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Ministry Summary
Vote | (thousands of dollars) | 2010–11 | 2009–10 | Difference |
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Human Resources and Skills Development | ||||
Department | ||||
1 | Operating expenditures | 702,332 | 586,927 | 115,406 |
5 | Grants and contributions | 2,137,469 | 1,443,460 | 694,009 |
(S) | Contributions to employee benefit plans | 241,339 | 221,273 | 20,066 |
(S) | Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development – | |||
Salary and motor car allowance | 79 | 78 | . . . . . | |
(S) | Minister of Labour – Salary and motor car allowance | 79 | 78 | . . . . . |
(S) | Minister of State (Seniors) – Motor car allowance | 2 | . . . . . | 2 |
(S) | Old Age Security Payments | 28,048,000 | 26,549,000 | 1,499,000 |
(S) | Guaranteed Income Supplement Payments | 8,257,000 | 8,091,000 | 166,000 |
(S) | Universal Child Care Benefit | 2,594,000 | 2,544,000 | 50,000 |
(S) | Canada Education Savings grant payments to Registered | |||
Education Savings Plan (RESP) trustees on behalf of | ||||
RESP beneficiaries to encourage Canadians to save for | ||||
post-secondary education for their children | 587,000 | 626,000 | (39,000) | |
(S) | Allowance Payments | 560,000 | 557,000 | 3,000 |
(S) | Canada Study Grants to qualifying full and part-time | |||
students pursuant to the Canada Student Financial | ||||
Assistance Act | 557,213 | 511,475 | 45,738 | |
(S) | Payments related to the direct financing arrangement | |||
under the Canada Student Financial Assistance Act | 444,143 | 300,872 | 143,271 | |
(S) | Canada Learning Bond payments to Registered Education | |||
Savings Plan (RESP) trustees on behalf of RESP | ||||
beneficiaries to support access to post-secondary | ||||
education for children from low-income families | 64,000 | 43,000 | 21,000 | |
(S) | Wage Earner Protection Program payments to eligible | |||
applicants owed wages and vacation pay, severance | ||||
pay and termination pay from employers who are | ||||
either bankrupt or in receivership as well as payments | ||||
to trustees and receivers who will provide the | ||||
necessary information to determine eligibility | 56,200 | 31,200 | 25,000 | |
(S) | Payments of compensation respecting government | |||
employees and merchant seamen | 51,000 | 40,000 | 11,000 | |
(S) | The provision of funds for interest and other payments to | |||
lending institutions and liabilities under the Canada | ||||
Student Financial Assistance Act | 15,460 | 31,867 | (16,407) | |
(S) | Canada Disability Savings Grant payments to Registered | |||
Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) issuers on behalf of | ||||
RDSP beneficiaries to encourage long-term financial | ||||
security of eligible individuals with disabilities | 10,200 | 3,300 | 6,900 | |
(S) | Canada Disability Savings Bond payments to Registered | |||
Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) issuers on behalf of | ||||
RDSP beneficiaries to encourage long-term financial | ||||
security of eligible individuals with disabilities | 5,700 | 1,900 | 3,800 | |
(S) | The provision of funds for liabilities including liabilities | |||
in the form of guaranteed loans under the Canada | ||||
Student Loans Act | 4,178 | 4,550 | (372) | |
(S) | Civil Service Insurance actuarial liability adjustments | 145 | 145 | . . . . . |
(S) | Supplementary Retirement Benefits – Annuities agents' | |||
pensions | 35 | 35 | . . . . . | |
(S) | The provision of funds for interest payments to lending | |||
institutions under the Canada Student Loans Act | 8 | 18 | (10) | |
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Total budgetary | 44,335,583 | 41,587,179 | 2,748,404 | |
(S) | Loans disbursed under the Canada Student Financial | |||
Assistance Act (Non-budgetary) | 765,111 | 595,969 | 169,142 | |
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Total non-budgetary | 765,111 | 595,969 | 169,142 | |
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Total Department | 45,100,694 | 42,183,148 | 2,917,546 | |
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Canada Industrial Relations Board | ||||
10 | Program expenditures | 11,490 | 11,122 | 368 |
(S) | Contributions to employee benefit plans | 1,527 | 1,465 | 63 |
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Total Agency | 13,017 | 12,587 | 430 | |
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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation | ||||
15 | To reimburse Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation | |||
