Details on Transfer Payment Programs of $5M or more

This Transfer Payment Program does not include any repayable contributions.

• building capacity in Indigenous communities and providing opportunity for co-development of initiatives to address their concerns;
• supporting long-term relationship building and meaningful two-way dialogue between Indigenous groups and the Government of Canada;
• addressing cumulative effects in the terrestrial environment; and,
• addressing interest in terrestrial studies.

Results will be measured by:

• the number of contribution agreements signed by eligible groups;
• the percentage of funding disbursed versus offered;
• the number of Indigenous groups who received funding that provided written/oral comments and /or participated in meetings with the Crown or its representatives; and,
• the number of reports, position papers and/or discussion papers generated by Indigenous groups in relation to policy dialogues.

• Indigenous communities or governments;
• Tribal Councils or entities that fulfill a similar function (e.g., general council);
• National and regional Indigenous councils, and tribal organizations;
• Indigenous (majority owned and controlled by Indigenous people) for-profit and not-for-profit organizations; and,
• Members of Indigenous groups with community knowledge, Indigenous traditional knowledge or input relevant to the policy dialogue, and with interest in the issues discussed through the policy dialogue.

• Terrestrial Studies Initiative;
• Terrestrial Cumulative Effects Initiative; and
• Participant funding for Phase IV engagement activities.

Board (Canada-Newfoundland Atlantic Accord Implementation Act)

This transfer payment program does not have any repayable contributions.

Contribution payments made under this program may be repayable or non-repayable based on program stream.

• Deployment project funding leveraged at an average of 2:3 ($81M : $121M), total from 2018-19 to 2023-24;
• Demonstration project funding leveraged at an average of 3:2 ($55M : $37M), total from 2018-19 to 2023-24;
• Bioheating project funding leveraged at an average of 4:1 ($46M : $11M) , total from 2018-19 to 2023-24;
• 10 communities newly installed or retrofitted bioheating systems (launched in 2019-20);
• Maintain 2 cooperative arrangements^{Footnote 2} on information products and expertise on energy efficiency with other federal departments (annually from 2018-19 to 2023-24); and
• Minimum of 10 energy literacy projects (launched in 2019-20).

• remote communities;
• Indigenous communities;
• remote industrial sites, regional and community development corporations, utilities;
• provinces and territories; and
• Capacity building and bioheat streams also target rural communities as well as remote communities.

The program continues to engage real and potential applicants through the Remote Energy Inbox, calls with potential applicants when requested, and engagement sessions at conferences and through other platforms, such as the Pan-Canadian Framework. (2020-21)

• Natural resource sectors are innovative
• Clean technologies and energy efficiencies enhance economic performance
• Canada’s natural resource sectors are sustainable

The program is designed to advance emerging clean technologies towards commercial readiness so that natural resource operations can better reduce their environmental impacts on air, land, and water, while enhancing competitiveness and creating jobs.

To support innovation by small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), the CGP includes the novel Science and Technology Assistance for Cleantech (STAC) initiative, which provides SMEs funded under the CGP with access to scientific and technical resources at federal research centers to help them overcome a lack of technical expertise and research infrastructure.

The program has conditionally repayable contributions for demonstration projects; R&D activities are non-repayable.

• Economic performance: cost reduction, new revenue
• Move emerging technologies closer to commercial readiness.

Expected results in 2020-21 include:

• 30% of projects involve at least one additional partner other than NRCan or project proponent
• Project funding leveraged at least 1:1

Expected longer-term results include*:

• 0.3-0.7 Mt GHG reductions per year by 2026

*Dependent on projects received, success of projects, and on-going operation capacity by 2026+.

• Legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada including: For profit and not-for-profit organizations such as electricity and gas utilities, companies, industry associations, research associations, and standards organizations; Indigenous organizations and groups; community groups; and Canadian academic institutions; and,
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies where applicable.

In order to facilitate the co-funding of projects with provincial and territorial partners, the program has developed Trusted Partnerships with key provincial and territorial stakeholders.

