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.
$5,625,271.00
Mar 18, 2016
Multi-year contribution agreement for fiscal years 2014/15 to 2015/16. Amendment in the amount of $31,490.
$500,572.00
Mar 18, 2016
Multi-year contribution agreement for fiscal years 2014/15 to 2016/17. Amendment in the amount of $139,033.
$13,698,904.00
Mar 18, 2016
Multi-year contribution agreement for fiscal years 2014/15 to 2016/17. Amendment in the amount of $4,170,013.
$6,222,875.00
Mar 18, 2016
Multi-year contribution agreement for fiscal years 2014/15 to 2016/17. Amendment in the amount of $2,240,689.
$941,387.00
Mar 18, 2016
Multi-year contribution agreement for fiscal years 2015/16 to 2016/17. Amendment in the amount of $41,740.
$250,000.00
Mar 18, 2016
Monies allocated over more than one fiscal year;Repayable Contribution
$450,000.00
Mar 18, 2016
Monies allocated over more than one fiscal year;Repayable Contribution
$494,512.00
Mar 18, 2016
This project entitled «Prototyping of a compact hyperspectral imager» consists of designing and building a prototype of a small, simple hyperspectral imager providing a fine spatial resolution and offering a cost effective solution for satellite constellations. ABB Inc. will also make laboratory measurements of the prototype performance to confirm the hyperspectral imager design approach and validate the suitability and maturity of the underlying technologies.
$499,983.00
Mar 18, 2016
This project entitled « Cosmology from the Stratosphere: Gravitational waves and Gravitational lensing with Spider and SuperBIT » aims to develop and fly the Spider and SuperBIT telescopes. Spider will search for gravitational waves from moments after the Big Bang, providing a unique view of the early Universe. SuperBIT, by providing large images of distant galaxies with detail comparable to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, will help to probe the distribution of dark matter through distortions in space caused by gravity.
Although the capabilities of current conventional balloon platforms provide some of the benefits of space- based observations, the unique combination of sub-arc second stability for long exposure and wide-field observations over nearly one hundred nights would represent a fundamentally new capability, and for astrophysics at optical wavelengths in general. SuperBIT will usher in an era of low-cost, frequent access to space-like observing conditions that will benefit a wide range of astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology objectives.
$500,000.00
Mar 18, 2016
This project entitled « , AVATARS: Arctic Validation And Training for Atmospheric Research in Space » will use the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) at Eureka, Nunavut as a “space station on the ground”, enhancing its instruments and contributing to the validation of data from current and upcoming space missions. The project will include the development of techniques for remote operation and automation of instruments, improved data analysis, and the use of PEARL atmospheric measurements to validate global satellite data products.
This project will be contributing to the development of hardware and software for atmospheric remote sounding and new and improved retrieval strategies for trace gases, aerosols, and clouds. It will also enable participation in new validation efforts associated with OCO-2 and TROPOMI and possibly with future missions such as China's carbon dioxide observation satellite TanSat.