Program directory · Canada Energy Regulator

Infrastructure, Tolls and Export Applications

Department: Canada Energy Regulator
Program code: BXY01 (NEB)
Core responsibility: Energy Adjudication
In Departmental Plans: 2019-20 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

The Canada Energy Regulator (CER) makes decisions and recommendations, which include impact assessments, on applications to construct, operate, decommission, and abandon pipelines, offshore renewable energy, and international and designated interprovincial power lines. The CER also makes decisions on applications for pipeline tolls and tariffs so that they are just and reasonable, applications for compensation disputes resolution, applications related to oil and gas exploration and drilling activities and infrastructure in certain northern and offshore areas of Canada, and applications for the export of oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids and electricity. Participants in program processes include the applicant, interveners and commenters, or in the case of formal complaints received by the CER, all parties to the complaint.

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).

Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.

Program	Relation	Years with data	Actual spending over those years
Infrastructure, Tolls and Export Applications	Earlier program (name match, high confidence)	2017-18 – 2020-21	$47.7M
Infrastructure, Tolls and Export Applications	This program	2019-20 – 2028-29	$130M

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	Appears to replace Infrastructure, Tolls and Export Applications	Canada Spends name match across plans (an inference)
2021-22	Employees (FTEs) 101, against 127 in 2020-21 (−20%).	FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2022-23	Spending $22M, against $16.2M in 2021-22 (+36%).	Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2025-26	Indicators added: Percentage of communities on the crown list that participate in Crown consultation or hearing processes or indicate that they are not going to participate.; Shippers' rating of the effectiveness and efficiency of the CER's decisions, guidelines, and practices relating to toll and tariff matters.	Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase)
2025-26	Indicators dropped: Percentage of facility hearings where outreach activities meet commitments.; Percentage of shippers that rate the overall quality of pipeline’s services offering and delivery at three or higher on a five-point scale.	Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase)
2026-27	Indicators added: Percentage of adjudication decisions and recommendations that are made within the service standards.	Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase)
2028-29	Planned spending $19.7M, against $26.8M in 2027-28 (−27%).	Latest Departmental Plan

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.