Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

Program Records

Access to Information Review Task Force
Description: Information relating to the work and administration of the Task Force, including the Terms of Reference of the Task Force.
Note: This information holding will be integrated under the Program Record Number TBS CIO145
Topics: Act –Administration; Committees – Assistant Deputy Minister Advisory Committee, External Advisory Committee; Communications - Briefing Notes, House Cards, Media Coverage, Press Releases, Speeches; Consultations - Departmental, Private Enterprises, Provincial Governments, Public; Correspondence - Incoming, Outgoing, Reports and Recommendations; Research; Submissions - Acknowledgements, Relating to the Act; Terms of Reference; Other Jurisdictions - Countries, Provinces; Questions and Answers; Much of this information is available on the Task Force web site at www.atirtf-geai.gc.ca.
Program Record Number: TBS CIOB 001

Chief Information Officer Branch

Architecture, Standards and Engineering Division
Description: Information on the Architecture, Standards and Engineering Division, Which ensures that the goals of interoperability, common infrastructure/services and business transformation become a reality in Canada by providing architectural leadership across the Government of Canada through a coherent collection of policies, standards, guidelines, frameworks, reference models and support services.
Topics: ASED-business plan, CIO tracking, Committees and Meetings- Communications, Funding, Governance, Policies, Forums-International, National, Liaison-government on-line (GOL), Stewardship, Status reports, Research; Ad Hoc Material, Program Management-General, Architecture Review Board, Core Architecture Team, GC Architectural Framework, GC Standards Framework, Architectural Review Procedures, Standards Review Procedures, Threat and Risk Assessment Procedures, Architecture and Standards Assessment, Architecture and Standards Monitoring; Enterprise Modelling; System Modelling; TBITS; ITS Standards; Architecture-Accessibility, Authentication, Business, Information, IT Communications, Operations, Security, Services; Architecture Pilots; Common Look and Feel (CLF) Architectural Requirements; Open Source Software (OSS); COMPASS; Government Services Reference Model; Secure Message Handling Systems (SMHS); Federated Architecture Program; Application Domain Team; Directories Domain Team; e-Forms Domain Team; Messaging Domain Team; Network Domain Tem; Security Domain Team; Business Transformation Engagement Program (BTEP)-General, Planning, Provisioning Services Evaluation, Services Commissioning/Change/Decommissioning, Historical; BTEP Program Service Delivery-General, Business Problem Assessment, Transformation Business Case Determination, Vision, Strategic Design Alignment Demonstration, Strategies Formulation, GC Business Design, Transformation Implementation Planning, Service Provisioning Delivery (SPD)-general Service Case Management, Service Environment, Service Configuration, Service Evaluation, Service Planning.
Program Record Number: TBS CIO 002

Chief Information Officer
Description: Information related to the mandate and functions of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Government of Canada.
Topics: Auditor General Report; Briefing Notes; Committees-General, Change Management; Communications; Conferences, Meetings, Seminars-bilateral, staff meetings; Liaison-Corporations, Companies, Firms, Departments and Agencies; Organization; Plans and Programs; Presentations-decks, resource centre; Post Y2K-Post Implementation Assessment Reports, departmental readiness group (DRG) project completion, government on-line (GOL), planning presentations, reports, Y2K expenditures, Y2K learning models; Year 2000 (Y2K)-departments and agencies.
Program Record Number: TBS CIO 040

Policy and Service Transformation Sector
Description: Information on the three main streams of activities in the sector: information management, policy (privacy, security, information, proactive disclosure) and service transformation.
Topics: PST contracts, division administration, framework and strategy, governance, liaison-core departments and agencies, international, non-core departments and agencies, information management, Program/project management, GOL material prior to move to PWGSC.
Program Record Number: TBS CIO 999

Information Management Division
Description: Information on the management of information in the Government of Canada including standards, guidelines; principles, best practices, and governance and accountability structures.
Topics: IM strategies and plans services (IMSD)-IM community outreach and communications service, MGI policy implementation and compliance support services metadata service, IM program strategic business design service, Framework for the management of information service; Information Policy-corporate information management; records management.
Program Record Number: TBS CIO 005

Information, Privacy and Security Policy Division
Description: Information on the Information, Privacy and Security Policy Division (IPSPD), which administers information and privacy policies on behalf of the President of the Treasury Board, ensuring consistent application of policies, and providing ongoing advice and interpretation to institutions. The IPSPD is also responsible for providing interpretation and support of the Common Look and Feel Standards to departments; and the annual update to the Info Source publications.
Topics: ISPD Committees: Communications-Internal, External; Database Management; Plans and Priorities; Projects-TBS Policy Suite Review; Web Site-Access to information and privacy policy, common look and feel, proactive disclosure, security policy; Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP); Acts and Legislation-US Patriot; Federal court cases; Access to Information (ATI) administrative reform (2000-2002)-government response, Institutional annual and statistical reports; Legislative reform-ATIA-section 67.1, Privacy Act; 2004 Legislative reform-crown corporations; Advice and Guidance-external, internal; ATIP- Committees-general, ADM Privacy Committee, Internet advisory committee (IAC) Internet forum; Senior ATIP Coordinators Committee (SACC); ATIP Community Development-General, Annual Conference, Awards, Community Meetings, HR Renewal, Training and Development-calendar and notices, institution specific training, lunch and learn sessions, workshops; ATIP-Complaints; ATIP-Cooperation and Liaison-international, federal institutions, specific departments; ATIP-Electronic Management Systems-General, Coordination of Access to Information Requests System (CAIRS); ATIP-Info Source Publications-General, Institutional Chapter Submissions, Sources of Federal Government Information, Sources of Federal Employee Information, Directory of Federal Government Enquiry Points, Access to Information Act and Privacy Bulletin; Program records; ATIP-Personal Information Bank (PIB); ATIP-Policy Development-Access to Information , Common look and feel-general, internet, intranet/extranet, information management, Privacy; Privacy impact assessment (PIA), Proactive disclosure; ATIP-Projects- Info Source Publications Review, consultations, interdepartmental review committee; Social insurance numbers (SIN) and Data Matching; ATIP-general, briefings, and presentations, bulletins, contracts, evaluation, institutions, printing, production and distribution, provinces and other countries, reports; ATIP-Access-general, issues and legislation, register; ATIP-privacy-general, index, issues and legislation; Security-general, business resumption planning (BRP), Implementation, other countries, Personnel screening-personnel policy branch (PPB), Policy-general, comprehensive; Security-Acts and Legislation-General, Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Act-section 29 amendments, Human Rights Act, Security of Information Act (SOIA), Security-Advice and Guidance-External, Internal; Security-Committees-General, Federal Association of security officials, Government Security Policy Steering Committees, Information Technology Standard Committee (ITSC), Advisory committee on physical security (ACOPS); Security-Community development-general, annual conference , departmental security officer (DSO) meetings, security awareness week; Security-co-operation and liaison-federal government institutions, international-general, North Atlantic treaty organization (NATO) Security-Information technology (IT) security-general, public key infrastructure, secure channel; Security –Monitoring and evaluation-general, departmental security office visitations, institutional audits, security audit and self assessment guidelines, security impact analysis studies; Security-Policy and Standards Development-General, Government Security Policy (GSP) 1994; Government Security Policy (GSP) (2002); Security-Research and development, Security incidents, training and development.
Program Record Number: TBS CIO 030

IT/IM Stewardship Division
Description: Information on the IT/IM Stewardship Division, which provides direction on the sound management of Government of Canada IT/IM assets and expenditures and the alignment with Government-wide priorities of departmental IT/IM projects or program/service projects enabled by IT/IM.
Topics: IT/IM Stewardship; IT/IM Assets - General; Assets - Asset Management Systems, Asset Overview, Financial Assets; Shared services; Shared Systems (SS) - General, Administrative systems steering committee (ASSC), Liaisons, Shared system policy, Comptrollership shared system domain; HR shared system domain, IM shared system domain, Shared systems strategy; Stewardship strategies, initiatives and projects (SSIP) - General, Capability maturity model (CMM), Enhanced management framework (EMF), Information technology infrastructure library (ITIL), Office automation (OA) strategy, Strategic management opportunities; Support to TBS activities (TBS) - General, Active Monitoring, Departmental Assessments, Departmental Management Assessment, Departmental project and initiatives.
Program Record Number: TBS CIO 080

Service Transformation Division
Description: Information on the service transformation agenda of the Government of Canada.
Topics: Research and Analysis; Service Strategy Service Delivery-general, improvement-general, facilitation; Service Transformation.
Program Record Number: TBS CIO 063

Strategic Planning and Coordination Division
Description: Information on the Strategic Planning and Coordination Division, which coordinates and supports the work of CIOB interdepartmental committees; develops the branch's contribution to departmental strategic planning exercises and CIOB operational plans; coordinates events and provides liaison services in support of the Chief Information Officer and Deputy Chief Information Officer; and supports the government-wide use of Official Languages in the area of information management and technology.
Topics: Committees-General, Advisory committee for Information Management (ACIM) Architecture Review Board (ARB), Chief Information Officer Council (CIOC),, Electronic service delivery committee (ESDC), GOL Human Resources, GOL Leads, Heads of IT for small departments and agencies, Information Management and Policies Committee (IMPC), Public service chief information officer council, public sector service delivery council (PSSDC), Service and Information Management/Information Technology Management Board (SIMB), Service Transformation Committee (STC), TBSAC Information Management Sub-Committee (TIMS); Conferences, Meetings, Symposia-Heads of IT Conference, Lac Carling, On-Line Executive Summit, Technology in Government Week (GTEC); Strategic Planning-General, CIOB Business Plans, CIOB Decision Tracking Tool (CDTT), Procedures and Backgrounders, Reports and Statistics;
Program Record Number: TBS CIO 175

