抖淫视频

抖淫视频: Departmental Results Report 2018-19

Government of Canada Catalogue Number: FR2-25E-PDF
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 2561-2182

Table of Contents

• Ministers’ message
• Results at a glance
• Results: what we achieved
  • Core Responsibility 1: International Advocacy and Diplomacy
  • Core Responsibility 2: Trade and Investment
  • Core Responsibility 3: Development, Peace and Security Programming
  • Core Responsibility 4: Help for Canadians Abroad
  • Core Responsibility 5: Support for Canada’s Presence Abroad
• Internal Services
• Analysis of trends in spending and human resources
  • Actual expenditures
  • Actual human resources
  • Expenditures by vote
  • Government of Canada spending and activities
  • Financial statements and financial statements highlights
    • Financial statements
    • Financial statements highlights
• Supplementary information
  • Corporate information
    • Organizational profile
• Raison d’être, mandate and role: who we are and what we do
  • Raison d’être
  • Mandate and role
• Operating context and key risks
  • Operating context
  • Key risks
• Supporting information on the Program Inventory
• Supplementary information tables
• Federal tax expenditures
• Organizational contact information
• Appendix: definitions
• Endnotes

Ministers’ message

For more than seven decades, global stability and economic growth have been underpinned by the free flow of goods, people and ideas around the world. While most would agree that we have made incredible progress in that time, many have expressed doubts about the idea of openness and the legitimacy of a system that they perceive to be leaving them behind.

At a time when more and more countries are questioning the value of the rules-based international order and the multilateral system that underpins it, it is more important than ever that we work with allies and partners all over the world to safeguard our institutions and protect our common values. No problem can be solved by any country acting in isolation. Global challenges like climate change, threats to rules-based trade, mass migration and the difficulties facing the middle class require global solutions.

A strong economy is at the heart of any country’s hopes for peace, stability and prosperity, and growing companies through international trade is vital in that equation. The new NAFTA is just one example of the kind of concrete action Canada is taking to secure a strong economic future for Canadians. Canada also ratified the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership [CPTPP], and Canadians are seeing the dividends of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement [CETA]. By building on recent successes and ongoing discussions with other trade partners, we are creating more opportunities for Canadian businesses to grow and for the benefits of a free and fair trading system to reach all of our citizens.

In both the developed and developing world, trade is key to boosting shared prosperity and ending extreme poverty. But too many social, economic, political and legislative obstacles prevent women around the world from taking part in the same opportunities as men. That’s why we’ve moved forward with the Women’s Entrepreneurship Strategy domestically, and through Canada’s feminist foreign policy and Canada’s feminist international assistance policy, we have a crucial tool to help us promote inclusion and fairness, further the rights of women and girls, advance the women, peace and security agenda, and continue to break down barriers for women, youth and marginalized groups. Through our G7 Presidency in 2018 and our hosting of Women Deliver in 2019, we have put that policy into action, developing gender responsive humanitarian assistance, and providing support for women and children around the world to access quality education and healthcare, and advocate for their fundamental rights. Canada’s efforts in international development will continue to focus on sustainable economic growth and ensuring that all people can participate meaningfully in their country’s economy and enjoy the benefits of its economic progress.

With a feminist foreign policy that is principled and pragmatic, and that is integrated with Canadian trade and development priorities, Canada is working both bilaterally and multilaterally to confront the challenges facing humanity today. As a middle power, we have much to bring to the international effort to build a more peaceful, stable and prosperous world.

The Honourable François-Philippe Champagne
Minister of Foreign Affairs

The Honourable Mary Ng
Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade

The Honourable Karina Gould
Minister of International Development

Results at a glance

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Departmental Spending by Strategic Outcome

• CR 1: $965,987,674
• CR 2: $320,245,224
• CR 3: $4,428,638,296
• CR 4: $57,301,641
• CR 5: $1,037,339,902
• Internal services: $247,362,565
• Actual spending for 2018-19: $7,056,875,302

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Full-Time Equivalents by Strategic Outcome

• CR 1: 2,414
• CR 2: 1,899
• CR 3: 1,012
• CR 4: 371
• CR 5: 4,471
• Internal services: 1,512
• Actual FTEs for 2018-19: 11,679

Core Responsibility 1 – International Advocacy and Diplomacy

• 抖淫视频 contributed to whole-of-Canada advocacy efforts in the United States, which facilitated the successful conclusion of Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) negotiations and the eventual removal of U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum imports.
• Canada successfully hosted the G7 Summit in Charlevoix, Quebec, in June 2018. Throughout its G7 Presidency, Canada brought countries together to advance pressing global issues, such as the fight against climate change and ocean protection.
• Canada created the Gender Equality Advisory Council to help ensure that gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls were advanced throughout G7 discussions.
• Canada and the EU co-hosted the first formal Women Foreign Ministers’ meeting in September 2018, underscoring the benefits of a gender perspective in peace-building, security and the promotion of democracy.

Core Responsibility 2 – Trade and Investment

• Canada ratified the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) in October 2018 and signed CUSMA in November 2018.
• Canada organized and hosted a first meeting of the “Ottawa Group”, a group of 12 like-minded nations with the aim of achieving meaningful, realistic and pragmatic reforms to the World Trade Organization.
• Canada’s Gender Results Framework was established, mandating that all of Canada’s free trade agreements (FTAs) be subject to Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+).
• Canada’s Trade Commissioner Service had 15,956 active Canadian business clients, with a satisfaction rate of 91.7 percent.
• An additional $10 million over five years was dedicated to the Business Women in International Trade program, part of the Women Entrepreneurship Strategy, which supports Canada’s inclusive approach to trade through the delivery of women-focused initiatives.

Core Responsibility 3 – Development, Peace and Security Programming

• Canada provided $892.6 million in humanitarian assistance support, including for entities like the World Food Programme so they could provide food and cash-based transfers to 86.7 million people, and nutritious meals to 16.4 million schoolchildren.
• 抖淫视频 invested $4.4 billion in international assistance, which saved lives, reduced poverty, promoted sustainable economic growth, and improved global security and stability.
• $15 million was disbursed to the Elsie Initiative Fund for Uniformed Women in Peace Operations to support and incentivize the increased meaningful participation of uniformed women in UN peace operations.
• $162 million was disbursed via the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program, to promote peace and stability in fragile and conflict-affected states.

Core Responsibility 4 – Help for Canadians Abroad

• The Standing Rapid Deployment Team provided critical support to Canadians in distress during civil unrest in Haiti, Hurricane Isaac in the Caribbean, and a plane crash in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• 94 percent of Canadians who completed a consular client feedback form indicated they were satisfied or very satisfied with routine consular services.

Core Responsibility 5 – Support for Canada’s Presence Abroad

• The environmental sustainability of Canada’s properties abroad was improved through solar energy, LED lighting conversions and water conservation projects.
• A comprehensive framework review for locally engaged staff, who make up over 70 percent of the whole-of-government workforce at missions abroad, was initiated with a view to updating and improving how this critical workforce is managed.

For more information on 抖淫视频’s plans, priorities and results achieved, see the “Results: what we achieved” section of this report.

Results: what we achieved

Core Responsibility 1: International Advocacy and Diplomacy

Description

抖淫视频 promotes Canada’s interests and values through policy development, diplomacy, advocacy and effective engagement.

Results

Canada worked with a wide range of partners to protect, reform and renew the current rules-based international order and to achieve common global goals that likewise advanced Canadian security and prosperity. Through effective advocacy and diplomacy efforts, 抖淫视频 advanced Canadian values and interests internationally, including growth that works for everyone, peace and security, democratic and inclusive governance, human rights, gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, respect for diversity, and environmental sustainability.

Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada's interests.

抖淫视频 leveraged its expansive global network of missions to maintain and strengthen partnerships around the world. Working with partners in multilateral and issue-based coalitions, such as the Arctic Council, the Global Coalition Against Daesh, the United Nations mission in Mali, the Organization for Islamic Cooperation and the Lima Group, Canada advanced its agenda and supported important international efforts, including environmental sustainability and the advancement of women and girls. Canada’s address at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s Council of Foreign Ministers meeting was particularly noteworthy, as it is rare for a non-member minister to have such an opportunity.

Canada also strengthened key bilateral relationships and continued to demonstrate its commitment to strong international engagement, underscored by the successful signing of a new Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement (CUSMA).

North America

The Canadian government, in coordination with provinces and territories, continued to work with the United States administration, the United States Congress, and state and local officials to build a productive relationship and address global challenges. As part of these efforts, Prime Minister Trudeau, Cabinet ministers, parliamentary secretaries, premiers, and provincial and territorial ministers have undertaken over 140 high-level visits across the border. In October 2018, shortly after being elected, seven Mexican Secretaries-designate made their first visit abroad to Canada to meet with their Canadian counterparts. Canadian advocacy focused on the modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), culminating in the successful signing of CUSMA in November 2018.

Canada and the United States also continued to work together on border efficiency and security. This included work toward expanding preclearance operations for additional cities and for cargo; the passage of legislation and advancement of the entry/exit initiative; and the ongoing construction of the Gordie Howe International Bridge between Windsor and Detroit.

The government also regularly engaged with the United States to respond to global security issues. Canada participated, alongside the United States, in a multinational surveillance initiative in support of United Nations Security Council sanctions against North Korea. In response to crises in Myanmar and Venezuela, collaboration with the United States included coordinated sanctions against key officials who were responsible for human rights abuses, the deterioration of democracy, or acts of significant corruption in those countries.

Europe

Canada continued to advance the Canada–European Union Strategic Partnership Agreement, with approximately 20 dialogues between the European Union and various Canadian government departments and agencies across a spectrum of policy areas (e.g. environment, energy, fisheries, etc.).

Canadian and European Union senior officials also met during a Joint Ministerial Committee meeting in Montréal, November 6, 2018, during which they agreed on concrete deliverables in several areas, including: Canadian participation in European Union election observation missions; Inuit mobility between Canada and Greenland; efforts to reduce black carbon (therefore, helping to address climate change) in the Arctic; and an ocean partnership. Canada also worked with the United Kingdom to ensure a seamless continuation of relations post-Brexit.

