2022 to 2023 Supplementary Estimates (C) Overview : Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates—March 22, 2023
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Public Services and Procurement Canada: 2022 to 2023 Supplementary Estimates (C) overview
Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) is seeking a net increase of $11.5 millionFootnote 1 for the items below through Supplementary Estimates (C), increasing its available funding from $4,903.4 million to $4,914.9 million net of revenues.
| Items | Funding and transfer amounts in 2022 to 2023 |
|---|---|
| Accommodation costs for pension administration | 9.9 |
| Controlled Goods Program | 2.5 |
| Non-discretionary expenses associated with Crown-owned buildings and leased space and transfer for reduced accommodation requirements as a result of data centre consolidations | 0.9 (0.5) |
| Employee Benefit Plans | 0.6 |
| Transfer for the National Indigenous Procurement Initiative | (2.0) |
| Total | 11.4 |
Funding for accommodation costs related to pension administration
$9.9 million funding in 2022 to 2023 for accommodation costs for employees who provide pension services. This funding is a yearly administrative adjustment requested through Supplementary Estimates exercises.
Purpose of funding
Funding of $9.9 million (Vote 1: Operating expenditures, special purpose allotment entitled “Real Property Services”) in 2022 to 2023 to PSPC for accommodation costs for employees who provide pension services relating to the Public Service Superannuation Act, Canadian Forces Superannuation Act, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act, Canadian Forces Pension Fund and Reserve Force Pension Fund.
The $9.9 million is broken down as follows:
- PSPC’s employees:
- $9.6 million: Public Service Superannuation Act, Canadian Forces Superannuation Act and Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act
- Department of National Defence’s employees:
- $0.3 million: Canadian Forces pension fund and Reserve Force pension fund
Funding for the Controlled Goods Program
$2.5 million funding in 2022 to 2023 to continue maintaining the Controlled Goods Program.
Purpose of funding
Funding of $2.5 million (Vote 1: Operating Expenditures) for 2022 to 2023 to continue to maintain the Controlled Goods Program, which oversees the examination, possession and transfer of controlled goods within Canada.
Funding will ensure that the Controlled Goods Program can continue to deliver on its Enhanced Security Strategy commitments, which include:
- a more robust security assessment process, which includes additional checks (for example, travel, credit, and significant and meaningful associations)
- increasing the range of individuals that are security assessed by the Controlled Goods Program instead of only the designated official (for example, owners with 20% or more voting shares or interests in the business will also be security assessed by the Controlled Goods Program)
- augmenting compliance-related measures, including conducting quality control reviews to ensure that Designated Officials are accurately assessing risk
- creation of the Designated Official Certification Program
- increasing information-sharing with federal government partners, including Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Note: Amount for Controlled Goods Program above does not include employee benefit plan cost of $0.6 million (included separately as a statutory appropriation).
Funding for increases in non-discretionary expenses associated with Crown-owned buildings and leased space, and transfer from the Department of Public Works and Government Services to Shared Services Canada for reimbursement related to reduced accommodation requirements as a result of data centre consolidations
$0.9 million funding in 2022 to 2023 and ($0.5 million) transfer in 2022 to 2023.
Purpose of funding
Funding of $0.9 million (Vote 1: Operating expenditures, Special Purpose Allotment entitled “Real Property Services”) in 2022 to 2023 to PSPC to protect for inflation (price) and variation in the number of public servants requiring accommodation (volume), offset by a transfer of $0.5 million (Vote 1: Operating expenditures, special purpose allotment entitled “Real Property Services”) to Shared Services Canada (SSC) for reduced accommodation requirements as a result of data centre consolidations.
The $0.9 million represents savings of power and space in fiscal year 2021 to 2022 as a result of closing data centres. Part of this funding will be used by PSPC to decommission data centres that are closed in fiscal year 2022 to 2023. PSPC will then transfer the remaining funding (related to power and space savings), in this case $0.5 million, to SSC.
As per price and volume methodology, PSPC is the only department that can access the funding related to accommodation, and therefore, the only one able to compensate SSC for its space entitlement reduction.
Current status
Project completion date: SSC estimates that the project will end in fiscal year 2029 to 2030. Major accomplishments include:
- as of the end of the third quarter of fiscal year 2022 to 2023, SSC’s Data Centre Closures Program had closed 406 small and medium sized data centres, leaving 314 outstanding
- closure of 1 of the top 17 large data centers (Aviation Parkway Data Center)
Employee Benefit Plans
$0.6 million in Statutory Appropriations for contribution to the employee benefit plans (EBP).
The EBP includes cost to the government for the employer’s matching contributions and payments to the Public Service Superannuation Plan, the Canada and Quebec pension plans, death benefits, and the employment insurance accounts.
EBP applicable on salary relating to the Controlled Goods program (as previously noted).
Transfer from the Department of Public Works and Government Services to the Department of Indigenous Services for the National Indigenous Procurement Initiative
($2.0 million) transfer in 2022 to 2023 for the National Indigenous Procurement initiative.
Purpose of funding
Transfer of $2.0 million (Vote 1: Operating expenditures, special purpose allotment entitled “Real Property Services”) in 2022 to 2023 to Indigenous Services Canada as part of the Strategic Partnerships Initiative.
The funding will be used to help Indigenous communities receive funds for projects that have a potential of generating economic opportunities and benefits to Indigenous peoples in Canada. Funding usually supports activities such as:
- pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, diagnostic studies, environmental evaluations, information gathering
- enhancement of the organizational capacity of communities or organizations mandated to lead and / or support the implementation of economic development projects
- skills development, including management and technical training
- construction, architectural, engineering and project design activities
- economic infrastructure development
- establishment, expansion, or modernization of an Indigenous business or joint venture
Shared Services Canada: 2022 to 2023 Supplementary Estimates (C) overview
SSC is seeking a net decrease of ($15.1 million) (vote 1) through Supplementary Estimates (C), decreasing its available funding from $2,895.7 million to $2,880.6 million, net of revenues.
The overall decrease of ($15.1 million) is attributable to transfers between departments.
Transfers between departments: ($15.1 million) decrease
- An increase of $0.5 million (vote 1) coming from PSPC for the reimbursement related to reduced accommodation requirements as a result of data centre consolidations
- A decrease of ($5.4 million) (vote 1) transferred to the Communications security establishment (CSE) in support of the Security information and event management (SIEM) project. This will allow CSE to operate the new Canadian centre for cyber security SIEM solution components. The financial resources will provide CSE with support for people, process and technology development during the implementation of the solution
- A decrease of ($3.1 million) (vote 1) transferred to CSE in support of the operation and development of the secure communications for national leadership project (SCNL). This is an annual transfer until SSC’s Smart phone for classified initiative delivers and onboards SCNL
- A total decrease of ($4.7 million) (vote 1) to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) for the Passenger Protection Program. This transfer will cover project costs associated to the new solution architecture for the program
- A decrease of ($1.3 million) (vote 1) transferred to the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) for the Government of Canada enterprise portfolio management project. This funding is to continue the work on the demand pipeline minimum viable product which will enable departments to submit their business requirements documents into the TBS hosted solution
- A decrease of ($0.02 million) (vote 1) transferred to TBS. This is to support the capacity accelerator project led by the Office of the Comptroller General on behalf of SSC Internal Audit Sector
- A decrease of ($1.1 million) (vote 1) transferred to Statistics Canada (StatsCan) for the 2021 Census of Population Program. SSC has identified a surplus of $1.1 million for the census project. The project is due to close on March 31, 2023, and StatsCan plans to use the surplus for other census related activities
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