Crown-Indigenous Relations Northern Affairs Canada Transfer Payments Service Standards Performance Report: 2021 to 2022 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 2021 to 2022 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: 100% National Comprehensive Funding Agreement (CFA) model was available on the department's website December 15th, 2020. -
To offer funding agreements for recipient signature by March 1 every year for First Nations and tribal councils.
Performance target: 75%
Performance results: 93% of agreements were ready for signature by March 1, 2021. -
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: 93% of payments were issued by April 1, 2021. -
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: 92% of payments were issued by April 15, 2021. -
To make payments under all funding agreements in accordance with the payment schedule and the agreement terms and conditions.
Performance target: 75%
Performance results: 91% 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: 56% 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: 70% 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 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 reimburse treaty negotiation loans to Indigenous groups who have settled a comprehensive land claim
- 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
- grants to land claim organizations, self-government agreement holders and First Nations organizations to support harvesting of country foods
- grant to support the Giant Mine Oversight Board and research for arsenic trioxide
- grant under the Innovative Solutions Canada program
- grants to participating First Nations and the First Nation Education Authority pursuant to the First Nations Jurisdiction over Education in British Columbia Act
- grant to the First Nations Finance Authority pursuant to the First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act
- grants to Promote Social and Political Development in the North and for Northerners
- grant to the Qikiqtani Inuit Association to establish the Saimaqatigiingniq Fund
- grant to the Métis Nation British Columbia from the Indigenous Community Infrastructure Fund
- grant to implement the Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management
- Grants to Aboriginal organizations designated to receive claim settlement payments pursuant to Comprehensive Land Claim Settlement ActsFootnote 1
- Indian Annuities Treaty payments (Indian Act)Footnote 1
- Grants to the governments of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut for the health care of Indigenous people and Grants to the governments of the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon for emergency response to the global 2020 COVID-19 pandemicFootnote 1
Contributions:
- contributions to support the negotiation and implementation of Treaties, Claims and self-government agreements or initiatives
- 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 to support access to healthy foods in isolated northern communities
- Federal Interlocutor's Contribution Program
- contributions for the purpose of consultation and policy development
- contributions to supply public services in Indian Government Support and to build strong governance, administrative and accountability systems
- contributions to support the basic organizational capacity of Indigenous representative organizations
- contributions to support the construction and maintenance of community infrastructure
- contributions to support the Indigenous Nation Rebuilding Initiatives
- contributions to promote social and political development in the North and for Northerners
- transfer payments to the Government of Yukon for the care and maintenance, remediation and management of the closure of contaminated sites in Yukon
- contributions to support the establishment and revitalization of cultural spaces in Indigenous communities
- contribution to support the wellbeing of families and survivors of MMIWG and 2SLGBTQQIA people
- 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 for Groups of Indian Residential School survivors who wish to resolve their claim as a group under the Independent Assessment Process
- contributions to First Nations for the management of contaminated sites
- contributions to support Land Management and Economic Development
- Climate Action SupportFootnote 1
- Contributions to support access to healthy foods in isolated northern communitiesFootnote 1