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Summary of the Meeting of the Minister’s Advisory Council on Impact Assessment – January 2024

The Minister’s Advisory Council on impact assessment provides the Minister of Environment and Climate Change with non-partisan advice and recommendations on issues related to the implementation of the impact assessment, regional and strategic assessment regimes set out under the Impact Assessment Act (IAA).

The mandate of the Council is to provide advice to the Minister on the implementation of the impact assessment regime in relation to the purposes set out for it in the IAA.

The Council will focus its advice to the Minister on the governance of the regime, the effectiveness and efficiency of the processes established under the IAA and implemented by the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, and will provide advice with respect to regional and strategic assessments.

Organization: Impact Assessment Agency of Canada | Agence d'évaluation d'impact du Canada
Briefing Package for the Minister of Natural Resources to appear before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources (RNNR) for its Study on the development and implementation of the Emissions Reductions Fund – Onshore Program (February 2, 2022)

This is the package of briefing materials for the Minister of Natural Resources to appear before the Standing Committee on Natural Resources for its Study on the development and implementation of the Emissions Reductions Fund – Onshore Program on February 2, 2022

Organization: Natural Resources Canada | Ressources naturelles Canada
Briefing Package for the Minister of Natural Resources to appear before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources (RNNR) on the Supplementary Estimates B 2021-22 and the Supplementary Estimates C 2021-22 (March 2, 2022)

This is a package of briefing materials prepared for the Minister of Natural Resources to appear before the Standing Committee on Natural Resources on the Supplementary Estimates B 2021-22 and the Supplementary Estimates C 2021-22 on March 2, 2022. 

Organization: Natural Resources Canada | Ressources naturelles Canada
2024 Reports of the Auditor General of Canada—Report 6—Sustainable Development Technology Canada

This audit looked at whether Sustainable Development Technology Canada managed public funds in accordance with the terms and conditions of the contribution agreements and with its legislative mandate. The audit also looked at whether Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada’s oversight ensured that the administration of public funds was in accordance with the terms and conditions of the contribution agreements and with relevant government policies.

Organization: Office of the Auditor General of Canada | Bureau du vérificateur général du Canada
2024 Reports of the Auditor General of Canada—Report 7—Combatting Cybercrime

This audit looked at whether the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Communications Security Establishment Canada, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, and Public Safety Canada had the capacity and capability to effectively enforce laws against cybercrime activities to ensure the safety and security of Canadians.

Organization: Office of the Auditor General of Canada | Bureau du vérificateur général du Canada
Report of the Auditor General of Canada to the Board of Directors of Canada Lands Company Limited—Special Examination—2024

Canada Lands Company Limited has released the report of a special examination conducted by the Office of the Auditor General of Canada, which focused on corporate management practices and the management of operations. The report concluded that Canada Lands Company Limited had good corporate management practices and overall managed its activities well. However, the report also highlighted needed improvements in some areas.

Organization: Office of the Auditor General of Canada | Bureau du vérificateur général du Canada
Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI) - December 11, 2023

Commissioner Michael Duheme appearance binder for the December 11, 2023 House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI) regarding the RCMP's decision to not pursue a criminal investigation in relation to the SNC-Lavalin Affair

Organization: Royal Canadian Mounted Police | Gendarmerie royale du Canada
Briefing Package for the Minister of Natural Resources to appear before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources (RNNR) for its Study of the Main Estimates 2022-23 (May 18, 2022)

This is the package of briefing materials prepared for the Minister of Natural Resources to appear before the Standing Committee on Natural Resources on the Main Estimates 2022-23 on May 18, 2022. 

Organization: Natural Resources Canada | Ressources naturelles Canada
National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians Annual Report 2021

The report presents a summary of the Special Report on the Government of Canada’s Framework and Activities to Defend its Systems and Networks from Cyber Attack, a special review completed by the Committee in 2021. It also provides information on the Committee’s work over the past year and an overview of the recommendations made in prior reviews and their status.