for the amounts of loans forgiven, grants, contributions | ||||
and expenditures made, and losses, costs and expenses | ||||
incurred under the provisions of the National Housing | ||||
Act or in respect of the exercise of powers or the | ||||
carrying out of duties or functions conferred on the | ||||
Corporation pursuant to the authority of any Act of | ||||
Parliament of Canada other than the National Housing | ||||
Act , in accordance with the Corporation's authority | ||||
under the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation | ||||
Act | 2,993,841 | 2,044,709 | 949,132 | |
(S) | Renovation and Retrofit of Social Housing | 75,000 | . . . . . | 75,000 |
(S) | First Nations Housing | 62,500 | . . . . . | 62,500 |
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Total budgetary | 3,131,341 | 2,044,709 | 1,086,632 | |
(S) | Advances under the National Housing Act (Non- | |||
Budgetary) | (2,504,996) | (205,794) | (2,299,202) | |
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Total non-budgetary | (2,504,996) | (205,794) | (2,299,202) | |
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Total Agency | 626,345 | 1,838,915 | (1,212,570) | |
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Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations | ||||
Tribunal | ||||
20 | Program expenditures | 1,891 | 1,840 | 51 |
(S) | Contributions to employee benefit plans | 177 | 168 | 9 |
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Total Agency | 2,068 | 2,008 | 59 | |
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Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety | ||||
25 | Program expenditures | 4,000 | 3,828 | 172 |
(S) | Contributions to employee benefit plans | 1,056 | 1,027 | 29 |
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Total Agency | 5,056 | 4,855 | 201 | |
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Note: Details may not add to totals due to rounding.
Strategic Outcome
A skilled, adaptable and inclusive labour force and an efficient labour market.
Program Activity Descriptions
Learning
This program activity helps Canadians participate in post-secondary education to acquire the skills and credentials that enable them to improve their labour market outcomes and adapt to changing labour market conditions. It reduces barriers to education by providing financial assistance to individuals as well as incentives to save for a child's post-secondary education.
It also provides information and awareness about opportunities to acquire education and skills. The program contributes to the inclusiveness of the workforce by giving Canadians with the required academic abilities a more equal opportunity to participate in post-secondary education. The program works with the provinces and territories, voluntary sector, financial institutions, service providers and other key stakeholders to help Canadians pursue post-secondary education.
Skills and Employment
Skills and Employment is intended to ensure that Canadian labour market participants are able to access the supports that they need to enter or reposition themselves in the labour market to allow them to contribute to economic growth through full labour market participation. Initiatives within this program activity contribute to the common overall objectives of promoting skills development, labour market participation and ensuring labour market efficiency.
Strategic Outcome
Safe, fair and productive workplaces and cooperative workplace relations.
Program Activity Descriptions
Labour
This program activity seeks to promote and sustain stable industrial relations and safe, fair, healthy, equitable, and productive workplaces within the federal jurisdiction (transportation, post office and courier companies, communications, banking, grain and nuclear facilities, federal Crown corporations, companies who have major contracts with the federal government and Aboriginal governments, their employees, Aboriginal communities and certain Aboriginal undertakings). It develops labour legislation and regulations to achieve an effective balance between workers' and employers' rights and responsibilities. The program ensures that workplaces under the federal jurisdiction respect the rights and obligations established under labour legislation. The program also manages Canada's international and intergovernmental labour affairs, as well as Aboriginal labour affairs responsibilities.
Strategic Outcome
Income Security, access to opportunities and well-being for individuals, families and communities.
