Grants and Contributions
About this information
In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.
The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.
Included in this category, but not to be reported under proactive disclosure of awards, are (1) transfers to other levels of government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer payments. (2) Grants and contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by the recipient to third parties; and (3) information that would normally be withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.
$998,000.00
Jul 5, 2022
Access to legal services in perinatal and early childhood
12228858
This project aims to provide legal resources, services and advice to pregnant racialized women and their families living in vulnerable situations. Workshops will be designed to enable their clients to become familiar with legal issues, procedures and justice systems and to understand how to navigate them.
$198,150.00
Jul 5, 2022
Northwest Territories Rural Wills Initiative
12225211
The project aims to provide wills and incapacity planning supports to members of communities within the Northwest Territories with little to no access to legal services.
$905,300.00
Jul 5, 2022
First Nations Legal System Navigator
12292802
This project aims to support Yukon First Nation victims of intimate partner violence by hiring First Nation Legal System Navigators. The navigators will travel to Yukon First Nations to provide information about the family law and justice process. They will also provide information, referrals, and accompaniment to family law and restorative justice processes.
$931,650.00
Jul 5, 2022
Legal Advocacy and Solutions for Racialized (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC)) Survivors Experiencing Gendered-based Violence (GBV) and Complex Legal Intersections
12229412
The proposal seeks to identify emerging justice issues by enhancing access to justice for racialized survivors of gendered-based violence.
$973,000.00
Jul 5, 2022
Enhancing Legal Support For Indigenous Communities in Labrador
12228458
The Public Legal Information Association of NL (PLIAN) will hire a Legal Education Coordinator to develop plain language legal information materials on a range of legal topics, in collaboration with PLIAN's Access to Justice Coordinator for Labrador, Indigenous Governments, Indigenous organizations, legal stakeholders and community partner organizations in Labrador. PLIAN will also be contracting a roster of private practicing lawyers in the province to travel regularly to the communities of Nunatsiavut, to the Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation in Sheshatshiu, and to the Mushuau Innu First Nation in Natuashish to provide in-person summary legal advice and legal navigation to make access to justice more accessible in those communities.
$999,994.00
Jul 5, 2022
Facilitating Enhanced and Culturally Appropriate Public Legal Education
12262066
Developing Public Legal Education and Information (PLEI) and providing legal services and supports to First Nation communities in Northern Ontario comprising the Nishnawbe Aski Nation.
$469,872.00
Jul 5, 2022
Improving Access to Justice for Indigenous Communities
12224542
The resources created will target a wide range of individuals from high school students to Elders, and will be available in print and online. The objective of this project is to design and deliver culturally relevant, accessible and empowering resources for the communities.
$435,110.00
Jul 5, 2022
A Social Justice Approach to Reintegration
12224543
The Desta Black Youth Network will expand their existing "Re-Entry'' Program supporting the re-integration of incarcerated Black individuals in the community by adding a legal component to assist individuals with their legal needs related to reintegration. The project will also support the development of a special edition of a ''Know Your Rights'' campaign to promote legal knowledge to empower the Black community with resources.
$2,518,445.00
Jul 5, 2022
Expanding Support to Victims of Family Violence Involved in the Family Justice System on PEI
12253936
This project seeks to provide training in family mediation and arbitration in family law cases for legal practitioners while also creating a family justice specialist and navigator positions to support victims of intimate partner violence with concurrent criminal and family matters. The project will support cross-examination services in family law matters, and will develop and implement tools for identification of family violence in family court matters.
$1,644,200.00
Jul 5, 2022
Nova Scotia: Addressing the Impacts of Intimate Partner Violence
12254675
This project will develop an information software program available to family court judges to address the lack of communication between family and criminal court. It will develop a family court support worker model consisting of a team of specialists who will support victims of intimate partner violence and conduct expedited case assessments. Furthermore, the project will implement a model for lawyers to conduct cross-examination in Family Justice cases involving family violence when one or both parties are self-represented.