Organization: Secretariat of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians | Secrétariat du Comité des parlementaires sur la sécurité nationale et le renseignement
NCC Tree Canopy 2017

Forest Cover Canopy for Capital Region
The Tree Canopy Assessment for Canada’s Capital Region is a collaborative project by the National Capital Commission, the City of Gatineau, and the City of Ottawa.  The Capital Region’s forest canopy has been mapped to establish a baseline for future comparisons and provide necessary information for follow-up work, including the development of new urban canopy targets, an inventory of “plantable” urban space, and development of a tree planting prioritization tool. It was completed by the University of Vermont Spatial Analysis Laboratory.
Tree Canopy Assessment - Canada’s Capital Region - Fall 2019: https://ncc-website-2.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FINAL_Tree_Canopy_Assessment_EN.pdf
Main data source: LIDAR 2015 and Aerial photography with leaf August 2017

Organization: National Capital Commission | Commission de la capitale nationale
Appearance before the House Committee on Public Accounts (PACP) on Report 1—Forests and Climate Change of the 2023 Reports 1-5 of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development

Appearance before the House Committee on Public Accounts (PACP) on Report 1—Forests and Climate Change of the 2023 Reports 1-5 of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development - February 15, 2024

Organization: Natural Resources Canada | Ressources naturelles Canada
Consultation on the Blue Economy Regulatory Review

From December 14, 2022, to March 31, 2023, the Government of Canada consulted Canadians on how regulation affects ocean innovation, regulatory barriers to environmentally sustainable growth and ways to develop agile regulations to address concerns of future-oriented ocean industries. Targeted input was sought on five specific themes: Marine Renewable Energy and Environmental Protection, Marine Spatial Planning, Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships, Ocean Technology, and Sustainable Fishing Gear and Practices.  

Organization: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat | Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada
Policies - Temporary Foreign Worker Program

The Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) allows Canadian employers to hire foreign workers to fill temporary jobs when qualified Canadians, permanent residents, asylum seekers and refugees are not available to fill these positions, and helps ensures that foreign workers are protected. The TFWP is designed to be responsive to changes in the labour market by including a Labour Market Impact Assessment of hiring foreign workers, which provides the government with assurances that hiring temporary foreign workers will not have a negative impact on the Canadian labour market. 

Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) works closely with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, the Canada Border Services Agency and the provinces and territories, through appropriate information sharing agreements, to monitor and share information that has an impact on the integrity of the TFWP.  

The TFWP is regulated through the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations. This record set contains the currently available TFWP policies developed by ESDC to enable the administration of the Program.  

Please note that TFWP policies are updated regularly. Their proactive disclosure will take place progressively as newly revised policies are finalized.  

Organization: Employment and Social Development Canada | Emploi et Développement social Canada
Remote Sensing Search 2014 and Discovery of HMS Erebus

This report describes the sixth field season of a multi-year Parks Canada-led search for the wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, lost during the Sir John Franklin Expedition of 1845 in search of a Northwest Passage. As well, it describes the September 2014 discovery of the wreck of HMS Erebus. At the outset of the 2014 field season the survey aimed to locate the remains of Franklin’s two missing ships using marine remote sensing. The discovery of Erebus during the first week of September 2014 immediately shifted the project aims to an evaluation of the structural and commemorative integrity of the site, assessment of its environmental conditions, and a preliminary inventory of exposed structures and artefacts. The wreck is part of The Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site and is co-managed by Parks Canada and Inuit. This report, completed in 2015, has since been translated into French and Inuktitut and is published here.

Organization: Parks Canada | Parcs Canada
Departmental Results Framework Indicators 2022-2023 Edition - Indicator 10: Percentage of taxpayers (benefit recipients) who filed as a result of targeted CRA intervention

Ensures the Agency achieves its responsibilities and priorities of assisting Canadians to meet their filing obligations, while also ensuring Canadians receive the benefits they are entitled to. This value is derived by dividing the total number of taxpayers who filed after the letter was issued by the total number of letters issued. This supports the Minister Mandate commitment to ensure that CRA is a client-focused agency that will proactively contact Canadians who are entitled to, but are not receiving, tax benefits.

Organization: Canada Revenue Agency | Agence du revenu du Canada
Departmental Results Framework indicators 2022-2023 Edition - Indicator 8: Public Perception Index, Trust

The Public Perception Index: Trust is calculated from the results of the questions:

I can trust the CRA to do what is right + The CRA works for the benefit of all Canadians + I feel that the people at the CRA are trustworthy + The people at the CRA are capable of doing their job well

It is an average of scores from the three audiences (individuals, small & medium enterprises, tax intermediaries) from the CRA Annual Corporate Research.


Organization: Canada Revenue Agency | Agence du revenu du Canada
Departmental Results Framework Indicators 2022-2023 Edition - Indicator 7: Service Satisfaction Index

The Service Satisfaction Index is calculated from the results of the questions:
The CRA’s service was easy to access + The CRA’s service was timely + The information I was given was accurate + The information I was given was complete + The information I was given was easy to understand + The CRA representative took time to understand my situation + The CRA representative was professional + The CRA representative was courteous.

