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SECTION III – SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

Organizational Information

Mandate

The mandate of the Service is to:

• Ensure the efficient provision of service to the Courts;
• Enhance the judicial independence of the Courts by placing them at arm’s length from the government of Canada; and
• Enhance accountability for the use of public money.

Organizational Structure

FCA/CMAC	Federal Court of Appeal / Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada
FC	Federal Court
TCC	Tax Court of Canada

Power of the Chief Administrator

Subsections 7(1), (2), (3) and (4) of the Courts Administration Service Act set out the powers, duties and functions of the Chief Administrator as follows:

Subsection 9(1) adds the following:

Departmental links to the Government of Canada Outcomes

2007-08 ($ millions)
	Operating	Gross	Total Main Estimates	Adjustments (planned spending not in Main Estimates)	Total Planned Spending
Strategic Outcome:	The public has effective, timely and fair access, in either official language, to the litigation processes of the Federal Court of Appeal, the Federal Court, the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada and the Tax Court of Canada.
Provide Registry Services	$ 37.2	37.2	37.2	2.5	$ 39.7
Provide Judicial Services	$ 20.6	20.6	20.6	1.3	$ 21.9
Total	$ 57.7	57.7	57.7	3.9	$ 61.6

Program Activity #1 contributes to the achievement of all the Government of Canada’ strategic outcomes.
Program Activity #2 contributes to the achievement of all the Government of Canada’ strategic outcomes.

Numbers in tables may not add up due to rounding.

Table 1: Departmental Planned Spending Table and Full-time Equivalents

($ millions)	Forecast Spending 2006-2007 (1)	Planned Spending 2007-2008	Planned Spending 2008-2009	Planned Spending 2009-2010
Provide Registry Services (2)	$ 40.3	$ 37.2	$ 37.2	$ 37.2
Provide Judicial Services (2)	$ 22.2	20.6	$ 20.6	$ 20.6
Total Main Estimates	$ 62.5	57.7	57.7	57.7
Adjustment
Supplementary estimates
+ Operating budget carry forward	$ 2.3	--	--	--
+ Program Integrity Funding (3)	3.0	3.1	--	--
+ Federal Accountability Action Plan (4)	0	0.8	0.6	0.6
Other (5)
+ Paylist Shortfalls - TB Vote 5	1.3	--	--	--
+ Internal Audit – TB Vote 10	0.0	0.1	0	0
+ Collective bargaining agreements - TB Vote 15	0.3	--	--	--
Total Adjustments	6.9	3.9	0.6	0.6
Total Planned Spending	69.4	61.6	58.3	58.3
Total Planned Spending	69.4	61.6	58.3	58.3
Less: Non-respendable revenue	(4.8)	(4.8)	(4.8)	(4.8)
Plus: Cost of services received without charge	23.5	23.6	23.6	24.0
Total Departmenal Spending	88.1	80.4	77.1	77.5
Full-time Equivalents	610	650	650	650

(1) Reflects the best estimate of total forecast departmental spending to the end of the fiscal year, including employee benefits.

(2) The Corporate Services Program Activity has been re-allocated to the remaining program activities on a pro rata basis.

(3) This funding is required for the additional fees for deputy judges, prothonotaries’ salaries and their administrative support.

(4) These amounts were provided to CAS by the Treasury Board Secretariat. The Courts Administration Service was not involved in the development of this horizontal initiative, therefore CAS can not comment on the validity of these numbers to meet the Government’s intended objectives.

(5) Treasury Board Vote 5 is for pay list shortfalls such as parental benefits, severance pay or vacation pay on departure from the Public Service.
Treasury Board Vote 10 is for horizontal government initiatives. In this case, it is principally funding related to establishment of an independent Audit Committee and additional audit work.
Treasury Board Vote 15 is for compensation for collective bargaining agreements.

Numbers in tables may not add up due to rounding.

Table 2: Voted and Statutory Items listed in Main Estimates

($ millions)

Vote or Statutory Item	Truncated Vote or Statutory Wording	2007-2008 Main Estimates	2006-2007 Main Estimates
30	Program expenditures	$ 51.3	$ 55.9
(S)	Contributions to employee benefit plans	6.5	6.6
	Total Department or Agency	$ 57.7	$ 62.5

Explanation of differences between 2006/07 and 2007/08 Main Estimates

Add: Compensation for collective agreements	0.4
Less: Sunset funding for fit up requirements for CAS Federal Judicial Centre in Toronto	(4.5)
Less: Sunset funding to address Short-term Immigration Pressures to reduce inventory of citizenship grant and proof applications as well as sponsored parents and grandparent applications	(0.3)
Less: Expenditure Review Committee savings – Procurement savings	(0.3)
Less: Other	(0.1)
Total reduction in Main Estimates from 2006/07 to 2007/08	(4.8)
Numbers in tables may not add up due to rounding.

