RPP 2006-2007
Natural Resources Canada

Section I - Overview

• Minister's Message
• Management Representation Statement
• Summary Information
• Operating Environment
• Departmental Plans and Priorities

Section II - Analysis of Program Activities by Strategic Outcome and Departmental Priorities

1. Analysis by Departmental Priorities
   • Improve Resource-Sector Productivity and Competitiveness
   • Advance Resource Efficiency and Conservation
   • Ensure the Safety and Security of People and Resources
   • Provide Science, Information and Tools for Decision Making and Support Responsible Development of Canada’s North
   • Enhance NRCan's Capacity to Deliver Policies, Programs, Science and Technology
2. Other Supporting and Enabling Initiatives/Services

Section III - Supplementary Information

1. Planned Spending and Full Time Equivalents
2. Planned Spending by Program Activity for 2006-07
3. Voted and Statutory Items Listing in Main Estimates
4. Net Cost of Program for 2006-07
5. Summary of Major Capital Spending by Program Activity
6. Loans, Investments, and Advances (Non-Budgetary)
7. Source of Respendable and Non-Respendable Revenues
8. Geomatics Canada Revolving Fund
9. User Fees
10. Summary of Transfer Payments
11. Listing of Transfer Payment Programs Exceeding $5 million/year
12. Foundations (Conditional Grants)
13. Horizontal Initiatives
14. Sustainable Development Strategy
15. Planned Internal Audits and Evaluations

Table of Contents by Departmental Priorities and Issues

Improve Resource-Sector Productivity and Competitiveness

• Stimulating private sector resource exploration through energy and mineral resource development
• Contributing to the Canadian economy through energy policy
• Enhancing the global competitiveness of Canada's forest industry
• Improving productivity and competitiveness in the Canadian minerals and metals industries

Advance Resource Efficiency and Conservation

• Strategic policy development
• Climate change – impacts and adaptation
• Improving energy use through energy efficiency and alternative transportation fuels
• Encouraging renewable energy sources and technologies
• Energy S&T – Supporting Canada's energy future
• Safeguarding the environment

Ensure the Safety and Security of People and Resources

• Reducing loss of life and mitigating damage to the economy

Provide Science, Information and Tools for Decision making and Support Responsible Development of Canada’s North

• Delivering geospatial information on the Internet
• Supporting community development
• Supporting research in Canada's Arctic

Enhance NRCan's Capacity to Deliver Policies, Programs, Science and Technology

• Taking our management practices to the next level of excellence
• Enhancing our capacity to ensure that legislative, regulatory, and policy obligations are identified, understood and met
• Enhancing our internal management capacity
• Enhancing our capacity in oversight and compliance monitoring and reporting
• Enhancing corporate decision making and management practices in response to departmental business needs
• Building strategic directions for NRCan's S&T