It is an average of scores from the three audiences (individuals, small & medium enterprises, tax intermediaries) from the CRA Annual Corporate Research. The questions making up the Service Satisfaction Index were asked of those who had interacted with the CRA in the past 12 months.

Organization: Canada Revenue Agency | Agence du revenu du Canada
2024 Reports of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development—Report 1—Contaminated Sites in the North

This audit focused on whether Crown‑Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada and Transport Canada, working with Environment and Climate Change Canada and the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, effectively managed federal contaminated sites in the North by reducing risks to the environment and human health and the associated financial liability for current and future generations. The programs examined included the Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan and the Northern Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program.

Organization: Office of the Auditor General of Canada | Bureau du vérificateur général du Canada
2024 Reports of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development—Report 5—Agriculture and Climate Change Mitigation—Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

This audit focused on whether Agriculture and Agri‑Food Canada designed and implemented an approach for how the agriculture sector will contribute to Canada’s 2030 and 2050 greenhouse gas mitigation and sequestration goals, commitments, and targets. This audit also examined whether the department delivered its climate change mitigation programs and activities to ensure that results are being achieved with respect to commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon.

Organization: Office of the Auditor General of Canada | Bureau du vérificateur général du Canada
2024 Reports of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development—Report 4—Strategic Innovation Fund’s Net Zero Accelerator Initiative—Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

This audit focused on whether Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada managed the Strategic Innovation Fund’s Net Zero Accelerator to decarbonize the manufacturing industries in accordance with Canada’s climate goals and with due regard to value for money for Canadians.

Organization: Office of the Auditor General of Canada | Bureau du vérificateur général du Canada
2024 Reports of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development—Report 3—Zero Plastic Waste

This audit focused on whether Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Crown‑Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, and Statistics Canada led by Environment and Climate Change Canada were on track to achieve their intended contributions to the Canada‑wide goal of reaching zero plastic waste by 2030 to reduce the impact of plastic pollution on the environment.

Organization: Office of the Auditor General of Canada | Bureau du vérificateur général du Canada
2024 Reports of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development—Report 2—Greening of Building Materials in Public Insfrastructure

This audit focused on whether Public Services and Procurement Canada, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Natural Resources Canada, and Infrastructure Canada used the Government of Canada’s purchasing power effectively to support and prioritize the use of low embodied carbon construction materials—including steel, aluminum, and concrete—in public infrastructure projects to contribute to environmental protection and sustainable development. It also focused on determining whether Infrastructure Canada made effective use of its funding programs in pursuit of that same goal.

Organization: Office of the Auditor General of Canada | Bureau du vérificateur général du Canada
Climate Projections for the National Capital Region Report

The National Capital Commission (NCC) and the City of Ottawa (referred to herein as the Project Partners) commissioned CBCL Limited to undertake a comprehensive climate change projection study for the National Capital Region (NCR). The project used a collaborative and impacts-driven approach that involved iterative feedback from the Project Partners and stakeholders such as the Ville de Gatineau and Conservation Authorities. It relied on data and advice from Environment and Climate Change Canada’s (ECCC) Canadian Centre for Climate Services (CCCS). This study complements work being done by the Ville de Gatineau in partnership with Ouranos.

Organization: National Capital Commission | Commission de la capitale nationale
Summary of the 2023/24 to 2027/28 Corporate Plan 2023/24 to 2027/28 Operating Budget 2023/24 to 2027/28 Capital Budget

Each year, CATSA prepares a corporate plan that sets out the organization’s corporate objectives, financial plan, performance indicators and targets over a five-year planning horizon. A subsequent abridged corporate plan summary is then prepared, tabled in Parliament and shared publicly.

Organization: Canadian Air Transport Security Authority | Administration canadienne de la sûreté du transport aérien
2024 Reports of the Auditor General of Canada—Report 3—First Nations and Inuit Policing Program

This audit will focus on whether Public Safety Canada, under the First Nations and Inuit Policing Program, worked in partnership with Indigenous communities to provide equitable access to policing services that are tailored to the needs of those communities and, whether the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, under the program, worked in partnership with Indigenous communities to deliver dedicated and tailored policing services that supplement the services provided to provinces and territories under police service agreements.

Organization: Office of the Auditor General of Canada | Bureau du vérificateur général du Canada
2024 Reports of the Auditor General of Canada—Report 2—Housing in First Nations Communities

This audit will focus on whether Indigenous Services Canada and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation supported First Nations to close the housing gap by improving housing conditions and increasing First Nations’ capacity to manage housing. In addition, we will examine whether Indigenous Services Canada, in partnership with First Nations, made progress to transfer the control of housing to First Nations.