To increase awareness about proposal solicitations, program officials have:

• Presented at conferences, workshops and sector meetings;
• Held two webinars after program launch (approx. 1000 participants);
• Launched an interactive social media platform to encourage potential applicants to collaborate with other partners, provinces/territories, and federal research centres; and,
• Led social media campaigns and hosted stakeholder engagement webinars and calls with involvement from the provinces and territories.

Additionally, in 2017 the program established the Clean Growth Collaboration Community, an online community intended to foster collaboration among stakeholders on the innovation spectrum and to help them find the support they need to be successful.

• Natural resource sectors are innovative
• Clean technologies and energy efficiencies enhance economic performance
• Canada’s natural resource sectors are sustainable

The Clean Technology program ($75M over 4 years) stream will address areas such as climate change, clean growth, and the application of new technologies to reduce negative environmental impacts. Five Clean Tech challenges were launched in 2018-19 and a sixth in July 2019.

For each Challenge, a mix of tools (e.g. contribution agreements, grants, micro-grants) will be used, based on technical, market and environmental circumstances, in order to achieve breakthroughs in clean technology and leverage as much innovation activity as possible from a given award level.

Contribution payments made under this program are non-repayable.

• The Sky’s the Limit: A cost-effective manufacturing pathway to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel in Canada has been developed that significantly reduces GHG emissions.
• Crush It!: A breakthrough in mining technology has been developed that reduces energy use at Canadian mines by at least 20%.
• Power Forward: A Canada-UK based smart grid demonstration that is highly integrated, cleaner and more flexible than anything on the market, designed for 2030 and beyond, with ongoing Canada and UK-based smart grid applications, is being developed and commercialized in respective countries.
• Women in Cleantech: Breakthrough cleantech applications, developed by female entrepreneurs, have advanced to commercialization; spurred additional, women-lead cleantech businesses; and strengthened female leadership in the cleantech sector.
• Indigenous Off-Diesel Initiative: Up to 15 indigenous communities have completed their energy plans and begun implementation of community-scale clean energy projects, having built capacity to transition to off-diesel.
• Charging the Future: Five of Canada’s most promising battery technology innovations are being advanced to commercialization.

In the long term, the program is intended to contribute to improved environmental and economic performance in Canada’s natural resources and clean technology sectors.

Eligible recipients will include, but are not limited to, legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada or abroad such as:

• Private sector and not-for-profit organizations such as electricity and gas utilities, companies, industry associations, research associations, and standards organizations;
• Indigenous organizations and groups;
• Community groups;
• Academic institutions;
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies, where applicable;
• Unincorporated groups, societies and coalitions; and,
• Individuals.

The program engages in a range of activities to help promote the Challenges, encourage participation and provide guidance to Challenge participants, including: issuing Challenges on the PCO Impact Canada website; conducting social media campaigns; using targeted outreach; hosting webinars; and delivering workshops.

Stakeholder engagement events are planned for 2020-21 in the run-up to awarding Challenge prizes. For example, for the Crush It! Challenge, the jury will be convening in conjunction with the annual convention of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada in March 2020.

To provide financial contributions to the Government of Saskatchewan for it to undertake decommissioning activities at the Gunnar uranium mine site^{Footnote 3}

This program does not contain any repayable contributions.

Key performance measures will include but are not limited to:

• Number of targeted stakeholders reporting they have access to information through NRCan programs;^{Footnote 4} and
• Number of communities who report implementation of adaptation measures.^{Footnote 5}

• Canadian academic institutions; non-governmental organizations; industry, research, and professional associations; companies; Indigenous communities or governments; community, regional and national Indigenous organizations; and, provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies.
• International not-for-profit legal entities, including: academic institutions; industry, research, and professional associations; and non-governmental organizations.

Collaborative work planning occurs through the Adaptation Platform (a forum that brings together federal, provincial, and territorial governments, industry, communities, academia, Indigenous organizations and non-for profits), newsletters, and public outreach.

This transfer payment program has repayable contributions.

The program is not intended to subsidize projects that will generate undue profits or that may already be economical. For this reason, every contribution agreement will include a repayable contribution clause that will apply if the project receives, at some point within the 10-year payment period, substantially higher energy revenues for its production in excess of a standardized price.

