Program directory · Canadian Transportation Agency
Determinations and Compliance
- Department
- Canadian Transportation Agency
- Program code
- BTT03 (CTA)
- Core responsibility
- Independent regulatory and dispute-resolution services for transportation providers and users
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
The Determinations and Compliance program provides analysis and recommendations when industry needs a determination from the Agency to proceed with an activity in the marketplace (e.g. an air carrier licence). It also monitors compliance with legislation and regulations, as well as Agency decisions, orders and determinations and initiates enforcement actions in cases of non-compliance.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Determinations and Compliance | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $74M |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | Employees (FTEs) 103, against 68 in 2022-23 (+51%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2023-24 | Indicators added: Percentage of non-compliant transportation service providers that are brought into compliance within 70 business days | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2023-24 | Indicators dropped: Percentage of transportation service providers complying with legislative and regulatory requirements | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2023-24 | Spending $14.4M, against $8.6M in 2022-23 (+67%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2026-27 | Planned employees (FTEs) 75, against 107 in 2025-26 (−30%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2026-27 | Planned spending $10.3M, against $15.5M in 2025-26 (−34%). | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | ≥ 85% | 2024 | — The Canadian Transportation Agency has updated their processes and need to revisit this indicator. | No result reported |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 85% | 2025 | — The Canadian Transportation Agency is in the process of obtaining the information for this indicator. | No result reported |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 85% | 2019 | 93% | Met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 85% | 2020 | 93% | Met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 85% | 2021 | 93% | Met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 85% | 2022 | 96% | Met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 85% | 2023 | 98% | Met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 85% | 2024 | 98% | Met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 85% | 2025 | 99% | Met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 80% | 2019 | 67.5% Compliance activities discovered that 74% of air, rail, marine carriers and facility operators met accessibility-related requirements at the conclusion of inspections which is less than the target of 80%. A follow-up process results in 93% of non-compliant transportation service providers meeting requirements by the end of the 70-day follow-up period. And that, 61% of transportation service provi… | Not met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 80% | 2020 | 80% | Met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 80% | 2021 | — As a result of COVID-19, the CTA was not able to undertake the compliance monitoring activities required to gather adequate data for this indicator. Additionally, the CTA is in the process of updating its compliance and enforcement activities and will evaluate whether this will require a change to the methodology for this indicator in future years. | No result reported |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 80% | 2022 | — As a result of COVID-19, the Agency was not able to undertake the compliance monitoring activities required to gather adequate data for this indicator. The Agency has updated its compliance and enforcement activities and is in the process of pursuing potential changes to the methodology for this indicator because it no longer reflects the intended outcome of the program. | No result reported |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 80% | 2023 | 48% In the past few years the Agency has not been able to collect and consequently report on the data for some of its performance indicators. This is in part a result of compliance monitoring and enforcement activities being targeted based on risk. This results in the data collected for these indicators no longer providing a representative sample of the industry. As such, beginning in 2023-24, the Ag… | Not met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 85% | 2027 | — | Planned |
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 85% | 2028 | — | Planned |
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $7.9M | $8.3M |
| 2019-20 | $9.3M | $8.9M |
| 2020-21 | $8.3M | $9.2M |
| 2021-22 | $8.4M | $9.2M |
| 2022-23 | $8.8M | $8.6M |
| 2023-24 | $8.4M | $14.4M |
| 2024-25 | $14.9M | $15.3M |
| 2025-26 | $15.5M | — |
| 2026-27 | $10.3M | — |
| 2027-28 | $10.3M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $10.3M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 71 | 68 |
| 2019-20 | 79 | 69 |
| 2020-21 | 69 | 64 |
| 2021-22 | 77 | 71 |
| 2022-23 | 68 | 68 |
| 2023-24 | 69 | 103 |
| 2024-25 | 117 | 104 |
| 2025-26 | 107 | — |
| 2026-27 | 75 | — |
| 2027-28 | 75* | — |
| 2028-29 | 75* | — |
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 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $7,909,665 | $7,843,015 | $7,843,015 | ||||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $9,298,008 | $8,157,497 | $7,843,046 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $8,286,398 | $7,329,872 | $7,104,315 | ||||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $8,431,363 | $7,797,300 | $7,797,300 | ||||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $8,780,945 | $8,768,007 | $8,768,007 | ||||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $8,354,377 | $8,354,377 | $8,354,377 | ||||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $14,927,764 | $14,810,676 | $8,890,645 | ||||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $15,483,511 | $9,376,900 | $9,387,701 | ||||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $10,296,416 | $10,307,672 | $10,295,893 | ||||||||
| Actual | $8,287,691 | $8,944,794 | $9,228,372 | $9,224,594 | $8,647,692 | $14,440,326 | $15,273,557 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
