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Section 3: Supplementary Information

3.1 Supplementary Information Tables

The following tables are located on the Treasury Board Secretariat website at http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/rpp/st-ts-eng.asp:

Details of Transfer Payment Programs
Evaluations
Green Procurement
Horizontal Initiatives
Internal Audits
Sources of Respendable and Non-respendable Revenue
Sustainable Development Strategy

3.2 Other Items of Interest

Information on ACOA’s organizational structure is available on the Agency’s website at http://www.acoa-apeca.gc.ca/English/WhoWeAre/OurPeople/Pages/home.aspx.

The following additional information is available on ACOA’s website at
http://www.acoa-apeca.gc.ca/English/publications/ParliamentaryReports/Pages/RPP_2009-2010.aspx.

BDP Repayable Contributions Portfolio
Atlantic Canada’s Economy and Provincial Economic Profiles
Information on all sub-activities of ACOA’s Program Activity Architecture
- Innovation
- Entrepreneurship and Business Skills Development
- Trade
- Investment
- Financing Continuum
- Community Mobilization
- Community-based Business Development
- Community Investment
- Infrastructure Programming
- Policy
- Advocacy
- Coordination

[1]ACOA has adapted its business programs to focus less on support for the acquisition of capital assets and more on the assets associated with productivity – innovation, marketing, international trade and human resource development. This change in policy emphasis led ultimately to the development of the Atlantic Investment Partnership (AIP), a major five‑year initiative launched in 2000 and renewed in 2005. The AIP has made major investments in innovation, community economic development, trade and investment, and entrepreneurship and business skills development. The Agency ensures that a wide variety of business development tools and resources are available to Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs throughout all stages of the business life cycle – from the time they are considering setting up a new business, to the time they are planning for growth and expansion.

[2] Amounts do not reflect Budget 2009 announcements.

[3]The change in full time equivalents (FTEs) from 715 in 2009‑2010 to 700 in 2010‑2011 is due to the sunsetting of operating funds for infrastructure programming. However, the Agency expects to acquire additional operating funds under the Building Canada Fund.

[4]For descriptions of ACOA’s program activities, please refer to the publication 2009-2010 Estimates Parts I and II, The Government Expense Plan and The Main Estimates online at http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/est-pre/20092010/p2-eng.asp

[5] $41 million in 2010‑2011 and 2011‑2012 and ongoing annual funding approval in Budget 2005, pending approval by Treasury Board of reference level adjustment.

[6]Please refer to the expenditure profile here for an explanation of changes in total planned spending over this period.

[7] Linkage to program activity or program sub-activity

[8]Amounts do not reflect Budget 2009 announcements.

[9]Budget 2009 continues funding for Canada Business in 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 at $2.6 million annually, similar to levels in previous years.

[10]Decrease in planned spending from 2009‑2010 to 2010‑2011 is due to the sunsetting of funding for the Atlantic Investment Partnership ─ Round II, and an adjustment related to the collections of repayable contributions.

[11]The State of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Atlantic Canada 2005, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (2005). In the 1990s, 70% of the jobs created by new firms in Atlantic Canada were attributed to small businesses.

[12] The change in the level of human resources from 96 FTEs in 2009‑2010 to 81 FTEs in 2010‑2011 is related to the sunsetting of operating funds available for the delivery of infrastructure programming. However, any increase in volume of work resulting from new funding allocations in Budget 2009, or additional operating funds from acting as a federal delivery partner for infrastructure programming, may mean a reallocation of FTE’s to this activity. Further details will be provided in upcoming estimates documents.

[13] Summative Evaluation of the Strategic Communities Investment Fund, Final Evaluation Report, prepared for ACOA by Performance Management Network Inc., March 17, 2008.