Authorities Available from Previous Years

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Appendix 3 provides the full wording of most authorities (budgetary and non-budgetary) available from previous years, by ministry. The budgetary authorities related to the spending of proceeds from the disposal of surplus Crown assets are excluded from this appendix. Details of such authorities are shown in Appendix 5.

Table Summary

Appendix 3 provides the full wording of most authorities (budgetary and non-budgetary) available from previous years, by ministry. The table consists of 4 columns: Section; Vote; Department or agency; Amount. Sub-totals by ministry are displayed for budgetary and non-budgetary authorities and at the end of the table, a total for government budgetary and non-budgetary authorities.

Section Vote Department or agency Amount
($)
2   Agriculture and Agri-Food  
  Department  
(S) Farm Products Agencies Act, section 28  
Grants to enable the agency to meet initial operating and establishment expenses for each agency. The total authorized limit in accordance with subsection 28(2) of the Act is $1,000,000 less the total authority used up to the end of the 1993-94 fiscal year of $400,000 600,000
(S) Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency Revolving Fund —Revolving Funds Act, section 2  
To make payments out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for working capital, capital acquisitions and temporary financing of accumulated operating deficits, the total of which is not to exceed $2,000,000 at any time 3,419,399
(S) (L) Canadian Dairy Commission Act, section 16  
At the request of the Commission, the Minister of Finance may, out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, make loans to the Commission on such terms and conditions as are approved by the Governor in Council for the purpose of exercising any of the powers of the Commission as described in paragraphs 9(1)(a) and (b) to deal in any dairy product, make payments for price stabilization, investigate production, processing or marketing matters, assist in the promotion and improvement of dairy products, and other acts necessary or incidental to the Commission's power and functions. The total amount of loans outstanding at any time, as last amended by Vote 50a, Appropriation Act No. 4, 1975, shall not exceed $300,000,000 (Net) 264,776,926
(S) Canadian Grain Commission Revolving Fund —Appropriation Act No. 4, 1994-95  
To spend for the purposes of the Fund any revenues received in respect of those purposes and the aggregate of expenditures made for the purpose of the Fund shall not at any time exceed by more than $2,000,000 the revenues received in respect of the purpose of the Fund; decrease of authority as per Vote 36b, Appropriation Act No. 2, 2001-2002 38,606,742
  Farm Credit Canada  
(S) (L) Farm Credit Canada Act  
Subsection 11(1). At the request of the Corporation, the Minister of Finance may, with the approval of the Governor in Council, pay to the Corporation, out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, amounts not exceeding in the aggregate $1,250,000,000 and the money paid constitutes part of the capital of the Corporation (Net) 6,667,000
Subsection 12(3). The Corporation may, with the approval of the Minister of Finance, borrow money by any means, and, at the request of the Corporation, the Minister of Finance may, out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, lend money to the Corporation on such terms and conditions as are approved by the Governor in Council. The aggregate amount outstanding of the principal amounts borrowed by the Corporation pursuant to subsection (1) and the principal of loans made to the Corporation under subsection (2) shall not at any time exceed twelve times the capital of the Corporation (Net) 13,905,745,000
Total Ministry —Budgetary 42,626,141
Non-budgetary 14,177,188,926
4   Canada Revenue Agency  
1 Operating expenditures; the balance of money appropriated by Parliament for the use of the Agency that remains unexpended at the end of the fiscal year, after the adjustments referred to in section 37 of the Financial Administration Act are made, lapses at the end of the following fiscal year pursuant to section 60 (1) of the Canada Revenue Agency Act 126,259,844
5 Capital expenditures; the balance of money appropriated by Parliament for the use of the Agency that remains unexpended at the end of the fiscal year, after the adjustments referred to in section 37 of the Financial Administration Act are made, lapses at the end of the following fiscal year pursuant to section 60 (1) of the Canada Revenue Agency Act 51,747,299
Total Ministry —Budgetary 178,007,143
Non-budgetary  
5   Canadian Heritage  
  National Film Board  
(S) National Film Board Revolving Fund —Revolving Funds Act, section 12  
To make payments out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for working capital, the interim financing of operation costs, the acquisition of capital assets and can record the increase in the net book value of capital assets against the authority, which provides that the aggregate of admissible working capital and net book value of capital assets is not to exceed $15,000,000 at any time; decrease of authority as per Vote 86b, Appropriation Act No. 2, 2001-2002 6,303,761
Total Ministry —Budgetary 6,303,761
Non-budgetary  
6   Citizenship and Immigration  
  Department  
(S) (L) Immigration Act, section 119  
The Minister of Finance may, from time to time, advance to the Minister out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund such sums as the Minister may require to enable him to make loans to immigrants and such other classes of persons as may be prescribed for the purpose of paying the costs of admission, transportation and reasonable living expenses. The total amount outstanding at any time, as last amended by TB814449 and section 88 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, shall not exceed $110,000,000 (Net) 70,913,894
Total Ministry —Budgetary  
Non-budgetary 70,913,894
8   Environment  
  Parks Canada Agency  
25 Program expenditures; the unexpended balance of money referred to in subsection (1) appropriated by any Act of Parliament for the purpose of making operational expenditures of the Agency lapses at the end of the fiscal year following the year in which the money was originally appropriated or at the end of any longer period that may be specified in the Act pursuant to Parks Canada Agency Act, section 19 44,438,248
Total Ministry —Budgetary 44,438,248
Non-budgetary  
9   Finance  
  Department  
(S) Financial Institutions Depositors Compensation Act, section 16  
Provision of compensation to depositors of Canadian Commercial Bank, CCB Mortgage Investment Corporation and Northland Bank in respect of uninsured deposits. There is hereby appropriated for the purposes of this Act $875,000,000 to be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund from time to time as required 68,571,831
  Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation  
(S) (L) Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, subsection 10.1  
The Governor in Council may from time to time authorize the Minister of Finance to advance, out of any unappropriated moneys in the Consolidated Revenue Fund, amounts to the Corporation by way of loan on such terms and conditions as the Governor in Council may determine, but the aggregate of such loans outstanding at any time shall not exceed $6,000,000,000 (Net) 15,000,000,000
  Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions  
(S) Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Act, sections 16 and 17  
The Minister may make expenditures out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund to defray the expenses arising out of the operations of the Office. The total authorized limit shall not at any time exceed by more than $40,000,000 the total of the assessments and revenues received and authorized to be spent subject to Treasury Board approval 67,115,918
Total Ministry —Budgetary 135,687,749
Non-budgetary 15,000,000,000
10   Fisheries and Oceans  
  Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation  
L30b This Corporation was incorporated under the Freshwater Fish Marketing Act, 1968-69, to regulate interprovincial and export trade in freshwater fish and to establish the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation. For the purpose of enabling the Corporation to carry on its operations under the Act, section 16 provides that the Governor in Council may authorize the Minister of Finance on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon:
  1. to guarantee repayment of loans, and interest thereon, made by any bank to the Corporation; and,
  2. to make loans to the Corporation
Vote L30b, Appropriation Act No. 1, 1974 and amended in 2006. The aggregate outstanding at any time of the amounts borrowed by the Corporation pursuant to paragraph 7(g) and the amounts lent by the Minister of Finance under the authority of section 16 of the Freshwater Fish Marketing Act shall not exceed $50,000,000 (Net)		 50,000,000
Total Ministry —Budgetary  
Non-budgetary 50,000,000
11   Foreign Affairs and International Trade  
  Department  
(S) Passport Canada Revolving Fund —Revolving Funds Act, section 4  
To make payments out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for working capital, capital acquisitions and temporary financing of accumulated operating deficits, the total of which is not to exceed $4,000,000 at any one time 31,145,186
L11 Appropriation Act No. 1, 1971  
The amount that may be outstanding at any time against the Working Capital Advance Account for loans and advances to personnel posted abroad shall not exceed $38,20,000 as established by Vote L12c, Appropriation Act No. 1, 1971, and amended by Vote L11, Appropriation Act No. 3, 1989-90 (Net) 16,388,659
L12 Appropriation Act No. 2, 1954  
The amount that may be outstanding at any time against the Working Capital Advance Account for advances to posts abroad shall not exceed $50,000,000 as established by loans, investments and advances Vote 630, Appropriation Act No. 2, 1954, and amended by Vote L12, Appropriation Act No. 3, 1989-90 (Net) 11,502,987
(S) (L) Export Development Act, section 11  
Payments representing the subscription by the Secretary of State for External Affairs as approved by the Minister of Finance for capital stock in the Corporation under the authority of section 11. The authorized capital of the Corporation is $3,000,000,000 (Gross) 1,666,800,000
Authority in accordance with terms and conditions prescribed by sections 12, 13 and 14; Section 14 provides that the aggregate amount of borrowings of the Corporation pursuant to sections 12 and 13 and outstanding shall not exceed an amount equal to fifteen times the aggregate of:
  1. the paid-in capital of the Corporation from time to time, and,
  2. the retained earnings of the Corporation, if any, determined in accordance with the most recent statements of accounts of the Corporation for a financial year that have been audited by the Auditor General of Canada (Net)
