Program directory · Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada
Smart Cities Challenge
- Program code
- BTK11 (OICC)
- Core responsibility
- Public Infrastructure
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2020-21 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
The Smart Cities Challenges is part of a number of policy innovation initiatives announced in Budget 2017 to rely on challenge-based approaches, to solve big challenges facing Canadians and their communities. The Smart Cities Challenge is advanced by INFC under the auspices of the Privy Council Office’s Impact Canada Initiative (ICI). Specifically, the Smart Cities Challenge will allocate its budget of $300 million over 10 years, starting in 2017-18, to encourage communities of all sizes from across the country take bold action to improve outcomes for their residents by applying a smart cities approach that leverages connected technologies and data. The Challenge model incents communities to adopt a multi-sectoral approach to problem solving. The process requires the full engagement of residents, while requiring that communities mobilize themselves to overcome historic institutional barriers to innovation.
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).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smart Cities Challenge | This program | 2018-19 – 2022-23 | $50.9M |
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 | Indicators dropped: Percentage of finalists that establish multi-stakeholder and/or cross-sectoral partnerships (4 out of 5 of the following: private sector, non-profits, public utilities, research/ academic and community organizations) | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2020-21 | Spending $32.6M, against $8.9M in 2019-20 (+267%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2022-23 | Planned spending $62.3M, against $32.4M in 2021-22 (+92%). | 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
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | 13 – 13 | 2020 | 13 | Met |
| 2020-21 | 13 – 13 | 2021 | — Data not available | No result reported |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | ≥ 80% | 2020 | 87% | Met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 80% | 2021 | — Data not available | No result reported |
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | Range of very small (<1000 residents) to very large (>500,000 residents) | 2020 | Range of population: 185 residents to 2.5M residents | Met |
| 2020-21 | Range of very small (<1000 residents) to very large (>500,000 residents) | 2021 | Data not available Data not available | No result reported |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | ≥ 80% | 2020 | 75% Target not met | Not 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $9.8M | $9.4M |
| 2019-20 | $10.2M | $8.9M |
| 2020-21 | $30.1M | $32.6M |
| 2021-22 | $32.4M* | — |
| 2022-23 | $62.3M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 15 | 19 |
| 2019-20 | 18 | 23 |
| 2020-21 | 22 | 21 |
| 2021-22 | 17* | — |
| 2022-23 | 17* | — |
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 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $9,750,000 | $11,500,000 | $19,500,948 | ||
| 2019-20 plan | $10,236,906 | $24,754,666 | $30,285,558 | ||
| 2020-21 plan | $30,143,751 | $32,416,863 | $62,285,448 | ||
| Actual | $9,367,234 | $8,886,376 | $32,606,682 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
