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Heritage Canals, Highways and Townsites Management

Department
Parks Canada
Program code
AHC00 (PCA)
Core responsibility
Canadians have a strong sense of connection to their national parks, national historic sites, heritage canals, and national marine conservation areas and these protected places are experienced in ways that leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of present and future generations.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2010-11 – 2017-18

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2010-11. 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).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Heritage Canals, Highways and Townsites Management 2010-11: $162MHeritage Canals, Highways and Townsites Management 2011-12: $104MHeritage Canals, Highways and Townsites Management 2012-13: $91.8MHeritage Canals, Highways and Townsites Management 2013-14: $119MHeritage Canals, Highways and Townsites Management 2014-15: $136MHeritage Canals, Highways and Townsites Management 2015-16: $272MHeritage Canals, Highways and Townsites Management 2016-17: $310MHeritage Canals, Highways and Townsites Management 2017-18: $351MHeritage Canals, Highways and Townsites Management
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
Heritage Canals, Highways and Townsites ManagementThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$1.55B

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
2011-12Spending $104M, against $162M in 2010-11 (−36%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2013-14Spending $119M, against $91.8M in 2012-13 (+29%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2014-15Employees (FTEs) 293, against 236 in 2013-14 (+24%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2015-16Spending $272M, against $136M in 2014-15 (+100%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2013-14: $119M2013-142014-15: $136M2014-152015-16: $272M2015-162016-17: $310M2016-172017-18: $351M2017-18
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
2013-14—$119M
2014-15—$136M
2015-16—$272M
2016-17—$310M
2017-18—$351M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 2502013-14: 2362013-142014-15: 2462014-15: 2932014-152015-16: 3232015-16: 2912015-162016-17: 3002016-17: 3242016-172017-18: 3182017-18: 3332017-18
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
2013-14250236
2014-15246293
2015-16323291
2016-17300324
2017-18318333

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
Actual

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