2022-23 Disclosure on Transfer Payment Programs Under $5 million

To assist designated airports in financing eligible operating deficits to ensure essential operations and maintenance are completed at those airports.

The Program does not have repayable contributions.

The program supports the priorities of the federal government and TC by:

• Looking after transportation infrastructure for Canada to improve efficiency and ensure service,
• Supporting essential services to some remote communities; and
• Supporting and advancing Transport Canada’s mandate of having a transportation system in Canada that is recognized worldwide as safe and secure, efficient and environmentally responsible.

Specific immediate and intermediate outcomes are that:

• Airports are open year round; and
• Safety levels are maintained or enhanced.

The ultimate outcome is that:

• Airports are certified to be operational.

• Municipalities
• Not-for-profit organizations and charities

• Discuss and provide recipients with clear template-based contribution agreements, to ensure that terms of the agreement are clear and understood;
• Annually review and negotiate all budgeted expenditure items;
• Maintain an ongoing dialogue with recipients to evaluate requests;
• Follow-up with recipients on project activities, funding requirements and reporting requirements

1,600,000

1,600,000

The objective of this Program is to make supplemental pension payments to former employees of Newfoundland Railways, Steamships and Telecommunications Services who transferred to Canadian National Railway following the union of Newfoundland with Canada. Transport Canada assumed responsibility for the portion of pension costs not payable by Canadian National Railway or the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador for the transferred employees.

The Program does not have repayable contributions.

• Individual or sole proprietorships (Canadian National Railway pensioners only)

The overall objective of the Community Participation Funding Program (CPFP) is to encourage the effective participation of Indigenous and local communities (as well as increase the capacity of those communities) to engage and share their knowledge and expertise in the development and improvement of Canada’s marine transportation system, including area response planning activities.

The Program does not have repayable contributions.

• Non-profit organizations and charities
• Indigenous recipients
• Government (municipal)
• Other (e.g., local communities)

The goal of this Program, which is known publicly as the Boating Safety Contribution Program (BSCP), is to promote boating safety and advance boating safety among waterway users through education and awareness. The Program consists of three components:

• Recreational boating safety;
• Commercial fishing safety; and
• Small vessel safety.

The Program does not have repayable contributions.

The Program is expected to result in:

• An increased number of pleasure craft and small vessel operators following safe boating practices;
• Improved availability of national boating incident data to improve stakeholder’s capacity to deliver evidence-based awareness and education initiatives; and
• A reduction in loss of life, injuries and property damage, due to boating accidents.

• Not-for-profit organizations and charities
• Indigenous recipients
• Academia and public institutions
• governments
• Other (e.g., enforcement services)

The Outaouais Road Development Agreement (ORA) makes contributions to the Government of Quebec for highway efficiency and safety improvements in the Outaouais region, while encouraging regional and industrial development and tourism in the National Capital Region.

The Program does not have repayable contributions.

To provide funding to projects that improve the safety of air transport operations in parts of the world that require assistance.

The projects under this Program involve cooperative agreements between defined groups of states, with the goal of achieving a safe, efficient and sustainable aviation system.

The Program does not have repayable contributions.

• The ultimate outcome is a safe aviation system.
• The intermediate outcome for the Grant is Compliance to ICAO Standards and Recommended Practices.
• The immediate outcomes of the Grant are increased capacity to provide safety oversight and International Collaboration on funding capacity building projects.

• Government
• International (non-government)

To ensure compliance with the TB Policy on Transfer Payments, Grants and Contributions service standards will be developed, applicants and recipients are engaged as appropriate, and a risk-based approach is used to help ensure that administrative requirements on recipients are proportionate to the risk level. Transport Canada works with ICAO to determine where the COSCAP funds can be directed to improve aviation safety. Issues, if and when they arise, are addressed directly through the ICAO Governance Framework.

As part of the grant program’s activities, Transport Canada also received and reviewed annual COSCAP status reports and working papers from ICAO.

This Program:

• Promotes a clean transportation system by reducing air pollutants and/or greenhouse gas emissions from transportation by measuring or improving the intensity of these emissions; and
• Encourages the transportation sector to innovate, develop and/or adopt technologies and practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and/or the emissions intensity of air pollutants.

The Program does not have repayable contributions.

