Allocations from Treasury Board Central Votes for Supplementary Estimates (A), 2018-19

Funding to transition to new impact assessment and regulatory processes

The Treasury Board authorized an allocation of up to 10,000,000 for the transition to the new impact assessment process.

Internal reallocation of resources to improve the collection, quality and dissemination of labour market information in Canada

The Treasury Board authorized an allocation of up to $1,100,000 to enable the Department Employment and Social Development to make a grant payment entitled Support for Labour Market Information in Canada. This allocation enables the department to respect Government commitments for this program.

Funding to procure three icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard

The Treasury Board authorized allocations of up to $180,000,000 from the Government Contingencies vote to enable the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard to take delivery of three medium icebreakers to urgently address the imminent capacity gaps before the upcoming 2018–19 icebreaking season. The targeted sister ships were the only ones known in the world that were immediately available and met all Canadian Coast Guard requirements. Any delays would have resulted in a shrinking or expired window for acquisition.

Funding to restore rail service to Churchill, Manitoba

The Treasury Board authorized allocations of up to $8,000,000 to facilitate the ownership transfer of the Hudson Bay Railway Company, Hudson Bay Port Company and the Churchill Marine Tank Farm by supporting the Government of Manitoba and the new ownership with the costs of repairing and restoring the lone rail line to Churchill, Manitoba

Strengthening the Canada Border Services Agency

Operating funding will support existing front-line operations, including the commitment to maintain border wait time performances and an acceptable level of secondary examinations, in the context of recurring growth in transaction volume at the main ports of entry.

Safeguarding Canadians with an Enhanced Passenger Protect Program

This funding will enhance, and bring under government control, the Passenger Protect Program, which works with air carriers to screen commercial passenger flights to, from and within Canada, and take measures to address security threats.

Operating and capital funding will support the Agency in its responsibility to use a centralized security screening system to screen all passenger manifests against a “no-fly list” and take steps to eliminate false positive matches for legitimate travellers. The system will also monitor air compliance with regulations.

Irregular Migration: Managing the Border

This funding will support security operations at the Canada-U.S. border, enhance the government’s capacity to process asylum claims, and implement measures to deter irregular migration.

Operating funding will enhance the Agency’s ability to manage operations at designated ports of entry, and to determine the admissibility of persons entering Canada in support of national security and public safety priorities. The Agency is responsible for processing applications and security screening at ports of entry, making eligibility decisions and establishing and implementing enforcement policy within the asylum system.

Cracking Down on Tax Evasion and Combatting Tax Avoidance - Implementation and administration of compliance measures ($14,944,003)

This funding will be used to increase capacity to enhance GST/HST compliance activities and to address tax obligations of non-residents on rental income earned in Canada. Up to 170 full-time equivalents are planned to be renewed or hired over the next five years. These initiatives are expected to generate roughly 70 million dollars in federal revenue each year.

Combatting Aggressive International Tax Avoidance ($3,966,360)

This funding will be used to increase capacity to integrate information on offshore accounts for risk assessments, and to increase compliance reviews and audits on high-risk offshore taxpayers. Up to 70 full-time equivalents are planned over the next five years to implement this initiative.

Protecting air travellers

Operating funding will maintain current service levels in 89 Canadian airports for the screening of passengers and their cargo. Currently, eight Canadian airports offer pre-clearance through U.S. customs from Canada. Capital funding will allow CATSA to expand the number of pre-clearance facilities to include the Toronto Billy Bishop and Québec City Jean Lesage airports.

Securing Market Access for Canada’s Agriculture and Agri-Food Products

This funding will support the agricultural and agri-food sector in maintaining and opening new international markets and to address capacity gaps in the Canadian Food Inspection Agency as a result of previously negotiated trade agreements.

Strengthening Canada’s Food Safety System

This funding will be used to enhance the inspection of domestic and imported foods in Canada by improving risk intelligence and oversight, enhancing offshore preventive activities, and supporting industry and other stakeholders to promote compliance with Canadian food safety requirements.

Granting Councils

This funding will increase support to researchers in the granting council’s respective research fields through pre-existing grant programs.

Operating funding will increase resources pertaining to the peer review processes, support the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Early Career Investigators action plans; and support the Canada Research Coordinating Committee.

Grants for research projects and personnel support, in the amount of $40,574,300, will be used to increase the number of health researchers, to support the Gairdner Foundation through their outreach activities, and to increase the diversity of the research community.