Program Activity Descriptions
Income Security
This program activity ensures that Canadians are provided with retirement pensions, survivor pensions, disability benefits and benefits for children, through the Old Age Security program, the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), the Canada Disability Savings Program and the National Child Benefit program.
Social Development
This program activity supports programs for the homeless or those individuals at risk of homelessness, as well as programs for children, families, seniors, communities, and people with disabilities. It provides these groups with the knowledge, information, and opportunities to move forward with their own solutions to social and economic challenges.
Strategic Outcome
Service Excellence for Canadians.
Program Activity Descriptions
Citizen-Centred Service
This program activity aims to improve and integrate government service delivery by providing Canadians with a one-stop, easy-to-access, personalized service in person, by telephone, Internet and via mail. This program activity is supported by overarching client segment strategies and partnerships with other departments, levels of government and community-based partners. This program activity also includes client feedback mechanisms and the responsibility for increasing public awareness of Service Canada.
Integrity and Processing
This program activity enhances and strengthens the integrity of Service Canada services and programs to ensure that the right person receives the right service or benefit at the right time, and for the intended purpose.
Strategic Outcome
The following program activity supports all strategic outcomes within this organization.
Program Activity Descriptions
Internal Services
Internal Services are groups of related activities and resources that are administered to support the needs of programs and other corporate obligations of an organization. These groups are: Management and Oversight Services; Communications Services; Legal Services; Human Resources Management Services; Financial Management Services; Information Management Services; Information Technology Services; Real Property Services; Materiel Services; Acquisition Services; and Travel and Other Administrative Services. Internal Services include only those activities and resources that apply across an organization and not to those provided specifically to a program.
Program by Activities
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Income Security | 36,622 | 36,880,900 | . . . . . | 27,637 | 36,889,885 | . . . . . | 36,889,885 | 35,239,932 |
Social Development | 76,825 | 2,637,079 | 148,676 | . . . . . | 2,862,580 | . . . . . | 2,862,580 | 2,639,476 |
Learning | 130,747 | 1,208,213 | 382,171 | 263 | 1,720,867 | 765,111 | 2,485,978 | 2,148,645 |
Skills and Employment | 383,017 | 174,137 | 1,760,131 | 245,814 | 2,071,471 | . . . . . | 2,071,471 | 1,484,804 |
Internal Services | 822,928 | 300 | . . . . . | 531,333 | 291,896 | . . . . . | 291,896 | 223,129 |
Citizen-Centred Service | 495,158 | . . . . . | . . . . . | 307,872 | 187,286 | . . . . . | 187,286 | 200,964 |
Labour | 240,253 | 58,158 | 1,900 | 118,000 | 182,311 | . . . . . | 182,311 | 143,218 |
Integrity and Processing | 588,135 | . . . . . | . . . . . | 458,849 | 129,286 | . . . . . | 129,286 | 102,979 |
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2,773,684 | 40,958,787 | 2,292,878 | 1,689,766 | 44,335,583 | 765,111 | 45,100,694 | 42,183,148 | |
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Note: Details may not add to totals due to rounding.