• For-profit organizations
• Not-for-profit organizations and charities
• Academia and public institutions
• Indigenous recipients
• Government
• International (e.g., International Maritime Organization)
• Individual or sole proprietorships
• Other (e.g., federal airport, port, and transit authorities)

The overall objective of the Transportation Assets Risk Assessment Initiative Program is to provide funding for projects that focus on improving the understanding of climate change related-risks and vulnerabilities to federally-owned and/or federally-managed transportation assets. The program has the following specific objectives:

• Increase the resiliency of federally-owned and/or federally-managed transportation assets by giving decision-makers the information they need to make informed decisions; and,
• Support research and analysis that identifies and remedies gaps or barriers to assessing climate risk.

These objectives help to strengthen the resilience of Canada's transportation system and supports the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. 

The Program does not have repayable contributions.

• For-profit organizations
• Not-for-profit organizations and charities
• Government (provinces and territories including provincially and territorially owned entities; Federal Agent Crown Corporations)
• Academia and public institutions
• Other (e.g., Canada Port Authorities, National Airports System's Airport Authorities

To support the scale up of Canadian small businesses through early-stage, pre-commercial research and development. The objectives of the Program are to:

• Help develop a domestic market for early-stage, pre-commercial innovations;
• Provide a mechanism for government to partner with innovative small businesses on the creation of unique intellectual property and novel solutions challenges faced by participating departments/agencies; and
• Facilitate the subsequent testing and validation of prototypes, as well as prepare a pathway to commercialization and purchase of novel new products by government and non-government customers.

The Program does not have repayable contributions.

The expected results of the Innovative Solutions Canada Program are aligned with the priorities of the Innovation and Skills Plan to grow domestic small businesses in the innovation economy that will create good-quality jobs, grow the middle class and deliver on three key areas for action:

• People and Skills;
• Research, Technology, and Commercialization; and
• Companies, Investment, Scale-Up and Clean Growth.

• For-profit organizations

Since the summer of 2016, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has led the outreach and engagement process for the program, similarly to the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) in Canada.

There has been ongoing community involvement by ISED through events and conferences. https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/101.nsf/eng/00020.html

There are no further engagement activities with applicants and recipients planned for this program, nor through a call for proposals at this time.

Objective: To fulfill the Government of Canada’s commitments under the 1982 Labrador Air/Marine Services Agreement with the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador to support the restoration of airstrips along the Labrador coast.

This transfer payment ensures the operational capability of the airstrips are maintained at the level necessary to meet Transport Canada airport certification requirements.

The Program does not have repayable contributions.

It is expected that:

• Airport infrastructure is maintained and restored to original operational capability; and
• Labrador coastal communities continue to have air transportation that is safe, accessible and efficient year-round.

• Government

We discuss project funding requests for airstrips eligible, including:

• Scope of Project

• Total Estimated Cost, excluding Harmonized Sales Tax

• Background and Justification (Age, condition, safety, certification inspection, usability, maintenance, etc.)

• Project Schedule

We maintain an ongoing dialogue with the Province and follow-up on project activities, funding requirements.

1,000 000

To increase the safety of air transport operations by ensuring that funds are available to cover the operation and financing of facilities and services for the safety of international air traffic provided by Denmark and Iceland for civil aircraft flying across the North Atlantic.

The Program does not have repayable contributions.

The intermediate outcomes of the contribution are the demonstration of Canada's engagement in international aviation and historical information available for meteorological modeling and forecasting.

The immediate outcomes of the contribution are international collaboration on funding service delivery, increased capacity to provide safety oversight and maintenance of Canada's Treaty obligations.

Transport Canada contributed to the Denmark and Iceland Joint Financing Agreements, which are administered by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Two Joint Financing Agreements cover the operation of facilities and services provided by Denmark and Iceland respectively for civil aircraft flying across the North Atlantic, north of the 45 degree N latitude between meridians 15 degrees W. Theses services comprise air traffic control, communications and meteorology.

• Government
• International (non-government)

Applicants and recipients will be engaged as appropriate, and a risk-based approach will be used to help ensure that administrative requirements on recipients are proportionate to the risk level. Issues, if and when they arise, are addressed directly through the ICAO Governance Framework.

ICAO allocates funds as per Agreements.

In 1963, an agreement was put in place with CN once tolls were no longer collected from owners or operators of vehicles using the bridge. The purpose of the agreement is to enable CN to continue to make the roadway facilities on the Victoria Bridge in Montreal available for public use. The agreement has not affected CN’s:

• Right of ownership of the bridge and the roadway facilities; nor
• Power to regulate and control the vehicular traffic allowed to use the bridge.

The Program does not have repayable contributions.

• For-profit organizations

3,300,000

3,300,000

3,300,000

3,300,000

The Program to Address Disturbances from Vessel Traffic (PADVT) provides federal funding to facilitate projects and activities that mitigate the impacts of navigation on the marine environment.

