRSDC will continue to work with other government departments and the provinces and territories to develop information sharing agreements. These agreements will assist with the administration and enforcement of the Program as well as provincial/territorial employment standards and occupational health and safety legislation.

Federal Partner: Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

Federal Partner Program Activity (PA)	Names of Programs for Federal Partners	($ millions)
		Total Allocation (from Start to End Date)	Planned Spending for 2012-2013
Skills and Employment	Temporary Foreign Worker Program	Ongoing	$38.6M
Total		Ongoing	$38.6M

Expected Results:

Program enhancement including those to strengthen worker protection, enhance program integrity and respond to the recommendations of the Auditor General of Canada.

• Implement activities outlined in the HRSDC TFWP Response Plan to the Red Tape Reduction Commission. Initiatives include:
  • strengthen operational guidance through the implementation of a Quality Assurance Framework;
  • improve processing of applications with the launch of the TFWP Web Service;
  • better assessment of wage information with the development of a new wage methodology;
• Develop an accelerated and simplified LMO application process;
• Work with Service Canada to implement an enhanced TFWP employer compliance framework;
• Continuing to work toward information sharing protocols and authorities with Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA);
• Exploring the development of a policy for on-site employer visits and the extension of additional monitoring activities for the Live-in Caregiver Program
• Reporting publicly on TFWP outcomes, including program statistics, and results of employer compliance reviews where possible
• Continue to develop and implement information sharing agreements with other government programs/departments and provinces/territories to assist in the administration and enforcement of employment standards and occupational health and safety legislation;
• Complete a joint HRSDC-CIC summative program evaluation of the TFWP, with results expected in 2012-2013, and develop a Management Action Plan;
• Collaborate with CIC in efforts to modernize the TFWP;
• Partner and participate with CIC in joint F-P/T Temporary Foreign Workers Working groups; and,
• Negotiate and implement, with CIC, Federal-Provincial Temporary Foreign Worker Annexes.

Federal Partner: Citizenship and Immigration Canada

Federal Partner Program Activity (PA)	Names of Programs for Federal Partners	($ millions)
		Total Allocation (from Start to End Date)	Planned Spending for 2012-2013
Temporary Resident Program	Temporary Foreign Worker Program	Ongoing	$23.3M
Total		Ongoing	$23.3M

Expected Results:

• Complete a joint HRSDC – CIC evaluation of the LMO streams of the TFWP, with results expected in 2012-2013, and develop a Management Action Plan;
• Collaborate with HRSDC in efforts to modernize the TFWP;
• Partner and participate with HRSDC in joint Federal-Provincial/Territorial Temporary Foreign Workers working groups; and,
• Negotiate and implement, with HRSDC, Federal-Provincial Temporary Foreign Worker Annexes;
• Implement activities outlined in the CIC TFWP response plan to the Red Tape Reduction Commission.

Total Allocation For All Federal Partners (from Start to End Date)	Total Planned Spending for All Federal Partners for 2012-2013
Ongoing	$61.9M

Results to be achieved by non-federal partners (if applicable): Not Applicable

Contact information: Andrew Kenyon, Director General
Temporary Foreign Worker and Labour Market Information Directorate
Skills and Employment Branch
Place du Portage, Phase IV
140 Promenade du Portage
Gatineau, Quebec K1A 0J9
(819) 994-1021
andrew.kenyon@hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca

Name of Horizontal Initiative: National Child Benefit Program Initiative

Name of lead department(s): Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

Lead department program activity: Income Security

Start date of the Horizontal Initiative: 1998

End date of the Horizontal Initiative: Ongoing

Total federal funding allocation (start to end date): Ongoing

Description of the Horizontal Initiative (including funding agreement): Through the Federal-Provincial/Territorial (F-P/T) National Child Benefit (NCB) initiative, the Government of Canada is working with provincial and territorial governments¹ to provide income support, as well as benefits and services, for low-income families with children. The initiative also includes a First Nations component.

Shared outcome(s): The National Child Benefit initiative has three goals:

• Help prevent and reduce the depth of child poverty;
• Promote attachment to the labour market by ensuring that families will always be better off as a result of working; and,
• Reduce overlap and duplication by harmonizing program objectives and benefits and simplifying administration.

Annual National Child Benefit Progress Reports include information on the level of spending by all jurisdictions. There is a data collection process to which all participating jurisdictions contribute to in order to present comparable information on National Child Benefit initiatives. The data submitted by each jurisdiction is reviewed jointly to ensure consistency in reporting. To obtain the most recent Progress Report or for further information, please visit the Federal-Provincial/Territorial National Child Benefit website: http://www.nationalchildbenefit.ca/eng/home.shtml.

