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Major Bridges and Projects

Program code
BYT05 (OICC)
Core responsibility
Public Transit, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Community Building
In Departmental Plans
2025-26 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

Provide policy recommendations, disburse funds and ensure sound stewardship of major bridges federal assets and projects.

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

History and lineage

First appears in the Departmental Plans in 2025-26. 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).

2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-272027-282028-29Major Bridges Oversight 2021-22: $83.9MMajor Bridges Oversight 2022-23: $83MMajor Bridges Oversight 2023-24: $86MMajor Bridges Oversight 2024-25: $85.4MMajor Bridges Oversight 2025-26: $105MMajor Bridges Oversight 2026-27: $77.8MMajor Bridges Investment 2021-22: $428Major Bridges Investment 2023-24: $770KMajor Bridges Investment 2024-25: $2.3MMajor Bridges Investment 2025-26: $10KMajor Bridges Investment 2026-27: $10KMajor Bridges Policy 2021-22: $529KMajor Bridges Policy 2022-23: $604KMajor Bridges Policy 2023-24: $826KMajor Bridges Policy 2024-25: $762KMajor Bridges Policy 2025-26: $9.8MMajor Bridges Policy 2026-27: $0Major Bridges and Projects 2025-26: $143MMajor Bridges and Projects 2026-27: $177MMajor Bridges and Projects 2027-28: $101MMajor Bridges and Projects 2028-29: $93.4MMajor Bridges OversightMajor Bridges InvestmentMajor Bridges PolicyMajor Bridges and Projects
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
Major Bridges OversightEarlier program (name match, low confidence)2021-22 – 2026-27$338M
Major Bridges InvestmentEarlier program (name match, medium confidence)2021-22 – 2026-27$3M
Major Bridges PolicyEarlier program (name match, low confidence)2021-22 – 2026-27$2.7M
Major Bridges and ProjectsThis program2025-26 – 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
2025-26Appears to combine earlier programs: Major Bridges Oversight; Major Bridges Investment; Major Bridges PolicyCanada Spends name match across plans (an inference)
2027-28Planned spending $101M, against $177M in 2026-27 (−43%).Latest Departmental Plan
2028-29Planned employees (FTEs) 10, against 45 in 2027-28 (−78%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)

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

Percentage of the monitored operations, maintenance and rehabilitation (OMR) criteria assessed that are in compliance with the project agreement requirements
Expected result: Effective delivery, oversight and support of major bridges and projects by ensuring the availability of necessary resources and securing required authorizations, while also maintaining compliance with agreements, Corporate Plans and authorities
80%2026-27

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2026-27≥ 80%2027—Planned
Percentage of the project authority operations, maintenance and rehabilitation (OMR) monitoring plan achieved/completed
Expected result: Effective delivery, oversight and support of major bridges and projects by ensuring the availability of necessary resources and securing required authorizations, while also maintaining compliance with agreements, Corporate Plans and authorities
80%2026-27

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2026-27≥ 80%2027—Planned
Ratio of Samuel De Champlain Bridge Corridor non-compliance reports opened by the Private Partner, Signature on the Saint Lawrence, versus HICC
Expected result: Effective delivery, oversight and support of major bridges and projects by ensuring the availability of necessary resources and securing required authorizations, while also maintaining compliance with agreements, Corporate Plans and authorities
Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2026-271:10 ratio2027—Planned

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2025-26: $143M2025-262026-27: $177M2026-272027-28: $101M2027-282028-29: $93.4M2028-29
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
2025-26$143M—
2026-27$177M—
2027-28$101M*—
2028-29$93.4M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2025-26: 572025-262026-27: 462026-272027-28: 452027-282028-29: 102028-29
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
2025-2657—
2026-2746—
2027-2845*—
2028-2910*—

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

Plan2025-262026-272027-282028-29
2025-26 plan$142,711,797$178,911,056$103,085,302
2026-27 plan$176,609,297$100,546,102$93,357,777
Actual

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