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Industry Canada Business Plan 2009–2010
Key strategies
This section sets out Industry Canada's program activities, business objectives and expected results for 2009–2010 under each of the three key strategies that comprise how the Department delivers on its mandate: advancing the marketplace, fostering the knowledge-based economy and supporting business.
The Department will monitor the business objectives and report on them through the performance measurement and reporting process. Performance indicators and targets for these expected results are communicated in Industry Canada's annual Report on Plans and Priorities, and performance is reported in the annual Departmental Performance Report. See Appendix B for progress reports (as of December 2008) on the commitments set out in Industry Canada's 2008–2009 business plan.
The text for each strategy also connects Industry Canada's objectives and activities to current Government of Canada priorities, sets out how Industry Canada's work contributes to economic prosperity, and provides some detail on the financial and human resources associated with the work. The figure below shows the overall spending picture (“full-time equivalents” is abbreviated as “FTEs”).
Total departmental human resources (full-time equivalents) by key strategy
Total planned departmental spending by key strategy
In addition to the amounts that Industry Canada receives each year through appropriated budgets approved by Parliament, the Department typically generates approximately $700 million in revenue. Industry Canada program spending accounts for 25 percent of that revenue; the remaining 75 percent is deposited into the Consolidated Revenue Fund.
With reduced operating budgets in coming years, paired with the current government-wide strategic review of all programs and services, and the current global and domestic economic context, aligning resources to results and making smart investment decisions will be ever more important for Industry Canada.
