Backgrounder
In keeping with her authority under the Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, is specifying a one-year extension for the Minister of Natural Resources to disburse the 2019-20 proceeds from the federal price on carbon pollution.
In keeping with her authority under the Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, is specifying a one-year extension for the Minister of Natural Resources to disburse the 2019-20 proceeds from the federal price on carbon pollution.
The table below details the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance’s specifications. The table also includes a summary of 2019 specifications for the Ministers of Environment and Climate Change, Crown-Indigenous Relations, and Indigenous Services.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance is also specifying the Minister of National Revenue as responsible for disbursing a portion of the 2019-20 proceeds from the price on carbon pollution to the Government of New Brunswick.
Table 1
2019-20 Specified Price on Pollution Proceed Amounts to Disburse over the 2019-20 to 2021-22 Period
$ millions
Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Total
Minister of Environment and Climate Change1
102.09
30.06
13.09
0.37
145.61
Minister of Natural Resources2
1.40
0.41
0.18
0.07
2.07
Sub-total
103.49
30.47
13.27
0.44
147.67
Schools, Hospitals, Colleges, Universities, Municipalities, Not-For-Profit Organizations, and Indigenous Communities
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Total
Minister of Environment and Climate Change1
46.04
13.53
6.05
2.02
67.64
Minister of Natural Resources2
5.17
0.21
0.09
0.04
5.50
Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations1
0.53
0.47
0.19
0.00
1.19
Minister of Indigenous Services1
0.00
1.03
0.31
0.30
1.64
Sub-total
51.75
15.23
6.64
2.35
75.97
Direct Return to the Government of New Brunswick
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Total
Minister of National Revenue3
0
0
0
5.05
5.05
Total1
155.24
45.70
19.91
7.84
228.70
Notes:
Totals may not add up due to rounding.
1 This specification of May 21, 2021 does not alter the time period for the Ministers of Environment and Climate Change, Crown-Indigenous Relations, and Indigenous Services to disburse the 2019-20 fuel charge proceeds.
2 The effect of this specification of May 21, 2021 is that the Minister of Finance is extending the time period for the Minister of Natural Resources to disburse the 2019-20 fuel charge proceeds for one additional year (to the end of 2021-22).
3 The effect of this specification of May 21, 2021 is to make the Minister of National Revenue responsible for disbursing to the Government of New Brunswick a portion of the 2019-20 proceeds that was previously the responsibility of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. The effect is also to extend the period in respect of which the proceeds may be disbursed for one additional year (to the end of 2021-22).
