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Corporate information

Organizational profile

Appropriate ministers: The Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, P.C., M.P., The Honourable Bernadette Jordan, P.C., M.P.

Institutional head: Kelly Gillis

Ministerial portfolios: Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, Minister of Rural Economic Development

The Office of Infrastructure of Canada is part of the Infrastructure and Communities portfolio. The portfolio includes the following:

• The Jacques Cartier and Champlain Bridges Incorporated,^{Endnote iii} a Crown corporation whose mandate is to ensure users' safe passage on its structures located in the Greater Montréal Area by their proper management, maintenance and repair, while respecting the environment and optimizing traffic flow.
• The Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority (WDBA),^{Endnote iv} a Crown corporation with the responsibility to design, finance, build, operate and maintain a new, publicly owned international crossing between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan that will be delivered through a public-private partnership. Responsibility for the WDBA was transferred from the Minister of Transport to the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities on November 4, 2015.
• The Canada Infrastructure Bank,^{Endnote v} a Crown corporation, uses federal support to attract private sector and institutional investment to new revenue-generating infrastructure projects that are in the public interest. The CIB leverages the capital and expertise of the private sector and help government partners build new infrastructure across Canada. The Canada Infrastructure Bank Act received Royal Assent on June 22, 2017, and the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities was designated the responsible Minister on July 4, 2017.
• The Minister of Infrastructure and Communities was designated as the Minister responsible for federal matters relating to the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Initiative^{Endnote vi} effective November 4, 2015. In 2000, the Government of Canada, the Province of Ontario and the City of Toronto each announced a commitment of $500 million to fund the Initiative. The Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation, which is a not-for-profit corporation publicly known as Waterfront Toronto, was established in 2001.

Enabling instruments:

• Canada Strategic Infrastructure Fund Act (2002, c. 9, s. 47) (CSIF)^{Endnote vii};
• Order in Council P.C. 2004-0325^{Endnote viii};
• The following pieces of legislation related to the Gas Tax Fund:
• Keeping Canada's Economy and Jobs Growing Act, S.C. 2011, c. 24^{Endnote ix}
• Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1, S.C. 2013, c. 33, section 233^{Endnote x}
• The following legislation and Order in Council related to the New Bridge for the St. Lawrence Corridor Project (commonly known as the New Champlain Bridge Corridor Project):
• New Bridge for the St. Lawrence Act^{Endnote xi}
• Order in Council P.C. 2014-0144^{Endnote xii}
• The following legislation, Orders in Council and Canada-Michigan Crossing Agreement related to the Gordie Howe International Bridge Project:
• Crossing Agreement^{Endnote xiii}
• Bridge to Strengthen Trade Act, S.C. 2012, c. 31, s. 179^{Endnote xiv}
• Order in Council P.C. 2012-1350^{Endnote xv}
• Order in Council P.C. 2015-1236^{Endnote xvi}
• Order in Council P.C. 2015-1237^{Endnote xvii}
• Order in Council P.C. 2015-1238^{Endnote xviii}
• The following Orders in Council related to Waterfront Toronto:
• Order in Council P.C. 2015-1239^{Endnote xix}
• Order in Council P.C. 2015-1240^{Endnote xx}
• The following legislation and Order in Council related to the Canada Infrastructure Bank:
• Canada Infrastructure Bank Act, S.C. 2017, c. 20, s. 403^{Endnote xxi}
• Order in Council P.C. 2017-1007^{Endnote xxii}

Year of incorporation/commencement: The Office of Infrastructure of Canada was established in 2002.

Other: Infrastructure Canada works in collaboration with Transport Canada to deliver some of its sunset transfer payment programs. Infrastructure Canada also works with Public Services and Procurement Canada for the New Champlain Bridge Corridor project as the contract authority.

In its role as lead department in the Government of Canada’s Investing in Canada plan, Infrastructure Canada works with 13 other federal organizations: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Canadian Heritage, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Health Canada, Indigenous Services Canada, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Parks Canada Agency, Public Health Agency of Canada, Public Safety Canada, and Transport Canada.

Raison d’être, mandate and role: who we are and what we do

"Raison d'être, mandate and role: who we are and what we do" is available on Infrastructure Canada's website.^{Endnote xxiii}

Reporting framework

Infrastructure Canada's Departmental Results Framework and Program Inventory of record for 2018–19 are shown below:

Supporting information on the Program Inventory

Supporting information on planned expenditures, human resources, and results related to Infrastructure Canada's Program Inventory is available in the GC InfoBase.^{Endnote xxiv}

Supplementary information tables

The following supplementary information tables are available on the Infrastructure Canada website.^{Endnote xxv}

• 2017-2022 Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy
• Details of Transfer Payment Programs of $5 Million or More
• Gender–Based Analysis Plus (GBA+)
• Horizontal Initiatives
• Planned evaluation coverage over the next five fiscal years
• Status Report on Transformational and Major Crown projects
• Upcoming internal audits for the coming fiscal year

Federal tax expenditures

The tax system can be used to achieve public policy objectives through the application of special measures such as low tax rates, exemptions, deductions, deferrals and credits. The Department of Finance Canada publishes cost estimates and projections for these measures each year in the Report on Federal Tax Expenditures^{Endnote xxvi}.This report also provides detailed background information on tax expenditures, including descriptions, objectives, historical information and references to related federal spending programs. The tax measures presented in this report are the responsibility of the Minister of Finance.

Organizational contact information

For more information on the Department and its infrastructure programs, please visit www.infrastructure.gc.ca^{Endnote xxvii} or contact:

Infrastructure Canada
180 Kent Street, Suite 1100
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 0B6
National information line on infrastructure: 613-948-1148
Telephone toll free: 1-877-250-7154
TTY: 1-800-465-7735
Email: infc.info.infc@canada.ca

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2021-01-19