CIRNAC transfer payments service standards performance report: 2019 to 2020 fiscal year
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) is committed to adhering to the following transfer payment service standards. Due to the degree of integration between CIRNAC and Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), the 2019 to 2020 results have been calculated using the combined data of the 2 departments.
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To have the national funding agreement models available for First Nations and tribal councils by December 15 of each year.
Performance target: 75%
Performance results: 0% - national Comprehensive Funding Agreement (CFA) model was available on the department's website December 20, 2018. -
To offer funding agreements for recipient signature by March 1 every year for First Nations and tribal councils.
Performance target: 75%
Performance results: 85% of agreements were ready for signature by March 1, 2019. -
To issue payments by April 1 of that calendar year for First Nations and tribal councils who return properly executed agreements to ISC/CIRNAC by or before March 15 of any calendar year.
Performance target: 75%
Performance results: 97% of payments were issued by April 1, 2019 for which funding agreements were properly executed by or before March 15, 2019. -
To issue payments by April 15 of that calendar year for First Nations and tribal councils who return properly executed agreements to ISC/CIRNAC after March 15, but before April 1.
Performance target: 75%
Performance results: 100% of payments were issued by April 15, 2019 for which funding agreements were properly executed after March 15 but before April 1, 2019. -
To make payments under all funding agreements in accordance with the payment schedule and the agreement terms and conditions.
Performance target: 75%
Performance results: 87% of payments made by the department were prepared in accordance with the agreements' payment schedule and terms and conditions. -
To send an acknowledgement of receipt of a proposal within 10 working days of receipt of a proposal.
Performance target: 75%
Performance results: 75% of the acknowledgements of receipt have been sent within 10 working days of receipt of the proposal. -
To send correspondence to each recipient who must submit annual audited financial statements, within 30 days of receipt, advising whether these financial statements include each document the Reporting Guide requires.
Performance target: 75%
Performance results: 71% of recipients received correspondence within 30 days, advising whether the financial statements included all the documents required in the Reporting Guide.
Service standards performance results cover all CIRNAC transfer payment programs:
Grants:
- Grants to First Nations to settle specific and special claims negotiated by Canada and/or awarded by the Specific Claims Tribunal, and to Indigenous groups to settle special claims
- Grants to implement comprehensive land claims and self-government agreements and other agreements to address Section 35 Rights
- Grants to the Government of the Northwest Territories and the Government of Nunavut for health care of Indians and Inuit
- Grants for the political evolution of the territories, particularly as it pertains to devolution
- Grant to support the Giant Mine Oversight Board and research for arsenic trioxide
- Grant to the First Nations Finance Authority pursuant to the First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act
- Grants to British Columbia Indian bands in lieu of a per capita annuity
- Grant to the Manitoba Métis Federation to support construction of the Métis National Heritage Centre
- Grants to Aboriginal organizations designated to receive claim settlement payments pursuant to Comprehensive Land Claim Settlement Acts
- Indian annuities treaty payments (Indian Act)
- Grant for Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund
- Grant to implement the framework agreement on First Nation land management
- Grants to participating First Nations and the First Nation Education Authority pursuant to the First Nations Jurisdiction over Education in British Columbia Act
Contributions:
- Contributions to support the negotiation and implementation of treaties, claims and self-government agreements or initiatives
- Contributions to support land management and economic development
- Contribution to support access to healthy foods in isolated northern communities
- Transfer payments to the Government of Yukon for the care and maintenance, remediation and management of the closure of contaminated sites in Yukon
- Contribution for promoting the safe use, development, conservation and protection of the North's natural resources, and promoting scientific development for Indigenous Peoples and the North
- Contributions for the purpose of consultation and policy development
- Contributions to First Nations for the management of contaminated sites
- Federal Interlocutor's Contribution Program
- Contributions to support the basic organizational capacity of Indigenous representative organizations
- Contributions to support the Aboriginal Economic Development Strategic Partnerships Initiative
- Contributions to support the construction and maintenance of community infrastructure
- Contributions to supply public services in Indian Government Support and to build strong governance, administrative and accountability systems
- Contributions to Indian bands for registration administration
- Contributions to promote social and political development in the North and for Northerners
- Contributions for Groups of Indian residential school survivors who wish to resolve their claim as a group under the Independent Assessment Process
- Contributions to support Métis housing
- Transfer payments to the Government of Yukon for the remediation of the Marwell Tar Pit Site to support the Contaminated Sites Program
- Contributions to support the Indigenous Nation Rebuilding Initiative