In February 2019, Canada announced up to $24 million to support electoral reforms, election observers, gender equality and inclusive governance in Ukraine, as well as support to counter disinformation and interference.

Arctic

In the past year Canada, and nine other Arctic and non-Arctic states and actors, signed the Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean. This historic agreement prohibits commercial fishing in the high seas portion of the central Arctic Ocean for at least 16 years after entry into force, or until measures are in place to support a commercial fishery.

In addition to this important achievement, Canada continued to promote its circumpolar interests internationally, in cooperation with domestic partners. Canada collaborated with territorial, provincial and Indigenous partners to advance work on updating Canada’s international Arctic policy to be contained in the government’s new Arctic and Northern Policy Framework. In the Arctic Council, Canada led a number of initiatives that advanced domestic priorities, such as mental health, climate change and safe Arctic shipping.

Middle East

Canada’s Middle East Strategy, which guides Canada’s diplomatic, humanitarian, development and security/stabilization engagement in Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, enabled the realization of several important results. The Strategy, which is investing up to $3.5 billion over five years (2016-2021) has a primary aim to counter Daesh through the 81-member Global Coalition; respond to the needs of refugees and other vulnerable people; and help build long-term resilience in Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. For example, Canada’s military efforts contributed to helping the Global Coalition Against Daesh successfully liberate all Daesh-controlled territory, as well as 7.7 million people in Iraq and Syria. Over 3.6 million displaced persons have returned to their homes. Canada also participated in the four Global Coalition working groups focused on the critical civilian lines of effort: stabilizing liberated areas; countering Daesh financing; impeding the flow of foreign fighters; and countering Daesh messaging. Canada is contributing as well to the Coalition’s continued engagement in police capacity building. As of May 2019, Canada has 12 police officers, three of whom are women, deployed to the Coalition in Iraq.

Canadian support to the White Helmets since 2016 has helped to increase their capacity to clear explosive hazards, carry out emergency response activities, and increase the number of women volunteers in the organization. In the summer of 2018, Canada led a group of international like-minded states in the rescue of White Helmet volunteers from southern Syria.

Canada continued to work actively to address Iran’s systemic and serious human rights violations. This included the issuance of several public statements expressing concern about the situation of human rights in Iran, including condemning the arrests of human rights activists. Canada also led the annual United Nations General Assembly resolution on the situation of human rights in Iran, as it has since 2003.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Canada continued to lead on addressing the crisis in Venezuela, hosting the 10th Lima Group meeting in Ottawa on February 4, 2019, where Prime Minister Trudeau announced close to $53 million in humanitarian aid and development support for Venezuelans and communities integrating Venezuelan migrants. Canada and other Lima Group members met six times this year at the foreign minister level in their ongoing efforts to find a peaceful resolution to the crisis. On September 26, 2018, Canada joined Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay and Peru in referring the situation in Venezuela to the International Criminal Court.

In both Nicaragua and Honduras, Canada joined the international community in providing political support to national dialogue processes to respond to civil unrest and address human rights violations. In Honduras, Canada continued its contribution to the Organization of American States’ Mission to support the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH) which, to date, has initiated 12 high-level corruption cases. Canada increased its engagement with Central America by officially becoming a regional observer to the Central American Integration System (SICA) and the first observer to sign a memorandum of understanding with the organization.

At the 2018 Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru, Prime Minister Trudeau joined other leaders in the hemisphere in adopting, by consensus, the Lima Commitment on Democratic Governance Against Corruption, which included Canadian priorities such as the Open Government Partnership. Canada deepened its bilateral relationships across the Americas, undertaking nine bilateral consultations this year at a senior official or ministerial level, resulting in updated memoranda of understanding and plans for greater collaboration.

Asia-Pacific

In November 2018, Prime Minister Trudeau held the third Annual Leaders’ Dialogue with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Singapore. Among the wide range of topics discussed were cooperation in addressing climate change; expanding cooperation in certain trade sectors; and, the dire human rights situation in China, particularly in Xinjiang. At the culmination of the meeting, the two leaders issued a Joint Statement on Marine Litter and Plastics, a key focus of Canada’s G7 Chairmanship in 2018.

Formal bilateral dialogue was paused by China, following the December arrest of Meng Wanzhou. It is clear that after the arrest of Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou in December 2018, the Canada-China relationship entered into a difficult phase. The Canadians who have been arbitrarily detained and sentenced and the measures targeting Canada’s agricultural exports remain absolute priorities. Prior to the arrest, Canada was engaging actively and positively with China at the ministerial level on issues such as finance, trade, environment and climate change. 抖淫视频 has supported vigorous prime ministerial, ministerial and senior official advocacy with allies and partners who share Canada’s concerns regarding China’s retaliatory actions. The department remains focused on addressing these ongoing challenges, while continuing to defend Canada’s broader values and interests in China, including human rights and commercial engagement.

Prime Minister Trudeau’s participation in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Papua New Guinea reaffirmed Canada’s continued strong commitment to advancing free, rules-based trade and multilateral cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region. For a second year in a row, the Prime Minister participated in 2018 as Guest of the Chair at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Leaders’ Summit in Singapore and addressed leaders on the importance of inclusive trade and Canada’s commitment to peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region.

Canada advocated for continued international pressure on North Korea in support of a diplomatic solution during Canada’s G7 Presidency and joined international efforts to urge the North Korean government to respect human rights through a number of multilateral forums, including the United Nations General Assembly.

Guided by Canada’s strategy to respond to the Rohingya crisis, Canada continues to support refugees and host communities in Bangladesh, as well as internally displaced, vulnerable and marginalized people, particularly women and girls, in Myanmar. In 2018-19, Canada provided more than $47.6 million in gender-responsive life-saving humanitarian assistance as part of the broader humanitarian response. In Bangladesh, Canada has helped to improve the lives of the Rohingya community in refugee camps by reducing the prevalence of malnutrition below emergency levels (from 19 percent to 12 percent), increasing immunization coverage to 89 percent and ensuring that the number of pregnant women delivering in health facilities rose from 22 percent to 40.3 percent. Canada also allocated more than $142 million to new development initiatives in Myanmar and Bangladesh, taking into consideration the specific needs of women and girls, in particular promoting their human rights and addressing sexual and gender-based violence.

Africa

In Africa, Canada pursued its political, development, security and economic interests through country-to-country and multilateral engagements. For example, Canada’s contribution to the UN Economic Commission for Africa supported the negotiations leading to the successful establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The AfCFTA, which came into force in May 2019, has the potential to cover a market of 1.2 billion people and boost intra-African trade by over 50 percent. Canada continues to engage on trade in Africa, including through nine active foreign investment protection agreements (FIPAs) across all of Africa, and have recently added three senior trade commissioners to capitalize on emerging market opportunities on the continent.

Canada’s largest initiative in Africa in 2018-19 was the contribution of an Air Task Force in support of MINUSMA, the UN mission in Mali, starting on July 1, 2018. Through the deployment of 250 Canadian Forces personnel and equipment, including helicopters, Canada provided medical airlift and air transport capacity to advance mission objectives and promote regional security in the Sahel. Canada is also deploying up to 20 police officers to Mali to serve in MINUSMA and the EU’s civilian capacity-building mission, EUCAP Sahel Mali. Deployed Canadian police serve in strategic positions in both missions, adding value in areas such as gender equality and community policing. In 2018, Canada deployed a Senior Police Advisor, based in Ethiopia, to explore further opportunities for delivery of Canadian expertise to UN peace operations and stabilization efforts in Africa. Several high-level visits also supported these objectives, including Prime Minister Trudeau’s visit to Mali in December 2018, as well as visits by the Governor General to Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria in October 2018. These visits also served to promote human rights, good governance and bilateral engagement with key partners in the region. In September 2018, Minister Freeland announced Canada’s bilateral partnerships with Ghana Armed Forces and Zambia Police Service as part of the Elsie Initiative. Through these partnerships, Canada will provide tailored technical assistance and training packages based on the findings of comprehensive barrier assessments.

Canada also co-hosted the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference with the governments of Japan and Kenya. Held in Nairobi, Kenya, in November 2018, the conference helped promote a blue economy that harnesses the potential of our oceans, seas, lakes and rivers to improve the lives of all, while conserving our waters for future generations.

Canada's leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world.

Canada worked with its partners and in international forums to promote a just and inclusive world, including through the continued implementation of a feminist foreign policy; the advancement of the Feminist International Assistance Policy; the championing of human rights; the advancement of international peace and security; the promotion of environmental protection; and the advancement of inclusion and respect for diversity. Canada has a strong voice on the international stage and is committed to the principle that we are all stronger when we work together. This is why Canada has submitted its candidacy to serve on the UN Security Council in 2021-2022. We hope to contribute to a new multilateralism, where benefits are distributed more broadly, more evenly and more fairly; where commitments are fulfilled; and where implementation is achieved and results experienced by the people.

Canada co-chaired the Equal Rights Coalition (ERC), an intergovernmental network focused on promoting the full and equal enjoyment of human rights by LGBTQ2 (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and two-spirit) persons worldwide. In August 2018, Canada hosted the inaugural ERC Global Conference on LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual and intersex) Human Rights and Inclusive Development in Vancouver, which brought together state representatives, civil society actors and stakeholders from over 85 countries to consider strategies for further progressing LGBTI human rights and inclusive development. In February 2019, Canada announced its new LGBTQ2I International Assistance Program to further the aims of the Feminist International Assistance Policy. The Program consists of $30 million in dedicated funding over five years, and $10 million per year thereafter, to promote the human rights of and improve socio-economic outcomes for LGBTQ2I people in developing countries.

At the 2018 G7 Summit, hosted in Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada led G7 partners in committing to meaningful action to improve the lives of women and girls around the world through endorsing the Charlevoix Commitment to End Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, Abuse and Harassment in Digital Contexts and the Charlevoix Declaration on Quality Education for Girls, Adolescent Girls and Women in Developing Countries.  Aligned with the Charlevoix Declaration on Quality Education, in June 2018, Canada joined the European Union, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the World Bank in making a historic announcement of $3.8 billion worth of pledges in support of girls’ and women’s access to quality education in conflict and crisis situations, including a $400 million pledge by Canada.

