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Participant Funding

Program code
BXY02 (NEB)
Core responsibility
Energy Adjudication
In Departmental Plans
2019-20 – 2022-23 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

The Canada Energy Regulator (CER) Participant Funding Program provides funding to facilitate the participation of interveners  — and, in particular, the Indigenous Peoples of Canada and Indigenous organizations — in eligible public hearings and any steps leading to those hearings.

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).

2017-182018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-25Participant Funding 2017-18: $8KParticipant Funding 2018-19: $3KParticipant Funding 2019-20: $1.7MParticipant Funding 2020-21: $1.7MParticipant Funding 2019-20: $1.6MParticipant Funding 2020-21: $1.7MParticipant Funding 2021-22: $1.5MParticipant Funding 2022-23: $1.7MParticipant Funding 2023-24: $1.6MParticipant Funding 2024-25: $1.6MParticipant FundingParticipant Funding
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.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Participant FundingEarlier program (name match, high confidence)2017-18 – 2020-21$11K
Participant FundingThis program2019-20 – 2024-25$6.6M

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.

YearWhat changedSource
2019-20Appears to replace Participant FundingCanada Spends name match across plans (an inference)

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

Percentage of applicants who are satisfied with the service provided by the CER in its administration of the Participant Funding Program.
Expected result: Program delivery is timely and efficiently managed.
95%2019-20✓ met100%2020-21✓ met98%2021-22✓ met97%2022-23✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2019-20≥ 80%202095%Met
2020-21≥ 80%2021100%Met
2021-22≥ 80%202298%Met
2022-23≥ 80%202397%Met
Percentage of Participant Funding Program service standards met.
Expected result: Program delivery is timely and efficiently managed.
100%2019-20✓ met100%2020-21✓ met100%2021-22✓ met100%2022-23✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2019-20≥ 80%2020100%Met
2020-21≥ 80%2021100%Met
2021-22≥ 80%2022100%Met
2022-23≥ 80%2023100%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

2019-20: $2.8M2019-20: $1.6M2019-202020-21: $2.7M2020-21: $1.7M2020-212021-22: $2.8M2021-22: $1.5M2021-222022-23: $3.1M2022-23: $1.7M2022-232023-24: $1.6M2023-242024-25: $1.6M2024-25
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2019-20$2.8M$1.6M
2020-21$2.7M$1.7M
2021-22$2.8M$1.5M
2022-23$3.1M$1.7M
2023-24$1.6M*—
2024-25$1.6M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2019-20: 32019-20: 32019-202020-21: 32020-21: 32020-212021-22: 32021-22: 32021-222022-23: 52022-23: 32022-232023-24: 22023-242024-25: 22024-25
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2019-2033
2020-2133
2021-2233
2022-2353
2023-242*—
2024-252*—

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

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.