The Program includes two components. The first component includes two named recipients under the PADVT for which we have:

• A contribution agreement with the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority to provide financial compensation to shipping companies for the added expense of seasonally slowing down vessels voluntarily when Southern Resident killer whales (SRKWs) are present in key shipping corridors; and
• A grant agreement with the Ocean Wise Coastal Ocean Research Institute (CORI), to develop and strengthen the Whale Report Alert System (WRAS).

The second component is an accommodation measure program in response to the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) project called the Quiet Vessel Initiative (QVI). It includes two streams, with one directed to Indigenous groups and the other to industry and academia to support the following activities:

• Research and development that aims to develop vessel noise reducing technologies; and
• Study the impacts of vessel noise on the marine environment and Indigenous coastal communities.

The Program does not have repayable contributions.

The Program is expected to result in:

• Maintaining or increasing participation of vessels in an expanded voluntary slowdown in the Salish Sea;
• Increased access to various noise mitigation solutions;
• Measures to reduce and understand the effects of ambient noise of vessels in critical habitats;
• Reduce the number of vessel strikes in key whale habitats; and
• Supporting mariners’ and vessel owners/operators’ access to improved information on the presence of whales through the Whale Report Alert System.

• Not-for-profit organizations and charities
• For-profit private organizations
• Indigenous recipients
• Academia and public institutions
• Government

Indigenous Partnerships and Engagement and

Protecting Oceans and Waterways

The Program to Advance Indigenous Reconciliation (PAIR) advances reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples by encouraging effective Indigenous participation, knowledge sharing and collaboration regarding transportation-related policies, processes, regulations, legislation and directives.

There are currently four separate initiatives under this Program, including:

• The Marine Safety Equipment and Training Program that provides funding for equipment and training to eligible Indigenous communities to improve vessel safety and build an understanding of safety on the water along the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMX) marine shipping route;
• The Indigenous Participant Funding Program, which provides grants for short-term consultations with Indigenous groups regarding policies and potential projects that could impact the Canadian Navigable Waters Act (CNWA) and/or the Wrecked, Abandoned or Hazardous Vessels Act (WAHVA); and contributions that seek to support ongoing (i.e., longer-term) dialogue with National Indigenous Organizations on the implementation of the CNWA and WHAVA;
• The Joint Arctic Maritime Management Capacity Building Program encourages effective engagement with communities and provides funding to undertake related maritime studies; and
• The Marine Protected Areas Initiative, which supports participation, capacity building and preparations for consultation and engagement processes for nearby communities.

The Program does not have repayable contributions.

In the short-term, the Program is expected to result in:

• Indigenous and local communities that are engaged;
• Consultations with Indigenous communities are facilitated; and
• Policy and program dialogue with Indigenous Peoples informs the implementation of policy, legislation and program initiatives.

In the intermediate term, the Program is expected to result in:

• Indigenous peoples that are engaged and involved in the implementation of new legislation/acts, policies and program initiatives;
• Increased knowledge of the national transportation system (e.g., navigation) and its impacts among recipients;
• The collection and use of Indigenous knowledge; and
• Indigenous Peoples and other communities that have the training and equipment needed to understand and respond to marine activities in real-time.

• Not-for-profit organizations and charities
• Indigenous recipients
• Government

The primary objective of the Program to Advance Transportation Innovation is to contribute to the competitiveness and productivity of Canada and its transportation system through investments in activities that promote and enable innovation in the transportation sector.

The Program does not have repayable contributions.

• Not-for-profit organizations and charities

• A secure transportation system
• A safe transportation system
• Harmful air emissions from transportation in Canada are reduced
• A transportation system that supports innovation

The purpose of this program is to contribute to a safe, secure, efficient, and environmentally friendly transportation system by providing financial support to the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) for various activities including:

• Management and operation of TAC;
• Technical Projects and Research; and
• TAC Foundation.

The Program does not have repayable contributions.

The expected results include:

• Enhanced capacity and knowledge base facilitating decision-making, intergovernmental relations, and networking and partnership opportunities.
• Increased awareness of the role and importance of transportation in achieving Canada’s social and economic goals.
• Increase in the number and quality of trained transportation professionals and in partnerships and outreach for innovation and skills development.
• Developing and publishing transportation guidelines and best practices related to design, operations, and maintenance.
• Transportation-related research projects and information is exchanged and/or supported by transportation professionals and jurisdictions.

• Not-for-profit organizations and charities