Grants and Contributions
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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.
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Airborne Standoff Quantum Sensing of Pipeline Methane Leaks
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Emission of methane, a greenhouse gas, is a major contributor to climate change. Natural gas and oil pipeline leaks account for about 30% of methane emission. Early detection and mitigation of leaks will reduce emission, benefit the environment, and reduce energy costs. Sensor carrying aircraft are utilized for pipeline monitoring, since they can quickly cover the vast and remote areas over which pipelines are spread. The Project team plan to combine upconversion detection of mid-infrared light with threshold quantum photon number resolving detection. Mid-infrared sensing light is converted into near-infrared light, which can be detected with a thresholded quantum photon number resolving detector. Such detection has been shown to provide a quantum advantage in signal-to-noise ratio when detecting fewphoton laser light in the presence of thermal background (such as solar radiation), due to the difference in the quantum properties of laser and thermal light