Disclosure of transfer payment programs under $5 million

Grant for the Northern Transportation Adaptation Initiative (voted)

Contribution for the Northern Transportation Adaptation Initiative (voted)

March 31, 2016

Grant and Contribution

Strategic Outcome 1: An efficient transportation system

Program 1.1  Transportation Marketplace Framework

Sub-program: 1.1.5  Transportation Analysis and Innovation

To provide federal support to develop and implement new innovative technologies, advance knowledge, ensure capacity building, and enhance the resilience of existing and future northern transportation infrastructure to climate change. This will mitigate future maintenance costs and losses in economic productivity by maintaining the efficiency of the northern transportation system. It will also improve the resilience, responsiveness and adaptability of the system by incorporating climate change considerations into infrastructure design and maintenance activities and operations.

$200,000 (grant)

$645,000 (contribution)

2014–15

Provinces and territories (including territorially-owned transportation entities)

Municipalities and local organizations (including municipally-owned transportation entities)

Non-profit organizations

Other - Aboriginal recipients and organizations

Grant to close grade crossings (voted)

Ongoing

Grant

Strategic Outcome 3:  A safe and secure transportation system

Program 3.3:  Rail Safety

Sub-program 3.3.3:  Rail Safety Awareness and Grade Crossing Improvement

To encourage closing grade crossings on federally regulated railway lines where a safety hazard exists or to divert users to a nearby crossing that is safer. The crossing must be on a line of a federally regulated railway and must have been in existence for at least three years.

$300,000

2013–14

Persons

Municipalities and local organizations (road authorities)

Other - private parties, as defined in Section 4 of the Railway Safety Act

Grant to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for Cooperative Development of Operational Safety and Continuing Airworthiness program (COSCAP) (voted)

Ongoing

Grant

Strategic Outcome 3:  A safe and secure transportation system

Program 3.1:  Aviation Safety

Sub-program 3.1.1:  Aviation Safety Regulatory Framework

To enhance the safety of air transport operations in parts of the world that require assistance. Projects under the International Civil Aviation Organization’s Co-operative and Development of Operational Safety and Continuing Airworthiness program involve cooperative agreements between defined groups of states with the goal of establishing a self-sustaining safety oversight system within those states.

$130,000

2010–11

International organizations and foreign countries
(International Civil Aviation Organization)

Road Safety Transfer Payment program (voted)

Ongoing

Contribution

Strategic Outcome 3:  A safe and secure transportation system

Program 3.4:  Motor Vehicle Safety

Sub-program 3.4.3:  Motor Carrier Safety

The purpose of the Road Safety Transfer Payment program is to provide federal co-funding in the form of contributions to the provinces, territories and the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators to help establish a national regulatory framework for motor carrier safety.

$4,442,681

2014–15

Provinces and territories

Non-profit organizations (Canadian Council of Motor Transport

Administrators)

Airports Operations and Maintenance Subsidy program (voted)

Ongoing

Contribution

Strategic Outcome 1: An efficient transport system

Program 1.3:  Transportation Infrastructure

Sub-program 1.3.1:  Airport Infrastructure

Sub-sub-program 1.3.1.3:  Small Aerodrome Support

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

$1,600,000

2014–15

Provinces and territories (Natashquan, Quebec; Chevery, Quebec; Schefferville, Quebec; and Kuujjuaq, Quebec)

Labrador Coastal Airstrips Restoration program (voted)

Ongoing

Contribution

Strategic Outcome 1: An efficient transport system

Program 1.3:  Transportation Infrastructure

Sub-program 1.3.1:  Airport Infrastructure

Sub-sub-program 1.3.1.3:  Small Aerodrome Support

The program fulfills the Government of Canada’s commitment under the 1982 Labrador Air/Marine Services Agreement with the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador to restore the airstrips along the Labrador coast to ensure that the operational capability of the airstrips is maintained at the level necessary to meet Transport Canada’s airport certification requirements.

$1,000,000

2007–08

Provinces and territories (Province of Newfoundland and Labrador)

Contribution in Support of Boating Safety (voted)

Ongoing

Contribution

Strategic Outcome 3: A safe and secure transportation system

Program 3.2:  Marine Safety

Sub-program 3.2.2:  Marine Safety Oversight

The goal of the Boating Safety Contribution program is to promote boating safety awareness and advance boating safety practices through education and outreach. 

$1,000,000

2014–15

Provinces and territories, municipalities and local organizations (public safety organizations and enforcement services)

Non-profit organizations (educational and healthcare institutions)

Other - entities with facilities specializing in safety and medical research

Allowances to former employees of Newfoundland Railways, Steamships and Telecommunications Services transferred to Canadian National Railway (voted)

Ongoing

Contribution

Strategic Outcome 1: An efficient transportation system

Program 1.3: Transportation Infrastructure

Sub-program 1.3.3:  Surface and Multimodal Infrastructure

Sub-sub-program 1.3.3.1:  Rail Passenger Stewardship and Support

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 for the transferred employees.