Renewal of Economic Development Funding for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency

This funding renews the Northern Economic Development program, promoting long-term sustainable economic development in the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

Irregular Migration: Managing the Border

This funding will support security operations at the Canada-U.S. border, enhance the government’s capacity to process asylum claims, and implement measures to deter irregular migration.

Operating funding will enhance the Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s capacity to provide security advice and identify potential threats in the process of screening asylum claims.

Modernizing the Canadian Transportation Agency

This funding will support a competitive and accessible national transportation system, implement new cost recovery measures authorized through Bill C-49 (amendments to the Canada Transportation Act and other Acts), and address program integrity challenges.

Enhancing security & prosperity in the digital age - Establishing the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security

This funding will support the establishment of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, which will serve as the single source of expert advice, services, and support on cyber security within the federal government. The Centre amalgamates cyber security governance and functions currently under Shared Services Canada and the Department of Public Safety.

Supporting Canada’s Court System

This funding will support Canada’s four federal courts by increasing organizational capacity, providing adequate training to new and existing staff, implementing business tools for greater efficiency, and undertaking work on court facilities.

Supporting Special Olympics

This funding will support Special Olympics Canada by improving access to quality sport programs and services for Canadian athletes with intellectual disabilities through greater sport training and competition opportunities. Special Olympics Canada is a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting sport participation for people with intellectual disabilities.

Irregular Migration: Managing the Border

This funding will support security operations at the Canada-U.S. border, enhance the government’s capacity to process asylum claims, and implement measures to deter irregular migration.

Operating funding will support additional hires for processing claims at the time of arrival. Funding will also be used for strategic communications and outreach activities to combat misinformation about the Canadian immigration system.

Contribution payments will support the planning and implementation of capacity building across the Americas, through the organization’s existing Migration Policy Development program.

Canada’s Co-chairmanship of the G-20 Framework Working Group

In 2009, G20 leaders adopted a financial framework to address global economic and financial challenges and subsequently launched a working group to oversee policy discussions. Canada has served as the co-chair of the G20 Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth Working Group (FWG) since its inception and is represented by officials from the Department of Finance. Funding for the G20 FWG initiative will allow Finance to meet its operating expenditures in relation to fulfilling Canada’s role as co-chair of the G20 FWG.

Sustainable Aquaculture Program

This initiative will support growth in the aquaculture industry by streamlining and coordinating regulations; increasing research, analysis and data collection; and enhancing public reporting.

Protecting Marine Life

This funding will be used to build the scientific evidence base to help support actions to reduce human-based threats to the North Atlantic Right Whale, the St. Lawrence Estuary Beluga and the Southern Resident Killer Whale.

Operating and capital funding will support research and monitoring to improve understanding of the changing seasonal distribution of the three whale species.

Contribution payments to establish the Academic Marine Mammal Research Initiative which will increase the availability of scientific information and allow exploration of innovative conservation technologies.

Protecting Canada’s Nature, Parks and Wild Spaces

This funding will support Canada’s biodiversity by protecting species at risk and their habitat.

Operating funding will advance the protection and recovery of up to 30 aquatic species in priority areas, and address priority threats including illegal fishing.

Contributions will support the new Canada Nature Fund through the “Habitat Stewardship Program for Species at Risk”.

Renewing Canada’s Network of Small Craft Harbours

This funding will help to accelerate repairs or enhance existing installations for planned projects at core commercial fishing harbours (e.g. wharf construction, breakwater reconstruction and dredging activities) and at non-core harbours (e.g. divestitures, deconstructions, and safety repairs).

Grant payments in the amount of $1,275,000 will be provided to divestiture recipients through the “Small Craft Harbours Program” for low-complexity repairs of non-core harbours.

Canadian Technology Accelerator Program

This funding will support the establishment of a permanent Canadian Technology Accelerator initiative in the U.S.; to support the access of small Canadian technology firms to the U.S. market.

Ensuring Rules-Based and Responsible Trade

This funding will support the management of the Softwood Lumber initiative, including economic analysis and technical guidance related to negotiation and litigation management activities.

Operating expenditures will support negotiations towards a trade agreement with the U.S., federal-provincial and industrial consultations, targeted advocacy in the U.S., legal strategies and litigation management related to U.S. trade actions, and monitoring of softwood lumber exports to the U.S.