Comptroller General's Office
Description: Responsible for co-ordinating organizational and administrative requirements for the Office of the Comptroller General.
Topics: General Information relating to Office of the Comptroller General. Active monitoring; Committees, boards, panels conferences, symposia, meetings and task forces - comptrollership council, interdepartmental review panel on comptrollership, modernization task force, standard advisory board, standing committee on public accounts, federal budget input; Government on line (GOL); Liaison - departments agencies, other countries; Presentations; Results for Canadians; Reviews audits and evaluation; Strategic planning (key activities); General information generated by the former Office of the Comptroller General; Auditor general - study of procedures in cost effectiveness (SPICE); Committees; Conferences, meetings and seminars; Parliamentary matters.
Program Record Number: TBS CGO 665

Financial Information Strategy (FIS)(Prior to April 2002)
Description: FIS is a long-term, major project consisting of a series of phased initiatives to address the management and provision of corporate financial information. FIS will implement a new model of accounting in government.
Topics: General Information relating to Financial information strategy; Associations and organizations; Conferences- committees- councils- meetings- symposia; Departments, agencies and crown corporations; Reports and plans; Training and development; Functional requirements; Working groups; Systems; Consultants; OCG/FIS and SSC/FIS Projects.
Program Record Number: TBS CGO 040

Financial Management and Accounting Policy Directorate
Description: Provides the policy framework and advice to support modern comptrollership across the Government of Canada in the areas of financial management policies, Financial Information Strategy (FIS), government accounting policies and standards, management and collection of receivables, external charging.
Topics: General Information on Financial management and accounting; External charging policy; Provinces and territories; Committees; Accounting and control of expenditures; Accounting and control of revenue and accounts receivable –collection of debts due to the Crown-collection methods (revenue guidelines master agreements), deletion of debts due to the crown –standing interdepartmental committee on uncollectible debts, interdepartmental settlements, standing advances Acts-Adjustments of Accounts Act, Financial Administration Act-amendments-section 1-100 (prior to 1985); Alternative service delivery; Banking; Cash management; Cheque issue security and bank losses; Comptrollership; Conferences, meetings and symposiums; Corporate credit cards; Cost recovery; Crown corporations - acts, legislation and regulations; Departmental bank accounts; Departmental enquiries; Ex-gratia payments (up to October 1994) - damage and losses, Grants and contributions; Guide on financial administration for departments and agencies of the Government of Canada; Improvement of management practices and controls; Increased ministerial authority and accountability (IMAA); Liaison - accounting associations; Management of risk - compensation / restoration (up to October 1994) - underwriting; Pay; Payables at year end (PAYE); Petty cash; Projects; Public accounts - capital assets, Canadian institute of chartered accountants / public sector accounting board (CICA/PSAB, International federation of Accountants (IFAC), crown corporations, fixed assets, revolving and working capital advances, standing committee on public accounts, superannuation, valuation of recorded assets; Regulations - loss of money, public officers guarantee; Review of collective agreements; Special Operating Agencies (SOAS); Standard payment period and interest payment policies; Travel; Treasury Board manual on financial management; Annual Canada / US Colloquium on financial management for national governments; Government accounting policy - Accounting standards policies and procedures, Treasury Board Accounting Standards (TBAS), Departmental financial statements, Accrual budgeting and appropriations, chart of accounts, communications and committees - senior management committee, financial reporting, professional accounting associations, public accounts; General information on Financial management policy; Accounting practices; Advisory services; Circular guides and information bulletin maintenance; Claims and ex gratia payments; Committee management; Conference planning; FAA and regulations maintenance; Financial policy development and management; Grants and contributions; Special projects management; Training and development; Travel; Political donations; Terrorism; General information on Accounts receivable; project office; National master standing offer; PCA's; Policy on receivables management - advisory committee, departmental consultations, financial analysis, information sharing, legal authorities, policy chapter; Practitioner's guide; Reports and studies; Voluntary Sector Project Office; Commission of Inquiry into Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities: Financial Management Division Input; 2004 Review of the Financial Administration Act: Compliance, Sanctions and Recoveries
Program Record Number: TBS CGO585

Financial Management Community Development
Description: Provides strategic directions and co-ordination of key initiatives for community development and capacity building across comptrollership. This includes UCS, Learning Advisory Panels, and training and development initiatives. The Division is broadening its services to extend to and integrate functional communities through recruitment activities, mobility, point-of-contact, and learning events.
Topics: General Information on financial management Community development; Advice and assistance; Classification organization and staffing - Universal classification standards, staffing and selection; Committees and meetings - branch management team; management committee meeting; Materiel and procurement community; Real property community; Community initiatives - competency profile, FI 03/04 recruitment, PE/FI Standards, program integrity; Community recruitment and development database (CRDD); Comptrollership learning requirements; Courses; Departmental performance report (DPR); Financial officers / internal auditors - Classification, human resources planning, recruitment and development (FORD/IARD), staffing- classification and salaries, cycle of events, marketing and promotion, memorandum of understanding, protocols and procedures, reports and statistics, selection standards, special events, training and development; Internal audit community; Internal audit officers human resources planning; Learning advisory panels (LAP); Liaison - Universities; Point of contact assignment programs; Community development; Advice and assistance; Classification organization and staffing Committees –Courses resourcing; Educational leave co-op replacement program; Financial officers-Human resources planning, recruitment and development staffing; Financial officers, training - development of new financial administration; Internal audit officers human resources planning; Conferences ,meetings and seminars; Special studies; Professional Development Team and related conferences and meetings, portfolio by department, portfolio by region; projects - PE university recruitment, selection and recruitment and training development.
Program Record Number: TBS CGO 005

Financial Management Information and Systems (Prior to 1997)
Description: Information on financial management systems in departments and agencies with proposed enhancements, improvements and changes to these systems; data on periodic performance measurement.
Topics: Financial and information management - Committees; Conferences, meetings and seminars; Liaison - Corporations, companies and firms; Financial management information and systems; Auditor General reports; Committees; Conferences, meetings, symposium; Crown corporations; Estimates - Departmental expenditure plan (Part III) Financial management and systems (FMS) - Guidelines for cost-effectiveness; Increased Ministerial Authority and Accountability (IMAA); Information management; Liaison on automated systems-Commercial suppliers, Departments, agencies and Crown corporations, Supply and Services Canada; Operational Plan Framework (OPF); Performance measurement - development and implementation, improvement of management practices and control (IMPAC); Presentations- visual aids; Publications.
Program Record Number: TBS CGO 077

Centre of Excellence for Internal Audit
Description: Through a consultative process with departments, the Centre leads and supports the continuing implementation of the revised Treasury Board (TB) Policy on Internal Audit (IA), which took effect on April 1, 2001, by: providing advice to deputy heads, heads of internal audit, and internal audit practitioners on the implementation of the policy, development of departmental internal audit policies and annual audit plans, and application of professional standards; performing an active monitoring function to provide timely information to Treasury Board on significant issues of risk, control, or other problems with management practices in departments; developing human resources strategies for the internal audit community to support departments in implementing the policy; establishing frameworks to guide on-going evaluation of the effectiveness of this policy; providing assistance to departments in the performance of their internal audit functions; and providing leadership in the support and promotion of the Internal Audit function.
Topics: Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development General Information relating to Internal Audit; Active monitoring; Audit related ATIP issues; Audit reports summaries and internal audit report, departmental audits plans - summaries analysis, departmental liaison - visits and advice; Business case review; Certification of pension funds; Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development; Committees and meetings; Communication plan; Community Development - classification, competency profile, demographic profile, learning strategy and liaison with departments and agencies and teaching institutions (colleges, universities, etc); Comptrollership community network; Conferences presentations workshops seminars and communications; Evaluation framework; Grants and contributions; Liaison - companies corporations firms, departments and agencies, foreign countries, provinces and territories, societies, institutes, organizations; Office of the Auditor General; Policy interpretation - exposure drafts, guides, interpretation bulletins, studies; Recruitment; Research projects; Risk based audit frameworks; Strategic plan; TBS portfolio team - liaison and reports; Transfer policy and practitioners guide; Web Site.
Program Record Number: TBS CGO 020

Internal Audit and Review (Prior to 1994)
Description: Information on internal auditing within the federal government and on policy statements, guidelines and standards by the Office of the Comptroller General of Canada to departments and agencies.
Topics: General Information on audit and review; Auditor General of Canada; Committees; General information on Improvement of Management Practices and Controls (IMPAC)-survey II; Information Technology Audit Development Centre (ITADC); Internal audit - audit and evaluation, development and implementation of contribution audit policy and procedures, Government Internal Audit Plan (GIAP), Increased Ministerial Authority and Accountability (IMAA), study of internal audit –standard for internal audit, Performance measurement; Public account committee: Special projects; Special studies.
Program Record Number: TBS CGO 030

