Program directory · Department of Indigenous Services
Lands, Natural Resources and Environmental Management
- Department
- Department of Indigenous Services
- Program code
- BXP12 (INDSC)
- Core responsibility
- Governance and Community Development Services
- In Departmental Plans
- 2020-21 – 2022-23 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
This program works with First Nation communities to develop innovative policy, process and system improvements to enhance conditions to increase the reserve land base, support sustainable management of land, environment and natural resources that leverages community and economic development opportunities and facilitates greater First Nation independence/self-sufficiency in managing these assets. This program provides support to First Nation governments, as well as Aboriginal institutions and organizations through core and targeted funding to:
• Improve the environmental conditions of First Nation reserve land by strengthening policies, processes and tools to support stronger environmental management on reserve, including solid waste management, assessment and remediation of contaminated sites, environment review, and conservation and protection of habitat and species at risk;
• Provide support for communities through planning, capacity building and training to effectively manage land, natural resources and environmental activities;
• Modernize land administration tools, systems, procedures and practices for First Nations operating under the Indian Act;
• Address legal obligations, community growth and economic development through the additions of lands to reserve; and
• Modernize the Indian Oil and Gas Act and Systems to attract further investment on Reserve Lands.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2019-20. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lands, Natural Resources and Environmental Management | This program | 2019-20 – 2024-25 | $1.12B |
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 | Employees (FTEs) 414, against 330 in 2019-20 (+25%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2020-21 | Spending $275M, against $209M in 2019-20 (+32%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2022-23 | Spending $368M, against $267M in 2021-22 (+38%). | Actual spending (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | ≥ 52% | 2021 | 49% Indicator is impacted by the average project cost in a fiscal year. Investments in large dollar value projects limits the number of communities that we can support in a particular fiscal year. | Not met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 52% | 2022 | 95.9% | Met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 52% | 2023 | 75% Previous reported results for 2020-21 and 2021-22 have been updated to reflect a newly established calculation methodology. They have since been determined as 77% for 2020-21 (previously 95.5%) and 73% for 2021-22 (previously 49%). The decrease in percentage is due to the change in the total number of communities. | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | — | $209M |
| 2020-21 | $267M | $275M |
| 2021-22 | $191M | $267M |
| 2022-23 | $314M | $368M |
| 2023-24 | $300M* | — |
| 2024-25 | $301M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | — | 330 |
| 2020-21 | 403 | 414 |
| 2021-22 | 399 | 419 |
| 2022-23 | 444 | 426 |
| 2023-24 | 435* | — |
| 2024-25 | 426* | — |
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 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 plan | $266,854,570 | $167,723,141 | $173,443,251 | ||
| 2021-22 plan | $191,460,769 | $194,713,941 | $172,041,591 | ||
| 2022-23 plan | $313,939,768 | $300,463,342 | $301,296,536 | ||
| Actual | $274,982,833 | $267,048,338 | $367,818,570 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
