2014 New Building Canada Fund: Provincial-Territorial Infrastructure Component, Small Communities Fund
Program Overview - Program Overview Section

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Governance

  • Canada will enter into Funding Agreements (FA) with each province and territory for the implementation of the SCF.
  • The provinces and territories will in turn, enter into agreements with eligible ultimate recipients to manage individual projects. Canada will not enter into a FA with any party other than a province or territory.
  • An Oversight Committee (OC) composed of both federal and provincial or territorial representatives will be established to monitor the implementation of the program in each jurisdiction.

Project Identification and Approval

  • Provinces and territories will be responsible for identifying potential projects and submitting them to Infrastructure Canada (INFC) for approval.
  • All proposed projects must provide basic information, including the name of the municipality, title of the project, the eligible category and subcategory, a brief description of the project, financial information, project location, as well as planned start and end dates. Please refer to Annex A for a full list of eligible investment categories and related subcategories.

Eligible Recipient(s)

  • Eligible recipients are restricted to those whose projects are situated within, and/or are for the benefit of, communities with a population of less than one hundred thousand people (100,000) as determined by Statistics Canada - Final 2011 Census. Please refer to Annex B for a complete listing of eligible recipients.

Cost-sharing, Stacking and Limits to Federal Contribution

For projects located in provinces, the maximum federal contribution from all sources will be up to one-third (33.33%) of the total eligible costs of a project (see Annex C for details of eligible and ineligible expenditures), with the following exceptions:

  • For the Highways and Roads and Disaster Mitigation categories where the asset is provincially-owned, and for those in the Public Transit category, the maximum federal contribution from all sources will be up to fifty per cent (50%) of the total eligible costs; and
  • For all projects where the recipient is from the for-profit private sector, the maximum federal contribution from all sources will be up to twenty-five per cent (25%) of the total eligible costs.

For projects located in the territories, the maximum federal contribution from all sources will be up to three-quarters (75%) of the total eligible costs of a project, with the following exception:

  • For all projects where the recipient is from the for-profit private sector, the maximum federal contribution from all sources will be up to twenty-five per cent (25%) of the total eligible costs.

The provincial government contribution will be no less than the federal contribution.

Contributions to for-profit, private sector bodies through the SCF will be considered only when these projects will be for public use or benefit. In these cases, recipients will be required to demonstrate the broader public benefits of the project.

For projects advanced by a First Nations recipient, with regard to financial support that the First Nation receives from Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), only funding received from the First Nations Infrastructure Fund would be counted towards the federal stacking limits for PTIC. All other sources of funds the First Nation receives from INAC would not count towards the stacking limits.

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