Fees Report: Fiscal year 2019–2020
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The Honorable Jonathan Wilkinson, P.C., M.P.
Minister of the Environment and Climate Change
and Minister responsible for the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada
© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, 2020
Catalogue No. En104-22E-PDF
ISSN 2563-5239
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Table of contents
- Minister’s message
- About this report
- Remissions
- Overall totals, by fee setting mechanism
- Totals, by fee grouping, for fees set by act, regulation or fees notice
- Details on each fee set by act, regulation or fees notice
- Endnotes
Minister’s message
On behalf of Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, I am pleased to present our report on fees for 2019–20.
The Service Fees Act provides a modern legislative framework that enables cost-effective delivery of services and, through better reporting to Parliament, improves transparency and oversight.
I will continue to lead my Agency’s transition to the reporting regime provided under the Service Fees Act.
The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, P.C., M.P.
Minister of Environment and Climate Change
About this report
This report, which is tabled under section 20 of the Service Fees ActEndnote [i] and section 4.2.8 of the Directive on Charging and Special Financial Authorities, contains information about the fees that the Agency had the authority to set in 2019–20.
Government of Canada departments may set fees for services, licences, permits, products, the use of facilities; for other authorizations of rights or privileges; or to recover, in whole or in part, costs incurred in relation to a regulatory scheme.
For reporting purposes, fees must be categorized under the following three fee setting mechanisms:
- Act, regulation or fees notice
- An act of Parliament delegates the fee setting authority to a department, minister or Governor in Council.
- Contract
- Ministers have the authority to enter into contracts, which are usually negotiated between the minister and an individual or organization, and which cover fees and other terms and conditions. In some cases, that authority may also be provided by an act of Parliament.
- Market-rate or auction or both
- The authority to set these fees is pursuant to an act of Parliament or regulation, and the minister, department or Governor in Council has no control over the fee amount.
This report contains information about all fees that are under the Agency’s authority, including any that are collected by another department.
The information covers fees that are subject to the Service Fees Act and fees that are exempted from the Service Fees Act.
For fees set by contract, fees set by market-rate, auction or both, the report provides totals only. For fees set by act, regulation or fees notice, it provides totals for fee groupings, as well as detailed information for each fee.
Although the fees that the Agency charges under the Access to Information Act are subject to the Service Fees Act, they are not included in this report. Information on Agency’s access to information fees for 2019–20 can be found in our access to information report, which is posted on TransparencyEndnote [ii].
Remissions
A remission is a partial or full return of a fee to a fee payer who paid for a service for which a department deemed that the service standard was not met.
Under the Service Fees Act, departments must develop policies for determining whether a service standard has been met and for determining how much of a fee will be remitted to a fee payer if a service standard is not met. This requirement will not take effect until April 1, 2021, so this report does not include remissions issued under the Service Fees Act. It does, however, include remissions issued under Agency’s enabling legislation.
Overall totals, by fee setting mechanism
The following table presents the total revenue, cost and remissions for all fees that the Agency had the authority to set in 2019–20, by fee setting mechanism.
Fee setting mechanism |
Revenue ($) |
Cost ($) |
Remissions ($) |
---|---|---|---|
Fees set by contract |
0 |
0 |
Remissions do not apply to fees set by contract. |
Fees set by market-rate, auction or both |
0 |
0 |
Remissions do not apply to fees set by market-rate, auction or both. |
Fees set by act, regulation or fees notice |
2,702,848 |
6,241,737 |
0 |
Total |
2,702,848 |
6,241,737 |
0 |
Totals, by fee grouping, for fees set by act, regulation or fees notice
The following table presents, for each fee grouping, the total revenue, cost and remissions for all fees that the Agency had the authority to set in 2019–20 that are set by any of the following:
- act
- regulation
- fees notice
A fee grouping is a grouping of all the fees that a department has the authority to set for activities relating to a single business line, directorate or program.
Fee grouping |
Cost Recovery |
|
---|---|---|
Revenue ($) |
Cost ($) |
Remissions ($) |
2,702,848 |
6,241,737 |
0 |
Details on each fee set by act, regulation or fees notice
This section provides detailed information on each fee that the Agency had the authority to set in 2019–20 and that was set by any of the following:
- act
- regulation
- fees notice
Fee grouping |
Cost Recovery |
---|---|
Fee |
Third-Party Services |
Fee-setting authority |
Cost Recovery Regulations – SOR/2012-146Endnote [iii] |
Year fee-setting authority was introduced |
2012 |
Last year fee-setting authority was amended |
Not applicable |
Service standard |
Exempt |
Performance result |
Exempt |
Application of Low-Materiality Fees Regulations |
Not subject to Service Fees Act |
Fee |
2019–20 fee amount ($) |
2019–20 total fee revenue ($) |
Fee adjustment date |
Adjusted fee amount in 2021–22 ($) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Third-Party Services:
|
The fees are based on the rates that are being charged by the service provider. |
418,545 |
Not applicable |
The fees are based on the rates that are being charged by the service provider. |
Fee grouping |
Cost Recovery |
---|---|
Fee |
Amounts Related to the Exercise of the Agency’s Responsibilities |
Fee-setting authority |
Cost Recovery Regulations – SOR/2012-146Endnote [v] |
Year fee-setting authority was introduced |
2012 |
Last year fee-setting authority was amended |
Not applicable |
Service standard |
Exempt |
Performance result |
Exempt |
Application of Low-Materiality Fees Regulations |
Not subject to Service Fees Act |
Fee |
2019–20 fee amount ($) |
2019–20 total fee revenue ($) |
Fee adjustment date |
Adjusted fee amount in 2021–22 ($) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Cost Recovery: Amounts Related to the Exercise of the Agency’s Responsibilities: |
||||
|
|
1,700,639 |
Not applicable |
|
|
|
157,753 |
|
|
Fee grouping |
Cost Recovery |
---|---|
Fee |
Amounts Related to the Exercise of the Responsibilities of Members of a Review Panel |
Fee-setting authority |
Cost Recovery Regulations – SOR/2012-146Endnote [vii] |
Year fee-setting authority was introduced |
2012 |
Last year fee-setting authority was amended |
Not applicable |
Service standard |
Exempt |
Performance result |
Exempt |
Application of Low-Materiality Fees Regulations |
Not subject to Service Fees Act |
Fee |
2019–20 fee amount ($) |
2019–20 total fee revenue ($) |
Fee adjustment date |
Adjusted fee amount in 2021–22 ($) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Cost Recovery: Amounts Related to the Exercise of the Responsibilities of Members of a Review Panel: |
||||
|
|
57,850 |
Not applicable |
|
|
|
283,220 |
Not applicable |
|
|
|
84,841 |
Not applicable |
|
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