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.
$2,452,950.00
Jul 22, 2021
Government
Science Horizons Canada Green Corp
$27,000.00
Jul 22, 2021
Aboriginal recipient
GIFT LAKE METIS SETTLEMENT Nova Gas Transmission Limited Edson Mainline Expansion Project
NGTLEDSON019
The purpose of this project is to undertake deeper consultations with potentially impacted Indigenous groups on federally-regulated pipeline projects and to support their participation in consultation activities.
$25,000.00
Jul 22, 2021
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Automated Modeling of Spoken Language for Language Proficiency Testing
968564
We will develop automatic systems to evaluate the proficiency of non-native learners of French, considering primarily the acoustic-phonetic aspects of speech, rather than the lexical content. We will focus on measures such as fluency (measured by speaking rate), quality of pronunciation, and intelligibility. Higher-level measures of proficiency such as vocabulary sophistication, grammar and topic development will be left to NRC researchers.To evaluate our chosen measures, we will build our own systems for automatic speech recognition (ASR) for French speech, building in the capability to work well on non-native accents. Using our own system will allow us to access to the internal properties of the system, necessary to determine information such as word-level timings, word-level confidence measures, and the deviation of the user from standard pronunciations at the phonetic level, as well as detecting when the user is speaking.Using the extracted measures as input features, we will train downstream classifiers – such as deep neural networks – to predict human judgments of spoken language proficiency on a collection of recordings from language learners. We will further explore whether these classifiers can be trained in a language-independent way, using a collection from learners of English, for example.
$14,385.00
Jul 22, 2021
For-profit organization
NEURAURA BIOTECH INC.-2021-2022-979920
979920
The purpose of this CanExport Innovation agreement is to support Canadian organizations to carry out activities related to pursuing opportunities that would lead to establishing new collaborative Research and Development (R&D) partnerships between the Recipient and foreign organizations in order to support R&D on the Recipient’s technology and advance its commercialization.
$120,000.00
Jul 22, 2021
Government
000021648
000021648
Design for Rehabilitation of Golden Airport's Airfield Surfaces for Travel Post COVID-19
$1,094,406.00
Jul 22, 2021
Not-for-profit organization or charity
000021407
000021407
Enhance Comox Airport services impacted by COVID-19
$1,094,406.00
Jul 22, 2021
Not-for-profit organization or charity
000021407
000021407
Enhance Comox Airport services impacted by COVID-19
$7,500.00
Jul 22, 2021
Not-for-profit organization or charity
25e Festival des journées d’Afrique : Danses et Rythmes du monde de Québec
1338133
Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage
$31,300.00
Jul 22, 2021
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Symphony in the Summer
1338194
Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage
$41,900.00
Jul 22, 2021
Not-for-profit organization or charity
New Brunswick Highland Games Festival Inc.
1338396
Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage