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Overview of the EDP and UEDI
Funding provided by Western Economic Diversification Canada
1. EDP
The EDP was established as a pilot program with $21.5 million in funding in March 1997. Each of the 86 CFDCs, which then existed, received:
- $50,000 for operating costs ($4.3 million in total). The operating funding could be used for staff and board training, salary costs for an EDP coordinator, marketing, travel and adaptive equipment for persons with disabilities; and
- $200,000 in capital for a loan fund ($17.2 million in total).
In the 1998/99 fiscal year, the initiative was extended for one year using a combination of new funding from WD ($379,292) and a provision that CFDCs could transfer up to $40,000 from their EDP investment fund to operations.
| Year | Funding |
|---|---|
| 1997-1998 | $21,500.000 |
| 1998-1999 | $379,292 |
| 1999-2000 | $2,500,000 |
| 2000-2001 | $1,000,000 |
| 2001-2002 | $1,500,000 |
| 2002-2003 | $1,000,000 |
| 2003-2004 | $500,000 |
| 2004-2005 | $250,000 |
In 1999/00, WD approved $2.5 million to extend the program while a Medium Term Strategy for the Department was being developed. This eventually led to a decision to discontinue the operating support provided to individual CFDCs, effective April 1, 2000.
Beginning in 2001/02, the operating support that had previously been provided to each CFDC was replaced with a centralized pool of funding that is administered by the provincial association that represents CFDCs in each province. The centralized pool has gradually decreased from $1 million annually (BC and Alberta each received $300,000 while Saskatchewan and Manitoba each received $200,000) to $500,000 and now to $250,000 annually (BC and Alberta each receive $75,000 while Saskatchewan and Manitoba each receive $50,000).
2. UEDI
The delivery agencies for the UEDI have received a mixture of capital funding, which is conditionally repayable, and funding for operations which is not repayable. Most of the programs were established with $600,000 in funding, of which $500,000 was for use in a loan fund and $100,000 was for initial operations.
Over time, the delivery organizations received approval to transfer $100,000 from the loan fund to operating funding and have received additional annual funding for program delivery ($75,000 each per year during the past two years).
| Province | 98-00 |
00-01 |
01-02 |
02-03 |
03-04 |
04-05 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | ||||||
| Coast Capital | $250,000 |
$145,000 |
$225,000 |
$50,000 |
$75,000 |
$75,000 |
| VanCity | $250,000 |
$194,950 |
$175,050 |
$50,000 |
$75,000 |
$75,000 |
| Alberta | ||||||
| MCC | $75,078 |
$75,000 |
$75,000 |
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| ACED | $275,000 |
$150,000 |
$184,922 |
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| DESCA | $350,000 |
$200,000 |
$50,000 |
$50,000 |
$75,000 |
$75,000 |
| Saskatchewan | ||||||
| NSILRC | $250,000 |
$50,000 |
$100,000 |
$200,000 |
$75,000 |
$75,000 |
| SSILRC | $75,000 |
$75,000 |
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| Manitoba | ||||||
| ILRC | $429,109 |
$120,891 |
$50,000 |
$50,000 |
$75,000 |
$75,000 |
| Western Canada | ||||||
Total |
$1,804,109 |
$739,950 |
$784,972 |
$475,078 |
$450,000 |
$450,000 |