Similarly, Canada hosted the first ever joint G7 Finance and Development Ministers Meeting in Whistler, British Columbia, in June 2018, which resulted in the G7 Leaders Declaration on Innovative Finance for Development. At the 2018 G7 Development Ministers Meeting, Canada focused attention on the rights and needs of adolescent girls, resulting in the adoption of several declarations, including The Whistler Declaration on Unlocking the Power of Adolescent Girls for Sustainable Development. At the United Nations General Assembly in 2018, Canada, together with Zambia, co-led an important biennial resolution on child, early and forced marriage, which was adopted by consensus with 114 co-sponsors from all regions of the world. The resolution also stressed the need to support already married girls, including by enhancing efforts to promote girls’ education and prevent violence against women and girls.

While Canada’s diplomatic engagement in international forums is a key component of Canada’s leadership role in the preservation and strengthening of an international rules-based order, so too is the use of targeted sanctions. The Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (JVCFOA) has allowed Canada to meaningfully address gross violations of internationally recognized human rights and significant corruption by ending impunity by targeting specific individuals accused of committing such grave acts. In November 2018, Canada imposed additional sanctions under the JVCFOA targeting 17 Saudi nationals responsible for, or complicit in, the extrajudicial killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Canada also imposed additional sanctions under the Special Economic Measures Act to signal its continued condemnation of the erosion of democracy in Venezuela, significant human rights violations in Myanmar, and Russia’s continued violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, including Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and its aggressive actions in the Black Sea and Kerch Strait. In 2018-19, Canada committed approximately $9.7 million in new funding initiatives to strengthen international capacity to implement UN Security Council sanctions on North Korea and to counter the country’s efforts to evade sanctions and develop its illicit weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and ballistic missile programs.

Canada continued to support international efforts to protect civilians in zones of armed conflict and to advance its international peace and security goals related to stabilization, and countering terrorism, crime and radicalization to violence. For example, the department worked in partnership with the Department of National Defence to deliver on Canada’s 2017 peacekeeping commitments, including the enhancement of military capabilities through a range of Smart Pledges aimed at leveraging Canadian expertise, contributing high-end capabilities to UN peace support operations, and supporting broader UN reform efforts.

Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Throughout the year, Canada has maintained an active participation and constructive involvement in the work of many multilateral organizations, at the regional and global levels, as well as in the activities of states party to international treaties dealing with a multitude of substantial issues. Throughout those efforts, Canada continued to demonstrate its commitment to strengthening multilateralism and the rules-based international order, as well as to reforms to improve the accountability, transparency and effectiveness of international institutions.

Through both multilateral and bilateral channels, Canada continued to insist on universal respect for, and compliance with, international law commitments in areas as diverse as trade law, environmental law, human rights, criminal law, economic law and the law of the sea. For example, Canada developed a new G7 priority to enhance respect for international humanitarian law, and also provided peacekeepers for the United Nations mission in Mali who were subject to strict rules of engagement to ensure compliance with international humanitarian law. Canada also remains a strong and consistent advocate in promoting accountability for perpetrators of serious crimes under international law, and has worked closely with international partners to establish an accountability mechanism for Myanmar.

Canada continued its strategic engagement at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), World Economic Forum, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). At the 2018 OECD Ministerial Council Meeting, Canada actively engaged with other country members to bolster multilateralism in support of more responsible, effective and inclusive outcomes. At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2019 in Davos, Canada engaged with other countries, business leaders and other influencers to advocate for innovative open economies and effective multilateralism, and to attract investment to Canada.  At NATO, IAEA and OPCW, Canada’s efforts included promotion of non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament, and respect for international humanitarian law.

Canada also played an active and visible role at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting held in the United Kingdom in April 2018. Prime Minister Trudeau, Minister of Foreign Affairs Freeland and Minister Bibeau (then Minister of International Development and La Francophonie) all engaged in a variety of events aimed at ensuring the Commonwealth continues to be a modern organization making a positive contribution to the rules-based international order.

In addition, Canada’s efforts for more transparency within multilateral organizations led to the adoption of La Francophonie’s first policy on transparency at the Yerevan Summit. The Secretary General of La Francophonie recognized Canada’s leadership in sharing best management practices and selected a Canadian as administrator to fully implement results-based management throughout the organization and deliver more focused programming.

Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened.

Canada continued to expand and strengthen its global influence through constructive and proactive international engagement, as well as through leadership in various forums, including the G7, G20 and the United Nations.

At the 2018 G7 in Charlevoix, Canada used its influence to ensure that gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls guided all discussions and activities of its presidency, including through the creation of the Gender Equality Advisory Council. Canada also brought countries together to fight climate change and protect oceans and coastal communities. In co-leading the and co-hosting (along with Kenya and Japan) the , Canada ensured that healthy oceans remained a key focus of its G7 Presidency.

Canada also played a strong role in defending democratic systems of governance at the summit, culminating in the announcement of the G7 Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM), which has a mandate to strengthen G7 coordination to identify and respond to diverse and evolving foreign threats to G7 democracies. To meet this commitment, 抖淫视频 has taken responsibility to facilitate information sharing and enable collective responses to foreign threats, and has also established a G7 RRM community of practice to share best practices in data analytics to detect foreign interference online. Canada actively broadened the G7 RRM information sharing network to include Australia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, as well as experts from non-governmental and multilateral organisations. Canada was also able to leverage this capacity and the RRM network in its active participation in the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) Task Force set up to prevent covert, clandestine or criminal activities from influencing or interfering with the Canadian federal election.

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Core Responsibility 2: Trade and Investment

Description

抖淫视频 supports increased and more diverse trade and investment to raise the standard of living for all Canadians and to enable Canadian businesses to grow internationally and to create economic opportunities.

Results

抖淫视频 deepened and diversified trade relationships, advocated for a rules-based international trading system focused on economic opportunities for all, and sought increased and diversified foreign direct investment. The department also pursued modern and inclusive approaches with trading partners in important areas such as transparency, labour rights, the environment, small and medium-sized enterprises, gender equality, and Indigenous peoples.

Canada helps to build and safeguard an open and inclusive rules-based global trading system.

In 2018-19, 抖淫视频 continued to build on its reputation as a global leader in championing the rules-based international trading system and its institutions. In support of this approach, the department defended Canada’s interests through multilateral engagement and played a key leadership role on inclusive approaches to trade in international forums, including at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Trade Organization, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum and the G7/G20.

The diversification and expansion of trade agreements continued to represent a key element of ensuring that Canadians are able to succeed in the global marketplace. Canada capitalized on the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as an opportunity to modernize the agreement, strengthen trilateral cooperation with the United States and Mexico, and ensure the protection of Canadian interests. Signed on November 30, 2018, the Canada–Unites States–Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) preserved important NAFTA provisions, maintained tariff-free market access, and included modernized elements to address new trade challenges, including with respect to inclusive trade.

On October 26, 2018, Canada ratified the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which represents a major step forward in Canada’s trade diversification strategy. The CPTPP provides Canadian businesses with preferential access to key partners in the Asia-Pacific region—including Japan and Vietnam—and establishes a level playing field for Canadians in these markets. Also in 2018, the modernized Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA) was signed in Montréal, which added new inclusive elements on gender; small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); corporate social responsibility; and labour and environmental protections. This agreement signals the importance of inclusive trade and ensuring that the benefits and opportunities that flow from trade and investment are widely shared. Canada also continued efforts to advance the implementation and promotion of the Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). Consultations were launched to seek views of Canadians towards a modernized and inclusive foreign investment promotion and protection agreement (FIPA) model.

Canada continued to pursue an active trade negotiations agenda to diversify Canada’s exports and modernise its Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). Canada continued FTA negotiations with the Pacific Alliance and the Mercosur bloc, and held FTA exploratory discussions with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

In addition to ensuring that new markets and opportunities were open to Canadian businesses, 抖淫视频 worked to better understand the gender-related effects of trade and sought to reduce barriers to the participation of women in the international marketplace. Budget 2018 established Canada’s Gender Results Framework and committed to making all of Canada’s FTAs subject to Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+). To reflect this, the department conducted a chapter-by-chapter comprehensive GBA+ of the ongoing Canada–Mercosur FTA negotiations, secured a dedicated trade and gender chapter in its recently modernized trade agreements with Chile and Israel, and agreed to a comprehensive work plan on trade and gender with the European Union as part of CETA.

While Canada has a long-standing practice of directly engaging with Indigenous peoples with regards to its trade policy and priorities, beginning with the renegotiation of NAFTA and continuing in 2018-19, 抖淫视频 established a regular and ongoing dialogue with Indigenous peoples through a dedicated trade-focused Indigenous Working Group (IWG). Comprising national Indigenous organizations, modern treaty partners, Indigenous groups and business associations, and certain legal and policy experts, the collaborative efforts of this group have been important in the development and advancement of Indigenous-related provisions in Canada's trade and investment agreements.

Canadian exporters and innovators are successful in their international business development efforts.

The 2018 Fall Economic Statement announced Canada’s new Diversification Strategy, with a target of increasing Canada’s overseas exports by 50 percent by 2025. The strategy aims to assist Canadian businesses and maximize their growth by capitalizing on more economic opportunities abroad, particularly in markets covered by FTAs, such as CETA and the CPTPP. With the implementation of the Strategy, Canadian companies will benefit from the support of a number of new trade commissioners in Canada and abroad, as well as with new programs such as Key Account Managers, the expanded Canadian Technology Accelerator network, and the national expansion of the World Trade Centre’s Trade Accelerator Program.

To increase its reach to more Canadian women-owned SMEs, the Business Women in International Trade (BWIT) program received an additional $10 million over five years in Budget 2018. The BWIT program supports Canada’s inclusive approach to trade through the delivery of a variety of initiatives, including women-focused trade missions and a fund for initiatives targeting Canadian women-owned SMEs.

Engagement with the LGBTQ2 business community also increased in 2018-19, as evidenced by the first minister-led LGBTQ2 trade mission to the United States. As well, roundtables were organized across Canada, aimed at informing the LGBTQ2 business community about international business development opportunities and trade support programs, and contribution and attendance at the Canadian Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce’s 2018 International Business and Leadership Conference.

