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Organizational profile

Appropriate ministers: The Honourable Catherine McKenna, P.C., M.P., The Honourable Maryam Monsef, P.C., M.P.

Institutional head: Kelly Gillis

Ministerial portfolios: Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, Minister for Women and Gender Equality and 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 xii} 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 xiii} 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 xiv} 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 Centre for Rural Economic Development^{Endnote xv} was established following the appointment of a Minister of Rural Economic Development in January 2019 and the subsequent launch of the Rural Economic Development Strategy. The Centre provides leadership for strong and resilient rural communities as an integral part of the Canadian economy. It does so by providing a focus on rural needs, working across departments and agencies (particularly with the Regional Development Agencies for rural community development, and collaborating with Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada on rural broadband), with other orders of government, and a range of stakeholders.

The Minister of Infrastructure and Communities was designated as the Minister responsible for federal matters relating to the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Initiative^{Endnote xvi} (TWRI), 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 TWRI. Waterfront Toronto is a non-share capital corporation established in 2001 to lead and implement the TWRI. The next phase of the TWRI includes flood protection of the Port Lands for which Canada, Ontario and Toronto are contributing equal funding for a total of $1.25 billion.

Enabling instruments:

• Canada Strategic Infrastructure Fund Act (2002, c. 9, s. 47) (CSIF)^{Endnote xvii};
• Order in Council P.C. 2004-0325^{Endnote xviii};
• 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 xix}
• Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1, S.C. 2013, c. 33, section 233^{Endnote xx}
• 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 xxi}
• Order in Council P.C. 2014-0144^{Endnote xxii}
• The following legislation, Orders in Council and Canada-Michigan Crossing Agreement related to the Gordie Howe International Bridge Project:
• Crossing Agreement^{Endnote xxiii}
• Bridge to Strengthen Trade Act, S.C. 2012, c. 31, s. 179^{Endnote xxiv}
• Order in Council P.C. 2012-1350^{Endnote xxv}
• Order in Council P.C. 2015-1236^{Endnote xxvi}
• Order in Council P.C. 2015-1237^{Endnote xxvii}
• Order in Council P.C. 2015-1238^{Endnote xxviii}
• The following Orders in Council related to Waterfront Toronto:
• Order in Council P.C. 2015-1239^{Endnote xxix}
• Order in Council P.C. 2015-1240^{Endnote xxx}
• 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 xxxi}
• Order in Council P.C. 2017-1007^{Endnote xxxii}

Year of incorporation/commencement: 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 as the contract authority.

In its role as lead department in the Government of Canada’s Investing in Canada plan, Infrastructure Canada works with 20 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 xxxiii}

For more information on the department’s organizational mandate letter commitments, see the “Ministers’ mandate letters”. ^{Endnote xxxiv}

Operating context

Information on the operating context is available on Infrastructure Canada’s website.^{Endnote xxxv}

Reporting framework

Infrastructure Canada’s approved Departmental Results Framework and program inventory for 2021-22 are as follows.

In the fall of 2020-21, Infrastructure Canada completely revitalized its Departmental Results Framework in order to better align with its responsibilities and partners, to better reflects its organizational structure and its new Ministers’ mandates, and to improve reporting on results. The Departmental Results Framework changes have resulted in new core responsibilities, departmental results, departmental result indicators, and a new program inventory. These changes were approved by the Treasury Board in November, 2020.

Changes to the approved reporting framework since 2020-21

Structure	2021-22	2020-21	Change	Reason for change
CORE RESPONSIBILITY	Public Infrastructure, Communities and Rural Economic Development Policy	Not applicable	Title change	Note 1
PROGRAM	Public Infrastructure and Communities Policy	Not applicable	New program	Note 2
PROGRAM	Rural Economic Development Policy	Not applicable	New program	Note 2
PROGRAM	Alternative Financing Policy	Not applicable	New program	Note 2
PROGRAM	Major Bridges Policy	Not applicable	New program	Note 2
CORE RESPONSIBILITY	Public Infrastructure and Communities Investments	Public Infrastructure	Title change	Note 1
PROGRAM	Public Infrastructure and Communities Investment	Investing in Canada Phase 1 - Funding Allocations for Provinces and Territories	Title change	Note 3
PROGRAM		Investing in Canada Phase 1 - Funding for Federation of Canadian Municipalities	Title change
PROGRAM		Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program	Title change
PROGRAM		Gas Tax Fund - Permanent Funding for Municipalities	Title change
PROGRAM		New Building Canada Fund - National Infrastructure Component	Title change
PROGRAM		New Building Canada Fund - Funding Allocations for Provinces and Territories	Title change
PROGRAM		Historical Programs	Title change
PROGRAM		New Champlain Bridge Corridor Project	Title change
PROGRAM		Gordie Howe International Bridge Team	Title change
PROGRAM		Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Initiative	Title change
PROGRAM		Smart Cities Challenge	Title change
PROGRAM		Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund	Title change
PROGRAM		Research and Data Initiative	Title change
PROGRAM	Alternative Financing Investment	Not applicable	New program	Note 2
PROGRAM	Major Bridges Investment	Major Bridges Investment	New program	Note 2
CORE RESPONSIBILITY	Public Infrastructure and Communities Investment Oversight and Delivery	Not applicable	Title change	Note 1
PROGRAM	Allocation and Merit-Based Funding Oversight	Not applicable	New program	Note 2
PROGRAM	Alternative Financing Oversight	Not applicable	New program	Note 2
PROGRAM	Major Bridges Oversight	Not applicable	New program	Note 2

Notes:

1. Better reflects Infrastructure Canada's mandate.
2. Better reflects programs that serve this core responsibility.
3. Programs have been replaced with those that better reflect the activities conducted by the department related to this core responsibility.

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 xxxvi}

Supplementary information tables

The following supplementary information tables are available on Infrastructure Canada's website.^{Endnote xxxvii}

• Details of Transfer Payment Programs
• Gender–Based Analysis Plus (GBA+)
• Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy
• Horizontal initiatives

Federal tax expenditures

Infrastructure Canada’s Departmental Plan does not include information on tax expenditures that relate to its planned results for 2021-22.  

Tax expenditures are the responsibility of the Minister of Finance, and the Department of Finance Canada publishes cost estimates and projections for government‑wide tax expenditures each year in the Report on Federal Tax Expenditures^{Endnote xxxviii}. This report provides detailed information on tax expenditures, including objectives, historical background and references to related federal spending programs, as well as evaluations, research papers and gender-based analysis. The tax measures presented in this report are solely the responsibility of the Minister of Finance.

Organizational contact information

Infrastructure Canada
180 Kent Street, Suite 1100
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 0B6
Telephone: 613-948-1148
Telephone (toll free number): 1-877-250-7154
TTY: 1-800-465-7735
Email: infc.info.infc@canada.ca
Website: www.infrastructure.gc.ca^{Endnote xxxix}

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