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Alternative Financing Oversight

Program code
BYB03 (OICC)
Core responsibility
Public Infrastructure and Communities Investment Stewardship and Delivery
In Departmental Plans
2021-22 – 2024-25 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

Oversight and monitoring are conducted on alternative financing

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2021-22. 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).

2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-272027-282028-29Alternative Financing Oversight 2021-22: $90.4MAlternative Financing Oversight 2022-23: $8.1MAlternative Financing Oversight 2023-24: $241MAlternative Financing Oversight 2024-25: $1.5MAlternative Financing Oversight 2025-26: $1.2MAlternative Financing Oversight 2026-27: $916KAlternative Financing 2025-26: $8.1MAlternative Financing 2026-27: $7.9MAlternative Financing 2027-28: $7.9MAlternative Financing 2028-29: $7.7MAlternative Financing OversightAlternative Financing
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
Alternative Financing OversightThis program2021-22 – 2026-27$341M
Alternative FinancingLater program (name match, medium confidence)2025-26 – 2028-29—

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
2022-23Spending $8.1M, against $90.4M in 2021-22 (−91%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2023-24Spending $241M, against $8.1M in 2022-23 (+2876%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2024-25Spending $1.5M, against $241M in 2023-24 (−99%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2025-26Appears to be replaced by Alternative FinancingCanada 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

Number of economic updates
Expected result: Oversight and monitoring are conducted on alternative financing
562021-22✓ met522022-23✓ met522023-24✓ met522024-25✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2021-22≥ 40202256Met
2022-23≥ 40202352Met
2023-24≥ 40202452Met
2024-25≥ 50202552Met

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

2021-22: $2.3M2021-22: $90.4M2021-222022-23: $1.2M2022-23: $8.1M2022-232023-24: $13.8M2023-24: $241M2023-242024-25: $1.2M2024-25: $1.5M2024-252025-26: $1.2M2025-262026-27: $916K2026-27
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
2021-22$2.3M$90.4M
2022-23$1.2M$8.1M
2023-24$13.8M$241M
2024-25$1.2M$1.5M
2025-26$1.2M*—
2026-27$916K*—

Employees (FTEs)

2021-22: 152021-22: 62021-222022-23: 62022-23: 62022-232023-24: 62023-24: 112023-242024-25: 102024-25: 112024-252025-26: 102025-262026-27: 82026-27
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
2021-22156
2022-2366
2023-24611
2024-251011
2025-2610*—
2026-278*—

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.