Risk Management Directorate
Description: Information and interpretation of the Treasury Board's policy on risk management and the Integrated Risk Management Framework including understanding, managing and communicating risk. Stewardship and proactive leadership of Integrated Risk Management Framework implementation; strategic advice and guidance to government departments and agencies on the application of an integrated approach to risk management; assistance in building and strengthening federal risk management capacity.
Topics: General Information relating to risk management; Strategic overview; Committees and councils; Risk management policy; Integrated risk management - framework development and implementation; Centre of expertise decks and presentations; TB policies and guidance; RMD initiatives projects and contracts; TBS initiatives and projects; Departments and agencies; Risk management training; Associations organizations and companies; Conferences seminars, workshops and symposiums; Countries; Provinces and territories; Management of risk - Compensation/ restoration, underwriting.
Program Record Number: TBS CGO 670

Professional Development and Certification Program for the Procurement Materiel Management and Real Property Community
Description: the Program Management Office is responsible for providing strategic direction and leadership in managing the development and implementation of a Professional Development and Certification Program for the Procurement, Materiel Management and Real Property Community in the federal government.
Topics: General Information relating to the Program and the Community; Learning Toolkit-Program Learning Framework, Core Competency Profile and web-based Assessment Tool; Program curriculum-Outline and Continuous Learning Course Catalogue; Committees-Professional Development Advisory Committee (PDAC) and Continuous Learning Working Group (CLWG); Certification Component-Standard of Competencies; Demographic Study.
Program Record Number: TBS DCG 555

Risk, Procurement and Asset Management policy (Prior to 2002)
Description: Provide strategic leadership to government departments, other central agencies and the Treasury Board Secretariat on all matters related to risk management, procurement and asset management, including real property and moveable assets.
Topics: General Information relating to Risk Management and Asset Management Policy; Conferences, meetings and symposiums.
Program Record Number: TBS CGO 015

Strategic Systems Infrastructure Directorate
Description: The SSID seeks to support and assist the comptrollership systems community in achieving its objectives and plans, and in accomplishing specific government-wide objectives related to comptrollership systems by facilitating progress, overcoming barriers to success, and identifying and facilitating opportunities to reduce costs and improve productivity; and by influencing the strategies, plans and direction of the community. SSID's role is to ensure that the Comptrollership Branch meets the needs and expectations of departments and agencies, and of its various partners such as Human Resources Branch and the Chief Information Officer Branch, in the evolution of shared administrative systems in the Government of Canada.
Topics: General Information relating to Financial information strategy; Associations and organization; Conferences, committees, councils, meetings, symposia, Departments, agencies and crown agencies and crown corporation, FIS forum working group; Report and plans; Training and Development; Functional requirements; Systems; Projects; strategic systems infrastructure; Clusters - AMMIS, CDFS (Common Departmental Financial System), Freebalance, GX, IFMS (Integrated Financial Management System), Peoplesoft, SAFAG (Small Agencies Financial Action Group), SMS (Salary Management System); Committees - internal TBS and external government wide; General information on projects and horizontal projects - application service provider, common business number, electronic supply chain, government travel modernization, grants and contributions, interdepartmental settlements, secure channel; Integrated financial and materiel system (IFMS) program.
Program Record Number: TBS CGO 025

Corporate Priorities Planning Sector

Comptrollership Modernization Directorate
Description: To support the Comptroller General in leading modernization by implementing the recommendations of the Report of the Independent Review Panel on Modernization of Comptrollership in the Government of Canada from the Panel; develop integrated initiative along four main elements: financial and non-financial performance information, integrated risk management, values and ethics, and appropriate control systems; provide support for modernization efforts of organizations and individuals; work with external parties to forge alliances; work with other central agencies to create meaningful incentives for excellence and remove unnecessary barriers and burdens; support committees that will provide direction and stamina to the modernization efforts including: secretariat support for Modernization's governing bodies: ADMs' Comptrollership Council (CC); Standards Advisory Board (SAB); Small Agency Modernization Council; and DGs' working group; and develop and support the new Management Accountability Framework
Topics: Management Accountability Framework; Comptrollership modernization; Action plan - reports, status of exercises, summary analysis, tools and guidance; Awards and recognition; Capacity assessments - reports, status of exercises, summary analysis, tools and guidance; Committees and councils; Communication - database, newsletter, Web Site, work plan; Departmental liaison and partners; Evaluation and reporting; Funding - comfort letters, deliverable tracking, department/agency fund request, launch letter and responses, national master standing offer (NMSO) management, templates and forms, vote 10 allotments, Governance - agency heads modernization committee (AHMC), comptrollership council (CC), modernization task force, small agency modernization council, standards advisory council; committees and meetings; Key projects and initiatives; Learning; Presentations conferences, colloquiums, symposia and seminars; Pilot phase-results statements, evaluation, lessons learned; Projects - proposals, reports, summary analysis, themes; Report on state of modern comptrollership–departmental performance reports (DPR), annual reports; Work plan; Directing and sustaining mechanisms; Initiatives; Key group/partners in modernization; Substance - capacity (common learning priorities for the Comptrollership community); standards.
Program Record Number: TBS CPP 010

Management Accountability Framework Directorate (MAF)
Description: The MAF Directorate is responsible for the ongoing development and implementation of the MAF both as a tool for deputy heads and as a framework for management analysis and oversight by the Secretariat. Developing and strengthening the MAF, as a comprehensive and coherent regime of management accountability is an important part of the Secretariat's agenda for management reform. The MAF Directorate is engaged in four broad areas of work: development-continuing refinement of MAF indicators and application to different kinds of public service organizations, possible use in the delegation of authorities or use of controls in relation to parliamentary and public reporting; integration-into the training and activities of TBS analysts, the core curriculum of the Public Service, the Treasury Board's renewed policy suite and management agenda and the communications of the Secretariat brokering and support-facilitating the exchange of MAF practices, benchmarks, tools and information among senior managers and departments; oversight and analysis-coordinating the annual MAF assessment process and harvesting MAF intelligence for purposes of assessing enterprise-wide management performance and risk.
Topics: General Information on MAF and management accountability; MAF profiles and schedules of MAF bilaterals; MAF priorities for management reform; clearinghouse and assistance regarding MAF best practices; MAF presentations; linkages to Policy Suite renewal and the TBS management agenda; MAF learning opportunities, events and materials; MAF Web Site; MAF bilaterals analysis; models and frameworks of public sector management; models of public sector management reporting; management reform networks; risk management networks; risk management best practices; advice and guidance on the TBS Integrated Risk Management Framework; risk management presentations and events.
Program Record Number: TBS CPP 001

Strategic Planning
Description: Provides direction, co-ordination and implementation of TBS's Strategic Planning agenda and initiatives, focused on three core areas: Strategic analysis-ensuring corporate priorities, strategies and plans are developed, implemented and reported upon in support of achieving the Integrated Management Agenda; also overseeing the management of the annual TBS Planning and Reporting cycle; Corporate and Portfolio Coordination-facilitating an effective governance structure that supports TBS corporate decision-making and implementation of corporate priorities through support to internal, portfolio and external committees; and Learning and Knowledge Mangement-enchancing core learning and knowledge management effectiveness across TBS and ensuring a focussed approach to managing our organization with the aim of TBS becoming a model of management excellence.
Topics: Strategic planning-general; TBS RPP, TBP DPR, business planning; strategic analysis corporate and portfolio coordination, Integrated Management agenda; Committees and meetings-general, executive committee, senior management committee, policy committee, management committee; planning network, staff meetings; Strategic planning cycle; Strategic planning results framework; TBPAC, STAC, DMHRMAC, POC, EXCO, TB Portfolio, Analysis and Development; core learning; Learning and Knowledge Management-general; TBS forward agenda-general, strategic forward agenda for TBSAC and DMs Breakfasts; Analysis and development.
Program Record Number: TBS CPP 275

Strategic Policy
Description: Strategic Policy provides the Secretary and Associate Secretaries with support and advice on the over-all direction of TBS corporate strategy and policy and maintains an overview of the entire TBS policy agenda. Responsible for the strategic policy development, review and policy advice, and articulation of corporate strategic goals.
Topics: Strategic policy-general; Committees and meetings-Treasury Board, Treasury Board Secretariat advisory committee, Forward TB agenda; Modern Management framework; TB policy framework; Environmental scanning; Corporate and public sector issues; Monitoring academic and international literature on policy management and public sector reform.
Program Record Number: TBS CPP 595

Economic Sector
Description: Provides advice to senior management and Treasury Board Ministers on a broad range of policy and program design issues and financial and management practices. The sector is divided into three divisions; Agriculture, Fisheries and Natural Resources; Industry, Science, Regional Development and Regulatory Issues; and Environment and Transport. The sector is also the focal point for the TBS Sustainable Development strategy.
Topics: Administration; Active monitoring; Annual Reference Level Updates (ARLU); Audit and evaluation; Business plan; Climate project office; Classification of Accounts/Allotments; Committees; Conferences, meetings and seminars; Corporate plans for crown corporations; Corporate management group; Departmental Projects; Departmental Performance Report; Estimates; Expenditure Review Committee; Expenditure management; Financial assistance; Financial Reviews; Financial management and comptrollership issues; Financial Services; Government wide initiatives - climate change, sustainable development, cities; water, biotechnology; Grants and Contributions; Learning and knowledge management; Long Term Capital Plans; Main estimates; Management Accountability Framework; Operating budgets; Organization; Plans and programs; Planning, Reporting and Accountability Structure (PRAS); Program Activity Architecture (PAA) Policy, Program Integrity; Program Review; Programs and expenditure proposals from departments and agencies; knowledge management group; Report on Plans and Priorities; Regulatory issues; Treasury Board initiatives; Revenue Retention; Studies and surveys; Supplementary Estimates; Treasury Board initiatives; Treasury Board submission coordination; Year 2000. Main estimates; Multi-year operational plans (MYOP)-spring; New expenditure management system (NEMS); Corporate management; Departmental Projects; Increased ministerial authority and accountability (IMAA).
Program Record Number: TBS ECO 001