 99,485,350,679
(S) (L) Export Development Act, section 23  
Authority in accordance with terms and conditions prescribed by section 23, accounts administered for Canada, the liability for loans and commitments as limited by section 24 shall not at any time exceed $20,000,000,000 (Net)
(In accordance with sections 10, 23 and 24 of the Export Development Act, the authorized limit of $20 billion is for loans in support of export development. At the time this authority was granted, these loans were accounted for on a non-budgetary basis. Subsequently, the Government changed its accounting policies which resulted in concessional loans being accounted for on a budgetary basis. Therefore, this authority is available for both budgetary and non-budgetary transactions. However, since the authority is for loans it is shown as non-budgetary for reporting purposes.) 		14,606,022,092
  Canadian Commercial Corporation  
(S) (L) Canadian Commercial Corporation Act, section 11 10,000,000
The Minister of Finance shall, on the request of the Minister, from time to time, deposit to the credit of the Corporation in the Bank of Canada or in a chartered bank designated by the Minister an amount or amounts not exceeding in the aggregate ten million dollars to be paid out of unappropriated moneys in the Consolidated Revenue Fund (Net) 10,000,000
  Canadian International Development Agency  
(S) Appropriation Act No. 5, 2009-10  
Pursuant to section 24.1 of the Financial Administration Act, to forgive an amount up to $449,533,044 owed by the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, in relation to loan agreements, subject to the conditions described in the Memorandum of Understanding signed on April 20, 2006 between the Government of Canada and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan 384,594,510
(S) (L) International Development (Financial Institutions) Assistance Act —African Development Bank  
Authorization to subscribe for 73,473 callable shares of the capital stock of the African Development Bank in accordance with previous years' Appropriation Acts (Gross) 5,844,821,136
(S) (L) International Development (Financial Institutions) Assistance Act —Caribbean Development Bank  
Authorization to subscribe for 8,124 callable shares of the capital stock of the Caribbean Development Bank in accordance with previous years` Appropriation Acts (Gross) 118,686,924
(S) (L) International Development (Financial Institutions) Assistance Act —Asian Development Bank  
Authorization to subscribe for 172,125 callable shares of the capital stock of the Asian Development Bank in accordance with previous years' Appropriation Acts (Gross) 6,240,199,681
(S) (L) International Development (Financial Institutions) Assistance Act —Inter-American Development Bank  
Authorization to subscribe for 320,490 callable shares of the capital stock of the Inter-American Development Bank in accordance with previous years' Appropriation Acts (Gross) 7,627,075,936
Total Ministry —Budgetary 415,739,696
Non-budgetary 135,626,848,094
14   Human Resources and Skills Development  
  Department  
(S) Canada Education Saving Act, subsection 12(4)  
The Minister may, with the approval of the Minister of Finance, enter into agreements with the government of any province to administer provincial programs consistent with the purpose of this Act. Subject to conditions imposed by the Treasury Board, any amounts received by the Minister for services may be used by the Minister to administer programs referred to in subsection (1) 51,751
Total Ministry —Budgetary 51,751
Non-budgetary  
15   Indian Affairs and Northern Development  
  Department  
(S) Appropriation Act No. 4, 1987-88, Vote 5c  
Payment from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of guaranteed loans issued out of the Indian economic development account. The total authorized limit is $60,000,000 less the total authority used up to the end of 2008-2009 fiscal year of $28,264,108 31,735,892
L20 Appropriation Act No. 1, 1970  
Loans in the current and subsequent fiscal years for the purposes of economic development of Indians, to Indians, groups of Indians or Indian bands, or to individuals, partnerships or corporations the activities of which contribute or may contribute to such development; to authorize the guaranteeing of loans to such borrowers made for the same purpose, through the Indian economic development account as established by Vote L53b, Appropriation Act No. 1, 1970. The amount that may be outstanding at any time as last amended by Vote 7b, Appropriation Act No. 4, 1996-97, shall not exceed $48,550,835 (Net) 48,517,156
L40 Appropriation Act No. 3, 1975  
Loans to the Government of the Yukon Territory in the current and subsequent fiscal years, in accordance with terms and conditions approved by the Governor in Council for making of second mortgage loans to residents of the Territory for the purchase or construction of houses in the Territory under the National Housing Act. The undisbursed balance of loans authorized is $320,000 (Gross) 305,503
L55 Appropriation Act No. 3, 1953  
To authorize and provide for a continuing special account to be known as the Inuit loan fund from which loans or investments may be made to or in respect of individual or groups of Inuit to promote the commercial activities thereof as established by Vote 546, Appropriation Act No. 3, 1953. The amount that may be outstanding at any time as last amended by Vote 37b, Appropriation Act No. 4, 1995-96 not to exceed $6,633,697 (Net) 6,550,860
L81a Appropriation Act No. 4, 1969  

