Program directory · Environment and Climate Change Canada

Aquatic Ecosystems Health, Substances and Waste Management

Department

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Program code

BGS04 (EC)

Core responsibility

Preventing and Managing Pollution

In Departmental Plans

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

What it does

The Aquatic Ecosystems Health, Substances and Waste Management Program aims to reduce threats to the health of Canadians and their environment from harmful substances and waste through various actions and activities including stakeholder engagement, information gathering, research, monitoring, tracking and reporting of harmful substances, and assessing and managing their risks to the environment. The Program works with the public, industry, other governments across Canada, and Indigenous Peoples and their organizations to increase awareness of risk management measures. It also aims to reduce threats to Canada’s aquatic system and prevent marine pollution using risk management instruments developed under the Fisheries Act and the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, and contributes to ecosystem health in oceans and the Antarctic, including by issuing permits for disposal of waste at sea and Canadians travelling to Antarctica. The Program provides federal coordination for actions taken under the Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan. It implements regulations to reduce and prevent environmental emergencies and responds to emergencies 24/7 by providing scientific and technical advice and ensuring measures are taken to protect the environment. The Program undertakes key science activities including research on the effects of environmental stressors on aquatic ecosystems, and monitoring Canada’s freshwater and shellfish harvesting areas.

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.