Program directory · Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Waterways Management

Department

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Program code

BTH03 (FO)

Core responsibility

Marine Navigation

In Departmental Plans

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

What it does

The Waterways Management program provides mariners with services, information and operational awareness that helps ensure safe and accessible waterways in support of economic prosperity by surveying certain commercial channels to identify the bottom conditions, restrictions or hazards to safe navigation and providing mariners with marine safety information, such as available water depth forecasts in the St. Lawrence, Fraser, Detroit and Mackenzie Rivers; providing channel dredging in the Great Lakes U.S./Canada connecting channels; and managing dredging on the St. Lawrence River between Montréal and Cap Gribane on a cost-recovery basis. The Waterways Management program sustains navigable channels, reduces marine navigational risks, and supports environmental protection ensuring safe and accessible navigation. Coast Guard's Fleet Operational Capability, Procurement and Maintenance programs are integral to the delivery of this program. This program is delivered in coordination with the Canadian Hydrographic Service and Real Property Asset Management Services and with Public Services and Procurement Canada. The legal basis for this program is found in the Constitution Act, 13 Provincial & territorial governments, and the Oceans Act.

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.