Transfer Payments
(dollars) | 2010–11 | 2009–10 |
Main Estimates | Main Estimates | |
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(S) Old Age Security Payments | 28,048,000,000 | 26,549,000,000 |
(S) Guaranteed Income Supplement Payments | 8,257,000,000 | 8,091,000,000 |
(S) Universal Child Care Benefit | 2,594,000,000 | 2,544,000,000 |
(S) Canada Education Savings grant payments to Registered Education | ||
Savings Plan (RESP) trustees on behalf of RESP beneficiaries to | ||
encourage Canadians to save for post-secondary education for their | ||
children | 587,000,000 | 626,000,000 |
(S) Allowance Payments | 560,000,000 | 557,000,000 |
(S) Canada Study Grants to qualifying full and part-time students | ||
pursuant to the Canada Student Financial Assistance Act | 557,213,024 | 511,475,000 |
Apprenticeship Incentive Grant | 113,000,000 | 62,400,000 |
(S) Canada Learning Bond payments to Registered Education Savings | ||
Plan (RESP) trustees on behalf of RESP beneficiaries to support | ||
access to post-secondary education for children from low-income | ||
families | 64,000,000 | 43,000,000 |
(S) Wage Earner Protection Program payments to eligible applicants | ||
owed wages and vacation pay, severance pay and termination pay | ||
from employers who are either bankrupt or in receivership as well | ||
as payments to trustees and receivers who will provide the necessary | ||
information to determine eligibility | 56,200,000 | 31,200,000 |
Apprenticeship Completion Grant | 39,337,200 | . . . . . |
New Horizons for Seniors Program | 26,340,000 | 24,440,000 |
Grants to voluntary sector organizations for adult literacy and essential | ||
skills | 21,800,000 | 20,700,000 |
Grants to non-profit organizations for activities eligible for support | ||
through the Social Development Partnerships Program | 14,275,000 | 14,275,000 |
(S) Canada Disability Savings Grant payments to Registered Disability | ||
Savings Plan (RDSP) issuers on behalf of RDSP beneficiaries to | ||
encourage long-term financial security of eligible individuals with | ||
disabilities | 10,200,000 | 3,300,000 |
(S) Canada Disability Savings Bond payments to Registered Disability | ||
Savings Plan (RDSP) issuers on behalf of RDSP beneficiaries to | ||
encourage long-term financial security of eligible individuals with | ||
disabilities | 5,700,000 | 1,900,000 |
Grants to not-for-profit organizations, individuals, municipal | ||
governments, Band/tribal councils and other Aboriginal organizations, | ||
public health and educational institutions, R�gies r�gionales, for-profit | ||
enterprises, research organizations and research institutes to carry out | ||
research on homelessness to help communities better understand and | ||
more effectively address homelessness issues | 2,464,000 | . . . . . |
Grants to international labour institutions for addressing the labour | ||
dimension of globalization | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
Grants to international and domestic organizations for technical assistance | ||
and international cooperation on labour issues | 900,000 | 900,000 |
Named grants for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and | ||
Development | 300,000 | 300,000 |
Canadian Joint Fire Prevention Publicity Committee | 19,000 | 19,000 |
To support activities which contribute to Occupational Safety and Health | ||
Program objectives | 15,000 | 15,000 |
To support standards-writing associations | 12,000 | 12,000 |
Fire Prevention Canada | 7,000 | 7,000 |
(S) Payments of compensation respecting government employees and | ||
merchant seamen | 5,000 | 5,000 |
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Total grants | 40,958,787,224 | 39,081,948,000 |
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Contributions | ||
Payments to provinces, territories, municipalities, other public bodies, | ||
organizations, groups, communities, employers and individuals for | ||
the provision of training and/or work experience, the mobilization of | ||
community resources, and human resource planning and adjustment | ||
measures necessary for the efficient functioning of the Canadian | ||
labour market | 643,913,200 | 505,998,000 |
(S) Payments related to the direct financing arrangement under the | ||
Canada Student Financial Assistance Act | 355,230,783 | 219,892,000 |
Contributions to not-for-profit organizations, individuals, municipal | ||
governments, Band/tribal councils and other Aboriginal organizations, | ||
public health and educational institutions, R�gies r�gionales, for-profit | ||
enterprises, research organizations and research institutes to support | ||
activities to help alleviate and prevent homelessness across Canada | ||
and to carry out research on homelessness to help communities better | ||
understand and more effectively address homelessness issues | 124,136,000 | 19,000 |
Contributions to assist unemployed older workers in communities with | ||
ongoing high unemployment and/or affected by downsizing | 71,718,000 | 7,839,000 |