In addition to the quarterly energy production provided by the Eligible Recipient for payment of the incentive, Natural Resources Canada will request that the Eligible Recipient provide a report annually at the end of each operational year showing the actual performance of the Qualifying Project including, where required, annual air emission levels.

The performance information will consist of the monthly aggregated energy production of the Qualifying Project, as well as an assessment of the resource level for that month. An analysis of the quarterly performance of the Qualifying Project will indicate reasons for poor or high performance.

The Department continues to engage with recipients to ensure compliance with the requirements of the contribution agreements.

As outlined in the Pan Canadian Framework for Clean Growth and Climate Change, coordinated and targeted green infrastructure investments to support electrification and fuel switching in the light-and heavy-duty vehicle sectors are two pillars of the framework to lower emissions from the transportation sector. These investments are required to eliminate barriers that currently impede the adoption of clean transportation choices and to spur the wide-scale deployment of low-carbon vehicles, which will enable further greenhouse gas emission reductions across the transportation sector.

This investment will support:

• The establishment of a coast-to-coast network of fast-chargers for electric vehicles (EV), natural gas refuelling stations along key freight corridors, and hydrogen refuelling in metropolitan areas, where vehicles are most likely to be deployed. These investments address consumer and commercial fleets’ concerns regarding the low availability of recharging/refuelling infrastructure investor concerns regarding the financial risk to investment. This will help to accelerate market deployment of electric and alternative fuel vehicles and fuels; and,
• The development of binational codes and standards for low-carbon vehicles and refuelling infrastructure, meeting commitments made through the Regulatory Cooperation Council.

The Electric Vehicle and Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Deployment program, along with investments made for the ZEV Infrastructure program, aims to address barriers to uptake of low-carbon vehicles in Canada. While this program focuses on a coast-to-coast network of zero-emission vehicle recharging and refuelling stations, the ZEV Infrastructure program will help meet growing charging demand by increasing the availability of localized charging opportunities where Canadians live, work and play.

This initiative will use repayable contributions (with the Government of Canada providing up to 50% of total project costs) to decrease the risk of investing in EV and alternative fuel infrastructure. These projects will be monitored for ability to repay over 10 years, following project completion.

The expected results by 2024 are the following:

• One thousand EV-charging stations along the national highway system and other identified strategic locations. Through this initiative, the objective will be for Canadians to be able to travel across Canada and the United States by having access to charging stations at optimal distances (every 65 kilometres on both sides of these routes).
• Fifteen hydrogen refuelling stations: in major metropolitan areas (e.g. Greater Toronto Area, Vancouver, and Montreal) which have been identified by vehicle manufacturers as the most likely for early deployment. This will ensure that the needed infrastructure is available as fuel cell EVs enter the market.
• Twenty-two natural gas refuelling stations along major freight routes. The objective will be to establish natural gas refuelling stations along key east-west freight corridors covering more than 80 percent of truck freight movement in Canada, as well as strategic linkages to key North American transportation corridors, including:
  • Halifax-Quebec-Windsor, and into the United States via Detroit;
  • Toronto - Winnipeg into the United States. via Grand Forks; and,
  • Edmonton – Calgary – Lower Mainland British Columbia into the United States vis Seattle

• Individuals and legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada including: electricity or gas utilities, companies, industry associations, research associations, standards organizations, Indigenous and community groups, Canadian academic institutions, and provincial, territorial, regional or municipal governments or their departments or agencies, where applicable.
• International legal entities validly incorporated or registered abroad including: companies, industry associations, research associations, standards organizations, and academic institutions.

All provincial/territorial (P/T) governments are engaged bilaterally, to better understand their own programming plans. PT governments are also consulted on each projected selected for funding in their jurisdiction.

Requests for proposals are posted online, and directly shared with over 100 stakeholders, including past program recipients. Subsequent RFPs are planned on a yearly basis.