Expenditure Management Sector (EMS)

Compensation Planning
Description: Research in support of policy development in Human Resources Management.
Topics: Compensation Planning; Employment equity-analysis for public service and non-public service; Human resources analysis-skills; Human resources management information-network (connexions); Management of change; Management practices; Projects career counselling and development, empowerment and delegation, performance Committees and councils; Compensation-elements, Research development; Conferences, meetings and symposiums; Negotiations; Projects studies and surveys; training and development; Public Service 2000; Universal Classification Standard (UCS) analysis-5k; Liaison-consultants, departmental data requests, embassies, internal Treasury Board data requests, provinces and territories; Military compensation
Program Record Number: TBS EMS 115

Expenditure Management Sector
Description: Expenditure Management Sector (EMS) provides a central focus within the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) for the functions that support and strengthen the TBS's role in the government's broader expenditure management system. The work of EMS covers the entire expenditure management cycle-from expenditure analysis, forecasting and expenditure management strategies, policies and operations through to results-based budgeting, evaluation, strong integration role in planning and coordinating the expenditure management initiatives and providing a whole-of-government perspective on matters related to direct program spending and management of reserves. The sector has responsibility to develop the expenditure management information system (EMIS) to its full maturity and for implementation of the Management Resources and Results Structure Policy.
Topics: Expenditure and management strategies-general, accrual budgeting, bilateral, budget office, committees-general, cabinet committees, cabinet committee of deputy ministers (CCDM) budget, TBS operations committee, communications, conferences, meetings, seminars-general institute of public administration of Canada, staff meetings, TB meetings; expenditure management system (EMS), organization, organization for economic cooperation and development (OECD), plans and priorities, procedures and guidelines, questions period (QP) cards, resources/reallocation/reporting requirements/PRAS, TB vote5, Year end fiscal over; expenditure management operational policy division (EMOPD)-general, accrual budgeting, annual state of the A base report, coordinating committee of deputy ministers (CCDM) budget, changes to the form and content of the estimates-planned spending vote/TB vote 5, expenditure review committee; operating principles to guide TB and TBS, organization of economic cooperation and development (OECD), reallocation, reporting to Parliament and Canadians, reserve management, roles and responsibilities, stewardship coordination, expenditure management review (EMR)-general, communications, Departmental 2003-Fisheries and Oceans, Justice, Statistics, PWGSC; Horizontal 2003-biotechnology, Canadian Heritage Culture Capital Asset Management, common infrastructure and service delivery, public security and anti-terrorism; meetings, process and planning, TB and cabinet training; Expenditure Policy Analysis and information (EPAI)-general, committees-general, coaches corner; Expenditure Management Information Systems (EMIS)-general, environmental scan, preliminary analysis, feasibility study, project development, build 1, build 2;-active monitoring coordination centre.
Program Record Number: TBS EMS 014

Expenditure Analysis Division
Description: The Expenditure Analysis Division is responsible for carrying out research and analysis into medium and longer term expenditure trends to support expenditure planning, resource allocation and decision making.
Topics: Expenditure Analysis Division (EAD)-general, budgets, capital analysis, data and statistics, employment analysis, estimates, expenditure reviews, expenditure status report (ESR) annual reference level update (ARLU), expenditure trends, federal / provincial, fiscal forecasting; international; lapse analysis, operating analysis, program integrity, programs/business lines, public accounts, reserve analysis, salary analysis, special studies and surveys, transfers/grants and contribution.
Program Record Number: TBS EMS 015

Expenditure Operations and Estimates Directorate
Description: Preparation of Annual Reference Level Updates; Production of Reports on Plans and Priorities, including related guidelines; main Estimates and Supplementary Estimates, Management of TB Allotments; Improve Reporting to Parliament; Review and analysis of TB Submissions and recommendations to the Treasury Board. Co-ordination of the annual Public Accounts exercise with PWGSC. Recommendations for Allocations from central government votes.
Topics: Estimates production group-general, committees-Government Operations and Estimates committee, Sub-committee on estimates, distribution lists and contracts expenditure management systems group (EMSG)-general, business case, business project improvement (BPI), project plan, proof of concept (POC), software, system functionality, expenditure operations division (EOD)-general, allotments, annual reference level update (ARLU), departmental performance reports (DPR), governor general special warrants, improved reporting to parliament (IRPP), main estimates, parliamentary committees, reports on plans and priorities (RPP), planning, reporting and accountability structure (PRAS), points or order, reports on plans and priorities (RPP), supplementary estimates, A,B,C,D, E, supply; TB Vote 5, -Treasury Board New Government initiatives, -Treasury Board Government Contingencies, TB Vote 10 –Treasury Board New Government Initiatives, TB Vote 15-Treasury Board Collective bargaining, training, vote wording, year end and operating budget carry forward, parliamentary matters, task force on resources; New expenditure management system (NEMS).
Program Record Number: TBS EMS 575

Expenditure Strategies Division
Description: The Expenditure Strategies Division is responsible for providing a whole of government view of expenditure management issues through liaison within the Secretariat and across other central agencies, including, playing an internal challenge function on expenditure management issues; timely provision of accurate expenditure framework data to the annual Budget process; credible strategic and consistent advice on reserve management (including Compensation Reserve), with provision of regular and accurate status reports, and a coordinating role for central budget reallocation exercise.
Topics: Expenditure strategies division (ESD)-general; Expenditure Management; capital; compensation and classification; employee benefits plan (EBP); Expenditure framework; expenditure management information system (EMIS), program activity architecture (PAA), expenditure management reviews, expenditure reductions, federal budget; cuts and realignment, Pressures Management; Reserves management and reporting, compensation reserve (except compensation), Reprofiling; Revolving funds; statutory program, and quasi-statutory; lapse analysis, price/workload and program integrity, branches and sectors, intergovernmental budget conference (august 2002), year 2000 (Y2K), expenditure/envelope/operating reserve status report. Liaison with Branches and Sectors.
Program Record Number: TBS EMS 010

Results-Based Management Directorate
Description: The Results-Based Management Directorate is a key player in bringing the Results for Canadians agenda to ground. Government policy centre on results-based management. Provision of advice and assistance to departments and agencies on results-based management. Centre of Excellence for Evaluation providing leadership on the evaluation policy, standards and community development.
Topics: General Information on results-based management accountability theory and practices; Horizontal results; Departmental results accountability; Electronic performance information access; Federal provincial network; Improved reporting to parliament; Planning and accountability structure (PRAS) and charts of key results commitments (CKRC's); Management Resources and Results Structures (MRRS) and Program Activity Architecture (PAA). President's report MFR (Canada's Performance); Quality of life; Societal indicators; General information on Centre of Excellence for Evaluation; Active monitoring, Business cases; Canadian evaluation society national capital chapter; Committees - Senior Advisory Committee; Communications; Community development, Competency profile for the evaluation professional; Demographic profile; Departmental evaluation plans, Departmental evaluation reports; Evaluation community development advisory committee; Evaluation community meetings, evaluation Policy development, Financial management institute, Good practices guides, Government on line (GOL), Government Operations, Gun control, Internal audit; Internship program; Mid and senior level training and development program; Office of the Auditor General: Portfolio teams; professional development, Program integrity, Public consultations, Resource study, Results for Canadians, Results oriented government, Results-based management and accountability frameworks, Risk management, Societal indicators, Special projects and strategies, Standards for evaluation; Web Site; General information on planning, performance and reporting; Auditor General of Canada; Committees; Conferences and meetings; Departmental evaluation and audit operations; Departmental performance reports; Economic and Regional Development Agreements (ERDA) - Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan; Evaluation and audit community development; Government internal audit plan (GIAP); Liaison - other governments, companies, corporations, firms, societies, institutes, organizations; New expenditure management system (NEMS); Parliamentary affairs and committees; Planning programming and budgeting practices in other jurisdictions; Reports on plans and priorities; Reports - Audit evaluation and review; Sectors and projects - parliament and evaluation, sector operations - evaluation of science and technology; Task force on resources; Government-wide initiatives - work force adjustment (WFA); Corporate projects planning and management; Government-wide projects - breaking the barriers, Council for Administrative Renewal (CAR); Performance measurement; Public Account Committee; Special projects –international relations; Special studies; Program evaluation and operations; Committees; Community development; Conferences and meetings; Departmental program evaluation operations - frameworks, assessments and studies; Economic and regional development agreements (ERDA) - by provinces; Increased ministerial authority and accountability; Liaison - departments and agencies, other governments, societies, institutes, organizations; Projects - corporate projects, sector operations, specific evaluation studies; Training and development; General material relating to results management strategies; Communication and learning events; Parliamentary engagement; Parliamentary reporting; Policies and tools; Portfolio teams; Research; Horizontal results management; Canada's performance; Committee management; Corporate management; Horizontal management; Parliamentary engagement; Horizontal reporting; Results based management research; Strategic planning. Horizontal Frameworks; Climate Change, Aboriginal Scorecard, Departmental Performance Reports, Reports on Plans and Priorities.
Program Record Number: TBS EMS 055

