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Program directory · Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario

Business Investment

Program code
BNM04 (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).

2018-192019-202020-21Business Investment 2018-19: $13.3MBusiness Investment 2019-20: $0Business Investment 2020-21: $0Business Investment
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 InvestmentThis program2018-19 – 2020-21$13.3M

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
2019-20Planned spending $0, against $13.3M 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 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
Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2018-19Direct-to-business: 11 FTEs created per project Third-party : 6 FTEs maintained per project Direct-to-business: 11 FTEs maintained per project2019Direct-to-business: 14 FTEs created per project Third-party: 330 FTEs maintained per project Direct-to-business: 14 FTEs maintained per projectMet
Total # of businesses accessing capital (financial support)
Expected result: Increased access to capital
9982018-19✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2018-19≥ 2502019998Met
Total number and value ($) of new angel investments made in SMEs as a result of supported projects
Expected result: Increased access to capital
Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2018-1915 investments:1 project $5M : 1 project201932 investments : 1 project $8.3M : 1 projectMet
Total value of capital (financial support) accessed
Expected result: Increased access to capital
$198M2018-19✗ not met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2018-19≥ $230M2019$198M
The program met and exceeded targets for business supported, angel investments and job creation. The final mix of projects completed under the Investing in Business Innovation program included a higher number of third-party end recipients that generally required a lower value of capital access.
Not 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: $11.7M2018-19: $13.3M2018-192019-20: $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$11.7M$13.3M
2019-20$0*—
2020-21$0*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 142018-19: 152018-192019-20: 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
2018-191415
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$11,699,582$0$0
Actual$13,349,709

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