• Natural resources sectors are innovative
• Clean technologies and energy efficiencies enhance economic performance
• Canada’s natural resources are sustainable

Key outcomes from the program are expected to address potential technical and non-technical barriers for the deployment of charging and refuelling infrastructure for EVs. Outcomes for the EVID Program include:

• Reduced cost and improved performance (e.g. speed), operational safety, and interoperability of charging stations in Canadian climatic conditions;
• Improved performance, operational safety and reliability of H2 refuelling systems for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles in Canadian climatic conditions;
• Increased knowledge of non-technical barriers and innovative approaches, leading to improved business cases.

Contribution payments made under this program are non-repayable.

Expected results in 2020-21 include:

• Project funding leveraged at an average of 1:1

Longer-term results include:

• At least one replication per technology demonstrated by 2025
• 5-8 demonstration projects, completed by 2022

The program is expected to result in real world demonstration projects of innovative zero emission vehicle (ZEV) infrastructure and/or solutions to technical challenges and other barriers for the uptake of ZEVs in numerous applications, including in the urban environment, for fleets, and for public transit.

Examples include: load management at multi-unit residential buildings and workplaces; curbside charging; charging infrastructure for autonomous vehicles; bi-directional charging with energy storage; fast-charging in a Northern community; standard development for electric bus overhead charging; and repurposing e-bus batteries for fast-charging.

The Emerging Renewable Power Program funding is conditionally repayable should the project yield a return on investment above and beyond the total project costs less the federal contribution.

• Three contribution agreements are signed and two regional assessments are completed and released publicly;
• Projects using at least three different technologies (one technology per project) are supported by the program; and,
• Two provincially-led support mechanisms (e.g. regulatory frameworks, power purchase agreements).
• Increase in the deployment of Emerging Renewable Power Projects in Canada;
• Reduce barriers to deployment of emerging renewable power projects in Canada;
• Increase in renewable technology supply chains in Canada;
• Increase in awareness and understanding of regional energy resources and impacts from emerging renewable power projects; and,
• Improved environmental performance through GHG reductions of Canadian electricity sector.

Performance Indicators:

• Number of projects installed and commissioned;
• Number of different emerging renewable technologies supported;
• Private Investment in emerging renewable power projects and downstream activities
• Provincial/ territorial support for emerging renewable projects
• 1 megatonne of GHG emissions reductions attributable to emerging renewable energy sources

• Legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada, including for profit and not-for-profit organizations, system operators and transmission owners and operators, local distribution companies, industry associations, research associations, regional, and community development corporations.
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments, and their departments and agencies, where applicable. Indigenous communities, councils or governments and Indigenous for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.

• Clean technologies and energy efficiencies enhance economic performance
• Natural resources sectors are innovative
• Canada’s natural resources are sustainable

• Energy Efficiency
• Energy Innovation

• increase the energy efficiency of consumer and commercial products
• enhance commercial, institutional and residential building sector performance
• encourage the implementation of cleaner and more energy efficient technologies and practices in the industrial sector
• support low carbon options for the on-road transportation sector.

Contribution payments made under this program are non-repayable.

This will be measured through the total annual energy savings in petajoules (PJ) resulting from the adoption of energy efficiency codes, standards and practices.

Expected results in 2021: 600 PJ in total annual energy savings by 2030.

• Electricity and gas utilities, companies, industry associations, research associations, standards organizations, indigenous and community groups, Canadian academic institutions; and,
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies, where applicable.

International legal entities validly incorporated or registered abroad, including for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, such as:

• Industry associations;
• Research associations;
• Standards organizations; and,
• Academic institutions.

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients include:

• hosting workshops and webinars
• undertaking targeted outreach and engagement, including engagement sessions and award recognition nominations
• knowledge and capacity-building activities such as case studies.

The Office of Energy Efficiency is also supporting experimentation and the use of new policy instruments and approaches to drive residential energy efficiency.

Energy Efficient Buildings Research Development & Demonstration Program:

The program has conducted extensive engagement with industry, associations, provinces and territories, and research and policy groups to help inform the scope of calls for proposals. In 2017-18, requests for project proposals were solicited from a broad range of eligible recipients including industry, academia and consortia via open, advertised proposal calls as well as non-advertised direct requests for proposals in order to allocate the first envelope of funding ($18M).

