Supplementary Estimates A 2019-2020 briefing materials prepared for the Honourable Marc Garneau, Minister of Transport, for his appearance before the Committee of the Whole on December 9, 2019.
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Hot issues
- Climate change
- Greenhouse gas emissions trends and projections in Canada
- Meeting Canada's 2030 greenhouse gas (GHG) target
- Will the government be announcing a new climate change target?
- How will you meet the Net-Zero target?
- International climate change action
- International climate change leadership
- The 25th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Pricing carbon pollution
- Alberta pricing system for industrial sectors meets federal benchmark
- Carbon pollution pricing—Ontario and New Brunswick
- Efforts to achieve Canada's national and international (Aichi) biodiversity targets
- Canada's Nature Legacy: Canada Nature Fund
- Canadian action on plastics
- Impact of carbon pricing on grain-drying by farmers
- Volkswagen (December 9th charges)
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Hot issues
- Marine conservation
- Funding to strengthen environmental protections and address concerns raised by Indigenous groups regarding the Trans Mountain Expansion Project
- Northern Pulp Nova Scotia’s Proposed Effluent Pipe in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
- Oceans Protection Plan
Supplementary Estimates A
- Funding to advance reconciliation on Aboriginal rights and fisheries issues with Atlantic and British Columbia First Nations, and the Labrador Innu
- Funding for the Canadian Coast Guard’s fleet recapitalization projects
- Funding to strengthen environmental protections and address concerns raised by Indigenous groups regarding the Trans Mountain Expansion Project
- Funding to acquire an Offshore Fisheries Science Vessel
- Funding to meet international commitments under the Pacific Salmon Treaty
- Funding to implement a framework for Canadian Leadership on International Oceans
- Funding to implement the fish stocks provisions in the Fisheries Act (Fall Economic Statement 2018)
- Funding to develop the next generation of Coast Guard vessels
- Funding to protect the Southern Resident Killer Whale
- Funding for the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker project
- Funding for an Inuit Impact and Benefit Agreement (This item received funding from Treasury Board Vote 5 - Government Contingencies)
- Funding for fiscal financing agreements related to comprehensive land claims and self-government agreements
- Funding to reduce plastic pollution
Global Affairs Canada
Hot issues
- Canada-China Relations
- Canada-US Relations
- United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Campaign
- Saudi Arabia
- Export Permits
- Havana Syndrome
- US-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) relations
- Palestinian self-determination vote at the UN
- United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA)
- Official development assistance levels
- Canada’s sanctions regime
- Softwood lumber
- Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise
- World Trade Organization
- Physical Security at Missions Abroad (Duty of Care)
- Women, Peace and Security Ambassador
- Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA)
- China – Consular Cases (two Michaels)
- China – Meng Wangzhou
- China - Uyghurs
- China - Market Access (meat, canola, etc.)
- Hong Kong Political Unrest
- Canada-India bilateral relations
- Rohingya – Canada’s humanitarian response
- Burkina Faso – Canada’s humanitarian response
- Syrian crisis and peace talks
- Israel settlements
- Jerusalem
- Violence in Gaza
- Iran/ Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)
- Yemen
- Venezuela
- Brexit
- Russia/Ukraine (including Operation UNIFIER)
- China – Huseyincan Celil
- Arctic sovereignty – general
- Global Affairs Canada – High level messages
Supplementary Estimates A
- Funding to help developing countries address the impact of climate change
- Funding for the International Assistance Envelope Crisis Pool Quick Release Mechanism
- Funding to implement the Feminist International Assistance Agenda
- Funding for Canada’s participation in Expo 2020 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Funding to support Operation IMPACT through the Middle East Strategy
- Funding for the International Education Strategy
- Funding for the corporate social responsibility strategy for Canadian businesses operating abroad