Contributions to provincial/territorial governments, band councils, tribal | ||
councils, Aboriginal Human Resources Development Agreement | ||
holders, municipal governments, not-for-profit organizations, | ||
professional associations, business and private sector organizations, | ||
consortia, industry groups, unions, regulatory bodies, ad hoc | ||
associations, public health institutions, school boards, universities, | ||
colleges, CEGEPs, sector councils, and cross-sectoral councils to | ||
support enhanced productivity and competitiveness of Canadian | ||
workplaces by supporting investment in and recognition and | ||
utilization of skills | 40,225,000 | 49,800,000 |
(S) The provision of funds for interest and other payments to lending | ||
institutions and liabilities under the Canada Student Financial | ||
Assistance Act | 15,460,033 | 31,867,000 |
Contributions to fund construction of capital projects enabling | ||
accessibility to all people of varying abilities across Canada, through | ||
the Enabling Accessibility Fund | 15,000,000 | 10,690,000 |
Contributions to organizations to support the development of human | ||
resources, economic growth, job creation and retention in official | ||
language minority communities | 12,000,000 | . . . . . |
Payments to provinces, territories, municipalities, other public bodies, | ||
organizations, groups, communities, employers and individuals for | ||
the provision of training and/or work or business experience, the | ||
mobilization of community resources and human resource planning | ||
and adjustment measures necessary for the social development of | ||
Canadians and other participants in Canadian life | 6,340,000 | 6,838,358 |
(S) The provision of funds for liabilities including liabilities in the form | ||
of guaranteed loans under the Canada Student Loans Act | 4,178,320 | 4,550,000 |
Contributions to voluntary sectors, non-profit organizations, registered | ||
charitable organizations, provincial/territorial governments and | ||
institutions, municipalities, and post-secondary institutions to support | ||
the development and delivery of outreach activities to inform, | ||
encourage, and direct Canadians to save for the post-secondary | ||
education of children through Registered Education Savings Plans and | ||
Canada Education Savings Program incentives (the Canada Education | ||
Savings Grant and the Canada Learning Bond) | 3,893,000 | 3,147,000 |
Contributions to voluntary sectors, professional organizations, | ||
universities and post-secondary institutions and to provincial and | ||
territorial governments for adult learning, literacy and essential skills | 3,209,000 | 5,609,000 |
Payments to non-profit organizations to develop national or provincial/ | ||
territorial/regional educational and awareness activities to help reduce | ||
the incidence of elder abuse and fraud | 3,200,000 | 2,600,000 |
Labour-Management Partnerships Program | 1,600,000 | 1,200,000 |
Contributions to Canadian business, labour and not-for-profit | ||
organizations for social dialogue and Canadian-based cooperative | ||
activities related to Canada's international labour initiatives | 300,000 | 200,000 |
(S) The provision of funds for interest payments to lending institutions | ||
under the Canada Student Loans Act | 8,391 | 18,000 |
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Total contributions | 1,300,411,727 | 850,267,358 |
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Other Transfer Payments | ||
Payments to provinces and territories under Labour Market Agreements | ||
to enhance the labour market participation among under-represented | ||
groups and low-skilled workers | 770,466,000 | 501,310,000 |
Payments to provinces and territories under the Multilateral Framework | ||
for Labour Market Agreements for Persons with Disabilities | 222,000,000 | 217,100,000 |
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Total other transfer payments | 992,466,000 | 718,410,000 |
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Items not required | ||
Grant to construct/renovate permanent structures and small projects | ||
emphasizing community support to be fully accessible to all people | ||
of varying abilities across Canada, through the Enabling Accessibility | ||
Fund | . . . . . | 6,992,000 |
(S) Civil Service Insurance actuarial liability adjustments | . . . . . | 145,000 |
Grants to individuals, organizations and corporations to assist individuals | ||
to improve their employability and to promote employment | ||
opportunities by assisting local entrepreneurial development | . . . . . | 50,000 |
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Total items not required | . . . . . | 7,187,000 |
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Total | 43,251,664,951 | 40,657,812,358 |
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Strategic Outcome
Resolution of labour relations issues in sectors regulated by the Canada Labour Code in a timely, fair and consistent manner.