To authorize in the current and subsequent fiscal years, in accordance with terms and conditions approved by the Governor in Council, loans for the establishment or expansion of small businesses in the Yukon Territory; and to authorize a special account to be known as the Yukon Territory small business loans account:

  1. to which shall be charged all loans and interest payable thereon made under this authority; and,
  2. to which shall be credited repayments of principal amounts of loans and interest thereon. The total amount that may be outstanding under this authority at any time not to exceed $5,000,000 (Net)
 5,000,000
Total Ministry —Budgetary 31,735,892
Non-budgetary 60,373,519
16   Industry  
  Department  
(S) Canadian Intellectual Property Office Revolving Fund —Appropriation Act No. 3, 1993-94, Vote 2b  
To make payments out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for working capital, capital acquisitions and temporary financing of accumulated operating deficits, decrease in authority from $15,000,000 to $5,000,000 as per Vote 2b, Appropriation Act No. 2, 2001-2002 158,152,609
L97b Appropriation Act No. 1, 1970  
Authority to make advances to regional offices and to employees on posting abroad and to include the charging to the account of advances to employees during service abroad. The balance in the account is not to exceed $1,950,000 at any time (Net) 1,950,000
  National Research Council of Canada  
(S) National Research Council Act, paragraph 5(1)(e)  
Unspent amount carried forward from previous year as per the National Research Council Act 48,046,806
Total Ministry —Budgetary 206,199,415
Non-budgetary 1,950,000
18   National Defence  
  Department  
L11c Appropriation Act No. 1, 1976, established by Vote L20b  
To authorize, in accordance with terms and conditions approved by the Treasury Board, the operation of a National Defence working capital advance account in the current and subsequent fiscal years for the purpose of financing public funds imprest and public funds advance accounts, standing advances, authorized loans and advances to employees posted abroad, and authorized recoverable advances to establish military messes and canteens; the amount outstanding at any one time as amended by Vote L16c, Appropriation Act No. 4, 1984, Vote L11c of 1991, and Vote L11b, Appropriation Act No. 4, 2002 shall not exceed $120,000,000 (Net) 78,849,313
Total Ministry —Budgetary  
Non-budgetary 78,849,313
19   Natural Resources  
  Department  
(S) Geomatics Canada Revolving Fund —Appropriation Act No. 3, 1993-94  
To make payments out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for working capital, capital acquisitions and temporary financing of accumulated operating deficits, the total of which is not to exceed $5,000,000 at any time; decrease of authority as per Vote 3b, Appropriation Act No. 2, 2001-2002 7,557,416
Total Ministry —Budgetary 7,557,416
Non-budgetary  
22   Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness  
  Canada Border Services Agency  
10 Operating expenditures and, pursuant to paragraph 29.1(2)(a) of the Financial Administration Act, authority to expend in the current fiscal year revenues received during the fiscal year related to the border operations of the Canada Border Services Agency: fees for the provision of a service or the use of a facility or for a product, right or privilege; and payments received under contracts entered into by the Agency 57,080,992
15 Capital expenditures 121,466,064
  Correctional Service  
(S) CORCAN Revolving Fund —Appropriation Act No. 4, 1991-92, Vote 11c  
To make payments out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for working capital, capital acquisitions and temporary financing of accumulated operating deficits, the total of which is not to exceed $5,000,000 at any time; decrease in authority as per Vote 16b, Appropriation Act No. 2, 2001-2002 14,844,679
L14b Appropriation Act No. 1, 1969  
To extend the purposes of the Parolees' loan account established by Solicitor General Vote L103b, Appropriation Act No. 1, 1969:
  1. to authorize loans to individuals under mandatory supervision; and,
  2. to increase from $10,000 to $50,000 the amount that may be outstanding at any time against the said account, as amended by Vote L14b, Appropriation Act No. 3, 1982-83 (Net)
 46,057
Total Ministry —Budgetary 193,391,735
Non-budgetary 46,057
23   Public Works and Government Services  
(S) Real Property Disposition Revolving Fund —Appropriation Act No. 4, 1995-96, Vote 2b  
To make payments out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the disposal of real property, the total of which is not to exceed $5,000,000 at any time 6,454,852
(S) Optional Services Revolving Fund —Revolving Funds Act, section 8  
To make payments out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for working capital, capital acquisitions and temporary financing of accumulated operating deficits, the total of which is not to exceed $35,000,000 at any time, as last amended by Vote 6b, Appropriation Act No. 2, 2001-2002 40,900,918
(S) Consulting and Audit Canada Revolving Fund —Revolving Funds Act, section 8  
