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Name of Transfer Payment Program: Settlement Program

Start date: May 15, 2008

End date: March 31, 2013

Description: The Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) Settlement Program provides services that make a difference in the lives of newcomers. This includes providing: language training, information and referrals; help in finding employment that matches newcomers’ skill and education; and help in establishing networks and contacts in their communities.

The terms and conditions for the Settlement Program describe both eligible recipients of contribution funding and clients that are eligible for services.

The eligible recipients (often referred to as service providers) for settlement services include the following:

• provincial, territorial or municipal governments;
• not–for–profit organizations including non-governmental organizations, non-profit corporations, community groups and umbrella organizations;
• businesses;
• educational institutions (including school boards, districts and divisions); and
• individuals.

The eligible clients for settlement services are primarily permanent residents. However, they may also include some prospective immigrants and refugees who are highly likely to obtain permanent residency, but have not yet received their permanent resident visa. These include, for example, individuals who have been selected by CIC pending completion of medical, security, and criminal verification statutory requirements.

Strategic Outcome: Successful integration of newcomers into society and promotion of Canadian citizenship

Results Achieved: The CIC settlement program has seen an increase of more than 10 percent in the number of interventions for newcomers in 2009–2010 over the previous 2008–2009 fiscal year.

Program Activity: Integration Program
($ millions)

	Actual Spending 2007-08*	Actual Spending	Planned Spending 2009-10	Total Authorities 2009-10	Actual Spending 2009-10	Variance(s)
Total Grants	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total Contributions	—	—	$581.9	$643.9	$641.7	$59.8
Total Other types of transfer payments	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total Program Activity	—	—	$581.9	$643.9	$641.7	$59.8

Comment(s) on Variance(s): Actual spending exceeded planned spending by $59.8 million, primarily due to additional authorities received through Supplementary Estimates.

Audit completed or planned: An audit of the Administration of the Settlement Program was completed in March 2010; management response was submitted in June 2010.

Evaluation completed or planned: Evaluation of Language Instructions for Newcomers to Canada (completed, 2009–2010), Evaluation of Immigration Settlement and Adaptation Program (in progress, 2010–2011), Evaluation of the Host Program (in progress, 2010–2011), Evaluation of the Canada–Ontario Immigration Agreement Strategic Plan for Settlement and Language Training (in progress, 2010–2011), Evaluation of the Going to Canada Immigration Portal joint with Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (in progress, 2010–2011).

*The reconfiguration of Settlement Program in the 2009–2010 Estimates cycle has affected the comparability of previous years’ information.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP)

Start date: 1970s (initially under another name; RAP implemented 1998)

End date: September 30, 2011

Description: The RAP provides immediate settlement assistance and orientation to government-assisted refugees who have re-settled in Canada. The program provides income support and immediate essential services to government-assisted refugees who lack the resources to provide for their own basic needs. In addition, it provides referrals to settlement programs to newcomers.

Strategic Outcome: Successful integration of newcomers into society and promotion of Canadian citizenship.

Results Achieved: The number of clients served in 2009 was in line with the federal immigration levels plan range of 5,300 to 5,600 government-assisted refugees resettled outside of Quebec.

Program Activity: Integration Program
($ millions)

	Actual Spending 2007-08	Actual Spending 2008-09	Planned Spending 2009-10	Total Authorities 2009-10	Actual Spending 2009-10	Variance(s)
Total Grants	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total Contributions	$52.9	$51.6	$48.5	$56.5	$56.5	$8.0
Total Other types of transfer payments	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total Program Activity	$52.9	$51.6	$48.5	$56.5	$56.5	$8.0

Comment(s) on Variance(s): Actual spending exceeded planned spending by $8.0 million due to internal re-allocations to meet additional program requirements.

Audit completed or planned: Internal audit completed in 2009; the management response is due in October/November 2010.

Evaluation completed or planned: Evaluation of the Government-assisted Refugee Program and the Resettlement Assistance Program (in progress, 2010–2011). Preliminary findings due in December 2010 and the management response is scheduled for completion by March 2011.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Subvention versée en vertu de l’Accord Canada–Québec/Canada–Quebec Accord Grant

Start date: Financial compensation to the province (in the form of a grant) is based on the Canada–Quebec Accord, which came into force on April 1, 1991.

End date: The Accord does not have an expiry date.

Description: The Canada–Quebec Accord relating to Immigration and Temporary Admission of Aliens gives Quebec the responsibility for providing settlement and integration services to all immigrants in Quebec, including refugees. Quebec receives an annual grant from the federal government to support these settlement and integration services.

Strategic Outcome: Successful integration of newcomers into society and promotion of Canadian citizenship.

Results Achieved: The Government of Quebec is responsible for developing and publishing its own expected results related to immigration.

Program Activity: Integration Program
($ millions)

	Actual Spending 2007-08	Actual Spending 2008-09	Planned Spending 2009-10	Total Authorities 2009-10	Actual Spending 2009-10	Variance(s)
Total Grants	$198.2	$226.0	$234.2	$234.2	$232.2	($2.0)
Total Contributions	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total Other types of transfer payments	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total Program Activity	$198.2	$226.0	$234.2	$234.2	$232.2	($2.0)

Comment(s) on Variance(s): Actual spending was $2.0 million less than planned spending due to adjustments in the final payment formula, which were lower than anticipated.