Other calls for proposals are planned for every two years until the remaining program funds are fully allocated. The second call will take place in March 2020.

In 2019-20, the program commissioned four consultation contracts that each conducted extensive interviews with a broad range of stakeholders to identify the latest barriers to the implementation of high-efficiency and net-zero energy building technologies, in order to help best direct future calls for proposals.

• Natural resources sectors are innovative
• Clean technologies and energy efficiency enhance economic performance
• Canada’s natural resources are sustainable

The EIP includes, among other initiatives, the following recent calls:

• Breakthrough Energy Solutions Canada (BESC), launched in 2019 – a joint initiative of NRCan; Breakthrough Energy, led by Bill Gates and influential global investors; and the Business Development Bank of Canada. BESC will provide up to $40 million to help Canadian firms develop and commercialize clean energy technologies with potential for significant greenhouse gas emissions reductions (0.5GT/year globally).
• The Canadian Emissions Reduction Innovation Network (CERIN), a collaboration between NRCan and Alberta Innovates to support the innovation needed to bring clean tech to market in order to help the oil and gas industry meet emission regulations in a cost-effective way, notably by funding technology testing infrastructure at key research and industry facilities in Alberta and nationally.

The EIP uses conditionally repayable contributions for demonstration projects; R&D and RSA projects are non-repayable.

Expected results in 2020-21 include:

• Average of at least one partner other than NRCan or the proponent per project
• Project funding leveraged at least 1:1

Expected longer-term results include:

• Average technology readiness level advanced by one level by project completion
• At least 5% of projects will produce an IP product and/or will have an impact on revised codes, standards and regulations
• 4.25 Mt GHGs direct reductions per year by 2030

• Legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada including: for-profit and not-for-profit organizations such as electricity and gas utilities, companies, industry associations, research associations, and standards organizations; Indigenous organizations and groups; community groups; and Canadian academic institutions; and,
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies, where applicable.

• Presented at conferences, workshops and sector meetings;
• Held two webinars after program launch (approx. 1000 participants);
• Launched an interactive online platform, the Clean Growth Collaboration Community, to share information and encourage potential applicants to connect with other partners; and,
• Led social media campaigns and hosted stakeholder engagement webinars and calls with involvement from the provinces and territories.

A BESC Forum was held in January 2020, to highlight finalists and allow them to pitch their solutions.

The GCWood Program supports Canada’s transition to a more wood-inclusive construction industry by funding projects that encourage:

• Greater adoption and commercialization of wood-based products in the construction of innovative tall wood buildings, timber bridges, and low-rise non-residential wood buildings;
• Replication of demonstrated innovative non-traditional wood-based buildings and timber bridges; and,
• Research that addresses the gap in technical information needed to facilitate revisions to the 2020 and 2025 National Building Code of Canada (NBCC) to allow tall wood buildings beyond the current 6 storey limit.

The Program provides non-repayable contributions of up to 100% of a project’s eligible incremental costs for the demonstration of innovative engineered wood products and systems. The funding is intended to offset the cost of being the “first mover” of wood-intensive projects, and to fund the development of knowledge and tools to support the success of future projects.

• Regulatory agencies and specifiers (engineers, designers and architects) have the information they need to determine product, performance and environmental credentials;
• Architects, engineers, and builders have the information and tools necessary to pursue wood-based building projects; and
• Regulatory acceptance/recognition of Canadian wood products and building systems in building codes, standards, and policies.

• For-profit and not-for-profit companies registered in Canada;
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies.

Eligible recipients and the target audience for education and code-related initiatives are:

• Forest product associations (engaged in forest product promotion)
• Provinces, provincial Crown corporations; and
• Not-for-profit organizations engaged in forest product research.

Program applicants are supported through the establishment of a dedicated program website, which includes access to program guides, eligibility requirements, and project announcements, as well as program administration contact details (nrcan.gcwood-cvbois.rncan@canada.ca).

