2024–2025 Departmental Results Report – Supplementary information tables – Details on transfer payment programs

PrairiesCan has developed a Performance Measurement Framework that includes performance indicators, expected results, and data sources to capture results achieved under its Departmental Results Framework (DRF). Key Community Futures Program results include:

• CFs provided 552 loans to rural businesses with a value of $29.7 million that leveraged an additional $25.8 million.

Furthermore, an analysis of data from Prairies CFs’ loan clients*, compared to companies of similar size and location in Statistics Canada’s database, demonstrated that CF assistance was associated with higher survival rates. A smaller percentage of Prairies CF-assisted firms (3.72%) exited the market between 2016 and 2020 compared to non-assisted firms (10.31%).

For more information on results achieved, see the “Results: what we achieved” section in the main DRR document and supplementary information on PrairiesCan’s Program Inventory.

The REGI Initiative builds on the objectives of the Innovation and Skills Plan. The goal of REGI is to provide streamlined, nationally coordinated, regionally tailored support for business productivity and scale-up, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), women and Indigenous entrepreneurs, and other under-represented groups. REGI will assist in the enhancement of regional industrial and technology clusters and regional innovation ecosystems.

The program provides assistance through two program streams:

• Business Scale-up and Productivity Stream (BSP): Invest in and support businesses, including high-growth firms to accelerate their growth and assist them in scaling up, and enhance their productivity and competitiveness in both domestic and global markets.
• Regional Innovation Ecosystems Stream (RIE): Create, grow and nurture inclusive regional ecosystems that support business needs and foster an entrepreneurial environment conducive to innovation, growth and competitiveness.

Contributions issued under REGI may be unconditionally or conditionally repayable, or non-repayable.

• 7,915 jobs created (including 6,001 HQP jobs);
• $728.1 million in export sales;
• $23.7 million in business sales growth resulting from commercialization;
• $872.9 million revenue growth;
• $47.9 million in Expenditures in Research and Development;
• 5,253 SMEs assisted; and,
• 138 businesses created, maintained, or expanded.

PrairiesCan has developed a Performance Measurement Framework that includes performance indicators, expected results, and data sources to capture results achieved under its Departmental Results Framework (DRF). PrairiesCan’s WDP clients reported the following key results in 2024-25:

• 911 jobs created (including 375 HQP jobs);
• 2,009 participants trained;
• 252 contributing partners engaged in advancing community-based projects; and
• 1,363 SMEs assisted.