Government Operations Sector

Government Operations
Description: Information on the analysis and recommendations provided to Treasury Board to assist it in decisions on departmental business plans, the main and supplementary estimates.
Topics: Administration and Financial Management Issues; Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU); Departments Annual reports; Auditor General Report; Departmental Audits; Business plans / Corporate plans; Classification of Accounts/Allotments, Departmental Performance Report (DPR); Departmental Management Assessment (DMA); Evaluations; Financial pressures; Governor General Warrants; Human resources; Departmental issues; Organization; Plans and programs; Planning, Reporting and Accountability Structure (PRAS); Price and workload adjustment; Program integrity; Program Sector Competency Profile Project; Regulatory; Public Service Modernization Act Implementation (PSMAI), Report on Plans and Priorities (RPP), Small Agencies-database, agenda to strengthen small agencies, ERC institutional governance, heads of agencies, heads of IM/IT, issues, orientation of heads of agencies, personnel advisory group (PAG), small agencies administrator network, small agencies finance action group (SAFAG), risk assessment of small agencies; Supplementary estimates; Training and development. Main estimates; Multi-year operational plans (MYOP)-spring; New expenditure management systems (NEMS); Corporate management; Departmental Projects; Increased ministerial authority and accountability (IMAA); Price and workload adjustment.
Program Record Number: TBS GOS 001

Management Strategies Division
Description: The Management Strategies Division is primarily responsible for achieving, across the Secretariat, a greater and more effective integration of a government-wide issues. The division is central to the development of tools to identify major risks to sound management of public expenditures and to the integrity of existing programs and activities. Working with other areas in TBS, the division implements these tools across government with a view to addressing critical program integrity and management issues. The division is primarily responsible for initiatives related to the expenditure management system, implementation of the Policy on Active Monitoring, implementation of the Policy on Alternative Service Delivery and Policy on Crown Corporations.
Topics: Management strategies division-general, Budget coordination - cost recovery; business plan; departmental assessments, departmental management assessments, departmental performance reports (TBS), program integrity-round 1, round 2, report on plans and priorities, Governance alternative service delivery (ASD)-communications, community-general, outside federal communities, options-agencies, contracting out, crown corporations, foundations, other delivery, partnerships, shared governance corporations, policy, practices, resources and events; crown corporation policy (CPP)-accounting/financial issues, administrative policies, auditing issues, central agencies forum, creation of new entities, departmental corporations, exempt corporations, missed and joint enterprises, corporate governance, corporate plan process, corporation issues, environment-general, endangered species, environmental assessment, environmental protection, Financial Administration Act (FAA)-general, regulations, governance review, guidelines, house of commons standing committees, housing, legal opinions, legislative amendments, official languages, president's annual report to parliament, public policy purpose mandate review, regulatory amendments, taxation, trade-general, agreement on internal trade (AIT), central American four (CA-4), free trade area of the Americas (FTAA), north area of the Americas (), north American free trade agreement (NAFTA), Singapore free trade agreement (FTA), world trade organization (WTO), bylaws, board of directors/corporate governance, briefings, bylaws, transportation; Cost Recovery Division-general, business plans, committees, departments and agencies (including MOU'S and annual management reports), deputy ministers task forces, estimates production, liaison by branch/sector, presentations, user fees.
Program Record Number: TBS GOS 005

Materiel Management
Description: Information on Treasury Board policies and guidelines in relation to the management of materiel including the planning, acquisition, use and disposal of materiel assets. Treasury Board policy and guidelines on the provision of central administrative services to federal departments and agencies by common service organizations.
Topics: General Information relating to materiel management; Alternative fuels; Committees, Common services; Disposal; Executive vehicle; Fleet management; Materiel management; Motor vehicle; Assignment and guidance services; Special Operating Agencies.
Program Record Number: TBS GOS 035

Procurement and Project Management Policy Directorate
Description: Development and interpretation of policies and guidelines on procurement acquisition approaches for goods, services and construction.
Topics: General Information relating to procurement and project management policy; Committees, councils, conferences, meetings, seminars and symposiums - standing committee on National Defence and Veterans Affairs; Consulting and professional services - architectural and engineering services contracts; Contracting - advance Contract Award Notices (ACANS); bonds securities holdbacks, commission of inquiries and royal commissions, comprehensive land claims, British Columbia treaty commission, Yukon First Nations, self-government agreements; - Construction - dredging, repairs renovations and overhauls; Contract claims and disputes; Indemnification in contracting; Intellectual property; Liaison with associations; Tenders; Treasury Board advisory committee on contracts (TBACC); Year 2000 compliance project; Contracting for goods - National Defence; Contracting for services - advertising and public relations, Cleaning services, Education and training, Fee guidelines, Films, television and theatre, former government officials, health and medical services, personal service contracts, protection services, reporting requirements (project headcount), transportation services, Increased Ministerial Authority and Accountability; Indemnification in contracting; Procurement reform; Procurement review - Canadian Annual Procurement Strategy (CAPS), Procurement Policy Advisory Committee (PPAC), Procurement Review Committee (PRC), Procurement Strategy Committee (PSC); Temporary help services; Trade agreements; Bid depositories; Consulting and professional services - architectural and engineering services contracts, central inventory of management consultants, consultants and consulting services contracts, reports, Proactive Disclosure, Green Procurement, USA Patriot Act.
Program Record Number: TBS GOS 045

Project Management
Description: Develop, interpret and provide advice on policies for project management and provide policy advice to program sector analysts on submissions for preliminary and effective project approval.
Topics: General Information relating to project management; Government interests in the private sector; Major crown projects; Procurement review; Project approval; Selecting preferred procurement strategies; Major Crown projects - policy development; CF-18 system engineering support; Equipment - armoured vehicle general purpose; Canadian patrol frigate program; class VIII icebreaker (polar); destroyer life extension project, intelligence and security complex, Kenya energy program, Leopard tank; long range patrol aircraft (cp-140), medium logistic vehicle wheeled; military and operational support trucks project; mobile satellite program; new fighter aircraft (CF-18); North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) airborne early warning and control systems; purchase and use of solar heating program; radar modernization program; Radar satellite; 'R' class icebreaker; regional operations control centres, remote Manipulator System (CANADARM) - National Research Council (NRC); Search and rescue satellite; Small Arms Replacement Program (SARP); Strategic Automated Message Switching Operational Network (SAMSON); Terminal Radar and Control Systems (TRACS); Tribal Class Update (TCUP) (TRUMP); Water bombers (CL-215); Facilities - inmate accommodation program; Maduru Oya reservoir complex; Mirabel; Montreal Major Area Postal Plant (MAPP); Place Guy Favreau; Prairie Branch Lines Rehabilitation Program; Rideau Centre; Ridley island - coal or grain terminal, Saint-Jean Megaplex; Toronto Major Area Postal Plant (MAPP); NATO Flying Training in Canada (NFTC); Non-traditional MCP's; Project leaders; Long term space plan; Equipment - Pan African Telecommunications network.
Program Record Number: TBS GOS 076

Real Property & Materiel Policy Directorate
Description: Information on holdings of federal departments and Crown corporations in Canada and abroad. Information on committees, guidelines, best practices, frameworks, strategies and research related to federal real property management.
Topics: General Information relating to real property management; Committees; Custodians; Newsletters circulars and information bulletins; Portfolio management –capital project expenditure freeze; urban/regional overviews; Aboriginal issues-disposal of surplus federal real property in context of aboriginal issues; Best practices; Conferences, meetings, workshops, seminars; Federal contaminated sites assessment initiative; Frameworks and guidelines; Legislation Federal Real Property and Federal Immovable Act; National executive forum on public property (NEFPP); Professional development; Queen's University project course; Shared systems; Studies, surveys, evaluations and monitoring; conferences; Information systems-contaminated sites, information on active monitoring, completeness and accuracy process, computer logs, custodians, geographical information system (GIS), letters and forms, manuals, projects and requests for information –Directory of real property management active monitoring on completeness and accuracy process, computer logs, custodians (departments agencies and crown corporations)-; FIS validation-contracts, custodians, Information systems, meetings, reports and statistics, Office of the Auditor General; real property lexicon, requests for information and web maintenance: TBS forums. Portfolio management - capital projects review - major crown projects, Custody assignment; Federal land management reviews; Federal land sales program; Inventory planning - Area Screening Canada (ASC) studies; Managed disposals; strategic studies; Management reform - phase I legislation, phase II legislation.
Program Record Number: TBS GOS 655

Real Property Management Policies and Regulations
Description: Information on central policies, legislation and regulations governing federal real property.
Topics: General Information on the policy of real property; Aboriginal issues; Accommodation planning; Accessibility; Administration; Conferences, meetings and symposiums; Contaminated sites management framework; Disposal of surplus federal lands; Environment; Fire protection, investigation and reporting; Heritage; Investment; Long term capital planning; Management framework; Monitoring guide; Open and fair transactions; Policies in administrative policy manual; Regulations and general authorities; Revenue; Smoking in the workplace; Monitoring guide; Studies surveys evaluations and monitoring; Transaction processes; Use of facilities.
Program Record Number: TBS GOS 650