Program Activity Descriptions
Adjudicative and Dispute Resolution Program
Through this program, the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) resolves labour relations issues by exercising its statutory powers relating to the application and interpretation of Part I (Industrial Relations) and certain provisions of Part II (Occupational Health and Safety) of the Canada Labour Code . Activities include the granting, modification and termination of bargaining rights; the investigation, mediation and adjudication of complaints alleging violation of Part I of the Canada Labour Code ; the determination of levels of services required to be maintained during a work stoppage; the exercise of ancillary remedial authority; the exercise of cease and desist powers in cases of unlawful strikes or lockouts; the settlement of the terms of a first collective agreement; the provision of administrative services to these ends.
Strategic Outcome
The following program activity supports all strategic outcomes within this organization.
Program Activity Descriptions
Internal Services
Internal Services are groups of related activities and resources that are administered to support the needs of programs and other corporate obligations of an organization. These groups are: Management and Oversight Services; Communications Services; Legal Services; Human Resources Management Services; Financial Management Services; Information Management Services; Information Technology Services; Real Property Services; Materiel Services; Acquisition Services; and Travel and Other Administrative Services. Internal Services include only those activities and resources that apply across an organization and not to those provided specifically to a program.
Program by Activities
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Adjudicative and Dispute Resolution Program | 9,437 | 9,437 | 9,188 |
Internal Services | 3,580 | 3,580 | 3,399 |
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13,017 | 13,017 | 12,587 | |
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Note: Details may not add to totals due to rounding.
Strategic Outcome
Increased availability of safe, affordable housing for Canadians in need, including Aboriginal Canadians.
Program Activity Descriptions
Assisted Housing Programs
Financial assistance is provided to individuals and groups under long term agreements, which helps to provide suitable, adequate and affordable housing to low and moderate income Canadians. This program activity also includes funding provided to provinces/territories under Social Housing Agreements. Provinces and territories signing Social Housing Agreements with the Government of Canada are subject to national principles and an accountability framework that ensures targeted federal funding is used for housing low-income households.
Housing Repair and Improvement Programs
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's (CMHC) Residential Rehabilitation Assistance Program helps to bring housing occupied by low-income homeowners, renters and persons with disabilities up to basic health, safety and mobility standards, and facilitates the conversion of non-residential buildings to residential use. Housing repair and improvement programs also include the Emergency Repair Program, which offers financial assistance to low-income Canadians in rural areas to undertake emergency repairs to their homes, and the Home Adaptations for Seniors Independence Program, which provides low-income seniors with financial assistance to carry out minor home adaptations. The Shelter Enhancement Program provides financial assistance to rehabilitate, repair, improve or build emergency shelters for victims of family violence. The funding for these programs is primarily in the form of a forgivable loan. The total forgivable loan depends on the cost of the repairs and area of the country.
On-Reserve Housing Programs
Financial assistance is provided to First Nations under long term agreements, which helps to provide suitable, adequate and affordable rental housing in reserve communities. In addition, assistance is provided to bring housing occupied by low-income households up to basic health, safety and mobility standards. This program activity also includes funding to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge, skills, training and resources that will allow Aboriginal people to work towards self-sufficiency in housing and take on more responsibility for the functioning of housing within their community. The funding for these programs is primarily in the form of a subsidy, for up to 25 years, to assist projects with their financing and operation.
Affordable Housing Initiative
The Affordable Housing Initiative is aimed at increasing the supply of affordable housing for low to moderate income households. Affordable housing may include interventions such as construction, renovation, rehabilitation, conversion, home ownership, new rent supplements and supportive housing programs. The provinces and territories deliver and administer the programs financed by this initiative. The funding for this program is in the form of a contribution and is provided for provincially/territorially-designed programs.
Research and information dissemination that addresses distinct housing needs, including those of Aboriginal people
CMHC conducts research and disseminates information on issues regarding specific populations with distinct housing needs, including Aboriginal people, homeless people, low-income people, newcomers (immigrants and refugees), people with disabilities and seniors.
