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Details of Transfer Payment Programs1
| Community Diversification program | |
|---|---|
| Strategic outcome: A competitive and diversified economy for the regions of Quebec | |
| Program activities: Community Development Special intervention measures |
|
| Name of Transfer Payment Program: Community Diversification program. This program represents a voted item, except for 2009-2010, for which the funding portion dedicated to Canada's Economic Action Plan (CEAP) corresponds to a statutory appropriation. | |
| Start date: April 1, 2007 | End date: March 31, 2012 |
Description: The Community Diversification program helps Quebec regions maintain and develop their economic activity base. A community's vitality depends on its ability to develop, grow and thrive by building on its own assets. The program has the following three objectives: to foster communities' development and increase their mobilization by drawing up visions and projects of local and regional scope; assist communities through support for entrepreneurship and through creation or maintenance of viable enterprises; and increase communities' capability to attract tourists and skilled individuals.
This program also leads to intervention for implementation of the Community Adjustment Fund (CAF), a temporary CEAP initiative.
Funding recipients: Includes in particular small and medium-sized enterprises and non-profit organizations.
Expected results:- Communities are pursuing a development vision and implementing resulting initiatives
- Enterprises are contributing to community economic growth and maintenance
- Communities are recognized for their distinctiveness, brand image or outreach.
With respect specifically to the CAF:- Number of communities with increased economic opportunities and greater capacity to meet challenges
- Enterprises created, maintained and expanded
- Jobs created or maintained.
| (in thousands of dollars) | Forecast spending 2009-2010 |
Planned spending 2010-2011 |
Planned spending 2011-2012 |
Planned spending 2012-2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grants | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Contributions | 157,300 | 174,743 | 89,946 | 78,287 |
| Other types of transfer payments | — | — | — | — |
| Total transfer payments | 157,400 | 174,843 | 90,046 | 78,387 |
Hyperlink to the Departmental Three-Year Plan for Transfer Payment Programs: www.dec-ced.gc.ca/eng/agency/about/plan.html
| Business and Regional Growth program | |
|---|---|
| Strategic outcome: A competitive and diversified economy for the regions of Quebec | |
| Program activities: Enterprise Competitiveness Competitive positioning of sectors and regions Special intervention measures |
|
| Name of Transfer Payment Program: Business and Regional Growth program. This program represents a voted item, except for 2009-2010, for which the funding portion dedicated to Canada's Economic Action Plan (CEAP) corresponds to a statutory appropriation. | |
| Start date: April 1, 2007 | End date: March 31, 2012 |
Description: The Business and Regional Growth program reinforces conditions conducive to the sustainable growth of regions and SMEs. It aims to help enterprises improve their performance, become more competitive and engage in more innovation to facilitate their sustainable development; support the transfer of technology and research outputs to enterprises; and create the right conditions to attract foreign investment and international organizations.
This program also leads to intervention for implementation of the Community Adjustment Fund (CAF), a temporary CEAP initiative.
Funding recipients: Includes in particular small and medium-sized enterprises and non-profit organizations.
Expected results:- Assisted enterprises are using their strategic capabilities.
- Products and services derived from R&D are being commercialized.
- New enterprises and investment are consolidating the regions' economic base.
- Competitiveness poles are being developed and consolidated.
- Clusters and networks of enterprises in the same sector or region are better structured.
- The innovation commercialization process is generating medium- and long-range economic and social spinoffs.
- Competitive regions are attracting foreign direct investment and international organizations.
With respect specifically to the CAF:- Number of communities with increased economic opportunities and greater capacity to meet challenges
- Enterprises created, maintained and expanded
- Jobs created or maintained.
| (in thousands of dollars) | Forecast spending 2009-2010 |
Planned spending 2010-2011 |
Planned spending 2011-2012 |
Planned spending 2012-2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grants | 100 | — | — | — |
| Contributions | 121,611 | 122,566 | 81,497 | 73,725 |
| Other types of transfer payments | — | — | — | — |
| Total transfer payments | 121,711 | 122,566 | 81,497 | 73,725 |
Hyperlink to the Departmental Three-Year Plan for Transfer Payment Programs: www.dec-ced.gc.ca/eng/agency/about/plan.html
| Community Futures Program | |
|---|---|
| Strategic outcome: A competitive and diversified economy for the regions of Quebec | |
| Program activity: Community Development | |
| Name of Transfer Payment Program: Community Futures Program (CFP) (voted item) | |
| Start date: May 18, 1995 | End date: October 2, 2010 |
Description: This Canada-wide program provides support for communities in all parts of the country to help them take charge of their own local economic development.
Funding recipients: In Quebec, the CFP financially supports 57 Community Futures Development Corporations, as well as 14 Community Economic Development Corporations and 10 Business Development Centres.
