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.
$100,000.00
Jun 1, 2026
For-profit organization
Next-Generation Interactive AI for Policing, Corrections and Other Vulnerable Communities in Health and Immigration
1043927
Duologue Systems will develop next-generation AI for policing, corrections, and vulnerable populations. Key activities include: building adversarial-safe guardrails and novel benchmarking for Hapi for Policing; deploying offline edge AI for corrections environments; integrating WhatsApp voice AI for low-literacy and newcomer users; fine-tuning open-source models on client data; and advancing a formal patent. This work advances Canadian AI sovereignty, creates specialized jobs, and strengthens social infrastructure for marginalized communities.
$75,000.00
Mar 26, 2026
For-profit organization
Project Hapi: Dual-Use AI SMS Helpline for Field Readiness and Personnel Support
1040976
This project explores defence and dual-use applications of Hapi, an AI-powered SMS text service. Hapi delivers immediate resource navigation without requiring internet access. For Canada's defence, this addresses the strategic challenge of reliable communications in low-bandwidth environments, enabling personnel to securely locate logistics or mental health resources. The project evaluates Hapi's architecture, specifically its real-time analytics dashboard, for command intelligence. It also defines the security standards and certifications needed to deploy this Canadian-hosted technology within defence networks
$30,475.00
Feb 17, 2025
For-profit organization
IP Assist: L2 & L3
1028003
The project will support development of intellectual property capacity within the firm.
$74,760.00
Feb 16, 2025
For-profit organization
AI Assist: Next-Generation Interactive Knowledge Base for Multi-Sector Applications
1027880
Duologue Systems is a startup dedicated to developing advanced interactive knowledge bases that deliver structured and personalized information across organizational, cultural, educational, and other domains. Building on our foundational work, we aim to revolutionize how niche expertise is accessed and utilized by integrating sophisticated AI and natural language processing technologies. Our mission is to create specialized conversational AI models that capture the specificity and voice of experts in various industries, filling a critical gap left by generalized AI models.
$24,000.00
May 1, 2024
For-profit organization
Building Duo System Interactive Knowledge Base
1017407
The core deliverable of this project is to select, test, train and deploy a working artificial intelligence natural language processing model that can be purpose fit for a variety of niche topics and related expertise. Current conversational AI models, although very powerful, are generalized and lack the specificity and voice of an expert or expert resources present in a given industry. A first step to recreating these expert voices is selecting a general model that can be purpose built and trained on corpus, vocabulary, and text related to a specific niche quickly.