Additional Support for the Feminist International Assistance Policy Agenda - Weapons Threat Reduction Program

This funding, including operating, contributions and grant payments, in the amount of $25,550,000, will advance the peace and security goals of the Feminist International Assistance Policy by supporting projects under the “Weapons Threat Reduction Program”. This G7 initiative aims to improve the capacity of governments and international organizations to manage the threats posed by weapons of mass destruction. It is being expanded to support conventional weapons treaties and the construction of biocontainment laboratories.

Addressing the Opioid Crisis

Contribution payments will support a newly established (one-time) Emergency Treatment Fund so that provincial and territorial health authorities can improve access to treatment services for problematic substance use, and to reduce harm and death associated with opioid use. The funding will also be used to address federal regulatory barriers to access treatment services, such as methadone clinics.

Helping Indigenous Nations Reconstitute

This funding supports communities in exercising self-determination, through activities to facilitate the rebuilding of indigenous nations.

Supporting the Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund

A grant payment of $5,000,000 will be made to the “Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund”, an Indigenous foundation established in 2016, which supports projects that encourage cross-cultural dialogue, increase awareness of Canada’s residential school history, and help develop school curricula that accurately describes Indigenous history.

Indigenous Health: Keeping Families Healthy in Their Communities – Labrador Innu health programs

This funding will enhance Labrador Innu health programs for the Sheshatshiu and Natuashish nations to address mental health, maternal and child health, addictions, and capacity building.

Indigenous Health: Keeping Families Healthy in Their Communities – Clinical and Client Care Program ($68,860,593)

This funding will support the Clinical and Client Care Program, which provides nursing services to 79 First Nation communities that do not have direct access to the provincial health care system.

Indigenous Health: Keeping Families Healthy in Their Communities – e-Health Infostructure Program ($19,735,299)

This funding will maintain and enhance the eHealth Infostructure Program which provides First Nation communities with technologies that enable remote diagnostic services and integration with regional public health surveillance systems.

Indigenous Health: Keeping Families Healthy in Their Communities – First Nations Health Services Accreditation Program

This funding will enhance the First Nation Services Accreditation Program to improve the quality of health services to First Nations communities to ensure the services provided are comparable to those delivered by provincial authorities.

Clean and Safe Drinking Water On Reserve

Contribution payments will support repairs to high-risk water systems to prevent additional long-term drinking water advisories; support initiatives to accelerate the pace of construction and renovation of affected water systems on reserve; recruit, train and retain water operators; and establish innovative First Nations-led service delivery models.

Creating a More Responsive Income Assistance Program That Addresses the Needs of First Nations Communities

This funding will be used to engage First Nations on how to make the program more responsive to the needs of individuals and families on reserve, and to identify the support required to help individuals better transition from income assistance to employment and education.

Increased Health Support for Survivors of Indian Residential Schools and their Families

Operating and contribution funding for the Indian Residential School Resolution Health Support Program will ensure the continued provision of professional mental health services to former residential school students and their family members.

Improving Access to the Digital Economy

This funding will support the national Computers for Schools program, which refurbishes and redistributes donated computer equipment to schools, libraries, not-for-profit organizations and Indigenous communities.

Supporting The Next Generation of Rural Broadband

Contribution payments to the space satellite industry, made through the Strategic Innovation Fund, will support continued research and development of low earth orbit satellite technologies and rural broadband internet connectivity. This funding will help companies further develop and test prototypes for commercialization.

Addressing Demand for Immigration and Refugee Legal Aid

Through federal contributions to the Immigration and Refugee Legal Aid Program, this funding will support the provinces’ delivery of immigration and refugee legal aid by ensuring that asylum seekers continue to have access to this service.

Ensuring Rules-Based and Responsible Trade

This funding will support the management of the Softwood Lumber initiative, including economic analysis and technical guidance related to negotiation and litigation management activities.

Operating funding will be used to undertake expert analysis in forestry economics, to provide market, product and industrial intelligence, and to support negotiation and litigation management.

Protecting Jobs in Eastern Canada’s Forestry Sector

This funding will support the Spruce Budworm Early Intervention Strategy, and insecticide spraying and research activities that help limit the impact and spread of spruce budworm.

Protecting Canada’s Nature, Parks and Wild Spaces

This funding will support Canada’s biodiversity by protecting species at risk and their habitat.

Operating and contribution funding will support research and conservation in woodland caribou habitat and the designation of Marine Protected Areas.

Critical Infrastructure Security

This funding will support the programs that provide specific and actionable risk information and assessments to owners and operators of critical infrastructure, such as airports, nuclear plants, and hospitals.

