Program directory · Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Mandatory Isolation Support for Temporary Foreign Workers Program
- Department
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- Program code
- BWP12 (AGR)
- Core responsibility
- Sector Risk
- In Departmental Plans
- 2021-22 – 2021-22 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
The Mandatory Isolation Support for Temporary Foreign Workers Program aims to minimize the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security in Canada by assisting farmers, fish harvesters, and all food production and processors who employ temporary foreign workers. To this end, the Program will assist with costs associated with the mandatory 14-day quarantine period for temporary foreign workers upon arrival into Canada; minimize the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour shortage issues already faced by the Canadian primary agriculture, fish, seafood and food processing sectors; and, support temporary foreign workers to continue to come to Canada by ensuring their safety as well as the safety of their employers.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2020-21. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mandatory Isolation Support for Temporary Foreign Workers Program | This program | 2020-21 – 2023-24 | $127M |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | Planned spending $0, against $54.8M in 2021-22 (−100%). | Latest Departmental Plan |
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | 33,000 – 33,000 | 2021 | 84,998 Close to 32,000 temporary foreign workers were expected to arrive in Canada between mid-March 2020 and the end of June 2020, however since the program was extended several times and over the course of two fiscal years with additional streams, the total number of temporary foreign workers supported by the program was in excess of 84,000 temporary foreign workers. | Not met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | — | $72.6M |
| 2021-22 | $0 | $54.8M |
| 2022-23 | $0* | — |
| 2023-24 | $0* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | — | 10 |
| 2021-22 | 0 | 17 |
| 2022-23 | 0* | — |
| 2023-24 | 0* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 plan | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Actual | $54,794,849 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
