Program directory · Environment and Climate Change Canada

Water Quality and Ecosystems Partnerships

Department

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Program code

BGS02 (EC)

Core responsibility

Preventing and Managing Pollution

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2023-24 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

The Water Quality and Ecosystems Partnerships Program aims to contribute to the integrated management of Canada’s priority ecosystems, including improving their water quality and restoring them to a healthy, productive and sustainable state. Priority ecosystems include the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River system, Lake Winnipeg Basin, Other Major Basins (Fraser River, Mackenzie River, and St. John River), and other Regional Initiatives (Gulf of Maine, Atlantic Ecosystem Initiative, and Salish Sea Ecosystem). Key science activities include research on the effects of contaminants on aquatic ecosystems, and monitoring Canada’s freshwater and shellfish harvesting areas. The Program contributes coordination and oversight to ecosystem management, develops and shares science, and funds proposals that leverage contributions from other sources. It engages and supports coordinated effort among diverse stakeholders, including other levels of government and watershed governance bodies in Canada and the U.S., Indigenous organizations, non-government organizations and industry, as well as post-secondary institutions.

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.