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Program directory · Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Market Access, Negotiations, Sector Competitiveness, and Assurance Systems

Program code
CMA00 (AGR)
Core responsibility
A competitive and market-oriented agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2014-15 – 2017-18

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2014-15. 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).

2014-152015-162016-172017-18Market Access, Negotiations, Sector Competitiveness, and Assurance Systems 2014-15: $164MMarket Access, Negotiations, Sector Competitiveness, and Assurance Systems 2015-16: $199MMarket Access, Negotiations, Sector Competitiveness, and Assurance Systems 2016-17: $155MMarket Access, Negotiations, Sector Competitiveness, and Assurance Systems 2017-18: $193MMarket Access, Negotiations, Sector Competitiven…
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Market Access, Negotiations, Sector Competitiveness, and Assurance SystemsThis program2014-15 – 2017-18$710M

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.

YearWhat changedSource
2017-18Spending $193M, against $155M in 2016-17 (+25%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2014-15: $164M2014-152015-16: $199M2015-162016-17: $155M2016-172017-18: $193M2017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2014-15—$164M
2015-16—$199M
2016-17—$155M
2017-18—$193M

Employees (FTEs)

2014-15: 4142014-15: 3722014-152015-16: 3862015-16: 3962015-162016-17: 4192016-17: 4002016-172017-18: 4072017-18: 4512017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2014-15414372
2015-16386396
2016-17419400
2017-18407451

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
Actual

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.