2023-24 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

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 objective of the program is intended to honour and preserve the memory of the Victims in a visible and meaningful way with long lasting and impactful results related to causes aligned with the interests and passions of the Victims. The program does not have repayable contributions.

The expected result is that the memory of the Victims of Flight ET302 is sustained.
The Program has two main objectives:

• to provide scholarships to talented students in fields of study related to the interest of the victims.
• to fund projects that honor the victims' and are meaningful to their families.

• Non-profit organizations

Engagement initiatives include:

• Calls for scholarship and project proposals;
• Consultations and meetings with families of the victims and non-profit organizations; and
• Program details are posted on TC's website.

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)

Engagement initiatives include:  

• Calls for project proposals;
• Consultations and Meetings with partners and stakeholders;
• Program details are posted on TC's website and disseminated through outreach activities, such as information webinars.

The objectives of the Clean Transportation Program (CTP) are to:

• Support Canada's provinces and territories to develop, align and modernize curricula, guidelines, codes, standards and regulations that enable and accelerate the safe deployment of zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty trucking in Canada, as well as their associated charging and refuelling infrastructure;
• Promote 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
• Encourage 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., U.S. Federal Aviation Administration)
• Individual or sole proprietorships
• Other (e.g., federal airport, port, and transit authorities)

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 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.

This program provides funding to support major rehabilitation work on the Victoria Bridge related to the roadway, including the repair of structural elements and the improvement of its approaches and signalization. These activities will ensure the bridge remains safe and that commuters in the Montreal region can access its roadway.
The Program does not have repayable contributions.

• For-profit organizations

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 45th parallel North between the meridians of 15° West and 50° West. These 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/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

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:

• A contribution agreement with the Port of Vancouver 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 a separate PADVT program called the Quiet Vessel Initiative (QVI) that includes two streams, 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

Meetings with partners and stakeholders  
Program details are posted on TC's website and disseminated through outreach activities, such as information webinars.

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

The Road Safety Transfer Payment Program works to establish nationally-consistent road use frameworks, standards, policies, programs and outreach activities to reduce collisions, injuries and fatalities on the road, while also encouraging the safe and effective use of innovative technologies, encouraging harmonization, and economic growth. 
The program includes the Enhanced Road Safety Transfer Payment Program that promotes the innovative design, testing, and integration of Connected and Automated Vehicles and other safety enhancing technologies. The results of these projects will then be used to develop national regulations and non-regulatory tools (which include policies, best practices, guidelines, frameworks, etc.).
The Program does not have repayable contributions.

The Program aims to:

• develop, maintain and improve the enforcement of the safety fitness framework and the National Safety Code standards for extra-provincial motor carriers (trucks and buses);  
• develop, maintain and enforce safe road practice initiatives;
• contribute to the national collection and public dissemination of timely and quality road safety data; and
• enhance shared knowledge of emerging road safety technologies.

• Not-for-profit and for-profit private sector road safety organizations;
• Academia;
• Road safety organizations;
• Other organizations that take an active role in advancing road safety issues/perspectives of their members;
• The Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators (CCMTA);
• Provinces;
• Territories; and
• Provincial or territorial-owned entities.

• 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