GCWood issues a public Call for Expressions of Interest for each aspect of the demonstration component (tall wood, low-rise non-residential, and bridges) which is promoted through the NRCan website and social media, as well as through partner organizations across the country.

Selected program recipients are further engaged through regular contact with program administrators to monitor project progress and report against the set objectives.

Recipients also have access to regional communications working groups established by GCWood to support project promotion and dissemination of information.

• Enhance their capacity to participate in the Indigenous Advisory and Monitoring Committees;
• Pursue other Committee objectives including those supporting their mandate to provide advice to regulators on environmental, safety, and socio-economic issues related to the performance of the projects and compliance with conditions; and
• Address other environmental concerns related to the broader pipeline corridor over the full lifecycle of development.

This transfer payment program has non-repayable contributions.

The expected result is evaluated by monitoring and reporting on the “% of priorities or issues identified by the Committees or Indigenous communities impacted by the Trans Mountain Expansion Project or Line 3 Replacement Program that are being (or have been) addressed through Committee or related federal actions or investments.”

The target result is 80% for this performance indicator.

• Indigenous communities or governments;
• Tribal Councils or entities that fulfill a similar function (e.g. general council);
• National, provincial, regional, and local Indigenous organizations;
• Indigenous validly incorporated or registered for-profit and not-for-profit organizations and corporations;
• Where fully endorsed by an Indigenous partner organization or community:
  • Provincial, territorial, municipal, and regional governments;
  • Academic institutions and research associations working with an Indigenous partner organization; and,
  • Non-Indigenous validly incorporated or registered not-for-profit organizations.

The Program will fund innovative projects that are using transformative technologies at the pilot and commercial scales that direct wood fibre and by-products from wood processing into higher value usages which:

• Increase the total revenues available from a log;
• Diversify product lines for the forest industry, stabilizing economic performance; and,
• Produce renewable energy and other products that are beneficial to the environment.

By providing funding to Canadian forest firms for capital investments in bioenergy and bio-product industrial processes to advance these technologies towards full, commercial-scale implementation, this Program will broaden and build upon previous investments in forest sector transformation.

This transfer payment program does not have any repayable contributions.

• Produce forest products; and,
• Have or will have existing forest product manufacturing facilities (for example, pulp, paper or panel mills) located in Canada.

(Canada-Newfoundland Atlantic Accord Implementation Act)

This transfer payment program does not have any repayable contributions.

The amount of money transferred to Newfoundland and Labrador is subject to change based on factors such as offshore oil production levels, crude oil prices, currency exchange rates, and the timing of oil sales.

• Natural resource sectors are innovative
• Clean technologies and energy efficiencies enhance economic performance
• Canada’s natural resource sectors are sustainable

• Energy Innovation Program
• Electricity Resources

The program will accelerate the transition to a clean growth economy by:

• Better utilizing the existing capacity of electricity assets;
• Increasing the penetration of renewable generation; and,
• Increasing the reliability, resiliency, and flexibility of the power system while maintaining security of the systems.

This transfer payment program is repayable as follows:

• Demonstration: Repayable, if the demonstration leads to a profit within five years following the end of the project. The requirements for reporting profits are detailed in the contribution agreement, along with the process for repayment.
• Deployment: Repayable, if the deployment leads to a profit within five years following the project commissioning. The requirements for reporting profits are detailed in the contribution agreement, along with the process for repayment.

• Ratio of project investments made by stakeholders to deployment project funding from the program leveraged at a minimum of 1:3.
• Ratio of project investments made by stakeholders to demonstration project funding from the program leveraged at a minimum of 1:1.

Longer-term expected result by 2030:

• GHG emission reductions of 0.9 megatonnes (Mt) through a clean, smart electricity grid

• For-profit and not-for-profit organizations such as electricity and gas utilities, system operators and transmission owners and operators (including provincial crown corporations, agencies, co-ops and municipally-owned) and, local distribution companies;
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments, and their departments and agencies; and,
• Indigenous (majority owned and controlled by Indigenous people), for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.

The Program launched on January 15, 2018, and the Request For Proposal process closed on March 4, 2018. NRCan received eighty-six proposals, 74 of which were deemed eligible.

