Impact Assessment Agency of Canada
Fees Report
Fiscal year 2020–2021
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The Honourable Steven Guilbeault, P.C., M.P.
Minister of 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, 2021
Catalogue No. En104-22E-PDF
ISSN 2563-5239
This document is available on the Government of Canada website at www.canada.ca.Endnotei
This document is available in alternative formats upon request.
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 the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, I am pleased to present our report on fees for 2020–21.
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 Steven Guilbeault, 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 ActEndnoteii, including the Low-Materiality Fees RegulationsEndnoteiii and subsection 4.2.8 of the Directive on Charging and Special Financial AuthoritiesEndnoteiv, contains information about the fees that the Agency had the authority to set in 2020–21.Footnote1
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
- 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 Agency’s authority.
The information covers fees that are exempted from the Service Fees Act.
For fees set by act, regulation or fees notice, the report provides totals for fee groupings, as well as detailed information for each fee.
Although the fees that Agency charges under the Access to Information Act were subject to the Service Fees Act, they are not included in this report. Information on the Agency’s access to information fees for 2020–21 can be found in our access to information report, which is posted on our Web page: TransparencyEndnotev.
Remissions
This report does not include remissions issued under the authority of the Service Fees Act, since this requirement took effect on April 1, 2021. Remissions issued under the Service Fees Act will be reported for the first time, as applicable, in the 2021–22 Fees Report, which will be published in 2022–23.
The Service Fees Act requires departments to remit a fee, in part or in full, to a fee payer when a service standard is deemed not met. Under the Service Fees Act and the Directive on Charging and Special Financial Authorities, departments had to develop policies and procedures for determining:
- whether a service standard has been met
- how much of a fee will be remitted to a fee payer if a service standard is deemed not met
The Service Fees Act does not apply to the fees recovered by the Agency. As stipulated in article 76 (3) of the Impact Assessment Act the Agency is exempt from the Service Fees Act.
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 2020–21, by fee-setting mechanism.
Fee-setting mechanism |
Revenue ($) |
Cost ($) |
Remissions ($) |
---|---|---|---|
Fees set by contract |
0 |
0 |
Remissions do not apply to fees set by contract. |
Fees set by either market rate or auction |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Fees set by act, regulation or fees notice |
1,469,348 |
4,776,232 |
0 |
Total |
1,469,348 |
4,776,232 |
0 |
Totals, by fee grouping, for fees set by act, regulation or fees notice
The following section presents, for each fee grouping, the total revenue, cost and remissions for all fees that the Agency had the authority to set in 2020–21 that are set by any of the following:
- act
- regulation
A fee grouping is a set of fees relating to a single business line, directorate or program that a department had the authority to set for those activities.
Revenue ($) |
Cost ($) |
Remissions ($) |
---|---|---|
1,469,348 |
4,776,232 |
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 2020–21 and that was set by any of the following:
- act
- regulation
Fee grouping
Cost Recovery
Fee
- Third-Party Services: Travel:
- (a) regular travel services
- (b) chartered services
- Third-Party Services: Publication and printing (including professional desktop publishing, editing and English/French or French/English translation)
- Third-Party Services: Distribution services:
- (a) regular mail
- (b) courier
- Third-Party Services: Telecommunications (including telephone and line installation, Internet, long-distance, teleconference and video conference services)
- Third-Party Services: Advertising and news wire services
- Third-Party Services: Public meeting, panel hearing and panel meeting facilities and equipment, including
- (a) hospitality
- (b) simultaneous interpretation
- (c) audio systems
- (d) transcription services
- (e) computer equipment
Fee-setting authority
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 |
2020–21 fee amount ($) |
2020–21 total fee revenue ($)Footnote2 |
Fee adjustment date in 2022–23 |
2022–23 fee amount ($) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Third-Party Services: Travel:
|
The fees are based on the rates that are being charged by the service provider. |
0 |
Not applicable |
The fees are based on the rates that are being charged by the service provider. |
Third-Party Services: Publication and printing (including professional desktop publishing, editing and English/French or French/English translation) |
The fees are based on the rates that are being charged by the service provider. |
0 |
Not applicable |
The fees are based on the rates that are being charged by the service provider. |
Third-Party Services: Distribution services:
|
The fees are based on the rates that are being charged by the service provider. |
0 |
Not applicable |
The fees are based on the rates that are being charged by the service provider. |
Third-Party Services: Telecommunications (including telephone and line installation, Internet, long-distance, teleconference and video conference services) |
The fees are based on the rates that are being charged by the service provider. |
0 |
Not applicable |
The fees are based on the rates that are being charged by the service provider. |
Third-Party Services: Advertising and news wire services |
The fees are based on the rates that are being charged by the service provider. |
17,432 |
Not applicable |
The fees are based on the rates that are being charged by the service provider. |
Third-Party Services: Public meeting, panel hearing and panel meeting facilities and equipment, including
|
The fees are based on the rates that are being charged by the service provider. |
0 |
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: Direct and attributable federal government employees’ salaries and benefit plans (EBP), including overhead and overtime charges.
- Amounts Related to the Exercise of the Agency’s Responsibilities: Direct and attributable federal government employees’ travel expenses.
Fee-setting authority
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 |
2020–21 fee amount ($) |
2020–21 total fee revenue ($)Footnote3 |
Fee adjustment date in 2022–23 |
2022–23 fee amount ($) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Amounts Related to the Exercise of the Agency’s Responsibilities: Direct and attributable federal government employees’ salaries and benefit plans (EBP), including overhead and overtime charges. |
Direct and attributable federal per diem rates based on a productivity rate of 220 days/year and an EBP of 20% of total chargeable salaries using
|
1,329,396 |
Not applicable |
Direct and attributable federal per diem rates based on a productivity rate of 220 days/year and an EBP of 20% of total chargeable salaries using
|
Amounts Related to the Exercise of the Agency’s Responsibilities: Direct and attributable federal government employees’ travel expenses. |
Rates as per the Treasury Board Directive on the Management of Expenditures on Travel, Hospitality and Conferences. |
5,020 |
Not applicable |
Rates as per the Treasury Board Directive on the Management of Expenditures on Travel, Hospitality and Conferences. |
Fee grouping
Cost Recovery
Fee
- Amounts Related to the Exercise of the Responsibilities of Members of a Review Panel: Remuneration of review panel members: (a) panel chairperson.
- Amounts Related to the Exercise of the Responsibilities of Members of a Review Panel: Remuneration of review panel members: (b) panel member.
- Amounts Related to the Exercise of the Responsibilities of Members of a Review Panel: Direct and attributable review panel members’ travel expenses.
Fee-setting authority
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 |
2020–21 fee amount ($) |
2020–21 total fee revenue ($)Footnote4 |
Fee adjustment date in 2022–23 |
2022–23 fee amount ($) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Amounts Related to the Exercise of the Responsibilities of Members of a Review Panel: Remuneration of review panel members: (a) panel chairperson. |
650 per day |
0 |
Not applicable |
650 per day |
Amounts Related to the Exercise of the Responsibilities of Members of a Review Panel: Remuneration of review panel members: (b) panel member. |
500 per day |
117,500 |
Not applicable |
500 per day |
Amounts Related to the Exercise of the Responsibilities of Members of a Review Panel: Direct and attributable review panel members’ travel expenses. |
Rates as per the Treasury Board Directive on the Management of Expenditures on Travel, Hospitality and Conferences |
0 |
Not applicable |
Rates as per the Treasury Board Directive on the Management of Expenditures on Travel, Hospitality and Conferences |
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