In support of its Cleantech International Business Development (IBD) Strategy, the Trade Commissioner Service has doubled funding for Cleantech IBD activities, organized 166 international events in 2018-19 and delivered exporter education and climate finance workshops that reached over 350 Canadian Cleantech firms.

Delivered in collaboration with the National Research Council, the Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP) fostered and supported collaborative industrial research and development projects with high potential for commercialization with partner countries (Brazil, China, India and South Korea). In 2018-19, this funding program selected 19 research and development projects, with $6.4 million allocated to the projects over two years.

The department also collaborated with the Department of Canadian Heritage on the Creative Export Strategy, launched in 2018. To contribute to the delivery of the strategy, the Trade Commissioner Service developed and completed 53 trade initiatives around the world from all sub-sectors, including audiovisual, music, book publishing and visual arts.

A key element of Canada’s Trade Diversification Strategy is an inclusive approach to trade in which companies mitigate risks in new and existing markets, and whereby all segments of society may benefit from trade and investment opportunities.

Canada’s commitment to responsible business conduct (RBC) was strengthened through the appointment of the first Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise, mandated to: promote the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles and the OECD Guidelines; advise Canadian companies on best practices; and review allegations of human rights abuses arising from the operations of a Canadian company abroad in the mining, oil and gas, and garment sectors. In addition, the department funded and delivered 54 RBC-focused initiatives in 26 countries, supporting multi-stakeholder engagement, risk mitigation, anti-corruption, environmental stewardship and advancing guidelines for RBC.

Foreign direct investment is facilitated, expanded or retained.

Making Canada a top destination for global investment remains a core priority of the government. With a coordinated, whole-of-government approach, the Trade Commissioner Service actively promoted Canada as a premier choice for investment through outreach at major international events, including the World Economic Forum, Milken Global Conference and APEC CEO Summit, amongst others. By bringing together comparative economic data, analysis and studies, the Office of the Chief Economist’s Think Canada presentation helped attract foreign investment by presenting Canada as an investment location of choice.

Twenty-eight new Trade Commissioner Service investment officers have been placed in several markets abroad to generate an increasing number of foreign investments and create more jobs for Canadians. 抖淫视频 worked closely with Invest in Canada to advance the foreign investment strategy, in collaboration with all levels of government and the private sector, and to simplify the process for foreign investors to invest in Canada.

Financial, human resources and performance information for 抖淫视频’s Program Inventory is available in the .^{Endnote vii}

Core Responsibility 3: Development, Peace and Security Programming

Description

抖淫视频 programming contributes to reducing poverty, increasing opportunity for people around the world, alleviating suffering in humanitarian crises, and fostering peace and security, and in so doing, advances the Sustainable Development Goals.

Results

In 2018-19, 抖淫视频 continued to implement Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy. Canada’s approach contributed to making progress towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals through six interlinked action areas for Canada’s international assistance: gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls; human dignity; growth that works for everyone; environment and climate action; inclusive governance; and peace and security. In July 2018, Canada delivered its first Voluntary National Review to the United Nations, highlighting Canada’s efforts and success on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and SDGs.

Enhanced empowerment and rights for women and girls in countries where Canada engages.

Canada demonstrated its strong leadership and commitment to making tangible progress towards gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls by providing gender equality policy and technical advice, advocacy and high-level representation on boards for key multilateral partners. In 2018-19, Canada advanced the implementation of the Women’s Voice and Leadership initiative. The five year, $150 million initiative currently has 32 operational projects in 30 countries to support local women’s organizations to advance the rights of women and girls and promote gender equality.

Canada supported a number of key projects with multilateral organizations and international civil society aimed at eliminating child, early and forced marriage. For example, Canada is supporting Girls Not Brides, a global partnership representing over 1,200 civil society organizations from more than 100 countries around the world, including Canada, that have united to end child, early and forced marriage. Canada’s contribution helped the partnership increase its efforts to support and champion youth advocacy and leadership, including by launching a new youth activism training program called “Stand Up, Speak Out.”

Canada recognizes that sexual and reproductive health and rights are not only a health issue but also a human rights and gender equality issue. As part of its feminist approach, Canada continued implementing its $650 million commitment to support access to, and advocacy for, the full range of sexual and reproductive health services. This included access to age-appropriate comprehensive sexuality education, family planning and contraception, as well as women’s right to choose safe and legal abortion, and access to post-abortion care.

Through its support to the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), Marie Stopes International (MSI) and Population Services International (PSI), Canada has increased access to sexual and reproductive health services in Africa and Latin America, including family planning, safe and legal abortion and post-abortion care services for underserved women and girls, including adolescents. For example, IPPF and MSI contributed to averting 63,764 unsafe abortions in 2018-19. The Supporting Family Planning and Abortion Services in Mozambique project also helped adolescent girls and young women exercise their sexual and reproductive rights: 434,046 women and girls received modern contraception, including 244,502 who received a modern contraception for the first time; 269,618 women and girls accessed sexual and reproductive health services; and, 4,559 women received safe, legal abortions or post-abortion care.

In addition, Canada has worked to empower women and girls across the globe in fragile and conflict affected states. Examples of this work include supporting training for both men and boys and women and girls to prevent sexual and gender-based violence, which has reached over 24,000 individuals in Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan, as well as the formation of the Ukrainian Association of Women in Law Enforcement, in line with Canada’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security.

Improved physical, social and economic well-being for the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly for women and girls, in countries where Canada engages.

抖淫视频 contributed to improving the education, health, rights and well-being of women, children and adolescents through its international engagement by increasing access to quality education, particularly in conflict and crisis situations; supporting better nutrition; combatting infectious diseases and increasing access to immunization; strengthening health systems; and, improving health services.

In support of Canada’s $400 million Charlevoix Declaration on Quality Education for Girls, Adolescent Girls, and Women in Developing Countries pledge, a number of early financing announcements were made in 2018-19.  $50 million was disbursed to support the Education Cannot Wait Fund, hosted by UNICEF, in support of their efforts to support girls’ access to education in emergencies.  $50 million was also disbursed to the Global Financing Facility to address girls’ health barriers to education in the conflict-affected countries where they work. Also in 2018-19, 抖淫视频 launched a call for proposals for Canadian partners in support for girls’ and women’s education and skills training in conflict and crisis. While results from these initiatives are just beginning to be seen, they are going to have a large impact on lives and futures of many women and girls.

Canada is leveraging additional financing through the Global Financing Facility to support health systems, and scale-up health and nutrition programs in schools that target young and adolescent girls to reduce health-related barriers to education and improve enrolment, attendance and retention. In addition, Canada is the principal donor to Nutrition International, the leading organization in micronutrient supplementation worldwide and that leverages new partnerships and works to influence policies, programs, and resources for nutrition scale-up. Through support to the Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) movement, Canada continued to amplify advocacy efforts for gender-responsive nutrition policies and programs, including by collaborating with key partners to develop a Gender Call to Action.

Canada remained a strong supporter of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which has saved over 27 million lives since 2002 and provided $804 million (2017-2019) towards this cause. Support provided to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has contributed to the immunization of nearly 700 million children against disease and 1.5 million adolescent girls against cervical cancer, and saved over 10 million lives since 2000.

Through the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF), Canada has continued to support women and youth leadership and entrepreneurship. The OIF entrepreneurship program provided support to more than 20,500 women and youths on market access and financing, and trained 80 decision makers and senior managers of African banks on how to implement specific solutions to SMEs and women-owned enterprises.

In 2018-19, Canada continued to help developing countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change, including through a $132 million disbursement to the Green Climate Fund, which is the largest dedicated international climate fund. The Green Climate Fund supports a variety of initiatives, including those that provide loans to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). For example, in Mongolia, the lack of accessible commercial 铿乶ance by local banks impedes the ability of Mongolian enterprises to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy. The Business Loan Program for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction ($60 million) allows one of Mongolia’s leading banks to provide loans and training to support Mongolian enterprises in adopting enduring, low-emission business models and helping to alleviate the prevalence of high 铿乶ancing costs and relatively short-tenure loans. Over 75% of the 铿乶ancial support has been distributed to women-led enterprises. In addition, over 220 credit officers and 220 MSME clients have received training on energy efficiency and renewable energy 铿乶ancing and business practices to date.

Canada also pursued a gender-responsive approach to the environment and climate action, recognizing that this action is most effective when women and girls play an active role in designing and developing strategic responses to climate change and environmental issues. For example, 抖淫视频’s support for women-led agricultural businesses and cooperatives in Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mali and Honduras contributed to increasing the capacity of more than 150,000 women and men smallholder farmers to use and benefit from environmentally sustainable technology and infrastructure, thereby also improving food security and income at the local level.

Furthermore, as host of the G7 in 2018, Canada worked with other G7 countries in recognizing the need to advance efforts to broaden innovative financial tools such as climate risk insurance coverage, in order to help reduce vulnerability, build resilience, and drive sustainable investment, including in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and other vulnerable countries. This work culminated in the announcement, at the G7 Summit in Charlevoix, that Canada will invest $100 million to support the expansion of Climate Risk Insurance coverage in climate-vulnerable countries, including for SIDS in the Caribbean.

Reduced suffering and increased human dignity in communities experiencing humanitarian crises.

In 2018-19, 抖淫视频 provided over $892.6 million in humanitarian assistance support through UN partners, NGOs, and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, which improved the lives of over 86.7 million people. Canada continued to focus its gender-responsive humanitarian action on saving lives, alleviating suffering and maintaining the dignity of those affected by conflicts or natural disasters, including by responding to the differentiated needs of women, men, girls and boys, and ensuring their meaningful participation in humanitarian responses.

In its efforts to better address the unmet needs of women and girls, Canada integrated gender equality considerations across almost all of its humanitarian assistance. Canada’s work in gender-responsive humanitarian action included over $50.5 million in support to sexual and reproductive health services in crisis. This support prevents death, disease and disability related to unwanted pregnancies, obstetric complications and reproductive disorders, and gender-based violence. For example, Canada’s support to Médecins Sans Frontières led to the provision of emergency medical humanitarian assistance to Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, with over 500 sexual and gender-based violence survivors treated and over 500 women provided with safe termination of pregnancy services. In Yemen, support to a project by Save the Children helped to provide access to sexual and reproductive health services to over 110,000 women and girls, and helped to train over 100 health care providers in sexual and reproductive health services.