Safeguarding Canadians with an Enhanced Passenger Protect Program

This funding will enhance, and bring under government control, the Passenger Protect Program, which works with air carriers to screen commercial passenger flights to, from and within Canada, and take measures to address security threats.

Operating funding will support the implementation of a centralized security screening system to screen all passenger manifests and to implement an automated redress system. The centralized security screening system, once completely automated will be turned over to the CBSA. The redress system, once completely functional will remain under PSEP’s control and will issue a unique identifier to individuals affected by a false-positive match, which they can enter during future bookings to eliminate reoccurrences.

Simpler and Better Procurement

Operating funding will support Phase I of the e-Procurement Solutions Project, a cloud-based electronic procurement system that manages contracts, purchasing, and electronic tenders. The project aims to modernize the government’s procurement function, improve efficiency and electronic access to users, and support Canada’s commitments under the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with the European Union.

Stabilizing and Future Transformation of the Federal Government’s Pay Administration (Phoenix)

This funding will support a stabilization plan to address issues in pay administration.

Operating and capital funding will expand professional services to help stabilize the Phoenix pay system and increase capacity in the pay centres. This includes conducting strategic research and implementing any required system and process improvements.

Adapting Canada’s Weather and Water Services to Climate Change - Weather warning and forecast systems

This funding supports the modernization of Canada’s weather forecast and severe weather warning systems, and maintains direct support to the emergency management organizations that prepare for and respond to severe weather.

Adapting Canada’s Weather and Water Services to Climate Change - Modernize the National Hydrological Services Program

This funding will modernize the National Hydrological Service Program which provides data, information and advice concerning surface water resources on federal lands; and will support the operation of water stations that are cost-shared with provinces and territories.

Contribution payments will advance the state of knowledge to develop new integrated water data and prediction services, in collaboration with researchers and the private sector.

Protecting Marine Life

This funding will be used to build the scientific evidence base to help support actions to reduce human-based threats to the North Atlantic Right Whale, the St. Lawrence Estuary Beluga and the Southern Resident Killer Whale.

Operating funding will enhance monitoring in the areas of air, freshwater and disposal at sea.

Contribution payments to academic partners will enable measurement of contaminants from terrestrial and airborne sources.

Protecting Canada’s Nature, Parks and Wild Spaces

This funding will support Canada’s biodiversity by protecting species at risk and their habitat.

Operating and capital funding will manage and expand protected areas including the creation of up to nine new National Wildlife Areas; advance protection and recovery of up to 200 terrestrial species at risk through action for priority places, species and threats; and build partnerships with Indigenous Peoples, including the development of 20 to 35 Indigenous Protected Conservation Areas.

Contribution payments will support establishment of a new Canada Nature Fund. The new fund will play a central role in delivering objectives for species at risk and protected areas by enhancing collaboration with foundations, provinces and territories, Indigenous governments and organizations, private land owners, and other stakeholders.

Ensuring the Safe Operation of Tankers

This funding will be used to maintain incremental inspections to ensure foreign registered tanker vessels carrying oil or chemicals entering Canadian waters comply with Canadian safety and environmental protection requirements.

Strengthening Capacity for Environmental Assessments

This funding will support the Department of Transport’s role in the Northern Project Management Office, which includes addressing project-related concerns from communities and other stakeholders through specialized advice on transportation issues.

Maintaining Rail Service to Remote Communities

This funding will be used to maintain the Remote Passenger Rail Program, specifically to ensure the Keewatin Railway Company (Québec and Labrador) and the Tshiuetin Rail Transportation line (Manitoba) continues to provide safe and reliable service.

Strengthening Motor Vehicle Safety

This funding will be used to promote safe, secure, efficient and environmentally responsible vehicle transportation through legislative amendments to the Motor Safety Act and enhanced safety oversight.

Safeguarding Canadians with an Enhanced Passenger Protect Program

This funding will enhance, and bring under government control, the Passenger Protect Program, which works with air carriers to screen commercial passenger flights to, from and within Canada, and take measures to address security threats.

Operating funding to provide support to the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness to implement its centralized security screening system.

Protecting Marine Life

This funding will be used to build the scientific evidence base to help support actions to reduce human-based threats to the North Atlantic Right Whale, the St. Lawrence Estuary Beluga and the Southern Resident Killer Whale.

Operating and capital funding will support assessment measures to mitigate vessel collisions, including underwater vessel noise for navigational safety; and the review of new approaches, including changes to shipping lanes and the creation of Areas to be Avoided.

