Program directory · Health Canada
Promoting Minority Official Languages in the Health Care Systems
- Department
- Health Canada
- Program code
- BVG13 (H)
- Core responsibility
- Health Care Systems
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2022-23 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
This program is designed to support the federal obligation to take positive measures to enhance the vitality of the Official Language Minority Communities (OLMCs) in Canada and to support and assist their development and foster the full recognition and use of both English and French in Canada. It also includes the Official Languages Health Contribution Program which fosters collaboration and innovation in the areas of recruitment, training, retention, networking, research, organization and support to the delivery of health services to French-speaking communities in provinces and territories other than Quebec and to English-speaking communities in the province of Quebec. The Program engages communities and health stakeholders to improve access to health services by increasing the supply of health professionals able to provide health services to OLMCs in their language of choice, and improving the provision of health services in both official languages.
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).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Promoting Minority Official Languages in the Health Care Systems | This program | 2018-19 – 2024-25 | $195M |
| Responsive Health Care Systems | Later program (name match, low confidence) | 2023-24 – 2028-29 | $9.67B |
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.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | Indicators added: Percentage of funded postsecondary trained health graduates who offer services in Official Language Minority Communities (OLMC) | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2019-20 | Indicators dropped: Percentage of funded postsecondary trained health graduates who offer services in Official Language Minority Communities (OLMC) by: employment status, a) at 1 year following graduation and b) at 2 years following graduation, work location following graduation/language traini | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2023-24 | Appears to be replaced by Responsive Health Care Systems | Canada Spends name match across plans (an inference) |
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
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | ≥ 75% | 2020 | 92% | Met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 75% | 2022 | 94% | 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
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $35.3M | $37M |
| 2019-20 | $38.9M | $40.4M |
| 2020-21 | $38.9M | $38.6M |
| 2021-22 | $39.1M | $40.1M |
| 2022-23 | $39.1M | $38.8M |
| 2023-24 | $38.9M* | — |
| 2024-25 | $38.9M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 10 | 7 |
| 2019-20 | 10 | 7 |
| 2020-21 | 10 | 9 |
| 2021-22 | 10 | 9 |
| 2022-23 | 10 | 10 |
| 2023-24 | 10* | — |
| 2024-25 | 10* | — |
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 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $35,325,228 | $35,325,228 | $35,325,228 | ||||
| 2019-20 plan | $38,905,928 | $38,905,928 | $39,125,928 | ||||
| 2020-21 plan | $38,902,426 | $39,122,426 | $39,122,426 | ||||
| 2021-22 plan | $39,122,426 | $39,122,426 | $38,922,426 | ||||
| 2022-23 plan | $39,123,827 | $38,923,827 | $38,923,827 | ||||
| Actual | $36,957,186 | $40,401,064 | $38,607,838 | $40,079,249 | $38,819,655 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
