Disclosure of Transfer Payment Programs under $5 million

A transportation system that supports innovation

Transportation Innovation

This Program:

• Aims to increase awareness of the safety, security, environmental, social and other considerations of connected and automated vehicles, which is intended to support a Canadian transportation system that embraces innovative technologies;
• Is expected to result in traditional and innovative investments in trade-related transportation infrastructure that help sustain and support environmentally responsible economic growth and jobs for middle-class Canadians; and
• Provides funding assistance for scholarships awarded by the Canadian Transportation Research Forum in an effort to promote and encourage transportation research in Canada and support capacity building within the transportation sector.

• Not-for-profit organizations and charities
• Academia and public institutions
• Indigenous recipients
• Government
• International (non-government)
• Individual or sole proprietorships

Canada's oceans and marine environments are protected from marine shipping impacts

Indigenous Partnerships and Engagement

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;
• Marine training schools that develop programs/curricula that improve the access of Indigenous and other underrepresented groups to marine training; and
• Indigenous peoples and other communities that have the training and equipment needed to understand and access real-time information on marine activities.

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

A safe transportation system

Aviation Safety Regulatory Framework Program

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 ultimate outcome is a safe aviation system.

Grant to ICAO for COSCAP: 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. 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.

Transport Canada manages its assets effectively

Transportation Infrastructure Program

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.

• Government
• Other (local organizations)

• 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

Transportation corridors get products reliably to market

Transportation Infrastructure Program

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.

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.

A safe transportation system

Marine Safety Oversight Program

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 so as 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
• Academia and public institutions
• Government
• Other (e.g., enforcement services)

There are no future plans to engage with applicants and recipients on the design, delivery, and evaluation of the Program at this time.

The Program is a legacy program that is not linked directly to a departmental result.

Transportation Infrastructure Program

This Program ensures that the Government of Canada's obligations are upheld and that supplemental pension payments continue to be made to former employees of Newfoundland Railways.

Individual or sole proprietorships (Canadian National Railway pensioners only)

There are no future plans to engage with applicants and recipients on the design, delivery, and evaluation of the Program at this time.

• A secure transportation system
• A safe transportation system
• A transportation system that supports innovation

Transportation Infrastructure Program

The Program aims to improve roads, safety, environmental protection and a more efficient transportation system by:

• Identifying common interests;
• Developing and harmonizing best practices among jurisdictions; and
• Improving the knowledge base to produce better decisions and policies.

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.
• Guidelines and best practices incorporated into transportation policy and related design, operations, maintenance and practices for improved roads and safety.
• Transportation-related research projects and information is exchanged and/or supported by transportation professionals and municipalities.

• Non-profit organizations and charities

There are no plans to engage with the recipient on the delivery at this time.

Aviation Safety Regulatory Framework Program

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 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.

• 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.

Protecting Oceans and Waterways Program

The overall objective of the Community Participation Funding Program 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.

We expect that this Program will support recipients’ increased knowledge of marine transportation and marine transportation strategies and policies, thereby contributing to a cleaner and safer marine transportation system in Canada.

• Non-profit organizations and charities
• Indigenous Recipients
• Government
• Other (e.g., resident associations)

There are no future plans to engage with applicants and recipients on the design, delivery, and evaluation of the Program at this time.

Transportation Infrastructure Program

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 expected result is to maintain the bridge infrastructure in good condition to ensure its longevity and public safety.

There are no plans to engage with the recipient on the design and delivery at this time.

Climate Change and Clean Air Program

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.

This Program is expected to contribute to improving the intensity of greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants from the transportation sector.

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

There are no future plans to engage with applicants and recipients on the design, delivery, and evaluation of the Program at this time.

Climate Change and Clean Air Program

The Transportation Assets Risk Assessment Initiative Program provides funding for a series of measures that are designed to improve our understanding of climate-related vulnerabilities affecting federally-owned transportation assets, so that we can improve the resilience of Canada’s transportation infrastructure and systems.

We expect this Program will integrate climate considerations into federal transportation asset management decisions.

• For-profit private organizations
• Not-for-profit organizations and charities
• Academic and public institutions
• Government
• Other (e.g., federal airport and port authorities)

There are no future plans to engage with applicants and recipients on the design, delivery, and evaluation of the Program at this time.

Climate Change and Clean Air Program

The purpose of the Northern Transportation Adaptation Initiative is to provide federal support, in the form of grants or contributions, for a series of measures designed to develop and implement new innovative technologies, advance knowledge and ensure capacity-building, and enhance the resilience of existing and future northern transportation infrastructure to climate change.

The initiative is expected to:

• Improve knowledge of the impacts of climate change to transportation infrastructure;
• Understand the future costs associated with maintenance of existing infrastructure in light of climate change impacts;
• Build new science-based capacity;
• Conduct research and development on the technical challenges of adapting transportation infrastructure;
• Support research to develop and test science-based technologies that address effects of climate change across northern transportation infrastructure; and,
• Ensure the necessary information, tools and guidance are available to strengthen decision-making.

Targeted recipients include:

• For-profit organizations
• Not-for-profit organizations and charities
• Academia and public institutions
• Indigenous recipients
• Government
• Individual of sole proprietorships
• Other (e.g., transit agencies, certain port authorities)

There are no future plans to engage with applicants and recipients on the design, delivery, and evaluation of the Program at this time.

Transportation Innovation

To enable participating departments/agencies 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 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

There are no further engagement activities with applicants and recipients planned for this program at this time.

Protecting Oceans and Waterways

The Program provides federal funding to facilitate projects and activities that mitigate the impacts of navigation on the marine environment.

The Program is expected to result in maintaining or increasing participation of vessels in an expanded voluntary slowdown in the Salish Sea 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
• Government

There are no future plans to engage with applicants and recipients on the design, delivery, and evaluation of the Program at this time.