Program directory · Natural Resources Canada

Pest Risk Management

Department

Natural Resources Canada

Program code

BTL07 (NR)

Core responsibility

Natural Resource Science and Risk Mitigation

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

This program delivers science-based solutions to address forest pest issues that have, or could have, significant negative impacts on Canadian forest values, resources, and trade of forest products across domestic and international borders. The program integrates research on native and invasive alien forest pest issues and focuses on the science and technology required for evidence-based forest pest management policies and practices in the federal government and for pest management organizations across Canada. Authoritative expertise and advice is provided and sustainable forest development and use of Canada’s forest is promoted.

Pest outbreaks impact the wood fibre supply and could act differently under changing climate conditions. Similarly, the globalization in the movement of goods and people coupled with the limits in the efficacy of risk mitigation measures suggest that exotic forest pests will continue to be introduced in Canada and will have negative environmental, social and economic impacts. Key stakeholders include federal, provincial and territorial governments, organizations involved in pest management, including the forest products sector.

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).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

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.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

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.