International Affairs, Security and Justice Sector

International Affairs, Security and Justice
Description: Information on the analysis and recommendations provided to the Treasury Board to assist it in decisions on departmental business plans, the main and supplementary estimates, Access to Information Act, the Privacy Act and the Security Policy. The International Affairs, Security and Justice Sector includes the following divisions: Foreign Affairs & Defence Division, Justice and Solicitor General Division. Also included is the Public Safety and Anti-Terrorism portfolio.
Topics: International Affairs, Security and Justice Sector-general, organization, committee, conferences, meetings and seminars, plans and programs; Canada in the world project; International tagging; Administration and Financial Management Issues; Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU); Departments Annual reports; Auditor General Report; Departmental Audits; Business plans/Corporate plans; Classification of Accounts/Allotments, Departmental Performance Report (DPR); Departmental Management Assessment (DMA); Evaluations; Financial pressures; Governor General Warrants; Human resources; Departmental issues; Organization; Plans and programs; Planning, Reporting and Accountability Structure (PRAS); Price and workload adjustment; Program integrity; Report on Plans and Priorities (RPP), Supplementary estimates; Training and development. Main estimates; Multi-year operational plans (MYOP)-spring; new expenditure accountability (IMAA); Public Security and Anti-Terrorism (PSAT);
Program Record Number: TBS IASJS 001

Labour Relations & Compensation Operations (LRCO)

Adjudication
Description: Information on the processing of employee grievances at adjudication.
Topics: Adjudication; individual cases – section 92-old system; Reference to the Chief adjudicator under sections 98 and 99; Requests for review under section 27; Safety Officer under Part II (Formerly Part IV) of the Canada Labour Code; Section 18 applications of the Federal Court Act.
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 440

Certification
Description: The application for certification and certification proceedings; and also information on the exclusion of persons from bargaining units because of duties and responsibilities that require them to represent the interest of the employer.
Topics: Certification; Establishment of bargaining units; Managerial and confidential exclusions - reports and statistics; Essential Services Agreements Safety and security designations - section 79.
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 445

Collective Bargaining-Negotiations
Description: Information on agreements made in writing entered into under the Public Service Labour Relations Act between the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat on one hand and a bargaining agent on the other; includes any amendment to such agreements containing provisions on the terms and conditions of employment and related matters.
Topics: Negotiations; Third party proceedings; Categories and groups –up to 1986, postal operations group, as of 1987; Table negotiations as of 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005; Collective agreements; Cost of living allowances; Master agreement bargaining; Outside collective bargaining; Compensation analysis; Pay implementation; Pay Research Bureau - reports and surveys; Reports and statistics; Studies and surveys; Unions.
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 480

Conditions and Benefits of Work
Description: General Information on the different conditions and benefits of work that applies in the federal Public Service.
Topics: Conditions and benefits of work; Canada Labour Code; Continuity of employment; Flexible workforce; Hours of work - adaptable work patterns - compressed work week, departmental programs, evaluation, flexible working hours, overtime; Leave without pay; Leave with pay - designated holidays, special, time off, vacation; Public Service Terms and Conditions of Employment Regulations; Severance pay; Surveys; Transfer from federal to private or provincial jurisdiction; Telework (work at home).
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 385

Corporate Labour Relations
Description: Information on a broad range of Human Resources and Labour Relations policies and programs; coordination of separate employer (i.e., FAA, Schedule V collective bargaining mandates); coordination of PSMA initiatives and Labour Relations Policies.
Topics: Various Human Resources and Labour Relations policies and programs; Collective bargaining mandates for separate employers.
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 100

Discipline
Description: Information on the failure of employees to maintain an appropriate standard of conduct and management response to employee misconduct.
Topics: General Information relating to discipline, Discharge and suspensions.
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 460

Disputes and Strikes
Description: Information on the terms and conditions of employment for employees whose collective agreement has expired; also, strike activity and the employer's response to such activity.
Topics: Disputes and strikes; Legal proceedings; Illegal proceedings - prosecution.
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 465

Grievances
Description: Information on complaints in writing presented in accordance with the Public Service Staff Relations Act by an employee on behalf of him or herself and/or one or more other employees of federal departments and agencies.
Topics: Grievances - Departments, agencies and Crown corporations.
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 470

Human Resources Management
Description: General Information on personnel policy.
Topics: General information on Human Resources management; Advisory committee on Labour Management Relations in the Federal Public Service (Fryer Committee); Human Resource Development Council Secretariat; Business/operational planning; Office Management; National Joint Career l Transition Committee Secretariat; Departmental service - Departments and agencies.
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 275

Labour Relations & Compensation Operations
Description: General Information on Human Resources.
Topics: Human resources; Personnel security; Policy development and co-ordination - Public Service 2000 - White Paper, task forces; Acts and Regulations; Audits; Committees - Cabinet; Communications; Conferences, meetings, seminars and symposiums; Decentralization and relocation; External liaison; Incentive programs- Innovative management practices - new technologies; Manuals; Personnel management - departmental plans and programs, evaluations; Public sector compensation restraint Task forces; Treasury Board submissions; Work environment design; Human resources management accountability; Human resources council; Planning; Employee performance appraisals; Human resource management policy and system, Multi-Year Human Resource Plan (MYHRP); Information and Informatics Services - Committees and Council, Compensation, Conferences, meetings and symposiums, Informatics, Negotiations, Projects and studies, Public Service 2000; Personnel administration group - committees.
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 165

Human Resources Policies - Personnel Management Manual 1982-1990
Description: Information on general policies and requirements in Personnel Management.
Topics: Personnel Management Manual (PMM 1982-1990) Employees Services, Superannuation procedures; Isolated Posts Directive.
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 360

Human Resources Policies - Treasury Board Manual (TBM) Human Resources Component 1990-1997
Description: Treasury Board policies and guidelines on human resources management.
Topics: Classification, Compensation, Employee Services, Executive Group, Foreign service directive, Human Resources, Insurance and Related Benefits, Isolated Posts Directive, Occupational Safety and Health, Pay Administration, Staff Relation, Training Guide.
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 175

Human Rights Complaints
Description: Information relating to Canadian Human Rights Commission Complaints
Topics: General material on risk management; Canadian Human Rights Act, commission, tribunal; Human rights complaints, age, colour, conviction for an offence for which pardon has been granted, disability, family status, marital status; national or ethnic origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, multiple grounds, potential; Conferences; Legal risk management; Risk management committee, communications, reports.
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 003

Labour Relations
Description: General Information on labour relations.
Topics: General information relating to Labour relations; Committees and Councils - User Committee on Employee-Related Personnel Information (UCERPI), National Joint Council - grievances, standing committees; Compensation evaluation and comparison - elements - individually, outside practices, valuation - application, implementation; Complaints; Informatics - Administration and operations, Interpretation; Labour–management relations; Reference of questions of law or jurisdiction; Statistics and surveys; Training and communications; Compensation information - reports; requests - Treasury Board Canada; Consultation and planning - departmental consultation, union consultation.
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 435

Labour Relations Systems
Description: Systems, their application and evaluation as they apply to labour relations.
Topics: Compensation information - Collective bargaining - reports, Personnel Management Information Systems (PMIS) - Attendance, Leave, Overtime and Shift work System (ALOSS), Extra Duty Reporting System (EDRS), Incumbent System, Leave Reporting System (LRS), Managerial and Confidential Exclusions System (EXC)
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 065

National Joint Council Secretariat
Description: Information on the National Joint Council, its Constitution and By-laws, and proceedings.
Topics: General Information on National Joint Council; Annual fall seminar; Annual planning retreat; Constitution and by-laws; Council proceedings; Dental care plan board of management; Executive committee; Foreign Service Directives Committee; Government Travel Committee; Isolated Posts and Government Housing Committee; Occupational Safety and Health Committee; Official Languages Committee; Public Service Health Care Plan; Union - Management Relations Committee; Workforce Adjustment Committee.
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 015

Occupational Safety and Health
Description: Information on the development, establishment, publication and application of occupational safety and health policies, standards and procedures; and the evaluation, maintenance and operation of the Public Service occupational safety, health and employee assistance programs, case/claims management.
Topics: Occupational safety and health; Campaigns; Canada Labour Code part II; Committees; Conferences, meetings and seminars; Department with delegated responsibility; Departmental programs; Employee assistance programs; First aid; Guides, procedures, standards; Health evaluations; Health units; Investigations, studies, surveys, audits; Publications; Reports and statistics; Smoking in the workplace; Training; Use and occupancy of buildings; Fire protection; Workers compensation; Government employees compensation act.
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 355

Pay Administration
Description: General Information on the pay system in the federal Public Service and other employers.
Topics: Pay; Administration co-ordination - associations, committees, labour disruptions (strikes), monitoring - reports and statistics, Pay Administration Co-ordination Section (PACS), Pay System - development - projects, operations and maintenance, task forces and study groups - pay study task force (1976), training and development, transfer of responsibility (1977) - implementation; Policy interpretation - allowances - entitlement codes, allowances and extra duty, deductions - deduction codes, guides and manuals, regulations and procedures, salaries and compensation.
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 390

Pay Administration of Payroll Deductions
Description: Information on payroll deduction privileges for union or staff association dues that apply only to employees included in a bargaining unit for which a bargaining agent has been certified; also, General Information on payroll deductions.
Topics: Payroll deductions; Check-off of union dues - Public Service Alliance of Canada.
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 485

Pay Equity
Description: Information pertaining to pay equity in the federal Public Service.
Topics: Pay equity - newspaper and journal articles, reference documents, communications, tribunal, complaints, joint union/management initiatives - investigation, committees, questionnaires - by case number, management position; Tribunal (PSAC versus TBS).
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 525

Public Service Labour Relations Act
Description: Information on the Labour Relations Act, amendments, and related General Information.
Topics: Public Labour Relations Act; Review - Finkelman Study.
Program Record Number: TBS LRCO 490

