Program directory · Employment and Social Development Canada
Labour Market Development Agreements
- Department
- Employment and Social Development Canada
- Program code
- BGO03 (HRSD)
- Core responsibility
- Learning, Skills Development and Employment
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
Labour Market Development Agreements fund programs and services to help Canadians find and return to work. These agreements provide funding to design and deliver Employment Benefits and Support Measures. Employment Benefits provide eligible participants with skills development, self-employment support and wage subsidies; while Support Measures, such as Employment Assistance Services (e.g., employment counselling, job search assistance, needs assessments) are available to all workers. Further support measures include partnerships with labour market stakeholders, and research and innovation activities. This program is funded through Part II of the Employment Insurance Act. Provinces and territories work with employers and other stakeholders in their jurisdictions to set priorities and deliver programming.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Market Development Agreements | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $4.8M |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | Indicators dropped: Proportion of insured clients who are employed following the completion of their benefit or service intervention | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
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
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | — | 2019 | — Actual result is 177,335 for 2017-18. 2017-18 target not specified – provinces and territories set targets. 2018-19 LMDA results will be available once the 2018/19 Employment Insurance Monitoring and Assessment Report is released in the spring of 2020. | No result reported |
| 2019-20 | Provinces and territories set targets | 2020 | Not available. Results will be released in Spring 2021 in the 2019-2020 EI Monitoring and Assessment Report. For reference, the actual result for 2018-2019 was 190,717, as per the 2018-2019 EI Monitoring and Assessment Report. | No result reported |
| 2020-21 | Provinces and territories set targets | 2021 | 194,120 (2019-2020) The result reported is for fiscal year 2019-2020 as there is a one year lag in data. This means that results for 2020-2021, which will be available in April 2022, will be reported in the next Departmental Results Report for 2021-2022. | No result reported |
| 2021-22 | Provinces and territories set targets | 2022 | 155000 Results are only for Labour Market Development Agreements and do not include Workforce Development Agreements. As there is a 1-year lag in data availability, the results shown reflect the previous years’ result for 2020-2021. Results for fiscal year 2021-2022 will be available in April 2023, following tabling of the Employment Insurance Monitoring and Assessment Report, and reported in the 2022-2… | No result reported |
| 2022-23 | Not applicable | 2023 | 190,957 As there is a 1-year lag in data availability, the result shown reflects the result for 2021-22. Results for fiscal year 2022-23 will be available in April 2024, following tabling of the Employment Insurance Monitoring and Assessment Report, and will be reported in the 2023-24 Departmental Results Report (DRR). | No result reported |
| 2023-24 | Not applicable | 2024 | 157861 As there is a 1 year lag in data availability, the results shown reflect the previous year’s results for 2022-23. Results for fiscal year 2023-24 will be available in April 2025 for reporting in the 2024-25 DRR. | No result reported |
| 2024-25 | Not applicable | 2025 | 157,393 Due to a one-year data lag, the 2024-2025 results reflect the previous year’s (2023-2024) data. Since provinces and territories design and deliver the program, no formal targets have been set. | No result reported |
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | — | 2019 | — Actual result is 59.4% for 2017-18. 2017-18 target not specified – provinces and territories set targets. 2018-19 LMDA results will be available once the 2018/19 Employment Insurance Monitoring and Assessment Report is released in the spring of 2020. | No result reported |
| 2019-20 | Provinces and territories set targets | 2020 | Not available. Results will be released in Spring 2021 in the 2019-2020 EI Monitoring And Assessment Report. For reference, the actual result for 2018-2019 was 72.9%, as per the 2018-2019 EI Monitoring and Assessment Report. | No result reported |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | Not available | 2027 | — | Planned |
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $464K | $606K |
| 2019-20 | $476K | $604K |
| 2020-21 | $460K | $910K |
| 2021-22 | $496K | $586K |
| 2022-23 | $495K | $611K |
| 2023-24 | $505K | $825K |
| 2024-25 | $526K | $628K |
| 2025-26 | $594K | — |
| 2026-27 | $641K | — |
| 2027-28 | $641K* | — |
| 2028-29 | $638K* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 34 | 48 |
| 2019-20 | 35 | 46 |
| 2020-21 | 35 | 42 |
| 2021-22 | 35 | 42 |
| 2022-23 | 35 | 46 |
| 2023-24 | 35 | 56 |
| 2024-25 | 35 | 33 |
| 2025-26 | 35 | — |
| 2026-27 | 35 | — |
| 2027-28 | 35* | — |
| 2028-29 | 35* | — |
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 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $463,809 | $463,809 | $463,809 | ||||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $476,043 | $476,043 | $476,043 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $460,486 | $460,486 | $460,485 | ||||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $496,362 | $497,675 | $497,675 | ||||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $495,211 | $495,211 | $495,211 | ||||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $505,057 | $505,057 | $505,057 | ||||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $526,095 | $536,212 | $538,280 | ||||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $594,496 | $596,788 | $596,788 | ||||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $640,541 | $640,541 | $638,410 | ||||||||
| Actual | $606,334 | $604,462 | $909,618 | $586,063 | $611,376 | $824,759 | $628,219 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
