On October 21, 2005 and as part of its Management Improvement Agenda, the Government announced its commitment to proactively disclose the awarding of grants and contributions over $25,000.
This Web site provides information on grants and contribution awarded by or on behalf of the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada. Beginning on May 31, 2006, this Web site will be updated on a quarterly basis to include information on grants and contributions awarded in the previous fiscal year quarter.
The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions
are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments which can be found at
http://publiservice.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/dcgpubs/TBM_142/
ptp_e.asp
Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an
appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without
the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may
require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to having
received the transfer payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of
Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and
‘other transfer payments’. Included in this category, but not reported under proactive
disclosure of grants and contributions awards are (1) transfers to other levels of
government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer
payments; (2) grants or contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by a
recipient to third-party beneficiaries; and (3) information that would normally be
withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.