NRCan organized a Smart Grid Symposium in October 2019 in partnership with two electricity associations: Smart Grid Canada and the Canadian Electricity Association. The event profiled the 16 announced program recipients and their projects with posters, a Program brochure and presentations during the event. The event attracted 117 stakeholders, 30% of which were recipients from the Program or their project partners. The panels and presentations yielded a wealth of feedback to the program and information that will guide the stakeholder engagement strategy going forward.

The Phase II program includes a suite of integrated research activities and operational insecticide applications to validate the EIS’s scientific foundation, enhance its efficacy for any emerging outbreaks of SBW, and protect the region’s forests.

Through the Forest Pest Risk Management Program, the initiative will contribute to the Departmental Result “Canadians have access to cutting-edge research to inform decisions on the management of natural resources” by implementing and validating a novel forest pest management approach supported by science knowledge and tools to address a forest pest issues that could have significant negative impacts on Canadian forest values and resources.

This approach will be available to forest managers across Canada for application to any impeding outbreaks of SBW in order to mitigate risks to forest resources or other related values.

The Program is based on a 60:40 federal to provincial and industry cost-sharing requirement. There are no repayable contributions.

• Effective annual treatment of Atlantic Canada’s forest at risk of a spruce budworm outbreak

Performance indicator: Percentage of forest areas eligible for treatment where spruce budworm population remain below outbreak threshold

• Access to scientific knowledge, surveillance solutions, and response solutions pertaining to spruce budworm outbreaks and the Early Intervention Strategy

Performance indicator: Number of advisory committees and boards involving the sharing of knowledge and information on forest pests and related risks to governments, industry, and non-governmental organizations

• Forest Protection Limited
• Universities
• Not-for-profit research institutions

Federal investments in the Electric Vehicle and Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Deployment initiative are supporting the establishment of a coast-to-coast network of fast-chargers (Level 3) along the national highway systems, natural gas refuelling stations along key freight corridors and hydrogen refuelling stations in major metropolitan areas. Building upon this, the ZEV Infrastructure program’s main focus is to target market segments not previously addressed through federal investments giving Canadians access to EV charging infrastructure where they live, work and play.

The ZEV Infrastructure Program supports the deployment of new zero-emission vehicle recharging (e.g. Level 2) and refuelling stations in public places, on-street, multi-unit residential buildings, workplace, as well as strategic infrastructure projects for mass transit, urban delivery, and fleet applications.

The initiative uses repayable contributions (with the Government of Canada providing up to 50% of total project costs) to decrease the risk of investing in EV and alternative fuel infrastructure. These projects will be monitored for ability to repay over 10 years, following project completion.

The program has notional targets of 20,000 chargers, installed in target locations by March 31, 2024. However, the actual number, type and location of charger supported depends on the proposals received and the strength of business cases.

Key performance measures include:

• Program partners, participants or survey respondents demonstrating or reporting increased capacity to supply or use lower carbon transportation options as a result of program outputs (Indicator - proportion of applicants for funding that fulfilled the mandatory criteria)
• Program partners, participants or survey respondents reporting or demonstrating actions taken to supply or use lower carbon transportation options (Indicator - number of recharging and refueling stations planned, under development and completed by recharging/ refueling stations project proponents along key coast-to-coast transportation corridors, by fuel type); and
• Increased supply and demand for lower carbon transportation options in Canada as reported by program partners, participants, survey respondents, or as measured through economic studies or reports (Indicator - amount of electricity, natural gas and hydrogen dispensed through the supported recharging/refueling infrastructure stations).

• Individuals and legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada including: electricity or gas utilities, companies, industry associations, Indigenous and community groups, Canadian academic institutions, and provincial, territorial, regional or municipal governments or their departments or agencies, where applicable.
• International legal entities validly incorporated or registered abroad including: companies, industry associations, and academic institutions.

All provincial/territorial (P/T) governments are engaged bilaterally to better understand their own programming plans. PT governments are also consulted on each project selected for funding in their jurisdiction.

The Program also works closely with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities to engage municipal governments.