Table 3: Services Received Without Charge

($ millions)	2007-2008
Accommodation provided by Public Works and Government Services Canada	$ 21.0
Contributions covering employers' share of employees’ insurance premiums and expenditures paid by Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (excluding revolving funds)	2.6
Salary and associated expenditures of legal services provided by the Department of Justice Canada	0.0
Total 2007-2008 Services received without charge	$ 23.6

Table 4: Sources of Respendable and Non-Respendable Revenue

Non-Respendable Revenue

($ millions)	Forecast Revenue 2006-2007	Planned Revenue 2007-2008	Planned Revenue 2008-2009	Planned Revenue 2009-2010
Provide Registry Services
Service Fees (1)	$ 1.6	1.6	1.6	$ 1.6
Non Tax Revenue (2)	3.2	3.2	3.2	3.2
Total Non-Respendable Revenue	$ 4.8	4.8	4.8	$ 4.8

(1) At the Courts Administration Service (the Service), non-respendable revenues consist primarily of fees levied for filing documents within the registries, for sales of photocopies of judgments and for other revenues such as fines impose by the Courts (i.e. contempt of Court, criminal conviction, etc.). Fine revenues are impossible to forecast and vary significantly in amount from year to year. The actual fine revenue collected this year as well as last year is almost zero. As a result, CAS will forecast no fine revenue for future years, though actual amounts collected from fines from year to year could vary considerably from this estimate.

(2) Miscellaneous non-tax revenues consist primarily of other revenues, but mainly come from the Employment Insurance (EI) Account of Canada. At the end of each fiscal year, the Service determines the cost associated with the administration of Employment Insurance cases. The total cost allocated by the Service for handling EI cases are expended against Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRDC), the department responsible for the EI account.

As such, HRDC would show an EI expense and the Service would show an equivalent, non-respendable revenue item. The purpose of this accounting exercise is to more accurately reflect the total cost of running the federal government's EI program and it is strictly internal to the government.

Table 5: Resource Requirement by Branch or Sector

2007-2008
($ millions)	Provide Registry Services	Provide Judicial Services	Total Planned Spending
Federal Court of Appeal and Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada Registry Operations	1.2		1.2
Federal Court Registry Operations	4.9		4.9
Tax Court of Canada Registry Operations	2.0		2.0
Quebec and Atlantic Region	5.6		5.6
Ontario Region	5.5		5.5
Western Region	4.4		4.4
Office of the Chief Justices (1)		3.6	3.6
Judicial Services (2)		10.6	10.6
Office of the Chief Administrator (3)	1.7	0.8	2.5
Finance & Corporate Services, Chauffeurs & Court Attendants Services (4)	8.8	4.2	13.0
Human Resources	1.7	0.8	2.5
IM IT, Record Mgmt, Best Practices & Modernization	3.9	1.9	5.8
Total	39.7	21.9	61.6

(1) Includes Chief Justices' offices as well as their Executive Officers, Judicial Administrators, Administrative Support and Prothonotaries of the Federal Court.

(2) Includes Office of the Director General of Judicial Services, Judicial Assistants, the Law Clerk program, the Library and the Revisors.

(3) Includes Office of the Chief Administrator, Strategic Planning & Communications, and the Office of the Deputy Chief Administrator.

(4) Includes Office of the Director General of Finance & Corporate Services, Facilities Management, Telecommunications, Capital Projects, Security Services, Accounting Policy and Systems, Financial Planning, Budgeting and Analysis, Material Management and Contracting, Administration Services and Translation.

The large drop in the requirements for the Finance and Corporate Services Branch compared to last year is mainly due to the completion of the CAS Federal Judicial Centre in Toronto in 2006/07. Those funds ($4.5M) are no longer required in 2007/08.

Numbers in tables may not add up due to rounding.

Table 6: Details on Project Spending

(1) See CAS RPP 2007-2008, Section II, Program Activities supporting Priority 1 for information on the Case Management System, http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/est-pre/estime.asp
(2) See CAS RPP 2007-2008, Section II, Program Activities supporting Priority 2 for information on physical consolidation, http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/est-pre/estime.asp .

Over the next three years the following projects have or are expected to exceed their delegated project approval level:

2007-2008
1. Merge Case Management
2. Physical consolidation in NCR

2008-2009
1. Merge Case Management

2009-2010
1. Merge Case Management

Supplementary information on Project Spending can be found at http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/rpp/0607/info/ps-dp-eng.asp

Details on Project Spending for Courts Administration Service

($ millions)	Current Estimated Total Cost	Forecast Spending to March 31, 2007	Planned Spending 2007-2008	Planned Spending 2008-2009	Planned Spending 2009-2010	Future Years Spending Requirement
Provide Corporate Services
Case Management System1	1.6	0.1	0.5	0.5	0.5	0
Physical consolidation in NCR2	Unknown at this time

Table 7: Internal Audits and Evaluations

1. Name of Internal Audit / Evaluation	2. Audit Type / Evaluation Type	3. Status	4. Expected Completion Date	5. Electronic Link to Report
Audit of Human Resources Management	Human Resources	Completed	January 2007
6. Electronic Link to Internal Audit Reports: http://www.cas-satj.gc.ca/publications/pub_audit_e.php

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