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New Building Canada Fund - Funding Allocations for Provinces and Territories

Program code
BTK06 (OICC)
Core responsibility
Public Infrastructure
In Departmental Plans
2018-19 – 2020-21 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

The New Building Canada Fund - Provincial-Territorial Infrastructure Component is comprised of two sub-components: 1) Funding for National and Regional Projects, and 2) Small Communities Fund. The National and Regional Projects targets projects of national and regional significance that contribute to, particularly those with a strong impact on economic growth, a clean environment and stronger communities. In total, $9 billion has been allocated to the National and Regional Projects. The Small Communities Fund targets municipal projects in communities with a population of less than 100,000 people. In total, close to $1 billion has been allocated to the Small Communities Fund.

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).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-23New Building Canada Fund - Funding Allocations for Provinces and Territories 2018-19: $749MNew Building Canada Fund - Funding Allocations for Provinces and Territories 2019-20: $1.08BNew Building Canada Fund - Funding Allocations for Provinces and Territories 2020-21: $1.13BNew Building Canada Fund - Funding Allocations for Provinces and Territories 2021-22: $1.95BNew Building Canada Fund - Funding Allocations for Provinces and Territories 2022-23: $1.68BNew Building Canada Fund - Funding Allocations for Provinces…
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
New Building Canada Fund - Funding Allocations for Provinces and TerritoriesThis program2018-19 – 2022-23$2.96B

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.

YearWhat changedSource
2019-20Spending $1.08B, against $749M in 2018-19 (+44%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2020-21Indicators dropped: % of funding expended on the Public Transit category of projectsDepartmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase)
2021-22Planned spending $1.95B, against $1.13B in 2020-21 (+72%).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.

Historical: targets against results

No results reported yet.

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

2018-19: $821M2018-19: $749M2018-192019-20: $1.24B2019-20: $1.08B2019-202020-21: $1.65B2020-21: $1.13B2020-212021-22: $1.95B2021-222022-23: $1.68B2022-23
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
2018-19$821M$749M
2019-20$1.24B$1.08B
2020-21$1.65B$1.13B
2021-22$1.95B*—
2022-23$1.68B*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 452018-19: 472018-192019-20: 472019-20: 432019-202020-21: 472020-21: 462020-212021-22: 372021-222022-23: 372022-23
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
2018-194547
2019-204743
2020-214746
2021-2237*—
2022-2337*—

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.