Departmental Results Framework 2021 to 2022

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Core Responsibility: Crown-Indigenous Relations

Support Indigenous organizations, individuals, communities and governments in achieving reconciliation and advancing self-determination through strengthening Crown-Indigenous relationships based on respect, cooperation, partnership, the affirmation and implementation of Indigenous rights, and the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Activities include negotiating and implementing treaties, self-government agreements and specific claims, consulting and engaging on issues of importance to Indigenous peoples, providing legislative and institutional frameworks for First Nations' jurisdiction over local taxation, land and financial management and addressing historic grievances.

Departmental Result 1: Indigenous peoples determine their political, economic, social and cultural development

Departmental Indicators

  1. Annual number of priorities identified through the permanent bilateral mechanisms that result in policies, funding or legislation
  2. Number of communities where treaties, self-government and other constructive arrangements have been concluded
  3. Number of treaties, self-government and other constructive arrangements that have been concluded
  4. Average Community Well-Being Index score for modern treaty and self-government agreement holders

Departmental Result 2: Indigenous peoples advance their governance institutions and regimes

Departmental Indicators

  1. Percentage of First Nations that have opted into an Indian Act alternative
  2. Percentage of First Nations with fiscal bylaws or laws
  3. Percentage of First Nations with established land codes

Departmental Result 3: Past injustices are recognized and resolved

Departmental Indicators

  1. Number of net specific claims settled by the department
  2. Percentage of active Additions to Reserves that have been in the inventory for more than 5 years
  3. Percentage of Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action that are implemented

Program Inventory

  • Negotiations of Claims and Self-Government Agreements
  • Management and Implementation of Agreements and Treaties
  • Consultation and Accommodation
  • Consultation and Policy Development
  • Federal Interlocutor's Contribution Program
  • Basic Organizational Capacity
  • Other Claims
  • First Nation Jurisdiction over Land and Fiscal Management
  • Residential Schools Resolution
  • Specific Claims

Core Responsibility: Northern Affairs

Support Canada's Arctic and northern organizations, individuals, communities and governments in the pursuit of a strong, inclusive, vibrant, prosperous and self-sufficient North, the vision of Canada's Arctic and Northern Policy Framework. This includes federal coordination, science leadership, natural resource and environmental management, effective delivery of federal programming, and territorial relations.

Departmental Result 4: Political, economic and social development in Canada's Arctic and North are advanced

Departmental Indicators

  1. Number of devolution phases in Nunavut completed
  2. Number of new initiatives that contribute to Canada's shared vision for the North
  3. Percentage of reports delivered to Arctic Council Ministers on issues of contaminants, climate change and sustainable development that include Canadian data and information
  4. Average Community Well-Being Index score for communities in the North

Departmental Result 5: Northern and Indigenous communities are resilient to changing environments

Departmental Indicators

  1. Food expenditures, as percentage of median income, required to purchase sufficient nutritious food
  2. Reduction (in litres) in the consumption of diesel fuel for electricity and heating in northern communities resulting from renewable energy and energy efficiency projects
  3. Percentage of climate change risk assessments and plans for which adaptation measures have been implemented

Departmental Result 6: Northern lands and resources are sustainably managed

Departmental Indicators

  1. Percentage of high priority northern contaminated sites that are being actively managed
  2. Percentage of environmental assessment decisions that reflect the perspectives of Northerners and Indigenous peoples
  3. Percentage of responses related to requests for involvement in water-related regulatory review processes or land-related authorizations that were within the stated timelines

Program Inventory

  • Northern and Arctic Governance and Partnerships
  • Climate Change Adaptation and Clean Energy
  • Northern Strategic and Science Policy
  • Northern Regulatory and Legislative Frameworks
  • Northern and Arctic Environmental Sustainability
  • Northern Contaminated Sites
  • Nutrition North
  • Canadian High Arctic Research Station

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