Resource Management

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The Canada Customs and Revenue Agency's planned spending, as described in the 2000-2001 Report on Plans and Priorities, totals $3,016 million for 2000-2001. The following chart depicts our planned spending around six business lines. We expect to adopt a new planning, reporting, and accountability structure for 2001-2002 and beyond.

Planned Spending by Business Line for 2000-2001

Numbers represent adjusted Planned Spending and Adjustments ($3,016 million)
before deduction for Revenue Credited to Vote ($141 million)

The following table provides a summary of the source and application of these funds.

Within this funding envelope that is expected to remain relatively constant, we still have to manage a number of challenges, such as:

• maintaining levels and quality of service despite increased workload volume-the number of individual and corporate income tax returns are forecast to increase by 2.1% and 5.1% respectively next year, the number of travellers is expected to increase by 1.6%, and the number of trade transactions is also predicted to rise significantly;
• implementing policy and legislative measures announced each year by the Minister of Finance in the federal budgets;
• completing major re-engineering projects and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of IT systems to meet evolving service demands; and
• enhancing existing systems to accommodate new partnership arrangements with provincial and territorial governments.

Strategies

The CCRA will focus on providing resources necessary to consolidate and stabilize change initiatives currently underway while continuing to provide necessary client services and maintain program integrity. We may realign current funding allocations where required to ensure the completion of existing re-engineering projects. In addition, the February 2000 Budget provided $87 million for the Customs Blueprint initiatives over the next three years ($44.2 million in 2000-2001, $24 million in 2001-2002, and $18.3 million in 2002-2003). This $87 million will be shared among affected departments/agencies. The funds allocated to CCRA ($73 million for the three year period) will allow us, through the Customs Action Plan, to invest in innovative solutions for services and enforcement that will help our clients be competitive and protect the health, security, and safety of Canadians.

Through the Corporate Business Plan, the CCRA will continue to explore and adopt innovative ways of managing resource challenges associated with:

• anticipated increases in the volume of transactions;
• the provision of investment funding for key projects required to keep pace with technological change; and
• ensuring that our services continue to be provided in a modern, efficient manner.

The CCRA will continue to work closely with Treasury Board with the long-term objective of having a capacity to make key investments on an ongoing basis in the context of a budget review to determine an appropriate funding formula.

Date modified:

2002-01-04