Federal Spending:

The Government of Canada contributes to the National Child Benefit initiative through a supplement to its Canada Child Tax Benefit. In addition to the base benefit of the Canada Child Tax Benefit, which is targeted to both low- and middle-income families, the National Child Benefit Supplement provides extra income support to low-income families with children. Federal spending on the Canada Child Tax Benefit is tracked by the Canada Revenue Agency, which is responsible for the delivery of the National Child Benefit Supplement (NCB).

The federal government provided $3.76B through the NCB Supplement in the 2010-2011 benefit year (July 2010 to June 2011). By 2011-2012, total annual federal support delivered through the Canada Child Tax Benefit, including the NCB Supplement, is projected to reach $10.37B, including a projected $3.81B through the NCB Supplement.

Provincial and Territorial and First Nations Spending:

Under the National Child Benefit initiative, provinces, territories and First Nations provide benefits and services that further the goals of the initiative. The latest F-P/T NCB Progress Report, the National Child Benefit Progress Report: 2007, reports that in 2007-2008, total reinvestments and investments for provinces, territories, and First Nations were estimated at $836M in programs and services. These programs and services include child/day care initiatives; child benefits and earned income supplements; early childhood services and children-at-risk services; supplementary health benefits; and youth initiatives. First Nations investments and reinvestments in programs and services were estimated at $54.8M in 2007-2008.

Indicators and Impacts:

The National Child Benefit Progress Report: 2007 includes an analysis of both societal level indicators, which measure areas such as low income and labour force attachment, and direct outcome indicators, which measure only those changes that are directly attributed to the National Child Benefit initiative.

With respect to societal level indicators, the report shows that the proportion of families with children living in low income has declined significantly since the mid-1990s, decreasing from 17.6 percent in 1996 to 10.5 percent in 2005, based on Statistics Canada's post-tax low-income cut-offs. During this period, the number of children living in low income decreased from 1,304,000 in 1996 to 787,894 in 2005, a decrease of approximately 516,106 children.

Further, using the Market Basket Measure (MBM), the report estimates that in 2005, as a direct result of the National Child Benefit initiative:

• 171,100 children in 78,800 families were prevented from living in low income in 2005, a reduction of 13.7 percent. This means that in 2005, there were 13.7 percent fewer families with children living in low income than there would have been without the National Child Benefit. These families saw their average disposable income increase by an estimated $2,400, or 9.5 percent.
• For those families with children who remained in low income, the National Child Benefit improved their disposable income by an average of $1,900 (10.7 percent). This means that the low-income gap (the additional amount of income needed by low-income families to reach the low-income line) was reduced by 20.4 percent in 2005.

In addition, in June 2005, federal, provincial and territorial governments released a synthesis report of a comprehensive evaluation of the first three years of the National Child Benefit initiative (1998-1999, 1999-2000, and 2000-2001). The evaluation compiled evidence from a number of studies and showed that the National Child Benefit initiative is meeting its goals. In addition, a second evaluation is underway.

For a complete discussion of indicators, please see Chapters 5 and 6 of the National Child Benefit Progress Report: 2007. For a discussion of evaluation results, please see the Evaluation of the National Child Benefit Initiative: Synthesis Report. These reports are available free of charge on the National Child Benefit website, at: http://www.nationalchildbenefit.ca/eng/home.shtml.

Governance structure(s): The National Child Benefit initiative Governance and Accountability Framework outlines the key characteristics of the federal, provincial and territorial partnership: cooperation, openness, flexibility, evolution and accountability. As a co-operative effort among governments, the National Child Benefit initiative combines the strengths of a national program with the flexibility of provincial and territorial initiatives designed to meet the specific needs and conditions within each jurisdiction.

With respect to accountability, under the Governance and Accountability Framework, federal, provincial and territorial Ministers Responsible for Social Services have committed to sharing data on reinvestment initiatives and reviewing results and outcomes achieved in order to identify best practices. Federal, provincial and territorial governments have also agreed to report annually to the public with a primary focus on the performance of the initiative. To date, nine annual progress reports have been published, as well as a synthesis report on a comprehensive evaluation of the first three years of the initiative.

The Federal Role:

Under the National Child Benefit initiative, the Government of Canada provides additional income support to low-income families with children via the National Child Benefit Supplement component of the Canada Child Tax Benefit. Canada Revenue Agency delivers these benefits to families.

Human Resources and Skills Development Canada is responsible for policy development with respect to the National Child Benefit initiative, and the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development represents the Government of Canada in this F-P/T initiative.

The Canada Child Tax Benefit (including the National Child Benefit Supplement) is a tax measure, and is administered by Canada Revenue Agency. Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada and Citizenship and Immigration Canada have roles in reinvestments and investments.