- Funding for the construction of Canada’s High Commission in Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Administrations of new free trade agreement measures and steel safeguards (no funding has been brought into the department yet)
- Vote 35: Protecting Canada’s national security ($1.0M)
- Vote 40: Protecting democracy ($0.7M)
- Vote 45: Renewing Canada’s Middle East Strategy ($249.7M)
- Vote 50: Enhancing Canada’s global Arctic leadership (no funding has been brought into the department – planned for Spring 2020)
- Funding for the Export Diversification Strategy ($31.3M)
- Funding for the modernization of the Program and Administrative Services (PA) Group ($0.2M)
- Funding for water management studies in shared Canada and U.S. water basins ($0.9M)
Impact Assessment Agency of Canada
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Hot issues
- Asylum claimants – provinces and housing
- Asylum seekers
- Safe third country agreement – litigation case
- Pre-removal risk assessment for asylum claimants who have made a claim in another country
- Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) / International Mobility Program (IMP)
- Immigration and citizenship consultants
- Visa refusals – Neurips and black in AI conference
- Caregiver immigration
- Parents and grandparents program
- Citizenship – birth on soil
- Cases – general
- International students – temporary streams
Supplementary Estimates A
Natural Resources Canada
- Hot issue: Trans Mountain Expansion project
- Hot issue: Trans Mountain Expansion indigenous consultations and accommodations
- Hot issue: funding to address indigenous priorities regarding the Trans Mountain Expansion project
- Hot issue: Trans Mountain Expansion project
- Hot issue: Pipeline infrastructure
- Hot issue: Clean energy and clean growth
- Hot issue: Canada’s energy advantage
- Hot issue: Transforming petroleum sector key facts
Parks Canada
- Hot issues: Expanding Parks Canada’s network of protected areas
- Hot issues: Recovery of Prince Edward Island National Park Following Hurricane Dorian
- Hot issues: Ontario waterways flooding
- Hot issues: Learn-to Camp
- Hot issues: Parks Canada Infrastructure investments
- Hot issues: Waterways Infrastructure
Supplementary Estimates A
- Item 1: Description of items to be included in the 2019-2020 Supplementary Estimates A, Annex A
- Item 2: Description of items to be included in the 2019-2020 Supplementary Estimates A, Annex A
- Item 3: Description of items to be included in the 2019-2020 Supplementary Estimates A, Annex A
- Item 4: Description of items to be included in the 2019-2020 Supplementary Estimates A, Annex A
- Item 5: Description of items to be included in the 2019-2020 Supplementary Estimates A, Annex A
- Item 6: Description of items to be included in the 2019-2020 Supplementary Estimates A, Annex A
- Item 7: Description of items to be included in the 2019-2020 Supplementary Estimates A, Annex A
Transport Canada
Hot issues
- Hot issue: Boeing 737 MAX 8
- Hot issue: Canadian Air Transport Security Authority Commercialization
- Hot issue: Current Rail Safety Oversight in the Lac-Mégantic Area
- Hot issue: Lac-Mégantic rail bypass project next steps
- Hot issue: National Trade Corridors Fund
- Hot issue: School bus safety
- Hot issue: Screening at non-designated airports
- Hot issue: VIA Rail's high frequency rail project
- Hot issue: Winter tires
- Hot issue: Zero-Emission Vehicles
- Hot issue: Procurement of new passenger ferries
- Hot issue: Aerodrome Saint-Roch-De-L’Achigan
- Hot issue: Vehicle fires – Hyundai
- Hot issue: Canadian Pacific Railway - Derailment
- Funding for the zero-emission vehicles program
- Funding for the green and innovative transportation system to address indigenous priorities in marine safety regarding the trans mountain expansion project
Supplementary Estimates A
- Rail safety improvement program
- Road safety transfer payment program
- Ferry services contribution program
- Airports capital assistance program
- Funding to protect the southern resident killer whale
- Passenger protect program
- Support to the northern transportation adaptation initiative
- Funding to implement an Inuit Impact and benefit agreement
- Program to advance transportation innovation
- Clean transportation initiative
- Transfer from Canadian Air Transport Security Authority to the Department of Transport to improve service to air travellers
- Funding for the Hold-baggage Screening integration projects and the Explosive Detection System (reprofile)
- Funding for fleet renewal at Marine Atlantic