Expected results:- Communities are pursuing a development vision and implementing resulting initiatives
- Enterprises are contributing to community economic growth and maintenance.
| (in thousands of dollars) | Forecast spending 2009-2010 |
Planned spending 2010-2011 |
Planned spending 2011-2012 |
Planned spending 2012-2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grants | — | — | — | — |
| Contributions | 43,965 | 32,300 | 32,300 | 32,300 |
| Other types of transfer payments | — | — | — | — |
| Total transfer payments | 43,965 | 32,300 | 32,300 | 32,300 |
Hyperlink to the Departmental Three-Year Plan for Transfer Payment Programs: www.dec-ced.gc.ca/eng/agency/about/plan.html
| Infrastructure Canada Program | |
|---|---|
| Strategic outcome: A competitive and diversified economy for the regions of Quebec | |
| Program activity: Infrastructure | |
| Name of Transfer Payment Program: Infrastructure Canada Program (ICP) (voted item) | |
| Start date: August 22, 2000 | End date: March 31, 2011 |
Description: Within the framework of the pan-Canadian Infrastructure Program under Treasury Board Secretariat responsibility, a Canada-Quebec Agreement was signed in October 2000. The objective of this agreement was to upgrade urban and rural municipal infrastructure in the province and improve Quebecers' quality of life. The Agency acts on behalf of the Government of Canada as the federal department responsible for implementation in Quebec. This agreement was amended in April 2008 to postpone to March 31, 2011 the deadline for disbursements under the ICP. Since December 2005, under the terms of the agreement, no more new projects may be approved under the program.
Funding recipients: Primarily municipalities
Expected results:
- Rural and urban communities have quality public infrastructure.
| (in thousands of dollars) | Forecast spending 2009-2010 |
Planned spending 2010-2011 |
Planned spending 2011-2012 |
Planned spending 2012-2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grants | — | — | — | — |
| Contributions | 31,854 | — | — | — |
| Other types of transfer payments | — | — | — | — |
| Total transfer payments | 31,854 | — | — | — |
Hyperlink to the Departmental Three-Year Plan for Transfer Payment Programs: www.dec-ced.gc.ca/eng/agency/about/plan.html
| Contribution program to supply the Municipality of Shannon with drinking water | |
|---|---|
| Strategic outcome: A competitive and diversified economy for the regions of Quebec | |
| Program activity: Infrastructure | |
| Name of Transfer Payment Program: Program to supply the Municipality of Shannon with drinking water (voted item) | |
| Start date: May 14, 2009 | End date: March 31, 2011 |
Description: The program is intended to supply residents of the Municipality of Shannon with drinking water through the establishment of a water system supplied from a groundwater source, and construction of a reservoir and a pumping station.
Funding recipient: Municipality of Shannon
Expected results:
- Management of special programs dedicated to infrastructure is sound and effective
- Rural and urban communities have quality public infrastructure.
| (in thousands of dollars) | Forecast spending 2009-2010 |
Planned spending 2010-2011 |
Planned spending 2011-2012 |
Planned spending 2012-2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grants | — | — | — | — |
| Contributions | 6,000 | 7,345 | — | — |
| Other types of transfer payments | — | — | — | — |
| Total transfer payments | 6,000 | 7,345 | — | — |
Hyperlink to the Departmental Three-Year Plan for Transfer Payment Programs: www.dec-ced.gc.ca/eng/agency/about/plan.html
| Recreational Infrastructure Canada program | |
|---|---|
| Strategic outcome: A competitive and diversified economy for the regions of Quebec | |
| Program activity: Infrastructure | |
| Name of Transfer Payment Program: Recreational Infrastructure Canada (RInC) program (voted item) | |
| Start date: April 23, 2009 | End date: March 31, 2011 |
Description: This Canada-wide initiative is intended to be a timely, targeted, short-term measure to stimulate the Canadian economy. It should contribute to reducing the impact of the global recession by increasing the overall value of construction activities associated with recreational infrastructure. RInC-funded projects will primarily involve modernization and repair of facilities, including new construction that adds to or replaces existing recreational infrastructure capacity.
Funding recipients: May include, under certain conditions, a local or regional government, public sector body, private, not-for-profit entity, provincial or territorial entity that provides municipal-type services to communities, or First Nation government.
Expected results:
- Increase in economic opportunities
- Partnership with Quebec and communities
- Increase in construction activities associated with recreational infrastructure.
| (in thousands of dollars) | Forecast spending 2009-2010 |
Planned spending 2010-2011 |
Planned spending 2011-2012 |
Planned spending 2012-2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grants | — | — | — | — |
| Contributions | 5,000 | 73,077 | — | — |
| Other types of transfer payments | — | — | — | — |
| Total transfer payments | 5,000 | 73,077 | — | — |
Hyperlink to the Departmental Three-Year Plan for Transfer Payment Programs: www.dec-ced.gc.ca/eng/agency/about/plan.html
Note:
1For the full list of funding recipients and their eligibility conditions, please consult the Agency site at www.dec-ced.gc.ca/eng/programs/index.html under the appropriate program. All information on performance measurements and related indicators is to be found in the Report on Plans and Priorities 2010-2011.
