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Strategic Outcomes Database 2006

The Government of Canada has developed a whole of government framework to help parliamentarians and Canadians locate information of interest to them on federal government policies, programs and activities. The framework also helps the government track its contribution to Canada's performance as a nation. The framework is structured to take the reader from very broad policy areas to detailed individual departmental information.

The broad policy areas are:

This framework provides parliamentarians and Canadians with a whole of government perspective from which to view the plans, results and resources reported in departmental and agency planning and performance reports, as well as in the Annual Report to Parliament on Crown Corporations and Other Corporate Interests of Canada.

Departments, agencies and Crown corporations, which have strategic outcomes that contribute to the four broad policy areas are grouped into 13 outcomes areas.
An organization's strategic outcome is the long-term and enduring benefit to Canadians that stems from a department or agency's mandate, vision and efforts. It represents the difference a department or agency wants to make for Canadians.

Departmental, agency and Crown corporations' strategic outcomes are presented in three ways:

An illustration of the whole of government framework can be accessed here.