2019-20 Departmental Results Report
Additional information

Organizational profile

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

Institutional head: Kelly Gillis

Ministerial portfolio: Minister of Infrastructure and Communities and 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 (JCCBI), a Crown corporation whose mandate is to ensure users' safe passage on its structures located in the Greater Montreal Area by ensuring their proper management, maintenance and repair, while respecting the environment and optimizing traffic flow.
  • Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority (WDBA), 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 WDBA was transferred from the Minister of Transport to the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities on November 4, 2015.
  • The Canada Infrastructure Bank, 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 to help government partners build new infrastructure across Canada. The Canada Infrastructure Bank Act received Royal Assent on June 22, 2017. 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 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.
  • The Office of Infrastructure Canada also houses the Centre for Rural Economic Development. The Centre was established following the appointment of a Minister of Rural Economic Development in January 2019. The Centre provides leadership for strong and resilient rural communities as an integral part of the Canadian economy, by providing a focus on rural needs, working across departments and agencies (particularly with the Regional Development Agencies for rural community development, and with Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada on rural broadband), with other orders of government, and a range of stakeholders.

Enabling instrument[s]:

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 sun-setting transfer payment programs. Infrastructure Canada, as project authority, also works with Public Services and Procurement Canada, the contracting authority, and Justice Canada on the Samuel De Champlain Bridge Corridor project.

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.

For more information on the department's organizational mandate letter commitments, see mandate letter for the Minister of Infrastructure and CommunitiesEndnote xxi, and for the Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic DevelopmentEndnote xxii.

Reporting framework

Infrastructure Canada's Departmental Results Framework and Program Inventory of record for 2019–20 are shown below.

Core Responsibility: Public Infrastructure
Departmental Results Framework Internal Services
Departmental Result 1:
Infrastructure projects are
funded and supported by Infrastructure Canada		 Indicator 1.1: Infrastructure Canada funding committed to projects
Indicator 1.2: Value of Infrastructure Canada's funding contribution in the fiscal year
Indicator 1.3: Implementation status and oversight of major bridge projects
Departmental Result 2:
Public infrastructure is
managed in a more
sustainable way		 Indicator 2.1: Total annual investments from all levels of government in infrastructure projects supported by Infrastructure Canada
Indicator 2.2: Percentage of municipalities that strengthened their asset management practices as a result of federal funding
Indicator 2.3: Change in remaining useful life of infrastructure assets
Departmental Result 3:
Rate of economic growth is increased in an inclusive
and sustainable way		 Indicator 3.1: Change in real GDP attributable to federal
investments in infrastructure
Departmental Result 4:
Improved urban mobility in Canadian communities		 Indicator 4.1: Percentage of Canadians living within 400 metres of a transit station or stop
Indicator 4.2: Modal share of public transit and active
transportation
Departmental Result 5:
Environmental quality is
improved, GHG emissions
are reduced and resilience
of communities is
increased		 Indicator 5.1: Percentage of municipalities that built or enhanced their capacity to reduce GHG emissions and adapt to climate change as a result of federal funding
Indicator 5.2: Percentage of municipalities that built or enhanced their drinking water system as a result of federal funding
Indicator 5.3: Percentage of municipalities that built or enhanced their wastewater treatment system as a result of federal funding
Departmental Result 6:
Canadian communities are
inclusive and accessible		 Indicator 6.1: Number of community, cultural and recreational facilities that were enhanced or built as a result of federal funding, and that are accessible
Indicator 6.2: Number of public transit systems that were enhanced or built as a result of federal funding, and that are accessible

Program Inventory
Investing in Canada Phase 1 – Funding Allocations for Provinces and Territories
Investing in Canada Phase 1 – Funding for Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program
Gas Tax Fund – Permanent Funding for Municipalities
New Building Canada Fund – National Infrastructure Component
New Building Canada Fund – Funding Allocations for Provinces and Territories
Historical Programs
New Champlain Bridge Corridor Project
Gordie Howe International Bridge Team
Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Initiative
Smart Cities Challenge
Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund

Supporting information on the program inventory

Financial, human resources and performance information for Infrastructure Canada's Program Inventory is available in GC InfoBase.Endnote xxiii

Supplementary information tables

The following supplementary information tables are available on Infrastructure Canada's website:

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 xxiv 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.caEndnote xxv 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