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Transfer Payments Programs

1) Transfer Payment Program: Western Diversification Program
2) Start Date: 1987-88	3) End Date: Ongoing
4) Description: This program was designed to promote economic development and diversification in Western Canada and advance the interests of Western Canada in national policy, program and project development and implementation.
5) Strategic outcomes: Policy, Advocacy & Coordination, Community Economic Development and Entrepreneurship & Innovation.
6) Expected Results: A strengthened western innovation system. An expanded business sector in Western Canada. Increase investment in strategic federal/regional economic development priorities that improves the viability, prosperity and quality of life in communities across Western Canada. A better understanding of Western Canada’s needs, opportunities and aspirations inside and outside the region leading to improved programs and services for western Canadians.
($millions)		7) Forecast Spending 2005-2006	8) Planned Spending 2006-2007	9) Planned Spending 2007-2008	10) Planned Spending 2008-2009
11) Program Activity: Collaboration and Coordination
12) Total Grants		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
12) Total Contributions		0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
12) Total Other Types of Transfer Payments		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
13) Total PA		0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
11) Program Activity: Advocacy
12) Total Grants		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
12) Total Contributions		0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
12) Total Other Types of Transfer Payments		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
13) Total PA		0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
11) Program Activity: Research & Analysis
12) Total Grants		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
12) Total Contributions		0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6
12) Total Other Types of Transfer Payments		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
13) Total PA		0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6
11) Program Activity: Community Economic Planning, Development & Adjustment
12) Total Grants		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
12) Total Contributions		24.3	84.9	64.6	53.7
12) Total Other Types of Transfer Payments		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
13) Total PA		24.3	84.9	64.6	53.7
11) Program Activity: Business Development & Entrepreneurship
12) Total Grants		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
12) Total Contributions		11.7	31.4	30.5	25.3
12) Total Other Types of Transfer Payments		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
13) Total PA		11.7	31.4	30.5	25.3
11) Program Activity: Innovation
12) Total Grants		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
12) Total Contributions		33.2	34.4	26.8	22.3
12) Total Other Types of Transfer Payments		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
13) Total PA		33.2	34.4	26.8	22.3
14) Planned Audits and Evaluations

1) Transfer Payment Program: Community Futures Program
2) Start Date: May 18, 1995	3) End Date: Ongoing
4) Description: This program was designed to provide funding for a network of Community Futures Development Corporations (CFDCs) across Canada with WD as the delivery department for the west. CFDCs are volunteer-led, non-profit organizations that lead strategic economic planning, and provide advice and commercial loans to local entrepreneurs, which foster economic development.
5) Strategic outcomes: Community Economic Development and Entrepreneurship & Innovation.
6) Expected Results: Strategic community planning: Working with communities to assess local problems, establish objectives, plan and implement strategies to develop human, institutional and physical infrastructures, entrepreneurship, employment, and the economy. Business Services: Delivering a range of business, counseling and information services to small and medium sized enterprises. Access to capital: Provide capital to assist businesses or to help entrepreneurs to create new businesses.
($millions)		7) Forecast Spending 2005-2006	8) Planned Spending 2006-2007	9) Planned Spending 2007-2008	10) Planned Spending 2008-2009
11) Program Activity: Community Economic Planning, Development & Adjustment
12) Total Grants		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
12) Total Contributions		12.9	13.6	13.9	14.2
12) Total Other Types of Transfer Payments		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
13) Total PA		12.9	13.6	13.9	14.2
11) Program Activity: Business Development & Entrepreneurship
12) Total Grants		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
12) Total Contributions		12.9	13.6	13.9	14.2
12) Total Other Types of Transfer Payments		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
13) Total PA		12.9	13.6	13.9	14.2
14) Planned Audits and Evaluations

1) Transfer Payment Program: Service Delivery Network
2) Start Date: 1996-97	3) End Date: March 2007
4) Description: This program was designed to provide funding to community-based organizations to enhance the services they provide directly to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
5) Strategic outcomes:
6) Expected Results: Business Services: Delivering a range of targeted business, counseling and information services to small and medium sized enterprises. Access to capital: Providing capital to assist existing businesses or to help entrepreneurs to create new businesses.
($millions)		7) Forecast Spending 2005-2006	8) Planned Spending 2006-2007	9) Planned Spending 2007-2008	10) Planned Spending 2008-2009
11) Program Activity: Business Development & Entrepreneurship
12) Total Grants		0.0
12) Total Contributions		6.0
12) Total Other Types of Transfer Payments		0.0
13) Total PA		6.0

NOTE: Planned spending is NIL as Terms & Conditions are currently under review.