Canada is also providing $2.65 million (2018 19 to 2020-21) to pilot an approach to the Rohingya refugee response that aims to reinforce the adoption of gender-responsive humanitarian action by improving leadership, capacity and accountability within the sector. It includes a UN Women-led Gender Hub, and other research, policy and training initiatives to engage civil society partners and local host communities in the implementation of gender-responsive humanitarian action on the ground in Bangladesh. To date, the Gender Hub has assessed the capacities of 26 humanitarian organizations working in the Rohingya refugee response in Bangladesh and is working to develop and implement a Gender Capacity Development Action Plan response.

To respond to the crises in Syria and Iraq, and their impact on neighbouring countries, Canada provided $262.8 million in 2018-19 for humanitarian assistance in Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. This funding was provided to experienced humanitarian partners, including the World Food Programme; the United Nations Population Fund; the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; the International Organization for Migration; the United Nations Children’s Fund; and the International Committee of the Red Cross. With the funds, they delivered life-saving assistance, such as food, shelter, water, health, sanitation, education and protection services, including specialized care for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, to those most in need. For example, Canadian funding supported the delivery of adolescent sexual and reproductive health services to approximately 1,435,000 people in Syria, 52,000 in Iraq, 30,000 in Jordan, and close to 6,000 in Lebanon. In addition, Canada supported over 81 women and girls safe spaces and helped provide Dignity Kits to over 200,000 people across Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon.

The spread of the Ebola virus continues to be a challenge. Since May 2018, Canada has provided $4.75 million in humanitarian assistance to support the response to two Ebola outbreaks. For example, with Canada’s support to Médecins Sans Frontières in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, over 1,250 people in the affected regions were screened and treated, nearly 2,300 people at risk were vaccinated, and over 200 health care workers received Ebola response and preparedness training. Canada’s support also helped to ensure that women were targeted for specific psychosocial support, community outreach and awareness, and health promotion activities, as they have the potential to be more affected during an Ebola outbreak given their role as primary caregivers and in funeral preparations. Additionally, Canada also provided $170,000 to support preparedness activities in neighbouring countries, including those currently most at risk of the virus spreading to their territories: Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and South Sudan.

In 2018-19, Canada helped to bring the World Bank’s Global Concessional Financing Facility to Colombia, an initiative that has helped Colombia access the financing it needs to register, integrate and provide vital services to Venezuelan migrants. As well, in response to needs from Caribbean countries following the 2017 hurricane season, Canada announced that $70 million of its $100 million pledge would target programming to support reconstruction and gender-sensitive climate and economic resilience.

Improved peace and security in countries and regions where Canada engages.

Canada demonstrated its commitment to building a more peaceful and secure world by remaining vigilant in addressing international peace and security challenges, including those stemming from instability, state fragility, international crime, terrorism, violent extremism and illicit arms proliferation.

In 2018-19, the Government of Canada made significant progress in designing and implementing the Elsie Initiative for Women in Peace Operations. The Elsie Initiative Fund was launched by the UN in March 2019, with Canada contributing $15 million to support its work to accelerate the pace of change towards the increased deployment of trained and qualified uniformed women to UN peace operations. In September 2018, Minister Freeland announced Canada’s bilateral partnerships with Ghana Armed Forces and Zambia Police Service as part of the Elsie Initiative. Through these partnerships, Canada will provide tailored technical assistance and training packages based on the findings of comprehensive barrier assessments.

抖淫视频 has provided $4.4 million in assistance to the UN Department of Peace Operations, with a key goal to define and better understand how mission environments affect women’s meaningful participation in peace operations.

Canada’s second National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (2017-2022) represents a whole of government effort to implement the Women, Peace and Security agenda, with 抖淫视频 acting as the coordinator for nine federal implementing partners. At the Women’s Foreign Minsters’ Meeting in Montréal in September 2018, Minister Freeland announced the creation of Canada’s first Ambassador for Women, Peace and Security, who will provide advice on the effective implementation of Canada’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security.

A key facet of Canada’s approach to fostering peace and security in countries and regions where Canada engages is to strengthen local states’ investigative, legislative and judicial capacities, and provide improvements to infrastructure, equipment and training to allow these states to better manage their own security. In this vein, 抖淫视频 contributed to the Global Coalition against Daesh by working with the international donor community to provide targeted programming to improve prison management, rehabilitation and reintegration of high-risk prisoners; strengthen the investigation and prosecution of terrorism cases in courts of law; build financial market integrity; and build community resilience against extremism.

In 2018-19, 抖淫视频, through the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program, disbursed $162 million to promote peace and stability in fragile and conflict-affected states. This included targeted funding for peace operations, conflict prevention, mediation and peacebuilding; inclusion, diversity and human rights; protection of civilians; and funding for women, peace and security. Canada’s work in Mali supported national mediation efforts, transitional justice and reconciliation, and peacebuilding initiatives at the local level with a focus on women, youth and community leaders. To support security and stability in Iraq, Canada announced that it would lead the first year of the NATO training mission to Iraq with the intent to consolidate military gains, set the conditions for long-term security and stability, and prevent the resurgence of Daesh.

In the Middle East, Canada is providing support to investigate atrocities committed by Daesh and to end impunity. For example, Canada has contributed to the Commission for International Justice and Accountability’s work investigating war crimes in Syria and preparing case files for eventual prosecution in Iraq and Syria. In addition, Canada has supported the establishment of the International, Independent and Impartial Mechanism (IIIM) for Syria.

Canada continues to support military capacity-building efforts in East and West Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. For instance, 抖淫视频 works closely with the Department of National Defence to train security and military forces in Niger, in order to counter the threat of terrorism and violent extremist organization in the Sahel region.

抖淫视频 also continued to pursue multiple approaches to addressing pressing security concerns, including through the deployment of both peacekeepers and Canadian civilian experts. On the Korean Peninsula, Canada more than doubled its contribution of Canadian Armed Forces personnel to the United Nations Command, to a total of 15 people, including its deputy commander, in support of long-term peace and stability. With Canadian Police Arrangement partners, 抖淫视频 increased police deployments to international peace and stabilization operations from 44 deployed police officers (36 percent women) in October 2018, to 75 officers (48 percent women) by the end of the fiscal year. New deployments to Mali supported both Canada’s recommitment to UN peace operations as well as its strong bilateral relationship with the European Union. An increase in deployments to Ukraine, consistent with Canada’s unwavering support, more than doubled the size of its mission.

Seventeen civilian experts were also deployed in 2018-19, 48 percent of which were women. Civilian experts’ areas of expertise included: transitional justice, implementation of the human rights dimension of peace accords, security sector reform (including defense and corrections) and institutional change. Canada’s civilian expert deployments integrate gender based analysis, with particular emphasis on advancing the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. The civilian expert to the NATO Resolute Support Mission in Kabul actively supported women’s meaningful participation into Afghanistan’s peace process and the Afghan National Police.

Over the reporting period, over twenty additional countries endorsed the Vancouver Principles on Peacekeeping and the Prevention of the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers (bringing the total at March 31, 2019 to 79). Preventing the recruitment and use of child soldiers is critical to the success of peacekeeping missions, contributing to conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and sustainable development.

In 2018-19, 抖淫视频, through the Weapons Threat Reduction Program, disbursed over $70.5 million in support to address the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons and related materials. Highlights include support to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to mitigate and respond to Syrian chemical weapons threats and to hold to account those responsible for the use of such weapons, and collaboration with ASEAN member states to mitigate serious biological threats across the region.

Canada’s international assistance is made more effective by leveraging diverse partnerships, innovation^{Endnote viii}, and experimentation.

抖淫视频 continued to engage with a diverse range of partners in 2018-2019. These partnerships promote new approaches, business models, policy practices, technologies, and ways of delivering projects and services that benefit and empower the most vulnerable in developing countries, informed by research and evidence.

抖淫视频 implemented multiple calls for proposals to attract and engage new and diverse partners to implement high-impact, innovative projects to contribute to poverty reduction.

In 2018-19, the department leveraged innovative financial partnerships to help improve the health, nutrition, education and disaster responsiveness for a number of vulnerable communities. For example, Canada worked with the World Bank and the Government of Bangladesh to implement an innovative finance mechanism to leverage World Bank grants in support of health, nutrition and basic education services for Rohingya refugees. Canada is also supporting a pilot forecast-based action mechanism with flexible financing that enables Red Cross/Red Crescent National Societies to implement pre-planned activities with partners and communities before a forecasted disaster strikes. This both reduces risk and enhances disaster preparedness and response.

In Colombia, Canada launched an innovative initiative to help smallholder cacao producers, “Agroemprende Cacao”, which was co-funded by Canadian and Colombian companies in partnership with Canadian civil society organization Socodevi. It will be funded by Canada only if results are achieved –representing a new way of delivering international assistance that aims to achieve more impact.

The Government of Canada issued a call to action to the philanthropic community, the private sector and civil society, announcing its commitment of up to $300 million to the Partnership for Gender Equality. During the design of the Partnership for Gender Equality, 抖淫视频 held roundtable discussions with NGOs and the private sector in Canada and abroad to inform the selection of an entity to implement the initiative.

With 抖淫视频’s support, Grand Challenges Canada’s Innovative Platform for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health funded 58 innovations in 28 countries, designed to be low tech, low cost and scalable. All initiatives were designed to support improving the delivery and response to the demand for local health services. The department has also made progress in identifying opportunities for experimentation and testing within its work, with the goal of ensuring that Canada’s assistance is effective and achieves the best possible results.

Engaging Canadian youth in international development continued to be a priority. In 2018-19, the International Youth Internship Program provided opportunities for Canadian youth to participate in international internships in developing countries. Twelve Canadian partner organizations deployed 322 youth interns (78 percent female) to 44 countries. Moreover, the International Youth Aboriginal Internship deployed 103 Indigenous youth interns (69 percent female) to 13 developing countries, collaborating with eight Canadian partner organizations. A majority of both youth and Indigenous youth interns noted improved transferable employment skills as a result of their internships.

