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Section III: Supplementary Information

Future-Oriented Financial Statements

Financial highlights

The future-oriented financial highlights within this Report on Plans and Priorities are intended to serve as a general overview of the CNSC’s financial operations. These future-oriented financial highlights are prepared on an accrual basis to strengthen accountability and improve transparency and financial management.

The CNSC’s future-oriented financial statements can be accessed on its web site at nuclearsafety.gc.ca.

Future-Oriented
Condensed Statement of Operations (unaudited)

For the Year (ended March 31)
($ thousands)
  % Change Future-Oriented
2012-13
Future-Oriented
2011-12
Total Expenses 2% 156,195 152,393
Total Revenues 3% 111,062 108,329
Net Cost of Operations 2% 45,133 44,064


Condensed Statement of Financial Position (unaudited)
For the Year (ended March 31)
($ thousands)
  % Change Future-Oriented
2012-13
Future-Oriented
2011-12
Total assets -1% 42,181 42,741
Total liabilities 2% 50,927 50,100
Equity 19% (8,746) (7,359)
Total -1% 42,181 42,741

Incremental funds of $7.2 million, and associated 43 FTEs, allocated for fee-exempt activities (including safety oversight of hospitals, cancer clinics, academic institutions, other government departments and other activities currently exempt from cost recovery) expired at the end of fiscal year 2011-12. The CNSC is working with the Government to ensure that it is resourced to fulfill its mandate.

List of Supplementary Information Tables

All electronic supplementary information tables found in the 2012–13 Reports on Plans and Priorities can be found on the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat website.

  • Details on Transfer Payment Programs;
  • Greening Government Operations;
  • Sources of Respendable and Non-Respendable Revenue;
  • Upcoming Internal Audits and Evaluations over the next three fiscal years;

Section IV: Other items of interest

External Performance Standards
Activity Performance standard Target
Compliance
Verification: Upon completion of the verification activity, the CNSC will: 
Issue Type I inspection preliminary report  At the Type I inspection exit meeting 100%
Issue Type I inspection report Within 60 business days 80%
Issue Type II inspection report Within 40 business days 80%
Issue desktop review report Within 60 business days 90%
Enforcement: upon an order being made, the CNSC will:
Confirm, amend, revoke or replace the order (see regulatory guide G-273, Making, Reviewing and Receiving Orders under the Nuclear Safety and Control Act) Within 10 business days 100%

Licensing: for requests pertaining to an existing licence, the CNSC will:

Screen the request for completeness and issue notification that the licensing request is / is not complete

Within 20 business days 90%
Issue a licensing decision when a public hearing is not required (assuming an environmental assessment under the CEA Act is not required) Within 80 business days 80%
Issue a licensing decision when a public hearing is required (assuming an environmental assessment under the CEA Act is not required) (see INFO-0715, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Public Hearings on Licensing Matters) Within 160 business days 90%
Access to Information
Respond to requests under the Access to Information Act (ATI) and Privacy Act Within legislated time periods as stated in the acts 100%
External Communication
Place public hearings advertisements Within deadlines stipulated in the regulations 100%
Response time to public inquiries Same-day acknowledgement, with response time for completion of request depending upon complexity: 100%
Low – same day 100%
Medium – within 5 business days 100%
High – within 10 business days 100%


Services Received Without Charge*
  ($) 2012-13 ($) 2013-14 ($) 2014-15
Accommodation provided by Public Works and Government Services Canada 5,643,237 5,702,424 5,766,324
Contributions covering the employers' share of employees’ insurance premiums and expenditures paid by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (excluding revolving funds) Employer’s contribution to employees’ insured benefits plans and expenditures paid by TBS 7,363,703 7,602,237 7,886,512
Salary and associated expenditures of legal services provided by the Department of Justice Canada 9,008 8,973 8,973
Audit Services provided by the Office of the Auditor General of Canada 130,300 138,100 146,400
Worker’s compensation coverage provided by Social Development Canada 30,207 28,696 27,262
Other 44,982 44,982 44,982
Total Services received without charge 13,221,437 13,525,411 13,880,453

* Services Received Without Charge reflect costs applicable to CNSC activities yet paid for by other government departments and reimbursed by CNSC

1 The (T) denotes temporary.

2 For program activity descriptions, please access the Main Estimates.

3 Most costs incurred for the CNSC’s regulatory activities are recovered by the federal government from licensees under the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Cost Recovery Fees Regulations (2003). In 2012–13, the CNSC projects to recover approximately $112.1 million in licence fees. Of the forecasted $112.1 million to be recovered from licensees, the CNSC has authority to directly respend $90.7 million pursuant to section 29.1(1) of the Financial Administration Act. The remaining $21.4 million is held centrally for costs associated with employee benefits, accommodations, health insurance and other expenditures that are directly paid for by central service providers and reimbursed by the CNSC.

4 Incremental funds of $7.2 million, and associated 43 FTEs, allocated for fee-exempt activities (including safety oversight of hospitals, cancer clinics, academic institutions, other government departments and other activities currently exempt from cost recovery) expired at the end of fiscal year 2011–12. The CNSC is working with the government to ensure that the CNSC continues to be resourced to fulfill its mandate.