Renewal of Base Funding for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario

This funding renews the Southern Ontario Prosperity Program, which promotes strong and diversified economic development in Southern Ontario.

Addressing Irregular Migration

This funding will support security operations at the Canada-U.S. border, enhance the government’s capacity to process asylum claims, and implement measures to deter irregular migration.

Operating funding will enhance the Board’s capacity to make asylum claim decisions and process appeals. The Immigration and Refugee Board is responsible for rendering decisions on all in-Canada asylum claims referred by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada and the Canada Border Services Agency.

Revitalizing National Capital Commission Assets

This funding supports critical repairs and maintenance of fixed assets, including bridges, buildings, roads, parks and pathways.

National Research Council - Convert Sunsetting Funding into Permanent Funding

This funding will renew and regularize support for better long-term research planning and delivery.

National Research Council - Reducing Fees for SMEʼs and Universities and Colleges

This funding will offset reduced revenues due to lowering of fees paid by small and medium-sized businesses, colleges and universities to use the Councilʼs specialized facilities, equipment, and scientific and technical services.

National Research Council - Priority & Disruptive Programs ($29,579,584)

This funding will support the Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program to build project teams made up of researchers from NRC, academia, businesses, and other government departments to encourage researchers to explore and generate research and technology.

Grant payments in the amount of $3,000,000 will allow external researchers to participate in the “Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation” Program.

National Research Council - Ideation Fund ($5,915,916)

This funding will support the Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program to aid researchers with testing and validating transformative ideas through competitive peer review, and pursuing exploratory research and outreach.

Industrial Research Assistance Program

Through the Industrial Research Assistance Program, this funding provides contributions and advisory services to Canadian firms so that they can develop, de-risk, and commercialize technologies. Upcoming changes to the program include an increased contribution limit for early-stage research initiatives and the establishment of an Investment Committee to review contributions over $3 million. This funding is expected to support over 140 additional projects each year.

Granting Councils

This funding will increase support to researchers in the granting council’s respective research fields through pre-existing grant programs.

Operating funding will be used to administer grant programming, to enhance the competition processes for awarding research grants, to increase stakeholder engagement and to modernize technology.

Grant payments in the amount of $43,388,191 will be administered through the Discovery grant program under the grant component of the “Grants and Scholarships” program. Payments will be used to increase fundamental research and to modernize Canada’s research environment by investing more in early career researchers, and increasing the level of equity and diversity in Canada’s research community.

The Office of the Auditor General

This funding will improve the Office’s financial audit capacity to respond to an increase in the volume and complexity of government operations and transactions. Operating funding will contribute to ensuring that the Office continues to meet service standards, provide accurate and timely audit information, and renew its self-managed IT systems.

Strengthening the Canadian Judiciary

This funding will support the Office in its mandate to safeguard the independence of the judiciary and to provide services to federally appointed judges, including the work of the Canadian Judicial Council in reviewing the conduct of federal judges.

Additional Funding for the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying

This funding will be used to relocate the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying and its staff to accommodations that meet Workplace 2.0 standards. Related activities include construction, specialized fit-up and IM/IT requirements, as well as the physical move of employees. The current lease will expire at the end of May 2019.

Supporting Community Womenʼs Organizations

This funding, including grants in the amount of $3,200,000 will support and expand the Women’s Program in order to improve organizational and sector capacity at the national, regional, and local levels for the purposes of advancing equality between men and women and furthering women’s participation in Canadian society.

A National Conversation on Gender Equality With Young Canadians ($1,768,379)

This funding will raise awareness of gender equality among targeted populations. Status of Women, in collaboration with the Privy Council Office’s Youth Secretariat and Indigenous peoples, will co-develop an approach with a selected group of young people in 2018–19 for implementation of resulting activities starting in 2019–20.

This funding will also advance gender equality through a Gender Based Analysis + Roundtable in 2018.

Engaging Men and Boys to Promote Gender Equality ($775,460)

This funding will raise awareness of gender equality among targeted populations. Status of Women will lead a series of activities to inform the scope and focus of a federal strategy on engaging men and boys to advance gender equality and inclusion, and identify areas where innovative solutions can address gaps in supports.

Support for the Correctional Service of Canada and the Office of the Correctional Investigator of Canada

This funding will support and enhance capacity to undertake investigations in federal correctional facilities, including more in-depth analysis of cases involving Indigenous peoples.

