Program directory · VIA HFR - VIA TGF Inc.
VIA HFR
- Department
- VIA HFR - VIA TGF Inc.
- Program code
- BYQ00 (HFR)
- In Departmental Plans
- Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2023-24 – 2024-25
What it does
To develop and implement the High Frequency Rail (HFR) Project, which proposes to build a 1,000+ kilometer intercity passenger rail network on mostly dedicated tracks among the major centres of Québec City, Trois-Rivières, Montréal, Ottawa, Peterborough, and Toronto.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2023-24. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VIA HFR | This program | 2023-24 – 2024-25 | $119M |
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.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Budget 2024 measure “Advancing High Frequency Rail”: $317M in total over its years (linked to this program by name, a best-effort match). | Budget 2024, PDF page 275 |
| 2024-25 | Spending $69.8M, against $49.5M in 2023-24 (+41%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
Success criteria
Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | — | $49.5M |
| 2024-25 | — | $69.8M |
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
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Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
