Program directory · Environment and Climate Change Canada

Air Quality

Department

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Program code

BGS01 (EC)

Core responsibility

Preventing and Managing Pollution

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2025-26 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

Air pollution threatens the health of Canadians, degrades the environment, and can reduce economic productivity. The Air Quality Program aims to improve the quality of ambient air and reduce outdoor air pollution and its effects on human health and the environment. It also aims to provide Canadians with the tools to make informed decisions to reduce their exposure to outdoor air pollutants.

The Program performs air quality science (research, monitoring and modeling) and analysis, generates emissions data, and provides technical and policy advice to federal, provincial, territorial and international governments and partners. These activities provide the foundation for credible, relevant and timely policy and regulatory development, administration, and enforcement.

The Program works with other federal government departments, provinces, territories and other stakeholders to address domestic air pollution, develops Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standards and monitors and reports on ambient air quality. The program works with the U.S. under the bilateral Air Quality Agreement and in international fora, such as the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, to reduce transboundary air pollution.

Mitigation actions for outdoor air pollution include developing, administering and amending regulations and other risk management instruments to reduce air pollutant emissions from industry, vehicles, engines and fuels and consumer and commercial products.

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).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

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.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

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

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