Under the theme “Together for Gender Equality,” this year’s 29th International Development Week embodied Canada’s commitment to the global effort to address gender equality and encouraged all Canadians to be change-makers in advancing gender equality.

Financial, human resources and performance information for 抖淫视频’s Program Inventory is available in the .^{Endnote xi}

Core Responsibility 4: Help for Canadians Abroad

Description

抖淫视频 provides timely and appropriate consular services for Canadians abroad, contributing to their safety and security.

Results

抖淫视频 remained committed to providing consular services to support Canadians across the world in a wide variety of countries and situations, which range from passport services for those travelling abroad and assistance for medical related issues in sun destinations, to helping Canadians affected by natural disasters and civil unrest. Achieving excellence in consular service delivery is an important commitment for the department. Whether working, studying, volunteering or travelling, ensuring that Canadians were provided with timely and appropriate consular and emergency management services was of top priority.

Canadians have timely access to information and services that keeps them safer abroad.

抖淫视频 continued to provide consular services accessible to Canadians 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, through more than 260 points of service in 150 countries and the Emergency Watch and Response Centre in Ottawa.

Timely information is critical to ensuring that Canadians receive the best possible consular assistance, especially when they are faced with an unexpected situation abroad. Over the past year, the department reviewed and updated all , allowing Canadians to plan their travel abroad with up-to-date, accurate information.

抖淫视频 also continued to provide high-quality, uninterrupted emergency consular assistance to Canadians faced with unexpected situations abroad through its 24/7 Emergency Watch and Response Centre and through a highly trained and capable team of core responders. In 2018-19, 抖淫视频 handled more than 202,400 cases, including over 6,675 cases concerning Canadians who required urgent assistance while traveling or residing abroad. Canadians who completed a client service feedback form reported high levels of satisfaction with routine consular services, with 94 percent indicating that they were either “satisfied” or “very satisfied.”

To respond to unexpected critical incidents affecting Canadians or Canadian interests abroad, 抖淫视频 maintained its Standing Rapid Deployment Team. Specialized training was provided to 83 Government of Canada employees to ensure that the team has the skills and capacity to respond effectively and efficiently in emergency situations.

In order to improve reach to Canadians travelling abroad, 抖淫视频 diversified elements of the Travel.gc.ca website, its platforms, and social media. These improvements include the development of a new web-based application that will facilitate quick and easy access to Travel Advice and Advisories archives for anyone who may need access to information from a past date. 抖淫视频 also developed and implemented a crisis communication plan to streamline communications with other departments, stakeholders, the media and the Canadian public in the event of an emergency abroad. The department shared timely and relevant travel advice and advisories with Canadians through Travel.gc.ca and missions’ Twitter and Facebook accounts, the Travel Smart app, Travel Updates emails and communications to Canadians who used the Registration of Canadians Abroad service. This approach ensured that Canadians were provided with up-to-date information during the Ethiopia Airlines crash in March 2019 and the tsunami in Indonesia in December 2018, among other emergencies.

Canadians abroad receive timely and appropriate government services.

抖淫视频 continued to provide passport and citizenship services to Canadians abroad on behalf of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. In 2018-19, the department’s network of missions delivered over 135,679 passports to Canadians. Moreover, these services were provided in accordance with the published service standards^{Footnote 8} 94 percent of the time.

Financial, human resources and performance information for 抖淫视频’s Program Inventory is available in the .^{Endnote xiv}

Core Responsibility 5: Support for Canada’s Presence Abroad

Description

抖淫视频 manages and delivers resources, infrastructure and services enabling Canada’s presence abroad, including at embassies, high commissions, and consulates.

Results

In 2018-2019, 抖淫视频 provided critical support for Canada’s presence abroad through the management and delivery of resources, infrastructure, data, and services.

Sound management and delivery of resources, infrastructure and services enables Canada’s presence abroad.

One of the core priorities of 抖淫视频 is to ensure that Canada’s network of missions abroad is safe, effective and sustainable, and that it enables the Government of Canada to achieve its international objectives. To support the Government of Canada’s international mandate, the department manages and delivers common services such as real property, security, transportation, human resources, finance, IM/IT and administration to 178 missions in 110 countries.

As part of ensuring the financial sustainability of this network, the department implemented a modernized approach and a new tool (ATLAS) to calculate the overall cost of the Government of Canada’s international footprint. To strengthen long-term planning and enable effective management and delivery of services, the department completed five-year common services plans for seven missions in the sub-Saharan Africa region, as well as in Manila, Paris and Mexico City.

抖淫视频 is committed to strengthening the sustainability of its operations abroad through responsible environmental stewardship and climate resilience and by supporting its people and communities abroad. In support of this goal, the department successfully completed a number projects in 2018-19 to improve the energy efficiency of its properties abroad, including solar energy projects, conversion to LED lighting, and water conservation projects. In addition, as part of the Sustainable Development Strategic Framework for Missions Abroad, the Embassy of Canada to China in Beijing was recently certified at the Silver level under the BOMA BEST program.

The Foreign Service Directives (FSDs), a system of allowances and benefits that ensures Canada is able to recruit, retain and deploy qualified employees in support of programs outside of Canada, were successfully renegotiated in 2018-19. The newly negotiated FSDs addressed a number of key employer and employee concerns, including policy and definition clarification, the modernization of FSDs to reflect new family structures, and additional flexibility for families.

Locally engaged staff (LES) are a unique whole-of-government workforce delivering services to Canadians.  Numbering approximately 5,200, these individuals make up over 70 percent of all 抖淫视频 staff working abroad and 45 percent of all 抖淫视频’s workforce. Of major significance in 2018-19 was the launch of the LES Framework Reform Project, which will update and improve how this critical workforce is managed.

Personnel are safe, missions are more secure, and government and partner assets and information are protected.

抖淫视频 continues to treat the safety and security of missions as a top priority, including Canada-based staff, their dependents, locally engaged staff and all mission visitors. Using duty-of-care funding that became available in 2017, security investments in 2018-19 enabled GAC to continue to assess, quantify and reduce security vulnerabilities at Canada’s missions abroad. This included the creation of 31 additional dedicated security positions and increased offerings of specialized security training, such as a 30 percent increase for the Personal Security Seminar and a 40 percent increase for the Hazardous Environment training. Both of these courses are aimed at employees and dependents posted or travelling to higher threat locations.  In addition, 31 missions benefitted from upgraded or receiving new armoured vehicles, and 27 missions abroad obtained various types of security systems and equipment, such as x-ray machines, alarm upgrades or CCTVs.

This funding also contributed to physical security enhancements, structural reinforcements and major infrastructure improvements to a wide range of countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, parts of Europe and South America, as well as to completing feasibility studies for major capital projects, such as the new chancery in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and the temporary co-location with the United Kingdom in Moscow. It permitted Canada’s continued presence in Afghanistan, while ensuring the protection of our infrastructure, information and people.

To ensure that security risk management is effective, efficient and integrated, the department implemented a five-year Departmental Security Investment Plan as part of its Global Security Framework. This plan ensures that funding is allocated to the highest-priority initiatives, according to risk and vulnerability assessments, to mitigate the most pressing threats to missions.

In response to the increased pervasiveness of cyber attacks as international security threats, significant investments were also made to address information security and international network reliability, including improvements to:

• connectivity worldwide by addressing inadequate bandwidth, increasing the availability and security of Wi-Fi at missions, and designing and engineering a secure, standard connectivity solution for off-network missions;
• the security, reliability and usability of the network by completing the secret network upgrade and advancing the next-generation secure voice solution; and
• the security of systems and information technology (IT) infrastructure by strengthening the continuity of service (hiring additional IT security expertise, advancing the development of the next-generation international network and leveraging cloud technologies).

Financial, human resources and performance information for 抖淫视频’s Program Inventory is available in the .^{Endnote xv}

Internal Services

Description

Internal Services are those groups of related activities and resources that the federal government considers to be services in support of programs and/or required to meet corporate obligations of an organization. Internal Services refers to the activities and resources of the 10 distinct service categories that support Program delivery in the organization, regardless of the Internal Services delivery model in a department. The 10 service categories are: 

• Acquisition Management Services
• Communications Services
• Financial Management Services
• Human Resources Management Services
• Information Management Services
• Information Technology Services
• Legal Services
• Materiel Management Services
• Management and Oversight Services
• Real Property Management Services

Results

Analysis of trends in spending and human resources

Actual expenditures

The above graph presents the department’s spending trend from 2016-17 to 2021-22, divided into two spending categories: voted spending (in dark blue), which is provided by Parliament to support program delivery and for managing the department’s resources; and statutory spending (in red), for expenditures mandated by legislative regulations.

The increase of $314.3 million in actual spending between 2016-17 and 2017-18 is attributable to additional funding for: international humanitarian assistance in response to humanitarian crises; mission security abroad to mitigate risks to physical infrastructure, mission readiness, and security of information (hereafter referred to as the Duty of Care at missions abroad); the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; additional International Assistance Envelope funding aligned with the Feminist International Assistance Policy; helping developing countries address the impact of climate change; Canada’s G7 Presidency in 2018; and, Canada’s contributions to the United Nations Peace Operations.

From 2017-18 to 2018-19, an increase of $482.6 million in actual spending is attributable to additional funding, including:

• Supplementary International Assistance Envelope funds supporting the Feminist International Assistance Policy and its six Action Areas: Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls, Human Dignity, Growth that Works for Everyone, Environment and Climate Action, Inclusive Governance, and Peace and Security;
• Support for the 2015–2020 Strategy for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health to address global inequities in access to vaccines in the poorest developing countries;
• Initiatives to help developing countries address the impact of climate change;
• Canada’s annual commitment under the Food Assistance Convention;
• Retroactive collective bargaining obligations and other compensation adjustments;
• Hosting the 2018 G7 Summit, ministerial meetings and other events associated with Canada’s G7 presidency;
• Support for the crises in Iraq and Syria and the impacts on the region (hereafter referred to as the Middle East Strategy) received from the Department of National Defence;
• Development Assistance and Security Sector Support to Afghanistan; and,
• Support for Duty of Care at missions abroad.

