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Manage international bridges

Program code
BTU00 (FBCL)
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2018-19 – 2024-25

What it does

Providing corporate oversight of the Canadian federal interests in the stewardship of international bridge assets of the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge, Blue Water Bridge, Thousand Islands International Bridge and Seaway International Bridge Crossing. Managing international bridges with excellence in governance, best practices in portfolio management, organization of processes and strong relationships with stakeholders. Maintaining safe and secure international trade routes and enabling the efficient transit of people and goods.

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).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-25Manage international bridges 2018-19: $3.5MManage international bridges 2020-21: $6.1MManage international bridges 2021-22: $9.1MManage international bridges 2022-23: $4.4MManage international bridges 2023-24: $7MManage international bridges 2024-25: $17.9MManage international bridges
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
Manage international bridgesThis program2018-19 – 2024-25$48M

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
2024-25Spending $17.9M, against $7M in 2023-24 (+154%).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

2018-19: $3.5M2018-192020-21: $6.1M2020-212021-22: $9.1M2021-222022-23: $4.4M2022-232023-24: $7M2023-242024-25: $17.9M2024-25
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19—$3.5M
2020-21—$6.1M
2021-22—$9.1M
2022-23—$4.4M
2023-24—$7M
2024-25—$17.9M

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

Plan
Actual

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