Strategic Outcome
Strengthened competitiveness and innovation of the housing sector in order to meet the housing needs of Canadians.
Program Activity Descriptions
Canadian Housing Market Research and Analysis
CMHC collects, analyzes and disseminates housing market information that facilitates informed housing-related decisions by those in the industry, the public at large and CMHC. This includes the provision of housing market data, analysis and forecasts through publications, conferences, seminars, industry roundtables and custom data services. To meet client information needs, CMHC undertakes various surveys of: starts and completions; market absorption; rental market; mortgage approvals; and consumer intentions to buy or renovate a home.
Research and information dissemination to promote desirable housing market outcomes and improve building performance
CMHC investigates ways to ensure the supply of affordable housing finance, make housing finance more inclusive, encourage the supply of affordable housing and move the housing system forward. CMHC also conducts technical research to address moisture and the indoor environment, the durability performance of residential buildings and disasters.
Insured Mortgage Purchase Program
CMHC supports affordability, competition and liquidity in the Canadian housing finance markets through investment in insured mortgage pools. These insured mortgage pools are purchased from Canadian financial institutions through a competitive auction process. Funding for these purchases is provided through borrowings from the Federal Government under the Consolidated Borrowing Framework.
Strategic Outcome
The Canadian housing system remains one of the best in the world.
Program Activity Descriptions
International Activities
Housing sector well-being is further promoted through support to the industry, which enables Canadian companies to secure international business opportunities and diversify their share of housing export markets. CMHC will seek to increase Canadian housing exports by helping companies expand into promising markets, bring together key Canadian clients with pre-selected prospective buyers abroad, promote awareness and recognition of Canadian housing approaches, support foreign delegations seeking information on Canada's housing system and provide assistance to emerging economies to assess and improve their housing environment.
Research and information dissemination to promote sustainable housing and communities, as well as lead the development and implementation of federal housing policy
CMHC conducts research on energy and environmental solutions for residential buildings, residential water quality and use, unique technical problems of remote and northern housing, sustainable community planning and design, and housing and population health. As mandated, CMHC develops and implements federal housing policy in support of Government of Canada priorities and objectives.
Emergency planning
CMHC ensures that Business Resumption Plans are in place and tested to ensure effective and timely resumption of normal business operations following a business interruption impacting the Corporation's business operations and commitments to stakeholders, with particular emphasis on restoring mission-critical business functions first.
Program by Activities
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Assisted Housing Programs | 1,722,116 | 1,722,116 | 819,786 | 2,541,902 | 1,514,836 |
Housing Repair and Improvement Programs | 674,054 | 674,054 | . . . . . | 674,054 | 79,982 |
On-Reserve Housing Programs | 215,134 | 215,134 | 272,117 | 487,251 | 149,708 |
Affordable Housing Initiative | 451,859 | 451,859 | . . . . . | 451,859 | 28,628 |
Canadian Housing Market Research and Analysis | 20,725 | 20,725 | . . . . . | 20,725 | 21,708 |
International Activities | 14,403 | 14,403 | . . . . . | 14,403 | 13,605 |
Research and information dissemination to | |||||
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and improve building performance | 13,790 | 13,790 | . . . . . | 13,790 | 14,250 |
Research and information dissemination | |||||
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communities, as well as lead the | |||||
development and implementation of federal | |||||
housing policy | 12,899 | 12,899 | . . . . . | 12,899 | 11,135 |
Research and information dissemination that | |||||
addresses distinct housing needs, including | |||||
those of Aboriginal people | 6,062 | 6,062 | . . . . . | 6,062 | 4,776 |
Emergency planning | 299 | 299 | . . . . . | 299 | 287 |
Insured Mortgage Purchase Program | . . . . . | . . . . . | (3,596,899) | (3,596,899) | . . . . . |
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3,131,341 | 3,131,341 | (2,504,996) | 626,345 | 1,838,915 | |
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Note: Details may not add to totals due to rounding.