Safety, Health and Employee Services
Description: Information on government policies for the cost-effective provision of services in support of programs of departments and agencies, including 1) Conferences - control of conference sponsorship and attendance; 2) Foreign Service Directives - special working conditions provided for personnel serving outside Canada; 3) Isolated Posts - allowances and other benefits to facilitate the recruitment, retention and deployment of qualified personnel at isolated locations in Canada, on consultations within the National Joint Council, on grievances and interpretations; 4) Government Housing - rental of Crown housing to employees, on the determination of taxable benefits, if any, on special applications, on consultations with the National Joint Council, on grievances and interpretations; 5) Relocation - employees and employer practices; 6) Travel -information on Public Service employees and other persons travelling on government business; also transportation and accommodation standards, allowances, rates and conditions of payment and reimbursement.
Topics: Safety, health and employee services; Clothing; Services; Charitable campaigns; Hospitality; Membership fees; Staff relations - collective agreements and interpretations; taxis. 1) Conferences and conference centres; 2) Foreign Service - Committees - Interdepartmental Committee on External Relations (ICER), Commonwealth Secretariat; Directives - committees, heads of posts directives, individual - deletions, official hospitality directive, posts - indices, revisions; Locally-engaged staff; Military (excluding Indo China Regulations); Non-rotational assignments; Outside practices; 3) Isolated posts - Allowances, Committees, Isolated post locations; 4) Government Housing - Charges, National Defence; 5) Relocation - Appointees; Group move; Disposal and acquisition of accommodation; Family separation and house-hunting trips; Incidental expenses; Integrated relocation program IRP; Shipment of effects; Special applications - National Defence, Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Special situations; 6) Travel - Accommodation; Commercial transportation - commercial air - first class; Employee-driven vehicles –privately-owned vehicles; Exceptions to the policy; Meals and incidentals; National Joint Council Committee; Special travel situations; Travel agencies; Special travel authorities; Parking charges - Departments, agencies and Crown corporations submissions; Grievances; Survey of core area parking; Work force adjustment-alternative service delivery, national joint council.
Program Record Number: TBS MPLR 085

Separate Employers
Description: Information on separate employers as listed and modified from time to time under Part II of Schedule 1 to the Public Service Staff Relations Act.
Topics: Separate employers; Agencies - Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, Office of the Auditor General, Non-Public Funds, Communications Security Establishment, National Capital Commission; National Film Board, National Research Council, Public Service Staff Relations Board, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canada Customs Revenue Agency, Other government agencies, Crown Corporations, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), National Energy Board (NEB), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSE), Parks Canada Agency, Statistical Survey Operations (SSO).
Program Record Number: TBS MPLR 500

Transition and Work Life Policies
Description: General Information on labour relations (job security), employment transition measures, employment policies, benchmarking and departure incentives.
Topics: General information on Transition and work life policies; Departments and agencies; Day Care; Human resources management regime benchmarking; Deployment - appointment to level; Geographic mobility; Employment and staffing-moratorium/staffing freeze; Human resources reform (HR modernization); Increased ministerial authority and accountability (IMAA); Interchange Canada; Leave with income averaging; National Joint Adjustment Steering Committee - departments and agencies and provinces and territories; Oath of allegiance; Pre-retirement transition leave; Self-funded leave; Special Assignment Pay Plan (SAPP); Temporary employment - long term specific period employment, term study; Transfers of government employees from one department to another; Work-life balance.
Program Record Number: TBS MPLR 505

Pensions and Benefits Sector

Pensions and benefits
Description: Information on pension schemes that the Government of Canada provides, administers and contributes to on behalf of persons in the federal Public Service, Members of Parliament, and employees engaged locally at Canadian foreign posts; General Information on pension matters and social security benefits.
Topics: Pensions; Agencies and corporations; Canada Pension Plan-Committees; Canadian Armed Forces Superannuation Act; Canadian government annuities; Conferences and Seminars; Diplomatic Service Superannuation Act; Foreign countries; Governor General's Retiring Annuities Act; Judges Act; Lieutenant Governors Superannuation Act; Litigation; Locally engaged employees-contributory pension regulations, (non-contributory) pensions regulations, social security, separate pension plans; Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act; Pension Benefits Standards Act; Provincial; public Sector Pension Investment Board Act; Public service pension reform-1998; Public Service Superannuation Act-Agencies and corporations, Communications, Contributory Status, Elective service, Financial, Newfoundland employees, Pilotage authorities, Privatization, Public Service Pension Adjustment Act 1959, Reciprocal Transfer Agreements (cities, Crown corporations, hospitals, Indian pension Plan Funding (IPPF) Program, provinces, universities), Retirement benefits (early retirement, Early Retirement Incentive (ERI) Program, Correctional Service Canada early retirement arrangements), Supplementary Death Benefit, Survivors' benefits; Withdrawal of entities; Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act-Pension Continuation Act: Special Retirement Arrangements Act; Statute Law (Superannuation) Amendment Act; Supplementary Retirement Benefits Act; Social Security (Canada Assistance Plan, family allowances, foreign countries, income security-veterans, old age security).
Program Record Number: TBS PBS 380

Pension Benefits Division Act
Description: Information on the policy topics related to the Act.
Topics: Pension Benefits Division Act; Policy development; Regulations; Actuarial specifications; Consultation; Retirement savings vehicles; Information to spouses; Valuation and adjustment issues.
Program Record Number: TBS PBS 386

Insurance Benefits Programs
Description: Information on benefit programs for employees and pensioners of the federal government.
Topics: Insurance benefits program: Acts and regulations; Blue Cross; Canadian Armed Forces; Dental care-administrative arrangements, Canadian Forces/Royal Canadian Mounted Police dependants (CF/RCMP) 55777/55888/55999, collective bargaining-Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAAC) 55666, employee paid dental plan, National Joint Council (NJC) 55555; Disability insurance-enrolment, participation, eligibility and membership, financial, long-term disability, publications, Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Employee Benefit Survey; High risk travel compensation program; Public Service health Care Plan (PSHCP)-Benefits-hospital expenses (including outside Canada), major medical expenses, Committees, Coverage, Financial, Quebec-bill 33 universal drug plan/Régime d'assurance-maladie du Québec (RAMQ); Nova Scotia/Pharma care program; Hospital insurance (outside Canada) plan-payments, liability and compensation claims; Locally-engaged employees health insurance-United States of America (Sun life plan); Locally-engaged employees life insurance-United States of America; National Joint Council Standing Committee on Health Insurance Programs; Outside practices; Program forecasts and estimates; Provincial and Territorial health insurance plans-provincial health insurance cost-sharing; Provincial, territorial and federal taxes on group benefit plans; Public Service Management Insurance Plan (PSMIP)-benefits-long-term disability, board of trustees, eligibility, financial: Sick leave program; Slain on duty; Unemployment Insurance; Workers' Compensation-Government Employee Compensation Act.
Program Record Number: TBS PBS 375

Insurance Benefits Programs on Pensioners Dental Services Plan
Description: Information on the dental services plan effective January 1, 2001 for pensioners of the federal government.
Topics: Pensioner's dental services plan; Consultations; Administrative services only (ASO)-contract administration; Committees; Communications about Plan; Participating groups; Administration of the plan, board and rules; Tendering process I-request for proposals (RFP) A956357; Tendering process II-request for proposal (RFP) A0556001.
Program Record Number: TBS PBS 520

Program Branch
Description: (Old Files from the obsolete Program Branch) General Information on the analysis and recommendations provided to the Treasury Board to assist it in decisions on departmental business plans, the main and supplementary estimates.
Topics: Agencies and departments; briefs from outside organizations; business plans, annual reference level update (ARLU) and main estimates; policy and expenditure management system pertaining to economic sector, foreign and defence policy sector, government operations sector, social and cultural sector; supplementary estimates; parliamentary matters; persons-years; capital plans and project analysis.
Program Record Number: TBS GOS 275

Secretary and Associate Secretary's Office
Description: General Information about strategic direction to the Secretariat.
Topics: Secretary and Associate Secretary's office-general; Committees; Conferences, meetings, seminars and symposia; Organization; Chief Information Office; Comptrollership; Corporate Service; Economic Sector; Expenditure and Management Strategies Sector; Government Operation Sector; Government Travel Modernisation Office; Human Resources Management Office; Legal Services; Office of Public Service Values and Ethics; Official Languages; Policy and Reporting Review Project; Social and Cultural Sector; Strategic Communication and Ministerial Affairs; Expenditure and management review (EMR)-general; (EMR) Biotechnology -general, biotech analysis, department and corporate documents, biotech draft departmental analysis and working sheet-(EMR) Canadian Heritage cultural capital asset management –general data gathering & working document, final report, submission, précis, and associated documents, meetings and interviewed summaries, presentations and supporting documentation, questionnaire responses & analysis, resources and references; EMR Fisheries and Oceans Canada-general, planning documents, departmental & corporate information, terms of reference, background decks & information management accountability framework, final decks, TB submission & précis; EMR Justice-general, cost recovery for legal services, federal prosecution service, grants and contributions, legal risk management, management frameworks, mandate, planning and report, policy and legislation; EMR Public security and anti-terrorism, EMR Public Works and Government Services-general, common service operations and corporate support, compensation, programs and services, organizational structure, management capacity, mandate, real property, receiver general, supply operation, telecommunication and informatics; EMR Statistics Canada-general, terms of reference, final report, executive summary, Treasury Board submission, statistics Canada's program spending, management capacity, service delivery: interrelationships with key clients, census of population, relevance to Canadians, supporting documentation; Expenditure review committee (ERC)-general; ERC Coordination; ERC Departments and agencies reviews-general, capital asset management, public service compensation and comparability, procurement and contracting, corporate and administrative services, professional services, information technology use and management, service delivery infrastructure, federal institutional governance, legal services; ERC Governance; ERC Horizontal policy and programs; ERC Professional and special services-general, data, analysis options and recommendations-value, analysis options and recommendations-growth.
Program Record Number: TBS SEC 002

