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Section III — Supplementary Information

Financial Highlights

The future-oriented financial highlights presented within this Corporate Plan are intended to serve as a general overview of the Parks Canada Agency operations and financial position. These future-oriented financial highlights are prepared on an accrual basis to strengthen accountability and improve transparency and financial management.

In preparing these future-oriented financial highlights, Parks Canada Agency has made estimates and assumptions concerning the future. These estimates and judgments may differ from the subsequent actual results. Estimates and judgments are continually evaluated and are based on historical experience and other factors, including expectations of future events that are believed to have reasonable certainty under the circumstances.

Future-Oriented Condensed Statement of Operations
For the Year Ended March 31
($ thousands)
  % Change Future-Oriented
2012–13
Future-Oriented
2011–12
Expenses      
Heritage Places Establishment (16.4) 14,410 17,228
Heritage Resources Conservation (0.5) 167,058 167,838
Public Appreciation and Understanding (7.7) 50,494 54,706
Visitor Experience 0.3 227,799 227,164
Townsite and Throughway Infrastructure (29.9) 60,449 86,250
Internal Services (2.8) 74,072 76,172
Amortization of Tangible Capital Assets 2.0 104,059 101,994
Total Expenses (4.5) 698,341 731,352
Revenues      
Total Revenues 0.9 115,606 114,600
Net Cost of Operations (5.5) 582,735 616,752
Transferred Operations Expenses (100) 7,606
Net Cost of Operations (6.7) 582,735 624,358


Future-Oriented Condensed Statement of Financial Position
As at March 31
($ thousands)
  $ Change Future-Oriented
2012–13
Future-Oriented
2011–12
Total Assets 5,103 1,932,916 1,927,813
Total Liabilities (6,267) 173,944 180,211
Equity 11,370 1,758,972 1,747,602
Total Liabilities and Equity 5,103 1,932,916 1,927,813

Future-Oriented Financial Statements

A full set of the Agency's future-oriented financial statements can be found in the online version of this plan, which is available in the Library section of the Parks Canada website at http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/docs/bib-lib/index.aspx.

Supplementary Information Tables

The following information can be found on the Treasury Board Secretariat's website at http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/rpp/2012-2013/info/info-eng.asp.

  • Details on Transfer Payment Programs (TPPs)
  • Greening Government Operations (GGO)
  • Sources of Respendable and Non-Respendable Revenue
  • Summary of Capital Spending by Program Activity
  • Upcoming Internal Audits and Evaluations over the next three fiscal years
  • User Fees

Section IV — Other Items of Interest

The following information can be found in the on-line version of this plan, which is available in the Library section of the Parks Canada website at http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/docs/bib-lib/index.aspx.

  • New Parks and Historic Sites Account—Source and Use of Funds
  • Update to Parks Canada Long-Term Capital Plan

Organizational Contact Information

Parks Canada National Office
25-7-N Eddy Street
Gatineau, Quebec
Canada
K1A 0M5

General Inquiries:
888-773-8888

General Inquiries (International):
613-860-1251

Teletypewriter (TTY):
866-787-6221


Footnotes

1, 2 Performance Indicator and Target for National Park Establishment and Expansion sub activity of Parks Canada’s Program Activity Architecture (Figure 4)

3, 4 Performance Indicator and Target for National Marine Conservation Area Establishment sub activity of Parks Canada’s Program Activity Architecture (Figure 4)

5 Townsite communities include Field in Yoho National Park of Canada, British Columbia; Lake Louise in Banff National Park of Canada, Alberta; Wasagaming in Riding Mountain National Park of Canada, Manitoba; Waskesiu in Prince Albert National Park of Canada, Saskatchewan; and Waterton in Waterton Lakes National Park of Canada, Alberta. Two other townsites, Banff and Jasper, are self- governed since 1990 and 2002, respectively. Parks Canada retains authority for community plans and by-laws in Banff, and for community plans, land-use planning and development in Jasper.

6 Waterways, which support commercial and recreational boating as well as other recreational activities, include the Trent-Severn Waterway, the Rideau and Sault Ste. Marie canals in Ontario; the Carillon, Chambly, Lachine, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue and Saint-Ours canals in Quebec; and the St. Peters canal in Nova Scotia.