The Provincial and Territorial Role:

Under the National Child Benefit initiative, provinces, territories and First Nations provide benefits and services that further the goals of the initiative. The initiative is designed so that provinces, territories and First Nations have the flexibility to develop and deliver programs and services that best meet the needs and priorities of their communities. As part of this flexibility, provinces and territories may adjust social assistance or child benefit payments by the full or partial amount of the National Child Benefit Supplement. This approach has resulted in families on social assistance being no worse off in terms of their level of benefits, while providing additional funds for new or enhanced provincial and territorial programs benefitting low-income families with children.

As the National Child Benefit initiative has matured, the majority of provinces and territories no longer recover increases to the National Child Benefit Supplement. This means that the vast majority of children living in low-income families, including those on social assistance, are currently receiving some or all of the National Child Benefit Supplement.

Under the National Reinvestment Framework, provincial and territorial governments, along with First Nations, have committed to re-allocating available social assistance funds into benefits and services for children in low-income families that further the goals of the initiative. Jurisdictions have focused reinvestments primarily in key areas:

• Child Benefits and Earned Income Supplements;
• Child Care;
• Early Childhood Services and Children-at-Risk Services;
• Supplementary Health Benefits; and,
• Youth Initiatives.

First Nations Role:

The federal government is responsible for ensuring programs for First Nations children on reserve are comparable to those available to other Canadian children. Under the National Child Benefit, First Nations have the flexibility to reinvest savings from adjustments to social assistance into programs and services tailored to meet the needs and priorities of individual communities. Some 500 First Nations participate in the National Child Benefit initiative and implement their own programs.

Planning Highlights: In 2012-2013, HRSDC will work with its federal, provincial and territorial partners to finalize and release the 2008 NCB Progress Report. (As noted above, F-P/T Ministers Responsible for Social Services release an annual report on the progress of the initiative).

Federal Partner: Canada Revenue Agency²

Federal Partner Program Activity (PA)	Names of Programs for Federal Partners	($ millions)
		Total Allocation (from Start to End Date)	Planned Spending for 2012-2013
Administers the National Child Benefit Supplement and delivers income benefits directly to low income families.	National Child Benefit Supplement	Ongoing	$3.94B(projected)
Total		Ongoing	$3.94B(projected)

¹ The Government of Québec has stated that it agrees with the basic principles of the National Child Benefit. Québec chose not to participate in the initiative because it wanted to assume control over income support for children in Québec; however, it has adopted a similar approach to the National Child Benefit. Throughout this text, references to joint federal, provincial and territorial positions do not include Québec.

² While Human Resources and Skills Development Canada is responsible for policy development with respect to the National Child Benefit initiative, the Canada Child Tax Benefit (including the National Child Benefit Supplement) is a tax measure, and is administered by Canada Revenue Agency. In addition, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada and Citizenship and Immigration Canada have roles in reinvestments and investments.

Expected Results: Continued progress on the goals of the National Child Benefit initiative, as described in the "Shared Outcomes", above.

Total Allocation For All Federal Partners (from Start to End Date)	Total Planned Spending for All Federal Partners for 2012-2013
Ongoing	$3.94B (projected)

Results to be achieved by non-federal partners (if applicable): Not Applicable

Contact information:
Siobhan Harty, Director General
Social Policy Directorate
Strategic Policy and Research Branch
Place du Portage, Phase IV
140 Promenade du Portage
Gatineau, Quebec K1A 0J9
(613) 994-3184
siobhan.harty@hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca

Name of Horizontal Initiative: Early Childhood Development Agreement

Name of lead department(s): Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

Lead department program activity: N/A

Start date of the Horizontal Initiative: September 2000 with funding beginning April 2001

End date of the Horizontal Initiative: Ongoing

Total federal funding allocation (start to end date): Ongoing

Description of the Horizontal Initiative (including funding agreement): In September 2000, federal, provincial and territorial Ministers responsible for Social Services reached agreement to improve and expand early childhood development supports for young children (prenatal to age 6) and for their parents.

Under the Early Childhood Development Agreement, the Government of Canada agreed to transfer $500M per year via the Canada Social Transfer (CST) to provinces and territories. In Budget 2007, the CST was renewed until 2013-2014 and a 3% escalator was added to CST transfers starting in 2009-2010.

Information about the Agreement, including the text of the First Ministers' communiqué on Early Childhood Development, is available on the federal, provincial and territorial web portal on early childhood development and early learning and child care at: www.ecd-elcc.ca.

Shared outcome(s): The objectives of the initiative, as outlined in the Early Childhood Development Agreement, are:

• to promote early childhood development so that, to their fullest potential, children will be physically and emotionally healthy, safe and secure, ready to learn, and socially engaged and responsible; and,
• to help children reach their potential and to help families support their children within strong communities.

Governance structure(s): In the Early Childhood Development Agreement, First Ministers recognized that provinces and territories have the primary responsibility for early childhood development programs and services. Federal, provincial and territorial Ministers responsible for Social Services and Ministers of Health are responsible for implementation of the commitments in the Agreement.