Organization: Office of the Auditor General of Canada | Bureau du vérificateur général du Canada
Briefing Package for the hearing before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts on the 2023 Report 7, Modernizing Information Technology Systems and Report, and 2023 Report 8, The Benefits Delivery Modernization Programme of the Auditor General of Canada 

Briefing Package for the hearing before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts on the 2023 Report 7, Modernizing Information Technology Systems and Report, and 2023 Report 8, The Benefits Delivery Modernization Programme of the Auditor General of Canada 

Organization: Office of the Auditor General of Canada | Bureau du vérificateur général du Canada
NSERC Accessibility Plan 2023-2025

As a federal funding agency, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) promotes the value of science, engineering and the thrill of discovery in Canada, helping to ensure our research ecosystem can meet the talent, industry and technological demands of today and the future. We know that the Canadian research ecosystem will be even stronger when NSERC, and the programs and services we deliver, are made as accessible, inclusive, equitable and diverse as possible. We present our inaugural Accessibility Plan as an important first step towards achieving this goal.

Organization: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Piloting Body-Worn Cameras in Iqaluit

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is in the process of developing a national body-worn camera (BWC) program as part of its proposed Digital  Evidence Management initiative, for deployment across Canada. The Government of Nunavut, with support from the Government of Canada and the RCMP in Nunavut (“V” Division), expressed interest and were in a state of readiness to begin a BWC pilot in Iqaluit. Several outcomes were measured as part of this pilot project to evaluate the approach
and inform the broader BWC roll-out.

Organization: Royal Canadian Mounted Police | Gendarmerie royale du Canada
Briefing Package for the hearing before the Standing Senate Committee on Energy, Environment and Natural Resources on the CESD Fall 2023 Reports of the Office of Auditor General of Canada 

Briefing Package for the hearing before the Standing Senate Committee on Energy, Environment and Natural Resources on the CESD Fall 2023 Reports of the Office of Auditor General of Canada 

Organization: Office of the Auditor General of Canada | Bureau du vérificateur général du Canada
Briefing Package for the hearing before the Standing Committee on Health on the 2022 Report 9, COVID-19 Vaccines of the Auditor General of Canada, in the context of the committee’s study of the advance purchase agreement with Medicago. 

Briefing Package for the hearing before the Standing Committee on Health on the 2022 Report 9, COVID-19 Vaccines of the Auditor General of Canada, in the context of the committee’s study of the advance purchase agreement with Medicago. 

Organization: Office of the Auditor General of Canada | Bureau du vérificateur général du Canada
Strategic Environmental Assessments

Strategic environmental assessments (SEA) provide a comprehensive and systematic approach to incorporating broad-scale environmental considerations from multiple sources into strategic-level planning and policy documents.

Parks Canada conducts SEAs on all national park, national marine conservation area, and national urban park management plans. SEAs of management plans provide a forward looking, broad scale evaluation of cumulative effects to ensure the management plans address the key issues for ecological integrity or ecological sustainability, now and into the future. 

Organization: Parks Canada | Parcs Canada
Environmental Protection Review Report: Pickering Nuclear Site

As Canada’s nuclear regulator, the CNSC reviews the environmental protection measures put in place for every facility we regulate. The environmental protection review report series offers a summary of CNSC staff’s technical assessment of how effectively licensees are protecting human health and the environment in the communities in which they are operating.

The purpose of the report is to share CNSC staff’s findings from the review of Ontario Power Generation's environmental protection measures for the Pickering Nuclear Site. This includes any possible environmental releases as part of normal operations, and the risk of radiological or hazardous substances posed to the environment and human health.

Organization: Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission | Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
Briefing Package for the hearing before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts on 2023 Report 2, Connectivity in Rural and Remote Areas of the Office of the Auditor General of Canada 

Briefing Package for the hearing before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts on 2023 Report 2, Connectivity in Rural and Remote Areas of the Office of the Auditor General of Canada 

Organization: Office of the Auditor General of Canada | Bureau du vérificateur général du Canada
Veterans Review and Appeal Board 2022-23 Departmental Results Report

Departmental Results Reports (DRRs) – previously named Departmental Performance Reports (DPR) – are individual department and agency accounts of actual accomplishments against plans, priorities and results set out in their respective Departmental Plans (DPs). DPs and DRRs make up Part III (the Departmental Expenditure Plans) of the Estimates publications.

Through DRRs, individual departments and agencies provide information on how they are progressing toward their strategic goals. DRRs cover the most recently completed fiscal year and are normally tabled in the fall.

Organization: Veterans Review and Appeal Board | Tribunal des anciens combattants (révision et appel)