$484,000

Not applicable

Persons (former employees of Newfoundland Railways, Steamships and Telecommunications Services [or their beneficiaries] who transferred to Canadian National Railway)

Transportation Association of Canada (voted)

Ongoing

Contribution

Strategic Outcome 1:  An efficient transportation system

Program 1.3:  Transportation Infrastructure

Sub-program 1.3.3:  Surface and Multimodal Infrastructure

Sub-sub-program1.3.3.3:  Highway and Other Transportation Infrastructure Support

To contribute to improved roads, safety, environmental protection and a more efficient transportation system by identifying common interests; developing and harmonizing best practices among jurisdictions; and enhancing the knowledge base. This will result in better decisions and policies.

$419,000

2012–13

Non-profit organizations (Transportation Association of Canada)

Contributions to the Railway Association of Canada for Operation Lifesaver (voted)

Ongoing

Contribution

Strategic Outcome 3:  A safe and secure transportation system

Program 3.3:  Rail Safety

Sub-program 3.3.3:  Rail Safety Awareness and Grade Crossing Improvement

The goal of the Operation Lifesaver contribution program is to promote railway safety in Canada through education and awareness activities focused on railway crossings and trespassing on railway properties.

$300,000

2013–14

Non-profit organization (Operation Lifesaver Canada)

Payments to other governments or international agencies for the operation and maintenance of airports, air navigation and airways facilities (voted)

Ongoing

Contribution

Strategic Outcome 3: A safe and secure transportation system

Program 3.1:  Aviation Safety

Sub-program 3.1.1:  Aviation Safety Regulatory Framework

To enhance 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.

$100,000

2010–11

International organizations and foreign countries
(International Civil Aviation Organization)

Canadian Transportation Research Forum’s Scholarship program (voted)

Ongoing

Contribution

Strategic Outcome 1: An efficient transportation system

Program 1.1: Transportation Marketplace Framework

Sub-program 1.1.5:  Transportation Analysis and Innovation

The purpose of this contribution program is to provide 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 in the transportation sector.

$24,000

Not applicable

Non-profit organizations (Canadian Transportation Research Forum)

Oshawa Harbour Port Consolidation Project (voted)

March 31, 2016

Contribution

Strategic Outcome 1:  An efficient transportation system

Program 1.3: Transportation Infrastructure

Sub-program 1.3.2:  Marine Infrastructure

Sub-sub-program 1.3.2.1:  Canada Port Authority Stewardship

The contribution to the Oshawa Port Authority is part of the settlement agreement between the City of Oshawa and the Crown. The funding is being used to transfer more industrial activities at the Port of Oshawa from the west wharf to the east wharf and to cover fencing and landscaping costs. The contribution is being made to the Oshawa Port Authority because it is the most appropriate entity to oversee and manage construction on Oshawa Harbour Crown lands, since the commission already administers and manages the Crown’s port lands.

970

Not applicable

Industry-related (The Oshawa Harbour Commissionand its successor, the Oshawa Port Authority, which are for-profit organizations).

Community Participation Funding Program (voted)

March 31, 2017

Grant

Strategic Outcome 2:  A clean transportation system

Program 2.2: Clean Water from Transportation

The overall objective of this pilot program is support a World-Class Tanker Safety System by providing Aboriginal groups and local communities with an opportunity to contribute to the development of local area response plans to mitigate the consequences of marine oil spills that may affect their communities; and assisting in identifying, preventing or mitigating potential adverse environmental effects of a marine oil spill affecting the local areas by contributing local and Aboriginal knowledge.

$800,000

Not applicable

Non-profit organizations or individuals representing local communities; and Aboriginal groups or their representatives

Contribution Program for the Centre of Excellence for the Marine Transportation of Oil and Liquefied Natural Gas (voted)

March 31, 2016

Contribution

Strategic Outcome 2:  A clean transportation system

Program 2.2: Clean Water from Transportation

The objective of this program is to contribute funding to the Centre of Excellence to support its establishment as a leading, independent source of information and best practices for the marine transportation of oil and liquefied natural gas commodities, and to promote and facilitate research that delivers the highest standards for the safe and sustainable shipping of Canada’s oil and liquefied natural gas.

$3,700,000

Not applicable

Centre of Excellence for Marine Transportation of Oil and Liquefied Natural Gas Commodities in Canada Society

Payments to the Canadian National (CN) Railway Company following the termination of  toll collection on the Victoria Bridge, Montreal, and for rehabilitation work on the roadway portion of the bridge (statutory)

Ongoing

Legislative

Strategic Outcome 1:  An efficient transportation system

Program 1.3: Transportation Infrastructure

Sub-program 1.3.3:  Surface and Multimodal Infrastructure

Sub-sub-program 1.3.3.2:  Federal Bridge Stewardship

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 agreement has not affected, in any way, CN’s right of ownership of the bridge and the roadway facilities, nor has it affected CN’s power to regulate and control the vehicular traffic allowed to use the bridge. Since the effective date of the agreement, CN has continued to make the roadway facilities on the bridge available for public use in return for compensation received from Transport Canada towards the operation, maintenance and repairs of the roadway portion of the bridge and the approaches.

$3,300,000

Not applicable

Industry-related (Canadian National Railway)