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Program directory · Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario

Business Growth and Productivity

Program code
BNM03 (FEDSO)
Core responsibility
Economic Development in Southern Ontario
In Departmental Plans
2018-19 – 2018-19 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

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).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-272027-282028-29Business Growth and Productivity 2018-19: $69MBusiness Growth and Productivity 2019-20: $0Business Growth and Productivity 2020-21: $0Business Scale Up and Productivity 2019-20: $105MBusiness Scale Up and Productivity 2020-21: $80.6MBusiness Scale Up and Productivity 2021-22: $66.9MBusiness Scale Up and Productivity 2022-23: $140MBusiness Scale Up and Productivity 2023-24: $181MBusiness Scale Up and Productivity 2024-25: $114MBusiness Scale Up and Productivity 2025-26: $135MBusiness Scale Up and Productivity 2026-27: $281MBusiness Scale Up and Productivity 2027-28: $282MBusiness Scale Up and Productivity 2028-29: $126MBusiness Growth and ProductivityBusiness Scale Up and Productivity
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
Business Growth and ProductivityThis program2018-19 – 2020-21$69M
Business Scale Up and ProductivityLater program (name match, medium confidence)2019-20 – 2028-29$688M

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
2019-20Appears to be replaced by Business Scale Up and ProductivityCanada Spends name match across plans (an inference)
2019-20Planned spending $0, against $69M in 2018-19 (−100%).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

# of businesses receiving support for productivity improvements
Expected result: Increased investment in productivity improvements
5322018-19✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2018-19≥ 3702019532Met
# of FTEs created (permanent vs. temporary) as a result of supported projects # of FTEs maintained (permanent vs. temporary) as a result of supported projects
Expected result: Increased employment opportunities in southern Ontario communities
12,5872018-19✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2018-19≥ 1,800201912,587Met
Total # of businesses accessing capital (financial support)
Expected result: Increased access to capital
5442018-19✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2018-19≥ 3852019544Met
Total value of capital (financial support) accessed
Expected result: Increased access to capital
$290M2018-19✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2018-19≥ $160M2019$290MMet
Total value of project costs directed to productivity improvements
Expected result: Increased investment in productivity improvements
86%2018-19✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2018-19≥ 80%201986%Met

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2018-19: $47.3M2018-19: $69M2018-192019-20: $02019-202020-21: $02020-21
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19$47.3M$69M
2019-20$0*—
2020-21$0*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 182018-19: 192018-192019-20: 02019-202020-21: 02020-21
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-191819
2019-200*—
2020-210*—

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

Plan2018-192019-202020-21
2018-19 plan$47,303,521$0$0
Actual$68,987,904

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