Program directory · Employment and Social Development Canada
Enabling Fund for Official Language Minority Communities
- Department
- Employment and Social Development Canada
- Program code
- BGO16 (HRSD)
- Core responsibility
- Learning, Skills Development and Employment
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
The Enabling Fund for Official Language Minority Communities (EF-OLMC) Program’s objective is to enhance the economic development and vitality of official language minority communities (OLMCs) across Canada.
The EF-OLMC Program follows the "by and for" approach, which considers the needs and priorities of OLMCs in the design and delivery of initiatives. As a result, projects that receive funding under the Program are implemented by OLMC organizations for the benefit of individuals living in OLMCs, as well as their organizations and businesses.
Under stream 1, the EF-OLMC Program strengthens OLMCs' capacity in the areas of community economic development (CED) and human resources development (HRD) and promotes partnerships. Funding is provided to a network of 14 organizations across Canada.
Under stream 2, the EF-OLMC Program funds OLMC organizations to provide tailored employment assistance services to individuals living in OLMCs so that they can find, obtain, or maintain employment.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enabling Fund for Official Language Minority Communities | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $122M |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Budget 2023 measure “Investing in Employment Assistance Services for Official Language Minority Communities”: $209M in total over its years (linked to this program by name, a best-effort match). | Budget 2023, PDF page 165 |
| 2023-24 | Employees (FTEs) 45, against 15 in 2022-23 (+200%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2025-26 | Indicators added: Number of clients who used EAS through a funded OLMC organization | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2025-26 | Planned spending $72.4M, against $23.7M in 2024-25 (+205%). | Latest Departmental Plan |
| 2026-27 | Indicators added: Number of clients who used Employment Assistance Services (EAS) through a funded Official Language Minority Communities (OLMC) organization; Ratio of dollar(s) leveraged by funded Official Language Minority Communities (OLMC) organizations for each dollar received from the program | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2026-27 | Indicators dropped: Number of clients who used EAS through a funded OLMC organization; Ratio of dollar(s) invested by non-EF-OLMC program funded partners for every dollar invested by the EF-OLMC program in community economic development and human resource development | 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
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ $2 | 2019 | $1 Increase in departmental funding resulted in a lower leveraging ratio, due to a time lag in organizations’ ability to leverage new 2018-19 federal investments. | Not met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ $2 | 2020 | $2 | Met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ $2 | 2021 | $2 The variance between the overall 5-year target ($2 for every dollar invested by the EF-OLMC) and the leveraging achieved in 2020-21 can be attributed to the impact of the pandemic on recipient’s activities. | Not met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ $2 | 2022 | $2 Leveraging is calculated and reported annually, with a goal of $2 leveraged for every $1 invested by the Enabling Fund for Official Language Minority Communities. Leveraging reflects the meaningful collaboration and involvement of partners and organizations. The information measures the ability of Enabling Fund recipients to leverage and diversify their funding sources for human resource developm… | Met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ $2 | 2023 | $3 | Met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ $2 | 2024 | $2 | Met |
| 2024-25 | 2:1 | 2025 | 1.9:1 The variance between the target (2 to 1) and 2024-2025 result (1.9 to 1) is relatively small and attributable to funding related to indexation. This additional funding enabled the 14 recipient organizations to remain financially stable, support their workforce, and strengthen their service delivery capacity. | Not met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≤ 43,000 | 2027 | — | Planned |
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | 2:1 | 2027 | — | Planned |
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 | $13.6M | $14.5M |
| 2019-20 | $15.7M | $15.4M |
| 2020-21 | $15.8M | $16.9M |
| 2021-22 | $17M | $15.7M |
| 2022-23 | $17.3M | $16.6M |
| 2023-24 | $16.5M | $19.4M |
| 2024-25 | $52.9M | $23.7M |
| 2025-26 | $72.4M | — |
| 2026-27 | $72.1M | — |
| 2027-28 | $72.1M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $67.4M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 15 | 11 |
| 2019-20 | 16 | 11 |
| 2020-21 | 16 | 8 |
| 2021-22 | 20 | 10 |
| 2022-23 | 19 | 15 |
| 2023-24 | 18 | 45 |
| 2024-25 | 41 | 41 |
| 2025-26 | 43 | — |
| 2026-27 | 40 | — |
| 2027-28 | 46* | — |
| 2028-29 | 41* | — |
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 | $13,583,353 | $13,583,353 | $13,583,353 | ||||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $15,732,186 | $15,832,186 | $16,132,186 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $15,825,848 | $16,125,848 | $16,325,848 | ||||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $17,015,460 | $17,247,654 | $16,521,358 | ||||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $17,338,621 | $16,590,244 | $15,609,363 | ||||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $16,501,906 | $15,617,251 | $15,617,251 | ||||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $52,948,016 | $72,006,070 | $71,980,915 | ||||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $72,371,369 | $72,351,019 | $72,334,656 | ||||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $72,075,857 | $72,054,625 | $67,447,320 | ||||||||
| Actual | $14,499,309 | $15,380,856 | $16,895,853 | $15,711,001 | $16,558,029 | $19,400,081 | $23,716,122 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