To make payments out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for working capital, capital acquisitions and temporary financing of accumulated operating deficits, decrease in authority from $25,100,163 to $20,000,000 as per Vote 8b Appropriation Act No. 2, 2001-2002 22,500,972
(S) Translation Bureau Revolving Fund —Appropriation Act No. 4, 1994-95  
To make expenditures out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, for the purpose of providing translation and related services, and the authority for the Minister to spend for the purposes of the Fund any revenues received for those purposes; and the aggregate of expenditures made for the purpose of the Fund shall not at any time exceed by more than $10,000,000 the revenues received in respect of the purposes of the Fund; decrease in authority as per Vote 12b, Appropriation Act No. 2, 2001-2002; to delete an amount of $13,606,000 representing operating losses incurred during a three year transition period towards self-sufficiency, as last amended by Vote 22b, Appropriation Act No. 4, 1995-96 27,244,493
(S) Real Property Services Revolving Fund —Revolving Funds Act, section 5  
To make payments out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for working capital, the total of which is not to exceed $150,000,000 at any time 328,455,825
(S) Telecommunications and Informatics Common Services Revolving Fund —Revolving Funds Act, section 3  
To make payments out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for working capital, capital equipment and temporary financing of operating requirements, decrease in authority from $45,000,000 to $20,000,000 as last amended by Vote 9b, Appropriation Act No. 2, 2001-2002 62,017,209
(S) Defence Production Revolving Fund —Defence Production Act, section 15  
To make payments out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the purpose of financing the stockpiling of defence supplies or strategic materials and permitting initial payments for defence supplies in advance of delivery of goods, the total of which shall not exceed $100,000,000 less loans and advances of the defence production loan account at any time 100,000,000
L15b Appropriation Act No. 3, 1990-91  
To extend the purposes of Finance Vote L29g, Appropriation Act No. 2, 1967:
  1. to replace the words "standing travel advances, advances for petty cash expenditures and imprest bank accounts, and such other accountable advances" immediately following "departments and agencies" with the following words: "imprest funds, accountable advances and recoverable advances", and,
  2. to increase from $17,000,000 to $22,000,000 the amount that may be outstanding at any one time for the purposes of this Vote (Net)
 5,916,824
(S) (L) Seized Property Management Act, 1993, section 12, subsections 1, 2, 3 and 4. Limit $50,000,000 (Net) 57,059,556
Total Ministry —Budgetary 587,574,269
Non-budgetary 62,976,380
24   Transport  
  Canada Post Corporation  
(S) (L) Canada Post Corporation Act, sections 28, 29 and 30  
The Minister of Finance, on the application of the Corporation approved by the Minister, may, with the approval of the Governor in Council, lend money to the Corporation from the Consolidated Revenue Fund on such terms and conditions as are approved by the Governor in Council. The aggregate amount outstanding of the principal of loans made to the Corporation shall not exceed $500,000,000 (Net) 500,000,000
  Royal Canadian Mint  
(S) (L) Royal Canadian Mint Act, subsection 20(1)  
The Mint may, for the attainment of its objects, borrow money from the Consolidated Revenue Fund or any other source, but the aggregate of the amounts loaned to the Mint and outstanding at any time shall not exceed $75,000,000 or such greater amount as may be specified in an Appropriation Act (Net) 75,000,000
Total Ministry —Budgetary  
Non-budgetary 575,000,000
25   Treasury Board  
  Canada School of Public Service  
(S) Canada School of Public Service Act, subsection 18(2)  
Pursuant to subsection 18(2) of the Canada School of Public Service Act and subject to any conditions imposed by the Treasury Board, the revenue from fees received by the School in a fiscal year through the conduct of its operations may be spent by the School for its purposes in that, or the next fiscal year 17,885,131
Total Ministry —Budgetary 17,885,131
Non-budgetary  
26   Veterans Affairs  
(S) (L) Veterans' Land Act  
There may be advanced out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund such amounts as are required for the purposes of Parts I, II and III, for the Veterans' Land Act Fund. The amount that may be charged at any one time, as last amended by Vote L55, Appropriation Act No. 3, 1970, shall not exceed $605,000,000 (Net) 604,992,046
Total Ministry —Budgetary  
Non-budgetary 604,992,046
Total Government —Budgetary 1,867,198,347
Non-budgetary 166,309,138,229

Footnotes

Footnote S

Statutory authority.

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Footnote L

Non-budgetary authority (loan, investment or advance).

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