Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada Transfer Payments Service Standards Performance Report: 2022 to 2023 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 2022-2023 results have been calculated using the combined data of the 2 departments.
- 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, 2021. - To offer funding agreements for recipient signature by March 1 every year for First Nations and tribal councils.
Performance target: 75%
Performance results: 75% of agreements were ready for signature by March 1, 2022. - 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: 100% of payments were issued by April 1, 2022. - 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, 2022. - To make payments under all funding agreements in accordance with the payment schedule and the agreement terms and conditions.
Performance target: 75%
Performance results: 74% 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: 75% 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
Contributions
- Contributions to support the basic organizational capacity of Indigenous representative organizations
- Contributions for the purpose of consultation and policy development
- Contributions to promote social and political development in the North and for Northerners
- Contributions to supply public services in Indian Government Support and to build strong governance, administrative and accountability systems
- Contributions to support the establishment and revitalization of cultural spaces in Indigenous communities
- Contributions to support the wellbeing of families and survivors of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual (2SLGBTQQIA+) people
- Federal Interlocutor's Contribution Program
- Contributions to support Métis housing
- Contributions to support the construction and maintenance of community infrastructure
- Contributions to support the negotiation and implementation of Treaties, Claims and self-government agreements or initiatives
- Contributions to support the Indigenous Nation Rebuilding Initiative
- Contributions for promoting the safe use, development, conservation and protection of the North's natural resources, and promoting scientific development
- 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 access to healthy foods in isolated northern communities
Grants
- Grants to implement comprehensive land claims and self-government agreements and other agreements to address Section 35 Rights
- Grant to the First Nations Finance Authority pursuant to the First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act
- Grant to the Métis Nation British Columbia from the Indigenous Community Infrastructure Fund
- 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 reimburse treaty negotiation loans to Indigenous groups who have settled a comprehensive land claim
- Grant to the University of Manitoba to support the construction of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation's new headquarters
- Grants for promoting the safe use, development, conservation and protection of the North's natural resources, and promoting scientific development
- Grants to promote social and political development in the North and for northerners
- Grants to the Government of the Northwest Territories and the Government of Nunavut for healthcare 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
- Grants to land claim organizations, self-government agreement holders and First Nations organizations to support harvesting of country foods and grants to northern communities in support of market food access
- Grants to universities and Indigenous institutions for the purpose of research related to food security and its causal factors
- Grants to Aboriginal organizations designated to receive claim settlement payments pursuant to comprehensive land claim settlement actsFootnote 1