Backgrounder: The Investing in Canada plan: Budget 2017 programs and progress
Backgrounder
The Investing in Canada plan, the federal long-term infrastructure plan, makes over $180 billion available to support local and provincial or territorial infrastructure projects over 12 years.
Budget 2017 built on the initial investments announced in Budget 2016 by introducing an additional $81.2 billion in new funding programs across five priority areas: public transit, green, social, trade and transportation and rural and northern communities' infrastructure. The funding under these programs is focused on supporting longer-term, transformative projects.
To date, Infrastructure Canada has signed seven new bilateral agreements with provinces and territories. Once all signed, these agreements will make $33 billion in federal infrastructure funding available to fund local and regional infrastructure projects across Canada. Employment and Social Development Canada has signed agreements with most provinces and territories for the Early Learning and Child Care initiative (ELCC). Provinces and territories are currently also signing bilateral agreements with Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) under the National Housing Strategy. Other programs are delivered through additional means, including through partners such as the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
Of the 24 programs introduced in Budget 2017, provinces, territories and communities can already access funding to support their priority projects through 11 of these programs (noted below through an asterisk*).
Departments and Programs |
Funding from Budget 2017 |
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation |
|
FPT Housing Partnership Framework |
7,700.0 |
National Housing Co-Investment Fund |
5,100.0 |
Other National Housing Strategy Initiatives |
1,100.0 |
Canadian Heritage |
|
Canada Cultural Spaces Fund* |
300.0 |
Community Educational Infrastructure |
80.0 |
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs |
|
Indigenous Community-Based Climate Monitoring Program |
72.7 |
Climate Change Preparedness in the North Program – Implementation of Adaptation Actions in the North |
55.9 |
First Nation Adapt Program – Flood Plain Mapping |
27.0 |
Employment and Social Development Canada |
|
Early Learning and Child Care* |
7,000.0 |
Homelessness Partnering Strategy |
2,130.0 |
Enabling Accessibility Fund |
77.0 |
Women in Construction Fund |
10.0 |
Environment and Climate Change Canada |
|
Canadian Centre for Climate Services |
107.9 |
Finance Canada |
|
Reserved Green Funding |
2,000.0 |
Health Canada |
|
Home Care Infrastructure |
1,000.0 |
Indigenous Services Canada |
|
Improving Indigenous Communities |
4,000.0 |
Capital Facilities and Maintenance Program |
15.0 |
Infrastructure Canada |
|
Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program* |
33,000.0 |
Canada Infrastructure Bank* |
15,000.0 |
Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund |
2,000.0 |
Smart Cities Challenge* |
300.0 |
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada |
|
Innovation Superclusters Initiative* |
150.0 |
Natural Resources Canada |
|
Clean Energy for Rural and Remote Communities* |
220.0 |
Emerging Renewable Power* |
200.0 |
Energy Efficient Buildings |
182.0 |
Electric Vehicles and Alternative Fuels Infrastructure* |
120.0 |
Smart Grids* |
100.0 |
Building Regional Adaptation Capacity and Expertise |
16.0 |
National-Scale Knowledge Synthesis and Dissemination |
2.0 |
Transport Canada |
|
National Trade Corridors Fund* |
2,000.0 |
Connecting Communities by Rail and Water |
1,925.0 |
Oceans Protection Plan |
1,325.0 |
Modernizing Transportation |
76.7 |
Trade and Transportation Information System |
50.0 |
Climate Risk Assessments |
16.4 |
Heavy-Duty Vehicle and Off-Road Regulations |
16.0 |
Less: Funds in the fiscal framework and other revenues |
($6,412) |
Total |
$81,200M |
*Information presented in this table is valid as of April 19, 2018.
For more information about the Investing in Canada plan, please visit http://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/plan/about-invest-apropos-eng.html.
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