Program directory · Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Aboriginal Programs and Treaties

Department

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Program code

BTF02 (FO)

Core responsibility

Fisheries

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

The Aboriginal Programs and Treaties (APT) serves to build and maintain strong and stable relations with Indigenous communities and organizations, promotes fisheries-related economic opportunities for Indigenous peoples and supports Indigenous capacity to participate in the management and stewardship of fisheries and aquatic resources and ecosystems, all of which are integral to maintaining a stable fisheries management regime with common and transparent rules for all. APT does this by supporting the involvement of Indigenous communities in the fishery where Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) manages the fishery and where land claims agreements have not been concluded, specifically for four purposes: management of food, social, and ceremonial fisheries; participation in the commercial fishery; collaborative management, by building the capacity required to engage in fishery management processes; and, conservation, through monitoring and reporting. This work is achieved through the following: Indigenous fisheries contribution agreements; treaty and non-treaty fisheries negotiations and mandate development; strategic advice for the ongoing management of Aboriginal and treaty rights; Indigenous programs and policies renewal; and allocation policies, frameworks for the implementation of treaties, and fisheries-related consultation and engagement. This program uses funding from the following transfer payments: Aboriginal Fisheries Strategy, Aboriginal Aquatic Resource and Oceans Management program, Aboriginal Fund for Species at Risk, Atlantic Integrated Commercial Fisheries Initiative, Pacific Integrated Commercial Fisheries Initiative, Northern Integrated Commercial Fisheries Initiative, Certification & Market Access Program for Seals, Reconciliation Agreement Program, and Treaty Related Measures.

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.