Strategic Outcome
The rights of artists and producers under Part II of the Status of the Artist Act are protected and respected.
Program Activity Descriptions
Certification, Complaints and Determination Program
This program deals with applications for certification, revocation of certification, review, determination, and consent to prosecute, and with complaints of unfair practices, brought forward by artists, artists' associations or producers under Part II of the Status of the Artist Act , which governs professional relations between self-employed artists and producers.
Strategic Outcome
The following program activity supports all strategic outcomes within this organization.
Program Activity Descriptions
Internal Services
Internal Services are groups of related activities and resources that are administered to support the needs of programs and other corporate obligations of an organization. These groups are: Management and Oversight Services; Communications Services; Legal Services; Human Resources Management Services; Financial Management Services; Information Management Services; Information Technology Services; Real Property Services; Materiel Services; Acquisition Services; and Travel and Other Administrative Services. Internal Services include only those activities and resources that apply across an organization and not to those provided specifically to a program.
Program by Activities
(thousands of dollars) | 2010–11 Main Estimates | 2009–10 | |
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Budgetary | Total | Main | |
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Operating | Estimates | ||
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Certification, Complaints and Determination Program | 1,563 | 1,563 | 1,151 |
Internal Services | 505 | 505 | 857 |
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2,068 | 2,068 | 2,008 | |
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Note: Details may not add to totals due to rounding.
Strategic Outcome
Improved workplace conditions and practices that enhance the health, safety, and well being of working Canadians.
Program Activity Descriptions
Occupational health and safety information development, delivery services and tripartite collaboration
The goal of this program is to provide free information on occupational health and safety to support Canadians in their efforts to improve workplace safety and health. Citizens are provided information through a free and impartial personalized service via telephone, e-mail, person-to-person, fax or mail. Alternatively they can independently access a broad range of electronic and print resources developed to support safety and health information needs of Canadians. This may include cost recovery products and services and is supported financially by contributions from various stakeholders. Through health and safety information development, the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) collects, processes, analyzes, evaluates, creates and publishes authoritative information resources on occupational health and safety for the benefit of all working Canadians. This information is used for education and training, research, policy development, development of best practices, improvement of health and safety programs, achieving compliance, and for personal use. Various levels of service are available from free to purchase of products and services. When the product or service provided by CCOHS is provided to identified external recipients with benefits beyond those enjoyed by the general taxpayer, a user fee is charged. CCOHS promotes and facilitates consultation and cooperation among federal, provincial and territorial jurisdictions and participation by labour, management and other stakeholders in the establishment and maintenance of high standards and occupational health and safety initiatives for the Canadian context. The sharing of resources results in the coordinated and mutually beneficial development of unique programs, products and services. Collaborative projects are usually supported with a combination of financial and non-financial contributions to the programs by stakeholders and result in advancement of the health and safety initiatives.
Strategic Outcome
The following program activity supports all strategic outcomes within this organization.
Program Activity Descriptions
Internal Services
Internal Services are groups of related activities and resources that are administered to support the needs of programs and other corporate obligations of an organization. These groups are: Management and Oversight Services; Communications Services; Legal Services; Human Resources Management Services; Financial Management Services; Information Management Services; Information Technology Services; Real Property Services; Materiel Services; Acquisition Services; and Travel and Other Administrative Services. Internal Services include only those activities and resources that apply across an organization and not to those provided specifically to a program.
Program by Activities
(thousands of dollars) | 2010–11 Main Estimates | 2009–10 | ||
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Budgetary | Total | Main | ||
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Operating | Less: | Estimates | ||
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credited | ||||
to the vote | ||||
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Internal Services | 2,706 | . . . . . | 2,706 | 2,652 |
Occupational health and safety information development, | ||||
delivery services and tripartite collaboration | 6,650 | 4,300 | 2,350 | 2,203 |
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9,356 | 4,300 | 5,056 | 4,855 | |
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Note: Details may not add to totals due to rounding.