Planning Highlights: As funds are transferred to the provinces and territories via the Canada Social Transfer (CST), provinces and territories are responsible for planning and prioritizing how the funds are invested.

Results to be Achieved by Non-federal Partners:

Provincial and territorial governments are investing the funds transferred to them by the Government of Canada in any or all of the following four areas of action outlined in the Early Childhood Development Agreement:

• promoting healthy pregnancy, birth and infancy;
• improving parenting and family supports;
• strengthening early childhood development, learning and care; and,
• strengthening community supports.

All participating federal, provincial and territorial governments have committed to three reporting requirements:

• Each government released a first report on Early Childhood Development programs and expenditures for the 2000-2001 fiscal year, providing a baseline against which new investments can be tracked;
• In fall 2002, governments began annual reporting, using a shared framework with comparable program indicators, to track progress in improving and expanding early childhood development programs and services within the four areas for action; and,
• In fall 2002, governments began regular reporting on children's well-being, using a common set of outcome indicators.

The Government of Québec supports the general principles expressed in the Early Childhood Development Initiative but did not participate in developing the initiative because it wishes to retain sole responsibility for social matters. However, it receives its share of funding granted by the Government of Canada and makes significant investments in programs and services that benefit families and children.

Contact information:
Siobhan Harty, Director General
Social Policy
Strategic Policy & Research Branch
Place du Portage, Phase IV
140 Promenade du Portage
Gatineau, Quebec K1A 0J9
Telephone: (819) 994-3184
siobhan.harty@hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca

Name of Horizontal Initiative: Multilateral Framework on Early Learning and Child Care

Name of lead department(s): Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

Lead department program activity: N/A

Start date of the Horizontal Initiative: March 2003

End date of the Horizontal Initiative: Ongoing

Total federal funding allocation (start to end date): Ongoing

Description of the Horizontal Initiative (including funding agreement): In March 2003, federal, provincial and territorial Ministers responsible for Social Services, reached agreement on a framework for improving access to affordable, quality, provincially and territorially regulated early learning and child care programs and services. Under the Multilateral Framework on Early Learning and Child Care, the Government of Canada provided $1.05 billion over five years (2003-2008) through the Canada Social Transfer (CST) to support provincial and territorial government investments in early learning and child care. In Budget 2007 the CST was renewed until 2013-2014 and a 3% escalator was added to CST transfers starting in 2009-2010. The Government of Canada is providing over $1.97 billion over six years (2008-2014).

The objective of this initiative, which complements the September 2000 Early Childhood Development Agreement, is to further promote early childhood development and support the participation of parents in employment or training by improving access to affordable, quality early learning and child care programs and services.

Governments also committed to transparent public reporting that will give Canadians a clear idea of the progress being made in improving access to affordable, quality early learning and child care programs and services, beginning with a baseline report in November 2003.

Information about the initiative, including the text of the Multilateral Framework on Early Learning and Child Care, is available on the federal, provincial and territorial Web portal on early childhood development and early learning and child care at: www.ecd-elcc.ca.

Shared outcome(s): The objectives of the initiative, as outlined in the Multilateral Framework on Early Learning and Child Care are:

• to promote early childhood development; and,
• to support the participation of parents in employment or training by improving access to affordable, quality early learning and child care programs and services.

Governance structure(s): The Multilateral Framework for Early Learning and Child Care recognizes that provinces and territories have the primary responsibility for early learning and child care programs and services.

Planning Highlights: As funds are transferred to the provinces and territories via the Canada Social Transfer (CST), provinces and territories are responsible for planning and prioritizing how the funds are invested.

Results to be Achieved by Non-federal Partners:

Provincial and territorial governments have agreed to invest the funding provided in regulated early learning and child care programs for children under the age of six. Early learning and child care programs and services funded through this initiative will primarily provide direct care and early learning for children in settings such as child care centres, family child care homes, preschools, and nursery schools. Investments can include capital and operating funding, fee subsidies, wage enhancements, training, professional development and support, quality assurance, and parent information and referral. Programs and services that are part of the formal school system are not included in this initiative.

Governments also committed to transparent public reporting that will give Canadians a clear idea of the progress being made in improving access to affordable, quality early learning and child care programs and services, beginning with a baseline report in November 2003 and annual reporting in November 2004.

The Government of Québec supports the general principles expressed in the Early Learning and Child Care Initiative but did not participate in developing the initiative because it wishes to retain sole responsibility for social matters. However, it receives its share of funding granted by the Government of Canada and makes significant investments in programs and services that benefit families and children.

Contact information:
Siobhan Harty, Director General
Social Policy
Strategic Policy & Research Branch
Place du Portage, Phase IV
140 Promenade du Portage
Gatineau, Quebec K1A 0J9
Telephone: (819) 994-3184
siobhan.harty@hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca