Details on transfer payment programs with total planned spending of less than $5 million

• NRCan users have access to the Outreach and Engagement Terms and Conditions;
• Activities that support NRCan strategic objectives, which would have been unrealized otherwise, are enabled.

• % of users reporting accessibility to the Outreach and Engagement Terms and Conditions;
• % of users reporting that this mechanism met their need.

• Canadian and international, for profit and non-profit organizations;
• Canadian and international universities and academic institutions;
• Indigenous groups (individual or a collective representing more than one Indigenous group); and,
• Foreign, provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments.

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

• Forest Sector Competitiveness

• Support the scale up of Canadian small businesses through early-stage, pre-commercial R&D.
• Develop a domestic market for early-stage, pre-commercial innovations
• 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.
• Fund the development and commercialization of new technology to address specific problems identified by the funding department.
• Foster greater industry-research collaboration through the release of challenges for solutions that address key Government of Canada priorities.
• This TPP does not include repayable contributions.
   

• Bioplastics: Improved biodegradability of bio-based plastics derived from agricultural or wood-based biomass suitable for use as replacements for single use plastics (e.g. packaging).
• Biofoams: Improved environmental impact and recyclability of insulation products derived from forest residue, suitable for use as replacements for petroleum-based spray and rigid form board insulation.

• Generation of new Intellectual Property
• Research collaborations to improve innovation procurement from small businesses
• Small businesses attract venture/patient capital
• Commercialization of early stage R&D/Technology Readiness Levels by small businesses
• Employment of highly skilled workers in the Canadian innovation ecosystem
• Small businesses grow in the Canadian innovation ecosystem

• Number of new products, processes and services developed as a result of the ISC program
• Number of participating firms achieving high growth
• Value of goods and services commercialized following a contract with the government

• Indigenous groups 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.

• Manitoba-Minnesota Transmission Project Terrestrial Cultural Studies Initiative
• NGTL 2021
• NGTL Edson
• NGTL North Corridor
   

• Support all levels of government on the development and application of wildfire risk assessments;
• Inform community and/or regional planning processes and/or mitigation and emergency management; and,
• Develop and implement a strong national presence and resilient communities in the face of rising natural disaster risks in Canada.

• Provide federal science leadership for the collaborative implementation of the Canadian Wildland Fire Strategy^{Footnote 2}, enabling research related to national wildfire risk assessment and analysis to provide information that is grounded in science, which makes strengthened decision-making possible.
• Enhance whole-of-society collaboration and governance to strengthen resilience
• Improve understanding of disaster risks in all sectors of society
  

• Funds are administered by NSERC
• Canadian member academic institutions of the Canada Wildfire NSERC Strategic Network

• Encourage and accelerate innovation in the natural resources sectors;
• Assist in the protection of our natural resources, encourage and develop new and more efficient techniques and technology for sustainable development of our natural resources;
• Provide for a better understanding and knowledge of our natural resources.

• NRCan users have access to the Small Scale Research Terms and Conditions;
• Activities that support NRCan strategic objectives, which would have been unrealized otherwise, are enabled.

• % of users reporting accessibility to the Small Scale Research Terms and Conditions;
• % of users reporting that this mechanism met their need.

• Individuals, Canadian and international for profit and non-profit organizations, Canadian and international universities and academic institutions, co-operatives, Indigenous groups (individual or a collective representing more than one Indigenous group); and,
• Foreign, provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies where applicable.

• increase awareness of the benefits of using geospatial data and tools to achieve goals for social, economic and environmental priorities;
• keep Canada at the leading edge of accessing, sharing and using geospatial information via the Internet;
• support the integration and use of geospatial data to support effective decision making; and/or
• coordinate the development of national policies, standards and mechanisms and support their implementation to ensure maintenance and updating of geospatial data and compatibility with global standards.

• Number of project proposals received from targeted recipients.
• Number of proponents and collaborators related to innovative geospatial project solutions.
• Number of new information, products, services or functions developed, by type of innovative adoption or advanced technologies of the CGDI.