Enhancing Canadiansʼ Access to Justice

This funding will be used to conduct efficient, fair and confidential investigations on complaints derived from access to information requests, and to help reduce a steadily increasing backlog.

Protecting Canada’s Nature, Parks and Wild Spaces

This funding will support Canada’s biodiversity by protecting species at risk and their habitat.

Program funding for on-the-ground actions will maximize the chance of long-term success in recovering species at risk. It will support implementation activities for some of the Agency’s 21 existing site-based action plans; help advance recovery efforts for up to 120 species at risk such as bison and imperiled caribou herds; improve the ecological integrity of national parks; and establish new protected areas.

Supporting a Healthy Seniors Pilot Project in New Brunswick

A grant in the amount of $75,000,000 to the Province of New Brunswick will fund the “Healthy Seniors Pilot Project in New Brunswick” in order to help Canadians and governments better understand the gendered impacts of an aging population and improve the quality of life for Canadian seniors. The project will support the testing of innovative solutions over three years to better support seniors in their homes, communities and care facilities.

Addressing Irregular Migration

This funding will support security operations at the Canada-U.S. border, enhance the government’s capacity to process asylum claims, and implement measures to deter irregular migration.

Operating funding will enhance the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s capacity to intercept irregular border crossings and to assess asylum claims.

Enabling Digital Services to Canadians: The Information Technology Refresh Program

Operating and capital funding through the new Information Technology Refresh Program will be used to modernize the government’s aging IT infrastructure assets, improve IT infrastructure services, and enhance Canada’s cyber security position.

Enabling Digital Services to Canadians: Service Integrity – Staffing and Professional Services

Operating funding will be used for hiring additional staff to improve service delivery to partner departments and strengthen internal services. This includes additional staffing for procurement, financial oversight, and reducing the backlog of departmental service requests.

2021 Census of Population & Census of Agriculture

Statistics Canada is mandated to conduct a Census of Population every five years. This funding will support key planning activities for the 2021 Census of Population.

Operating and capital funding will provide Statistics Canada with the IT support required to implement the 2021 Census.

Indigenous Data and Research Capability

This funding will be used to develop a plan with Indigenous communities to design and implement a new program that includes more Indigenous peoples in academic research, in order to help advance the understanding of reconciliation as outlined in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report.

Grant payments in the amount of $2,500,000 for the “Strengthening Indigenous Data and Research Capability” program will provide funding to Indigenous organizations to conduct regionally-tailored consultations and provide related advice.

Granting Councils

This funding will increase support to researchers in the granting council’s respective research fields through pre-existing grant programs.

Operating funding will be used to administer grant programming, to enhance the competition processes for awarding research grants, to increase stakeholder engagement and to modernize technology.

Grant and scholarships in the amount of $26,274,734 will be administered through the Insight Research, Research Partnerships, and Research Training and Talent Development component of the “Grants and Scholarships” programs. Payments will be used to increase investigator-led research in the social sciences and humanities and to modernize Canada’s research environment by investing more in early career researchers and increasing the level of equity and diversity in Canada’s research community.

2021 Census of Population & Census of Agriculture

Statistics Canada is mandated to conduct a Census of Population every five years. This funding will support key planning activities for the 2021 Census of Population.

Statistics Canada will consult with stakeholders on Census content and test questions.

Service Income Security Insurance Plan and other Public Service Employee Benefits.

This funding will cover the employer’s share of non-discretionary costs for benefit and insurance plans. This funding will also be used to pay the employer’s share of premiums for the Canadian Armed Forces long-term disability plan, provided by the Service Income Security Insurance Plan.

Stabilizing and Future Transformation of the Federal Government’s Pay Administration (Phoenix)

This funding will support a stabilization plan to address issues in pay administration.

This funding will establish a temporary team of 25 full-time equivalents to undertake initial planning for a new federal government pay system. This team will focus on developing a recommended approach to define and implement a new pay system. They will explore options to streamline pay rules, business models best suited to delivering pay, and information technology platforms.

Modernizing Canada’s Regulatory Framework

This funding will support federal leadership at the Canadian Free Trade Agreement Regulatory Reconciliation and Cooperation Table in order to pursue a regulatory reform agenda focused on supporting innovation and business investment to make the Canadian regulatory system more agile, transparent and responsive. The Treasury Board Secretariat will work with provinces and territories to address regulatory barriers to trade, investment and labour mobility through harmonization and joint regulatory development.