Audit completed or planned: No audit planned for the referenced period.

Evaluation completed or planned: No evaluation planned for the referenced period.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Multiculturalism Program

Start date: 1982–1983

End date: 2011–2012

Description: The Multiculturalism Program draws its mandate from the Canadian Multiculturalism Act and the Canadian multiculturalism policy embedded in the Act. In 2009–2010, three new objectives for the program were approved:

• building an integrated, socially cohesive society;
• improving the responsiveness of institutions to the needs of a diverse population; and
• actively engaging in discussion on multiculturalism and diversity at the international level.

To support these objectives, the program provides financial support (through grants and contributions) to projects and initiatives that help to build bridges between communities, promote intercultural understanding, foster citizenship, civic memory and respect for core democratic values, and promote equal opportunity for individuals of all origins.

Strategic Outcome: Successful integration of newcomers into society and promotion of Canadian citizenship.

Results Achieved: In 2009–2010, the Multiculturalism Grants and Contributions Program recommended 21 projects to the Minister. Fourteen were approved (totalling $5,097,093), representing a 67-percent approval rate. The approved projects were equally divided among the three priorities (civic participation, anti-racism and cross-cultural understanding, and institutional change). The program began a period of transition, with new objectives and terms and conditions in 2009–10.

Program Activity: Citizenship Program
($ millions)

	Actual Spending 2007-08*	Actual Spending 2008-09*	Planned Spending 2009-10*	Total Authorities 2009-10	Actual Spending 2009-10	Variance(s)
Total Grants	—	—	—	$7.3	$0.1	$0.1
Total Contributions	—	—	—	$4.3	$4.1	$4.1
Total Other types of transfer payments	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total Program Activity	—	—	—	$11.6	$4.2	$4.2

Comment(s) on Variance(s): Actual spending exceeded planned spending by $4.2 million due to the transfer of authorities through Supplementary Estimates. Unspent authorities were largely due to lower than planned uptake following the mid-year transfer of this program to CIC. The variance was due largely to slower than anticipated approval time.

Audit completed or planned: Review of the Multiculturalism Program (2011–2012)

Evaluation completed or planned: Evaluation of Canada’s Action Plan Against Racism Contribution portion (Welcoming Communities Imitative) (in progress, 2010–2011); Evaluation of the Nationally Standardized Data Collection Strategy on Hate-motivated Crime (in progress, 2010-2011); Evaluation of Canada’s Action Plan Against Racism (horizontal roll-up) (in progress, 2010-2011), Evaluation of Multiculturalism Program (planned, 2011–2012)

*Authorities for this program were transferred to CIC through Supplementary Estimates in 2009–2010. As a result, there are no comparable figures for planned spending or previous years actual spending from the Department of Canadian Heritage.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Community Historical Recognition Program (CHRP)

Start date: 2006–2007

End date: 2011–2012

Description: In 2006–2007, CHRP replaced the Acknowledgement, Commemoration and Education Program. CHRP provides funding for eligible community-based projects that (i) commemorate and/or recognize the historical experiences of specific ethno-cultural communities affected by federally legislated wartime measures and/or immigration restrictions or prohibitions that were applied in Canada, and (ii) promote their respective contributions. It aims to provide recognition for, and educate Canadians about, the historical experiences of these communities, and highlight their contributions to Canada.

Strategic Outcome: Successful integration of newcomers into society and promotion of Canadian citizenship.

Results Achieved: Advisory committees of knowledgeable and respected representatives were established for each of the eligible ethnocultural communities (Indo-, Chinese-, Jewish- and Italian-Canadian) to provide recommendations to the Minister on the merit of project proposals. The advisory committees met to review eligible proposals received from the first two calls for proposals. Nineteen projects were funded in 2009–2010, for a total of $1.9 million. CHRP’s third and last call for proposals was launched, closing April 1, 2010; 45 eligible proposals received.

Program Activity: Citizenship Program
($ millions)

	Actual Spending 2007-08*	Actual Spending 2008-09*	Planned* Spending 2009-10	Total Authorities 2009-10	Actual Spending 2009-10	Variance(s)
Total Grants	—	—	—	$0.7	$0.3	$0.3
Total Contributions	—	—	—	$9.9	$1.6	$1.6
Total Other types of transfer payments	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total Program Activity	—	—	—	10.6	1.9	1.9

Comment(s) on Variance(s): Overall, actual spending exceeded planned spending by $1.9 million due to the transfer of authorities through Supplementary Estimates. Unspent authorities were reprofiled to future years through the Annual Reference Level Update process.

Audit completed or planned: No audit planned for the referenced period.

Evaluation completed or planned: Evaluation of Historical Recognition Program (planned, 2011–2012)

*Authorities for this program were transferred to CIC through Supplementary Estimates in 2009–2010. As a result, there are no comparable figures for planned spending or previous years actual spending from the Department of Canadian Heritage.