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.
$867,335,000.00
Apr 1, 2025
Government
Canada-Québec Accord Grant
Q262010001
One time Financial grant towards managing asylum claimants, including irregular migration, in recognition of extraordinary or incremental costs incurred.
$867,335,000.00
Apr 1, 2026
Government
Canada-Québec Accord Grant
Q272010001
One time Financial grant towards managing asylum claimants, including irregular migration, in recognition of extraordinary or incremental costs incurred.
$864,309,000.00
Apr 1, 2019
Income Replacement Benefit
$850,901,210.00
Feb 22, 2016
British Columbia Highways Umbrella Agreement
Various Highway projects in British Columbia.
$849,898,008.55
Apr 1, 2024
Aboriginal recipient
2425-AB-000007
2425-AB-000007
Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)
$834,850,885.00
Jun 29, 2026
Government
Scarborough Subway Extension
A three-stop subway that would connect to Line 2 at Kennedy Station and follow Eglinton Avenue East, Danforth Road and McCowan Avenue to Sheppard Avenue East, with proposed stations at Lawrence Avenue East, Scarborough Centre and Sheppard Avenue East. The project is required to improve transit connections between Scarborough and other rapid transit systems, and to replace the current Scarborough RT system, which will reach the end of its useful life in 2023.
$828,493,161.00
Apr 10, 2018
Government
Canada-Nova Scotia Integrated Bilateral Agreement for the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program
A contribution to support medium- and large-scale infrastructure priorities, as well as small rural and northern communities.
$799,112,227.00
Jun 29, 2026
Government
Eglinton Crosstown West Extension
The project will provide a rapid transit connection from the western terminus of the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (ECLRT) to the Mississauga’s MiWay Bus Rapid Transit service at Renforth Gateway in Mississauga. The project will create a single rapid transit connection from Kennedy Station in Scarborough through to Mississauga and will address the following issues: i) increased coverage, access and network resilience; and ii) community growth and development. The project scope includes new construction of a 9 kilometre, double-track, transit alignment with approximately 7 kilometres of tunnelled sections and the rest of the alignment above-grade and at-grade. The project will result in improved capacity of public transit infrastructure, improved quality and/or safety of existing or future transit systems and access to the public transit system in Toronto, Ontario. The project will also result in increased access to clean energy transportation.
$797,137,038.00
Jun 29, 2026
Government
Yonge North Subway Extension
The Yonge North Subway Extension is an 8 kilometre extension of the TTC’s Line 1 from Finch Station in Toronto to the Richmond Hill/Langstaff Gateway Urban Growth Centre at Highway 7 in Richmond Hill. The project is required to relieve crowding and delays on bus services on Yonge Street; improve connections with TTC bus services; and to support growth in North York and York Region.
$785,193,847.00
Dec 18, 2018
Government
511239
511239
Contribution agreement with the Government of Ontario under the Post-Secondary Institutions Strategic Investment Fund for infrastructure projects at post-secondary institutions to enhance and modernize research and commercialization facilities, as well as industry-relevant training facilities at colleges and polytechnic institutions in Canada.