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Minister’s Message

This Report on Plans and Priorities lays out the full scope of the Department’s plans and key activities to be pursued during the 2009-10 fiscal year. Public Safety Canada will continue to pursue specific priorities in the areas of national security; emergency management; policing and law enforcement; crime and safety; and border management. The Department will also focus on supporting Canada’s development and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, and will work in collaboration with its national and international partners to help ensure the safety and security of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

It is this continued development of policy and delivery of programs that supports the Department’s pursuit of a safe and resilient Canada. I remain confident that Public Safety Canada will continue to enhance the safety and resiliency of Canadians in the years to come. I would also like to emphasize how important it is, and has been, for the Department to work with its Portfolio agencies, other federal departments and agencies, Provinces and Territories, municipalities and our partners in the public and private sectors to meet its objectives.

The Honourable Peter Van Loan, P.C., M.P.
Minister of Public Safety

Section 1: Departmental Overview

Public Safety Portfolio

The Public Safety Portfolio is large and complex. It encompasses nine distinct organizations all of which directly contribute to the safety and security of Canadians. In addition to Public Safety Canada, the Portfolio includes the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), the Canadian Security Intelligence Service(CSIS), the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), the National Parole Board (NPB), and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). It also includes three arms-length review bodies: the RCMP External Review Committee, the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP, and the Office of the Correctional Investigator.

Public Safety Canada’s Responsibilities

Public Safety Canada plays a key role in developing policies, delivering programs and ensuring cohesion and integration on policy and program issues within the Portfolio. The Department works with other federal departments, other levels of government, first responders, community groups, the private sector and other countries to achieve its objectives. Through the development and implementation of clearly articulated policies and programs, the Department works towards the achievement of its strategic outcome: “A safe and resilient Canada”.

Strategic Outcome and Program Activity Architecture

The chart below illustrates Public Safety Canada’s strategic outcome and framework of program activities.

In 2008-09, Public Safety Canada updated its Program Activity Architecture (PAA) to reflect all sub-sub activities. The updated PAA and ongoing development of the Department’s Performance Measurement Framework (PMF) will inform decisions on program relevance, effectiveness and value for money; support the realignment of spending and the identification of horizontal linkages among programs; and provide better information to parliamentarians and Canadians on spending and results.

The performance measures and indicators currently found within this document stem from the Department’s draft PMF. As the Department has recently completed the initial draft of this framework, 2009-10 will be the first year it will be tested to gauge performance. A number of performance indicators specified within this report lack specific targets due to the absence of baseline data at the time of publishing. Once baseline data is collected and consolidated, the Department will develop related standards and targets. The development and refinement of the PMF remains a priority; the Department will continue to work closely with its Portfolio counterparts to ensure that there is a degree of coherence amongst the performance measurement frameworks of each of the portfolio agencies with that of the Department in an effort to demonstrate results to Canadians from a portfolio-wide perspective and to strengthen its management of public funds.

Further information on the Department’s Program Activity Architecture (PAA) is available at http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca.

Planning Summary

The figures have been rounded to the nearest thousands of dollars. Due to rounding, figures may not add up to the totals shown.

Note: Planned Spending reflects funds requested through the Main Estimates plus adjustments for funding approved in the Government fiscal framework.

Priorities Summary

In pursuit of the Department’s Strategic Outcome of a safe and resilient Canada, Public Safety Canada will direct its efforts towards five policy/operational priorities and two management priorities in 2009-10. The implementation of these priorities will allow the Department to continue to support Government-wide commitments to the establishment of a safe and secure Canada, a safe and secure world through international cooperation, as well as a strong and mutually beneficial North American partnership.

Public Safety Canada will also support whole-of-Government efforts with the following priorities:

In addition to the above-mentioned priorities, Public Safety Canada will also continue to deliver on the following key priorities identified in 2008-09:

Risk Analysis

Public Safety Canada is influenced by internal and external factors. The Department works with more than 30 departments and agencies, Provinces and Territories, international partners, the private sector and first responders in its efforts to keep Canadians safe from evolving threats. As such, the effectiveness of these relationships impacts the work of the entire Department and remains key to the successful advancement of the Department’s policy and program agenda.

Internally, the Department continues to improve its management tools through, the development of a more coherent approach to performance management. The completion of a Program Activity Architecture, the first draft of a Performance Measurement Framework and the formalization of a department-wide business planning process represent several of the Department’s achievements. Public Safety Canada will be working on the finalization of a risk management framework and the establishment of a corporate evaluation function in an effort to build on these successes to support improved decision-making.

Externally, the safety of Canadians is threatened by a variety of risks. Given its wide range of responsibilities, Public Safety Canada must take into consideration risks ranging from those associated with natural disasters to threats to Canada’s national security. By ensuring that significant risks are identified and assessed, and by ensuring proper coordination with our Portfolio Agencies in terms of how to adequately address threats to our safety and security, the Department continues to support a safe and resilient Canada.

Expenditure Profile

Changes between planned spending in the 2008-09 RPP and 2009-10 are mainly due to:
Increases:

• Renewal of the temporary funding for the National Crime Prevention Strategy to support community-based programming to reduce offending among at-risk and vulnerable populations ($29.2M).
• Funding received from RCMP for policy development in the areas of front-line policing and national policing ($1.5M).
• Funding provided to cover salary increases of the Regular members of the RCMP engaged in the First Nations Policing Program ($1.0M).

Decreases:

• Decrease in funding related to a reduction in the anticipated payments to provinces and territories for assistance related to natural disaster under the Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements ($30.0M).
• Sunsetting of the funding for the Campaign: "72 Hours - Is your family prepared?" ($3.0M).
• Sunsetting of funding made available for National Integrated Interagency funding ($2.9M).
• Sunsetting of the funding for Cyber Security Task force ($1.4M).

Planned spending over the period from 2009-10 to 2011-12 diminishes by $18.6M or 4% mainly because of reductions related to the sunsetting of funding for:

• The Action Plan to enhance Passenger, Rail, Mass Transit and Ferry Security ($2.8M);
• Temporary funding provided to augment emergency management capacity ($9.1M);
• Sunsetting of special programming under the National Crime Prevention Strategy that was targeted to the Prevention of Youth Gangs ($7.3M).

This figure displays the allocation of Public Safety Canada’s planned spending by program activity for 2009-10 (in $000’s).

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