• Individuals;
• Canadian or international profit and non-profit organizations;
• international governments, corporations, industry and their associations;
• research associations and academic institutions;
• Provincial, territorial, regional, municipal and rural government departments, agencies and some Crown Corporations whose objectives contribute to those of the GeoConnections Program.

• Provide research opportunities in the Natural Science and Engineering (NSE) to highly qualified individuals, particularly in the research and areas of relevance to the CFS;
• Address the diversity gap in the forest sector with research and training opportunities;
• Encourage postgraduate studies in the fields of forestry.

• 90% of updates to existing codes and standards are favourable or neutral to Canada’s forest sector
• 90% of relevant new codes and standards are favourable or neutral to Canada’s forest sector
• At least two short success stories of reduced costs and/or improved efficiency
• At least two examples of improved environmental performance resulting from the project
• At least one example of improved workplace health and safety resulting from the project.

• Indigenous communities are increasingly aware of natural resource development opportunities;
• Indigenous communities have increased capacity to understand and participate in natural resource opportunities; and
• Increased engagement between Indigenous communities and natural resource development stakeholders.

• Number of Indigenous led business start-ups or expansions funded by the IFI that are fully capitalized, in construction, and/or are operational.
• Number of collaborative activities/events with other governmental or non-governmental organizations.
• Number of milestones (tasks) met that advance Indigenous participation in natural resource development opportunities.
• Number of Gender and Diversity Work Plans that support workforce diversity in the forest sector.
  • Number of proposals received from Indigenous communities and entrepreneurs for IFI.
  • Percentage of recipients providing workforce statists that support tracking of workforce diversity.

• Indigenous communities or governments (including Indian Act bands, self-governing First Nations, Métis Community Organizations, modern treaty implementation organizations including economic development corporations constituted under a modern treaty, etc.);
• Tribal Councils or entities that fulfill a similar function (e.g., general council);
• Provincial, territorial, municipal and regional governments working with or on behalf of one or more endorsing Indigenous partner organization(s) to facilitate Indigenous economic development;
• National and regional Indigenous organizations;
• Academic institutions and research associations working with an Indigenous partner organization to facilitate Indigenous economic development;
• Indigenous (50% or greater ownership by Indigenous people): for-profit and not-for-profit corporations, businesses, joint ventures, partnerships, associations, co-operatives and institutions; and
• Non-Indigenous not-for-profit entities, such as corporations, joint ventures, partnerships, associations, co-operatives and institutions, who are working with or on behalf of one or more endorsing Indigenous partner organization(s) to facilitate Indigenous economic development.

• Regional Liaison Officers in five Canadian Forestry Service regions are boots on the ground and engage with potential applicants at conferences, visit communities and network with other government and industry leaders.
• The program keeps a list of interested applicants and emails these contacts when a deadline for application is announced with application details.

• The updated YESS Performance Measurement Strategy include the following metrics:
  • Progress toward the objectives of the modernized YESS will be measured through a new performance measurement strategy that will be phased-in over the course of a 5-year implementation period, starting in 2019-20
  • Short term results tracking of shared strategic outcome:
    • Youth have access to programs that allow them to acquire the skills, learning experiences and opportunities they need to find and maintain employment or return to school.
  • Measured through the following short term outputs:
    • Clients Served
    • Returned to school
    • Client served facing barriers to employment.
• Four intermediate outputs to be implemented over 5 years beginning in 2020-2021:
  • Dignity (Job readiness): The attainment of skills, knowledge, and experience necessary to acquire employment
    • Indicator 1: # of youth who have attained soft skills
    • Indicator 2: # of youth who attained certifications and education
    • Indicator 3: # of youth who experienced removal of barriers that prevented from achieving employment
  • Opportunity (Acquire Employment): The attainment and retention of employment
    • Indicator #1: # of youth who accepted an offer of employment
    • Indicator 2: # of youth who completed a quality work placement
  • Resilience (Career Advancement): The attainment of skills to advance in one’s career
    • Indicator 1: # of youth who demonstrated job-related skills
  • Employer readiness: The development of the ability to hire and retain youth talent
    • Indicator 1: # of employers that hire a greater proportion of youth facing barriers
    • Indicator 2: # of employers that provide services and supports for youth

• Legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada including for-profit-organizations and not-for-profit organizations;
• Indigenous organizations and groups;
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies, where applicable.

• Engagement with both employers and youth
• Outreach: conference appearances
• Testimonial videos on website

• Targeted emails to stakeholders and contacts

• Delivery organizations promotional campaign
• Targeted emails to Stakeholders
• Social Media campaign (testimonials, videos, etc.)
• Minister Announcement via news release
• Conference and engagement activities
• Updated Website and Marketing Products

• Natural resource sectors are innovative

• Maps developed based on Indigenous Knowledge, to define caribou-preferred habitat;
• Caribou habitat restoration efforts linked to effectiveness monitoring will help inform restoration decisions;
• Following monitoring of results, draft restoration plan will be developed for each Saskatchewan region;
• Development of a community-led land-use plan.

• 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.

• 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; and,
• Indigenous (majority owned and controlled by Indigenous people) for-profit and not-for-profit organizations

• 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 dialogue, and interest in the issues discussed through dialogue.

• Includes significant stakeholder engagement for joint problem framing and informing of the Challenge design elements to ensure a successful launch and implementation.
• Improves pace and paths to commercialization of new oil spill recovery technologies.

• Private sector and not-for-profit organizations such as producers, shippers, industry associations, research associations, and environmental non-governmental organizations;
• Indigenous organizations and groups;
• Community groups;
• Academic institutions; and
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies, where applicable.

• •Science experts on oil spill behaviour and technologies;
• Spill responders and regulators on technology requirements;
• Communities (including Indigenous) on deployment, capacity requirements, and regional considerations; and
• Domestic and global innovators on technology development.

• Secure domestic and cross border critical energy infrastructure assets and cyber systems upon which Canadians and businesses are dependent
• Strengthen the capability of the Canadian energy sector to prevent, prepare, respond to and recover from cyber threats

• Increase in bilateral cooperation and collaboration with the U.S. on cyber security and critical energy infrastructure protection
• Increase in R&D activities that contribute to more secure and resilient domestic and cross-border energy infrastructure
• Improvement of collective knowledge on cyber threats to domestic and cross-border energy infrastructure, including mitigation strategies
• Improved cyber security within Canadian energy sector

• Number of tools (i.e., programs, services, standards, best practices and guidelines) made available to Energy and Utilities Sector Network members.
  • The target is a yearly increase compared to a 2020-21 baseline level.
• Percentage of Energy and Utilities Sector Network members that report an increase in R&D activities addressing technical gaps
  • The target is a yearly increase compared to a 2020-21 baseline level.
• Percentage of Energy and Utilities Sector Network members that report an increase in knowledge gained regarding cyber threats to the sector.
  • The target is a yearly increase compared to a 2020-21 baseline level

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

• Presented at various fora
• Led a social media campaign
• Engaged key federal, provincial, territorial stakeholders, industry representatives, and academia

• Provide federal science leadership for the collaborative implementation of the Canadian Wildland Fire Strategy^{Footnote 2}, enabling research related to national wildfire risk assessment and analysis to provide information that is grounded in science, which makes strengthened decision-making possible.
• Enhance whole-of-society collaboration and governance to strengthen resilience
• Increase focus on whole-of-society disaster prevention and mitigation activities to:
  • increase the resiliency of Canadian communities to the risks and impacts of natural disasters
  • undertake and implement risk reduction analyses and actions
  • ensure that wildfire response agencies are integrated with each other in order to implement an effective wildland fire response program.
  • increase the wildfire knowledge of agencies, communities and individuals in order to create a culture of wildfire safety and to empower the public to understand risk

• Legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada including:
  • -Not for profit organizations
  • -Indigenous organizations, groups and communities;
  • -Canadian academic institutions;
  • -For profit organizations
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies.
• International Recipients
  • -Eligible International Recipients will include treaty organizations and other international legal entities validly incorporated or registered abroad including:
    • -Not-for-profit organizations such as industry associations, agencies, research associations, standards organizations; and
• Academic institutions.