These increases were offset by sunsetting funding from the International Assistance Envelope, which ended March 31, 2018.

From 2018-19 to 2021-22, 抖淫视频’s spending profile varies, from $7.056 billion in 2018-19 to $6.304 billion in 2021-22. Significant items contributing to this $752 million decrease include the following:

• A decrease of $297.5 million to initiatives to help developing countries to address the impact of climate change; current funding will sunset by March 2021;
• A decrease of $293.4 million to address the Middle East Strategy; funding sunset on March 31, 2019 (however, this initiative has been renewed for a period of two years starting in 2019-20);
• A decrease of $189.3 million to the funds for the Crisis Pool Quick Release Mechanism;
• A decrease of $108.0 million to the 2015-20 strategy for maternal, newborn and child health; funding will sunset by March 31, 2020;
• A decrease of $68.6 million for Canada’s G7 presidency in 2018; funding sunset on March 31, 2019;
• A decrease of $36.7 million for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; funding will sunset by March 31, 2020;
• A decrease of $30.9 million for New York Chancery’s Co-location and relocation project; funding sunset on March 31, 2019; and
• A decrease of $27.5 million for the Development Assistance and Security Sector Support to Afghanistan, funding will sunset by March 31, 2021.

These decreases were offset by an increase of $266.8 million for the International Assistance Envelope aligned to the Feminist International Assistance Policy ($237.5 million in 2018-19 and $504.3 million in 2021-22—an increase of $266.8 million).

The above table provides an overview of the department’s financial activities over the past three years, and also includes anticipated spending through to the 2020-21 fiscal year.

The table includes main estimates (initial financial resources for the delivery of departmental programs), planned spending (actual anticipated spending over the course of the fiscal year), total authorities available for use (total amount the Department received in spending authority during the year), and actual spending (amount the department actually spent in the fiscal year specified).

In 2018-19, 抖淫视频 transitioned from its Strategic Outcomes and Program Alignment Architecture, which was required under the previous Policy on Management, Resources and Results Structures, to a Departmental Results Framework, as per the new Policy on Results. Therefore, the actual spending for 2016-17 and 2017-18 were aligned to the departmental results for illustration purposes only. Following the required changes in the 2018-19 Departmental Plan, anticipated sunset program renewals have been excluded from planned spending amounts; therefore, the main estimates and planned spending are listed as the same amount.

The variance of $1.0 billion between planned spending ($6.5 billion) and total authorities ($7.5 billion) in 2018-19 is related to supplementary funding received during the fiscal year, including

• International Assistance Envelope aligned with the Feminist International Assistance Policy;
• International Humanitarian Assistance through the Crisis Pool Quick Release Mechanism (CP-QRM);
• Operating and Capital budget carry forward from the previous year;
• Supporting Canada’s minimum annual commitment under the Food Assistance Convention;
• Supporting the Middle East Strategy received from the Department of National Defence;
• Canada’s Softwood Lumber activities;
• Addressing retroactive collective bargaining obligations and other compensation adjustments;
• Locally Engaged Staff Pension Benefit;
• Costs of assessed contributions due to changes in the international organizations’ budgets and the impact of currency fluctuations resulting from the payment in the prescribed foreign currency of these contributions; and
• Strengthening Diplomatic and Trade Support with China and Asia.

The variance ($566.0 million) between planned spending ($6.491 billion) and actual spending ($7.057 billion) in 2018-19 is explained by program below.

Explanation of Variances by Core Responsibility

Core Responsibility 1: International Advocacy and Diplomacy

Actual spending was $14.6 million higher than planned spending. The variance (+1.5 percent) is attributable to additional funding received for Operating Budget Carry Forward received from the previous year; and costs of assessed contributions due to changes in the international organizations’ budgets and the impact of currency fluctuations resulting from the payment in the prescribed foreign currency of these contributions.

Core Responsibility 2: Trade and Investment

Actual spending was $52.5 million higher than planned spending. The variance (+19.6 percent) is attributable to additional funding received for Canada’s Softwood Lumber activities; Operating and Capital Budget Carry Forward received from previous year; Enhanced Export Diversification Support; implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty and to further strengthen Canada’s export control regime; retroactive collective bargaining obligations and other compensation adjustments; and strengthening Canada’s diplomatic and trade support with China and Asia.

Core Responsibility 3: Development, Peace and Security Programming

Actual spending was $498.8 million higher than planned spending. The variance (+12.7 percent) is attributable to additional funding received for supporting the implementation of the Feminist International Assistance Policy; international assistance through the Crisis Pool Quick Release Mechanism; supporting Canada’s minimum annual commitment under the Food Assistance Convention; supporting the Middle East Strategy received from the Department of National Defence; and the Migrant Smuggling Prevention Strategy.

Core Responsibility 4: Help for Canadians Abroad

Actual spending was $11.2 million higher than planned spending. The variance (+24.2 percent) is attributable to additional funding received for Security System enhancement projects; retroactive collective bargaining obligations and other compensation adjustments; and Operating Budget Carry Forward received from the previous year.

Core Responsibility 5: Support for Canada’s Presence Abroad

Actual spending was $7.2 million lower than planned spending. The variance (-0.7 percent) is a result of lower spending in major capital projects; lower purchase price for an official residence abroad; and delays in purchasing vehicles at missions abroad.

Internal Services

Actual spending was $3.9 million lower than planned spending. The variance (-1.5 percent) is due to withholding spending on specific initiatives as directed by the Treasury Board of Canada.

Actual human resources

Full-time equivalents (FTEs) for previous, current and future years have been realigned to the Core Responsibilities within 抖淫视频's Departmental Results Framework (effective FY 2018-19) which accounts for slight variations from the 2018-2019 Departmental Plan however are reflected in the 2019-2020 Departmental Plan.

From 2016-17 to 2020-21, 抖淫视频’s total FTEs have increased by 892 FTEs (+8 percent) to deliver new funded programs and initiatives in support of department's mandate and priorities.

In 2018-19, the actual number of FTEs exceeded the planned FTEs by 153.

The variance between 2018-2019 and 2020-2021 reflects the anticipated FTEs for newly funded initiatives, including the Feminist International Assistance Policy, and renewed initiatives, such as the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program, the United Nations Peace Operations, Canada's Softwood Lumber activities, the Weapons Threat Reduction Program, Strengthening Diplomatic and Trade Support with China and Asia, and the Canadian Creative Export Strategy.

Expenditures by vote

For information on 抖淫视频’s organizational voted and statutory expenditures, consult the ^{Endnote xviii}

Government of Canada spending and activities

Information on the alignment of 抖淫视频’s spending with the Government of Canada’s spending and activities is available in the^{Endnote xix}.

Financial statements and financial statements highlights

Financial statements

抖淫视频’s financial statements (unaudited) for the year ended March 31, 2019, are available on the departmental website.

Financial statements highlights

The financial statements highlights presented within this Departmental Results Report are intended to serve as a general overview of the ’s financial position and operations. The Department’s financial statements (unaudited) are prepared in accordance with accrual accounting principles. The detailed financial statements of the department can be found on the Office of the Chief Financial Officer web page.^{Endnote xx}

The tables below illustrate the March 31, 2019 ending balances for each major financial statement grouping, along with the corresponding change from the planned results and the previous fiscal year.

The 2018-19 planned results information is provided in 抖淫视频’s Future-Oriented Statement of Operations and Notes 2018-19.^{Endnote xxi}

Expenses

The Department’s total expenses increased by $416.6 million (+6 percent) during 2018-19 compared with 2017-18. Higher spending in transfer payments and operating expenses, including salaries and employee benefits are the main source of this difference.

The variance between 抖淫视频’s actual expenses and its planned results is non material (-0.4 percent). It can be explained by differences resulting from estimates and assumptions used for the preparation of the Future-oriented Statement of Operations with the subsequent actual results.

The distribution of actual expenses by program is presented in the following chart.

Expenses by Core Responsibility – 2018-19

Revenues

The Department’s total revenue increased by $244.3 million (+648 percent) during 2018-19 compared to 2017-18 mainly due to an accounting gain related to the Paris real property transaction. The Paris Chancery Relocation Project was delivered through an exchange of real property assets between the Government of Canada and a private developer.

The variance between the actual and planned total net revenues is $241.6 million (+597 percent). This is primarily due to the gain on disposal of the old chancery and cultural centre in Paris as well as to the foreign currency fluctuations which resulted in a higher foreign currency exchange and revaluation gain than what was estimated.

The distribution of departmental revenues by type is presented in the following chart.

Revenue breakdown

Liabilities

The department’s total liabilities increased by $33.4 million (+2 percent) in 2018-19 compared with 2017-18. This is mainly the result of a net increase in accounts payable to third parties resulting from timing differences in the settlement of the payables.

Liability Breakdown

Assets

The department’s total assets increased by $303.8 million (+10 percent) in 2018-19 compared with 2017鈥�18. The difference is due to an increase in financial assets, more specifically the amount due from the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) and in non-financial assets. The increase in liabilities (including accounts payables) caused an increase in the current year balance of the amount due from the CRF. The significant increase in non-financial assets is explained mainly by the acquisition of the new chancery in Paris.

Asset breakdown

Supplementary information

Corporate information

Organizational profile

Appropriate minister: Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Maryam Monsef, Minister of International Development and Minister for Women and Gender Equality; James Gordon Carr, Minister of International Trade Diversification; and Melanie Joly, Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie.

Institutional head: Ian Shugart, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; John Hannaford, Deputy Minister for International Trade; Diane Jacovella, Deputy Minister of International Development; and Guylaine Roy, Deputy Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie.

Ministerial portfolio: 抖淫视频 and the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service. The following Crown corporations operate at arm’s length and report to Parliament through 抖淫视频’s ministers, the Canadian Commercial Corporation, Invest in Canada, Export Development Canada and the International Development Research Centre.

Enabling instrument: .^{Endnote xxii}

Year of incorporation / commencement: 1909

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

Raison d’être

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Mandate and role

For more information on the department’s organizational mandate letter commitments, see the .