Social and Cultural Sector

Alternative Service Delivery
Description: Alternative Service Delivery (ASD) refers to the organizational dimension of government service delivery, i.e. the creation of appropriate organizational forms that improve service delivery to citizens and increase performance. It has two dimensions: one relating to the establishment of new organizational 'spaces', either within or outside the traditional departmental structure, or even outside the public sector, in order to improve service delivery and organizational performances. The second refers to the bringing together of organizations either across departments or between jurisdictions in partnerships, international public management innovations; International Programs, Bilateral Agreements, Visits; Corporate; Directed Research; International Institutions; International Perspectives/Picks; Liaison-Other Government Departments: Employee database.
Program Record Number: TBS SCS 590

Social and Cultural
Description: Analysis and recommendations provided to the Treasury Board and Treasury Board President regarding expenditure management and reallocation proposals, new policy proposals, new program proposals or program changes, departmental management assessments, the oversight of Crown corporation activities, and the Main and Supplementary Estimates. The Social and Cultural Sector deals with departments, agencies and Crown corporations involved in Aboriginal issues, health, culture, parks, heritage, human resources and skills development; social development, veterans and housing.
Topics: Briefing books; CCMD meetings; Citizen engagement; Ekos research; Public dialogue project; Quality of life issues; question period (AP) cards; Results measurement and reporting issues; Retreats; Speeches; Annual reference level updates (ARLU) and main estimates; Administration and financial management issues; Business plans; Departmental audits; Departmental Capital and operating budgets; Classification of accounts/allotments; Communications; Corporate plans of crown corporations; Departmental business plans; departmental performance report (DPR); Committees; Conferences, meetings and seminars; Corporate management group; Evaluation; Grants and contributions; Human resources; Increased ministerial authority and accountability (IMAA); Long term capital plans (LTPC); Multi-year operational plans (MYOP)-spring; New expenditure management system (NEWS); Planning, reporting and accountability structure (PRAS); Management Accountability Framework; Management Resources and Results Structure (MRRS)/Program Activity Architecture (PAA); Projects; Programs, plans and expenditure proposals from departments and agencies; Program Integrity; Report on Plans and Priorities (RPP); Supplementary Estimates.
Program Record Number: TBS SCS 001

Strategic Communications and Ministerial Affairs
Description: Responsible for Strategic Communications and Ministerial Affairs- including management of the annual TBS planning and priority setting cycle. Responsible for committee secretariats.
Topics: Strategic Policy and Communication-organization, communications, committees, conferences and seminars, information services.
Program Record Number: TBS SCMA 077

Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) Unit
Description: Information on the administration of the Access to Information and Privacy legislation within the Treasury Board Secretariat.
Topics: Access to information requests, consultations, informal requests, departmental complaints, internal consultation, privacy requests, consultations, informal, corrections.
Program Record Number: TBS SCMA 005

Corporate Communications
Description: Responsible for corporate communication advice and services. Departmental lead for Government On-Line, Manages TBS Web Site information and portals. Manages public enquiries, including the departmental telephone line, TTY service, and electronic correspondence sent to the corporate Web Site. Provides strategic internal communications support. TBS Publishing authority and Crown copyright coordinator. Manages TBS advertising activities and the departmental fairs and exhibits program.
Topics: Corporate communications; Internal communications; Strategic Communications and Ministerial Affairs - Books and publications, Artwork and negatives, Treasury Board Policies; Internet-general; Web; Government On-Line; Common Look and Feel; Publishing, Publications; Advertising Crown Copyright; Pubic Enquiries.
Program Record Number: TBS SCMA 006

Communications Policy and Federal Identity Program (FIP)
Description: Treasury Board policy centre overseeing government-wide implementation of the Federal Identity Program (FIP) and the Communications Policy of the Government of Canada. Advises and supports the President and Secretary of the Treasury Board in their responsibilities for each policy. Provides interpretation and advice to assist departments and agencies in meeting policy requirements. Monitors policy compliance, conducts policy reviews, sets performance indicators for the communications function, and reports on findings. Provides guidance on best practices in government communications and corporate (or visual) identity management. Oversees policy development and recommends policy revisions or enhancements as required for the President, Secretary and Board's consideration.
Topics: Corporate Identity and Communications Policy-general, publishing general, publishing copyright, Federal Identity Program (FIP).
Program Record Number: TBS SCMA 040

Federal Regional Councils Secretariat
Description: Ensures liaison among 13 Regional Councils of Senior Federal Officials, and between them and central agencies and departments in Ottawa.
Topics: Regional Councils and external relations general; Biography; Briefing notes and presentations; Briefing notes for TBS representatives: Chairs' meetings; Council annual Report; Council funding; Councils' mandate, role and governance; Directors' meetings; Emergency management; Federal identity program (FIP) and regional councils; Secretariat-Guidelines; HR action fund framework-general, strategic plan; Human resources issues-training, gap analysis, Joint career transition committee; TBS briefing notes for regional councils; Organization; Reference documents; Regional visits : Regulatory affairs; Strengthening government of Canada presence in the regions; Alberta; Pacific; Manitoba; North West Territories; Nova Scotia; New Brunswick; Newfoundland; Nunavut; Ontario; Prince Edward Island; Quebec; Saskatchewan; Yukon;
Program Record Number: TBS SCMA 015

International Relations Office
Description: Provides a window on the world of public sector reform and innovation by managing international bilateral agreements, international visits, memberships and networks to support policy priorities; develops and shares knowledge of international public management innovations and best practices; and ensures consistency and coherence to TBS international activities.
Topics: Bilateral agreements-general, United Kingdom, France; Directed Research-general, international public services reform, Canadian public management, international perspectives newsletter and presentations; International Institutions-general, Organization of economic, co-operation and development, Commonwealth association for public administration and management membership, International institute of administrative sciences membership; International public management innovations; International relations; Liaison-Other Government Department-general, partnership for international cooperation; Visiting delegations and exchanges-general, conferences.
Program Record Number: TBS SCMA 590

Media Relations and Public Environment Analysis
Description: Information on media clippings and broadcast synopses, on-going updates and maintenance of TBS Intranet News Centre, transcripts, media analyses and public opinion surveys on a range of issues of direct interest to the TB Portfolio, advice on media relations issues, develops and implements short-term communications and media relations products and activities, media request database.
Topics: Media Relations and Public Environment Analysis - general; Chief Information Officer Branch; Office of the Comptroller General; Corporate Services Branch; Economic Sector; Expenditure policy analysis (EPA); Expenditure and Management Strategies Sector; Government Operations Sector; Human Resources Management Office; Infrastructure National Office; International Affairs, Security and Justice Sector; Official Languages Branch; Legal Services Branch; Service and Innovation Sector; Social and Cultural Sector; Media clippings.
Program Record Number: TBS SCMA 035

Ministerial Correspondence
Description: Manages the Minister and the Secretary and Associate Secretary's correspondence process, administration on departmental procedures and corporate correspondence management systems for ministerial correspondence.
Topics: Correspondence Unit - general, correspondence, lists, president's letters, procedures, Secretary's letters. President's and Secretary's scanned letters.
Program Record Number: TBS SCMA 025

Office of the Assistant Secretary
Description: Is responsible for providing general support and advice on overall TBS policy and strategic planning, and on repositioning the TBS to support the TB in its role as management board, asp part of a plan or vision of the future of the public service and in a manner that is consistent with Results for Canadians.
Topics: Office of the Assistant Secretary-General; committees-EXCO, internal audit and evaluation, management and infrastructure committee, policy and oversight teams; planning and organization; special projects; corporate roles and responsibilities; governance; organization.
Program Record Number: TBS SCMA 600

Parliamentary Affairs
Description: Information on Parliamentary affairs, support to the President in preparing for QP, co-ordination of briefing material by the TB Portfolio for the President and liaison with parliamentary committees.
Topics: Parliamentary Affairs - general, administration, briefing notes, house cards.
Program Record Number: TBS SCMA 020

Strategic Communications
Description: Develops, implements and supports external communications and public relations activities. It provides strategic communications advice to the President, the Secretary and other Senior Managers as well as to departmental officials. The key functions carried out by the unit include strategic communications advice and planning, public environment research, advice on publication production, development of communications products for internal and external distribution, speechwriting for the Minister and the Secretary, French editing services, consults with the Privy Council Office and other Federal government departments on government-wide initiatives.
Topics: Strategic communications - general, backgrounders, biographies, business planning, communication plan, generic messages, news releases, media analysis, media clippings, media lines, parliamentary committees, presentations, president messages, procedures, questions and answers, speaking notes and speeches.
Program Record Number: TBS SCMA 030

Submission and Cabinet Document Centre
Description: Submissions to the Treasury Board of Canada, Treasury Board submissions and related documents are confidences of the Queen's Privy Council and excluded from purview of the Access to Information and Privacy Acts.
Topics: Submission and Cabinet Document Centre.
Program Record Number: TBS SCMA 015