1) Transfer Payment Program: Infrastructure Canada Program
2) Start Date: October 10, 2000	3) End Date: March 31, 2008
4) Description: This program was designed to improve urban and rural community infrastructure in Canada.
5) Strategic outcomes: Community Economic Development
6) Expected Results: Improve Canadians’ quality of life through investments that enhance the quality of the environment, support long-term economic growth, and improve community infrastructure. Build a 21st century infrastructure through the use of technologies, new approaches and best practices.
($millions)		7) Forecast Spending 2005-2006	8) Planned Spending 2006-2007	9) Planned Spending 2007-2008	10) Planned Spending 2008-2009
11) Program Activity: Infrastructure
12) Total Grants		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
12) Total Contributions		236.6	89.7	29.0	0.0
12) Total Other Types of Transfer Payments		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
13) Total PA		236.6	89.7	29.0	0.0
14) Planned Audits and Evaluations

1) Transfer Payment Program: Grants to the Prince Rupert Port Authority
2) Start Date: October 6, 2005	3) End Date: March 2007
4) Description: The PRPA, and its private sector partners CN Rail (CN) and Maher Terminals of Canada Corp. (Maher) have proposed a two-phased container terminal construction project. In phase one, the Fairview general cargo terminal in Prince Rupert will be converted to a specialized state-of-the-art container facility capable of handling 500,000 TEUs per year. It will be fully operational by 2007 and will have sufficient capacity to handle the new larger Post-Panamax vessels (which exceed 500 meters in length and hold up to 8,000 containers).
5) Strategic outcomes: Entrepreneurship & Innovation
6) Expected Results: Direct and indirect economic benefits stemming from this project are estimated at $254 million annually. The construction of phase one will create 585 person years of employment and the first year of operations will employ approximately 116 full-time persons with the figure growing annually thereafter. These employment and wealth generation benefits are significant in Prince Rupert, a town that has experienced severe economic hardship as a result of the collapse of the commercial fishing industry, the closure of a pulp mill and downturns in the forest industry.
($millions)		7) Forecast Spending 2005-2006	8) Planned Spending 2006-2007	9) Planned Spending 2007-2008	10) Planned Spending 2008-2009
11) Program Activity:
12) Total Grants		0.0	29.0	0.0	0.0
12) Total Contributions		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
12) Total Other Types of Transfer Payments		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
13) Total PA		0.0	29.0	0.0	0.0
14) Planned Audits and Evaluations

Conditional Grants (Foundations)

1) Name of Recipient: Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Inc.
2) Start Date: February 25, 2004	3) End Date: N/A	4) Total Funding$ $27,000,000
5) Description: Establishment of a museum for human rights in Winnipeg.
6) Strategic Outcome(s): Community Economic Development
7) Summary of Annual Plans of Recipient: Planning and development of a museum, with an estimated total cost of $311 million and containing roughly 5,600 square meters of permanent exhibition space. It will examine the development of human rights in a historical and global context, focusing on the experience of Canadians, and teaching respect for human rights, as well as the consequences of not respecting them. It will place a major emphasis on the history and development of Aboriginal rights in Canada, and will be the first major Canadian Museum to do so. It will also showcase human rights successes and the heroic responses to challenge by leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Finally, through interactive displays, multi-media activities, and educations programming, it will work to build commitment to a better future. The museum will be a major new tourist attraction for Winnipeg. Planned spending for 2006-07 is $3 million. Amounts are not available at this time for fiscal years 2007-08 and 2008-09.
8) Planned Evaluation(s): The WD funding agreement requires an independent evaluation of the museum within 5 years of its completion. No other evaluations are currently planned.
9) Planned Audit(s): The WD funding agreement requires the submission of audited financial statements from the recipient. No WD initiated audits are currently planned.
10) URL to Recipient Site: www.canadianmuseumforhumanrights.com

Subsequent to the tabling of the Department of Western Economic Diversification Canada’s Report on Plans and Priorities for the fiscal year 2006-2007, editorial corrections were made to the information related to the Conditional Grants table

Horizontal Initiatives

Horizontal Initiative: Western Economic Partnership Agreements (WEPAs)				Lead Department(s): Western Economic Diversification Canada
Start Date: August 2003				End Date: March 2010
Total Funding Allocated: $100 million
Description: WEPAs are four-year, $50 million cost-shared agreements between the federal government and each of the four western provinces to promote shared economic development priorities.
Shared Outcome(s): To encourage economic development in Western Canada and provide for greater federal-provincial co-operation and co-ordination of economic development activities. As well, to increase Aboriginal participation in the economy. In addition several province specific priorities are being pursued.
Governance Structure(s): The key roles and responsibilities of partners are as follows: • Minister of Western Economic Diversification – overall program management and accountability to Parliament, including media relations, appointment of federal Management Committee members, project approvals where the federal share is between $1M - $10M; • Western Economic Diversification Canada – oversight and monitoring of the program ensuring effective management and a coordinated approach to communications and provision of services including operational services, information management, and communications services; • Provincial Departments – program management and accountability to Legislatures, appointment of provincial Management Committee Members, project approvals, administration and delivery of provincially allocated funds and provincially delivered projects.
Federal Partners Involved in each program	Names of Programs		Total Allocation	Planned Spending for 2006-2007	Expected Results for 2006-2007
Western Economic Diversification Canada	Western Economic Partnership Agreements		$100,000,000	$25,250,000	Assessment, approval and management of projects
			Total $100,000,000	Total $25,250,000
Results to be achieved by Non-Federal Partners: Varied. Dependent upon provincial/federal priorities.
Contact: Jim Monzer, Senior Policy Advisor, Headquarters, Western Economic Diversification, (780)495-6881 jim.monzer@wd.gc.ca		Approved by: Nadean Langlois, Director Programs, Headquarters, Western Economic Diversification, (780)495-4973 nadean.langlois@wd.gc.ca			Date Approved: October 3, 2006

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