Operating context and key risks

Operating context

2018-19 was marked by increasing global uncertainty and volatility. International relations are in a period of heightened instability, and established institutions, alliances and practices are being challenged by renewed ideological competition and the emergence of alternative development models. This has been fueled by growing inequality, the resurgence of ethno-nationalism and a return to great power competition. While increased growth and interconnectedness have created a larger middle class, the momentum to liberalize international trade has stalled, as evidenced by protracted disagreements over the World Trade Organization and rising protectionism. Globalization also continues to reshape economic and social life, and has contributed to the shifting balance of power. The consequences of this dynamic evolution impose strategic choices on Canada’s foreign policy.

In parallel, various state and non-state actors have sought to disrupt established systems and traditional international relationships. Shifting geopolitical realities have continued to strain the existing system of international laws, norms and institutions, with some states increasingly deploying hard and sharp power. Non-state actors, such as multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations and illicit groups have taken on steadily expanding roles. Cyber threats, originating from both state and non-state actors, continued to become more sophisticated.

In this context, Canada has an acute interest in ensuring an international order based on rules and open markets that can benefit all, including the poorest and most vulnerable. Canada continued over the past year to seek opportunities to promote bilateral and multilateral engagement, advance its national interests and values, and work with a range of stakeholders to confront cross-border challenges that impact all global citizens. Amid rising protectionist sentiments abroad, Canada played a leadership role in 2018-19 in promoting progressive approaches to trade and international collaboration. Recognizing that climate change is a shared challenge, the Government of Canada has undertaken initiatives both domestically and internationally to confront this critical issue.

Key risks

Risk 1 - International Security Landscape

With over half of its employees working abroad, 抖淫视频 regards the safety and security of employees, their dependents and mission visitors as a top priority. As a result of the evolving and varied nature and location of threats and instability,  the international security landscape remained a prominent part of the department’s risk response framework in 2018鈥�19.

Risk 2 - Cyber Threats

Governments, companies, institutions and civil society around the world rely increasingly on technology to underpin their operations, coordinate their work across national boundaries and connect to the world. However, this reliance carries risks due to increasingly organized and constantly evolving cyber threats. 抖淫视频 continued to work with its inter-departmental partners that have a cyber security mandate to improve its understanding and to respond to these evolving threats and vulnerabilities.

Risk 3 - Simultaneous Emergencies

Climate change has contributed to adverse conditions, like more frequent and severe natural disasters, and it will continue to do so. The department’s international mandate also means that emergencies, such as infectious diseases and civil unrest, have the potential to disrupt the department’s operations at missions abroad and strain the resources at headquarters that help coordinate emergency management activities. Accordingly, the department identified emergency management as a priority risk.

Risk 4 - Fund Management and Fiduciary Oversight

The department’s global responsibilities necessitate working in inherently risky environments, including the operation of its global network of missions and partners. These risks include a potential for the mismanagement of funds, theft or violation of trust. Such acts against the department can undermine the achievement of results and diminish public confidence in the organization’s operations. In response to this risk, the department focused on improved fraud prevention and training, monitoring and detection, and mitigation and response.

The 抖淫视频’s Departmental Results Framework and Program Inventory of record for 2018-19 are shown below.

Graphic presentation of Departmental Results Framework and Program Inventory Departmental Results

Departmental Results Framework

Supporting information on the Program Inventory

Financial, human resource and performance information for 抖淫视频’s Program Inventory is available in the .^{Endnote xxiii}

Supplementary information tables

The following supplementary information tables are available on 抖淫视频’s website:

• Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy
• Details on transfer payment programs of $5 million or more
• Gender-based analysis plus
• Horizontal initiatives
• Response to parliamentary committees and external audits
• Status report on projects operating with specific Treasury Board approval
• Status report on transformational and major Crown projects
• Up鈥慺ront multi鈥憏ear funding

Federal tax expenditures

The tax system can be used to achieve public policy objectives by applying 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 .^{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

抖淫视频
Tel.: 1-800-267-8376 (toll-free in Canada)
613-944-4000 (National Capital Region and outside Canada)
TTY: 1-800-394-3472 (toll-free from the U.S. and Canada only); 613-944-1310 (National Capital Region and outside Canada)
Fax: 613-996-9709

Enquiries Services
抖淫视频
125 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, ON K1A 0G2
Email: enqserv@international.gc.ca
Tel.: 1-800-267-8376 (toll-free in Canada)
613-944-4000 (National Capital Region and outside Canada)
Fax: 613-996-9709

Other Portfolio Related Contacts

Canadian Commercial Corporation
350 Albert Street, 7th Floor
Ottawa, ON K1A 0S6
Tel.: 1-800-748-8191 (toll-free in Canada)
613-996-0034 (National Capital Region and outside Canada)
Fax: 613-995-2121

Export Development Canada
150 Slater Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 1K3
Tel.: 1-800-229-0575 (toll-free North America)
613-598-2500 (local)
TTY: 1-866-574-0451
Fax: 613-598-3811

International Development Research Centre
150 Kent Street
Ottawa, ON K1P 0B2
Postal Address: P.O. Box 8500
Ottawa, ON K1G 3H9
Tel.: 613-236-6163
Fax: 613-238-7230

International Joint Commission (Canadian Section)
234 Laurier Avenue West, 22nd Floor
Ottawa, ON K1P 6K6
Tel.: 613-995-2984
Fax: 613-993-5583

Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission
459 Route 774
Welshpool, NB E5E 1A4
Tel.: 1-877-851-6663 (toll-free); 506-752-2922 (local)
Fax: 506-752-6000

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Appendix: definitions

appropriation (crédit)

Any authority of Parliament to pay money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

budgetary expenditures (dépenses budgétaires)

Operating and capital expenditures, transfer payments to other levels of government, organizations or individuals and payments to Crown corporations.

core responsibility (responsabilité essentielle)

An enduring function or role performed by a department. The intentions of the department with respect to a core responsibility are reflected in one or more related departmental results that the department seeks to contribute to or influence.

Departmental Plan (plan ministériel)

A report on the plans and expected performance of an appropriated department over a three鈥憏ear period. Departmental plans are tabled in Parliament each spring.

departmental result (résultat ministériel)

A departmental result represents the change or changes that the department seeks to influence. A departmental result is often outside departments’ immediate control, but it should be influenced by program-level outcomes.

departmental result indicator (indicateur de résultat ministériel)

A factor or variable that provides a valid and reliable means to measure or describe progress on a departmental result.

Departmental Results Framework (cadre ministériel des résultats)

Consists of the department’s core responsibilities, departmental results and departmental result indicators.

Departmental Results Report (rapport sur les résultats ministériels)

A report on an appropriated department’s actual accomplishments against the plans, priorities and expected results set out in the corresponding Departmental Plan.

experimentation (expérimentation)

Activities that seek to explore, test and compare the effects and impacts of policies, interventions and approaches, to inform evidence-based decision-making, by learning what works and what does not.

full鈥憈ime equivalent (équivalent temps plein)

A measure of the extent to which an employee represents a full person鈥憏ear charge against a departmental budget. Full鈥憈ime equivalents are calculated as a ratio of assigned hours of work to scheduled hours of work. Scheduled hours of work are set out in collective agreements.

gender-based analysis plus (GBA+) (analyse comparative entre les sexes plus [ACS+])

An analytical process used to help identify the potential impacts of policies, programs and services on diverse groups of women, men and gender differences. We all have multiple identity factors that intersect to make us who we are; GBA+ considers many other identity factors, such as race, ethnicity, religion, age and mental or physical disability.

government-wide priorities (priorités pangouvernementales)

For the purpose of the 2018鈥�19 Departmental Results Report, those high-level themes outlining the government’s agenda in the 2015 Speech from the Throne, namely: Growth for the Middle Class, Open and Transparent Government, A Clean Environment and a Strong Economy, Diversity is Canada’s Strength, and Security and Opportunity.

horizontal initiative (initiative horizontale)

An initiative where two or more departments are given funding to pursue a shared outcome, often linked to a government priority.

non鈥慴udgetary expenditures (dépenses non budgétaires)

Net outlays and receipts related to loans, investments and advances which change the composition of the financial assets of the Government of Canada.

performance (rendement)

What an organization did with its resources to achieve its results, how well those results compare to what the organization intended to achieve and how well lessons learned have been identified.

performance indicator (indicateur de rendement)

A qualitative or quantitative means of measuring an output or outcome, with the intention of gauging the performance of an organization, program, policy or initiative respecting expected results.

performance reporting (production de rapports sur le rendement)

The process of communicating evidence鈥慴ased performance information. Performance reporting supports decision making, accountability and transparency.

plan (plan)

The articulation of strategic choices, which provides information on how an organization intends to achieve its priorities and associated results. Generally a plan will explain the logic behind the strategies chosen and tend to focus on actions that lead up to the expected result.

planned spending (dépenses prévues)

For Departmental Plans and Departmental Results Reports, planned spending refers to those amounts presented in Main Estimates. A department is expected to be aware of the authorities that it has sought and received. The determination of planned spending is a departmental responsibility, and departments must be able to defend the expenditure and accrual numbers presented in their Departmental Plans and Departmental Results Reports.

priority (priorité)

A plan or project that an organization has chosen to focus and report on during the planning period. Priorities represent the things that are most important or what must be done first to support the achievement of the desired strategic outcome(s) or departmental results.

program (programme)

Individual or groups of services, activities or combinations thereof that are managed together within the department and focus on a specific set of outputs, outcomes or service levels.

result (résultat)

An external consequence attributed, in part, to an organization, policy, program or initiative. Results are not within the control of a single organization, policy, program or initiative; rather, they are within the area of the organization’s influence.

statutory expenditures (dépenses législatives)

Expenditures that Parliament has approved through legislation other than appropriation acts. The legislation sets out the purpose of the expenditures and the terms and conditions under which they may be made.

strategic outcome (résultat stratégique)

A long鈥憈erm and enduring benefit to Canadians that is linked to the organization’s mandate, vision and core functions.

target (cible)

A measurable performance or success level that an organization, program or initiative plans to achieve within a specified time period. Targets can be either quantitative or qualitative.

voted expenditures (dépenses votées)

Expenditures that Parliament approves annually through an appropriation act. The vote wording becomes the governing conditions under which these expenditures may be made.