• Canadian Council of Forest Ministers Wildland Fire Management Working Group
• Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre Board of Directors and technical working groups.

• follow-up to consultations held at the Wildland Fire Canada Conference 2019
• preparations for the next Wildland Fire Canada Conference scheduled for 2021 and the Canadian Partnership for Wildand Fire Science

• Natural resource sectors are innovative

• Maps developed based on Indigenous Knowledge, to define caribou-preferred habitat;
• Caribou habitat restoration efforts linked to effectiveness monitoring will help inform restoration decisions;
• Following monitoring of results, draft restoration plan will be developed for each Saskatchewan region;
• Development of a community-led land-use plan.

• 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.

Initial recipients: recipients that will further distribute funding to Ultimate Recipients, including:

• 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; and,
• Indigenous (majority owned and controlled by Indigenous people) for-profit and not-for-profit organizations

Ultimate Recipients: those recipients that receive funding from an Initial Recipient to participate in dialogues or the production of reports or input for the purpose of a dialogue, including:

• 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 dialogue, and interest in the issues discussed through dialogue.

• Development of new knowledge, methodologies and innovative models that enhance exploration industry’s ability to detect buried ore deposits,
• Integrated, multi-scale scientific knowledge of source-to-ore formation that guides new exploration approaches,
• Increased pool of highly qualified personnel (HQP) available for employment in the mineral exploration industry.
• Mineral exploration industry can efficiently discover recent and emerging public geoscience knowledge and methodologies relevant to the detection and delineation of new mineral resources,
• Collaborative geoscience research groups leverage expertise and capacity to effectively solve research questions of pertinence to the exploration industry.

• A strong northern economy through stable, long term investment in responsible resource development.
• Northerners, their institutions and exploration industry use modern geoscientific knowledge to inform decisions on Northern development.
• Land-use decisions and climate adaptation strategies are guided by geoscience and Indigenous knowledge.
• Access to geological knowledge regarding resource potential in Canada’s Arctic and North is enhanced.
• Increased understanding of rapidly changing Arctic and Northern landscapes and coasts and how to address these changes.
• Response to cumulative effects of climate change and development in the Northern environment is better understood and mitigated.
• The availability of Northern geoscience from innovative data driven tools maximizes decision-making.
• Research priorities, knowledge products and capacity building are co-developed with Northerners and Indigenous peoples.

• Canadian and international not-for profit organizations (including industry and research and professional associations).
• Canadian and international academic institutions.
• Indigenous organizations, groups, or communities.
• Provincial, Territorial, Regional, and Municipal governments and their departments and agencies where applicable.

• Meetings that take place as part of the two programs’ normal engagement activities, including but not limited to meetings with:
• National Geological Surveys Committee – Provinces and Territories (GEM and TGI)
• Industry Advisory Group – mineral industry, including industry associations (TGI)
• Advisory Group of Northerners – Northern stakeholders and Indigenous groups (GEM)
• Jurisdictional Technical Advisory Committees – industry and academia (GEM)
• Emails sent to key associations for further distribution, for example to the following groups:
• Canadian Council of Chairs of Earth Science Departments - academia
• National Geological Surveys Committee – Provinces and Territories
• Information on program webpages

The installation of sensors in key-targeted areas will provide a basic earthquake early warning infrastructure and will permit monitoring of federally-critical infrastructure.

Funding will be made through Grants & Contributions to provinces, territories and municipalities in areas of high seismic hazard in order to strengthen the robustness of the national earthquake early warning system.

Contribution payments are non-repayable. 

• Enhance disaster response capacity and coordination and foster the development of new capabilities.

• Alerts issued for all earthquakes above threshold M within a defined time period t (where M & t to be established based on integrated system testing in 2021-22 and 2022-2023)^{Footnote 4}