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.
$20,000.00
Mar 28, 2018
400053231
400053231
Acquisition of equipment: The project aims to improve services of a key accomodation infrastructure in the main Inuit community by acquiring multimedia and Wi-Fi equipment in addition to making leasehold improvements.
$100,000.00
Mar 28, 2018
400053608
400053608
Promotional activities: The project aims to strengthen the attractiveness of the Charlevoix region's tourism.
$360,000.00
Mar 28, 2018
400053695
400053695
Operating costs : The three-year project aims to support the organization that assists SMEs in their efforts to diversify and develop markets.
$660,000.00
Mar 28, 2018
400053737
400053737
Operating costs : The three-year project aims to support the organization that assists SMEs in their market diversification and development efforts.
$20,000.00
Mar 28, 2018
Aboriginal recipient
400053231
400053231
Acquisition of equipment: The project aims to improve services of a key accomodation infrastructure in the main Inuit community by acquiring multimedia and Wi-Fi equipment in addition to making leasehold improvements.
$500,000.00
Mar 28, 2018
For-profit organization
400053023
400053023
Starting an innovative business: The project aims to start up an innovative company that specializes in the manufacture of haematuria screening tests for cats.
$45,000.00
Mar 28, 2018
For-profit organization
400053628
400053628
Business startup: The project is aimed at starting up a business providing tourist services (accommodation, restaurants, outdoor services).
$260,018.00
Mar 28, 2018
Academia
CubeSat NB - VIOLET
17CCPUNNB1
CubeSat NB will provide new insights into the behaviour of Earth's upper atmosphere including the ionosphere. It will receive signals transmitted by global navigation satellite systems, such as GPS, and they travel through the ionosphere and are affected by it. Researchers will be able to use the data to further study how the ionosphere changes from place to place over time as well as how it responds to space weather. Significant space weather events can interfere with communications systems and electrical grids. CubeSat NB will additionally carry three cameras. Two cameras will allow the team to study the distribution of oxygen in the upper atmosphere, capturing images of the red and green light oxygen atoms given off during aurora and airglow events. The images will be used to examine the varying composition of the ionosphere and its response to solar storms. The third camera will be used to take images of Earth's surface for Earth science and meteorology applications. Knowledge of Earth's oceans is critical to understanding climate change.
The New Brunswick CubeSat will be jointly built with the University of Moncton and the New Brunswick Community College (NBCC) campus in Saint John.
$319,151.00
Mar 28, 2018
Academia
Western University CubeSat Project
17CCPWES20
Western University in partnership with Nunavut Arctic College's CubeSat will conduct a flight-test with a novel imaging system for engineering technology demonstration with the potential to provide virtual reality-ready images. This imaging system has future applications in Earth observation and space exploration. Testing will demonstrate imaging modes for different in-orbit functions. By taking CubeSat operations into the classroom, it will help enhance the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) outreach program of the Western University's Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX). This will include student from Southwestern Ontario schools and Nunavut Arctic College. Remote access to the CubeSat will facilitate live demonstrations of how to send commands and how to interpret data received. These activities will complement the existing classroom activities and build upon previous work developed at Western in enabling remote access to laboratory equipment.
The Western University and Nunavut Arctic College CubeSat Project will be developed in collaboration with Canadensys and MDA.
$275,412.00
Mar 28, 2018
Academia
ORCA2SAT: Optical and Radio Calibration of Atmospheric Attenuation CubeSat
17CCPVIC19
ORCA²Sat will develop and test new advancements in technology to better understand “dark energy”, and enigmatic form of energy making up 75% of the universe believed to cause the universe to expand at an accelerating rate. Operating with two payloads, this CubeSat will calibrate a number of both optical and radio observatories in an effort to reduce uncertainties associated with measurements of the universal expansion rate. These calibrated measurements may provide new insights into the nature of dark energy and the universal expansion rate.
ORCA²Sat is to be developed in collaboration with Simon Frasier University, the University of British Colombia, the Technical University of Lisbon in Portugal, Harvard University in the USA, the National Research Council, and Space Systems Loral based in the USA.