Glossary
Acquisition (Acquisition) - can mean the
following: a transaction that adds new real property to the
federal inventory by purchase, lease, exchange, gift, easement,
expropriation, or any other means, such as the acceptance of the
surrender of a lease or the acceptance of the relinquishment of a
licence or easement; a transfer of administration of real
property from a department or an agent Crown corporation to a
department; or a transfer of administration and control of real
property to the federal government.
Administration (Gestion) - refers to the
stewardship between a department and the real property that it
uses for its program purposes and for which it is
accountable.
Annual consideration (Versement annuel) - in
relation to a lease or licence, means the total consideration
divided by the length of the term in years.
Appraisal (Évaluation) - means an adequately
supported written opinion of the market value of the real
property on a specified date that evaluates the real property
rights involved according to accepted appraisal practices, and is
obtained from, and signed by, a person who is a real property
appraiser accredited by a provincial, national, or international
real property appraisal organization, or who is experienced as an
appraiser of real property and is either established in a real
property-related business or employed in the federal Public
Service. Appraisals may be provided in writing either in a letter
or form report. The meaning of 'appraisal' includes 'estimate',
except where there is a differentiation between them. Where an
applicable statute, regulation or authority defines appraisal
differently, that different definition shall apply.
Brownfields
(Sites de friches industrielles)
-
"Idle or underused properties where past activities
have caused environmental contamination but which nevertheless
exhibit good potential for other uses (or upgrading) and which
provide economically viable business opportunities. They are
mainly located in established urban areas, where existing
municipal services are readily available, or along transportation
corridors" (adapted from the 1998 report entitled State of the
Debate on the Environment and the Economy: Greening Canada's
Brownfield Sites, by the National Round Table on the
Environment and the Economy).
Classified heritage building (Édifice du patrimoine
classé) - means a federal building to which the Minister of
Canadian Heritage has assigned the highest heritage
designation.
Contaminated Site (Site
contaminé) - a site at which substances occur at
concentrations (1) above background levels and pose (or are
likely to pose) an immediate or long-term risk to human health or
the environment, or (2) exceeding levels specified in relevant
policies or regulations.
Custodian department (Ministère ayant la garde de
biens immobiliers) - means a department whose Minister has
administration of real property for the purposes of that
department's programs.
Custody transfer (Transfert de la garde des biens
immobiliers) - means a transfer of administration of real
property that supports an adjustment to or transfer of program
accountability, such as transfers to support the government's
reassignment of program responsibility; transfers to support
government restructuring; or transfers to recognize a more
appropriate custodian (usually the existing federal tenant).
Department (Ministère) - means a department or
agency to which the policy in question applies. See the
Application section of each policy for details.
Disposition (Aliénation) - means a transaction
that alienates real property by sale, lease, exchange, gift,
easement, or any other means, such as the surrender of a lease or
the relinquishment of a licence or easement; a transfer of
administration of real property from one department to another
department or an agent Crown corporation; or a transfer of
administration and control of real property from the federal
government.
Estimate (Estimation) - means a written opinion
of the value of an interest in real property as of a specified
date that evaluates the property rights involved and is obtained
from, and signed by, a person experienced in real estate who is
established in a real estate-related business such as real estate
appraisal, banking, real estate brokerage, real estate sales,
real property management or timber rights surveying, or is
employed in the federal Public Service. The meaning of 'estimate'
includes opinions consequent to market rental surveys or analyses
such as are sometimes carried out in support of leasing and
licensing transactions. Estimates may be provided in the form of
short notes or letters of opinion.
Incremental costs (Coûts différentiels) - means
costs incurred as a result of an action, that is, costs that
would not have been incurred had the action not been carried out.
For example, in a letting, it means any costs that result from
the letting activity, including any additional operation and
maintenance costs and any costs of servicing the real property to
make it more suitable for letting.
Investment (Investissement) - means the use of
financial resources to acquire real property assets, through
traditional capital expenditures, lease or lease-purchase, and
expenditures for the maintenance, preservation and disposal of
such real property assets.
Licence (Permis) - means any right of use or
occupation of real property that is not an interest in land.
Management (Gestion) -
the spectrum of possible approaches available for dealing with a
known contaminated site. "Management" includes, but is not
limited to, one or more of the following: monitored natural
attenuation, warnings, restrictions to site access, change in
land usage, isolation of contaminants from human and ecological
receptors (contaminant stabilization, barrier walls, capping),
interim remediation, partial remediation, phased remediation,
full remediation, remediation in any of the previous approaches
to varying standards (industrial, commercial, agricultural,
residential/parkland), postpone action until activity stops, etc.
"Management" also includes the concept of "risk management".
Market value (Valeur marchande) - means the
estimated amount that would be paid for the real property rights
or licence being acquired or disposed of if the real property or
licence were offered on the open market by a willing seller and
allowing for a reasonable period of exposure in a manner that
would attract interest.
Minister (Ministre) - in relation to a
department, means the Minister who, under the Financial
Administration Act, is the appropriate Minister with respect to
that department.
Portfolio(Portefeuille) -
the bundling of properties administered by a single department,
or the bundling of properties under the administration of
different departments.
Real property (Biens
immobiliers) - means any right, interest or benefit in land,
which includes mines, minerals and improvements on, above or
below the surface of the land.
Recognized heritage building
(Édifice du patrimoine reconnu) - means a federal building
to which the Minister of Canadian Heritage has assigned the
second highest heritage designation.
Remediation
(Assainissement)
-
the improvement of
a contaminated site to prevent, minimize, or mitigate damage to
human health or the environment; remediation involves the
development and application of a planned approach that monitors,
removes, destroys, contains, or otherwise reduces the exposure of
contaminants to receptors of concern.
Risk Management
(Gestion des risques) -
the selection and implementation of a strategy of control of risk,
followed by monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of that strategy;
it may include direct remedial actions or other strategies that
reduce the probability, intensity, frequency, or duration of the
exposure to contamination.
Sustainable development
(Développement durable) - means development that ensures
that:
- the use of resources and the
environment today does not damage prospects for their use by
future generations; and
- the management of our economic system
maintains or improves our resource and environmental base.
Term (Durée) - means the
term of a lease or licence and includes the term of any renewal
of that lease or licence.
Total consideration (Versement
total) - in relation to a lease or licence, means the total
consideration payable under a lease by the tenant to the landlord
or under a licence by the licensee to the licensor, during the
term of the lease or licence. For leases or licences where all or
part of the consideration is based on revenue or otherwise
unquantifiable, a reasonable estimate of the total consideration
should be used.
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