Report on Annual Expenditures for Travel, Hospitality and Conferences 2019-20

Cyber Security

The National Cyber Security Directorate (NCSD) participated in public events and conferences in direct support of fulfilling the department's commitment under the National Cyber Security Strategy, such as the Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security Symposium - a forum for Critical Infrastructure (CI) stakeholders to share information on the latest threats, trends and mitigation measures to help protect ICS and improve critical infrastructure resilience; the ICS Technical Workshops - hands-on awareness raising sessions, using real tools and targets, for the development of incident handler skills for the ICS environment; and Cyber Exercises - the delivery of cyber security exercises to Canadian CI owners and operators as well as participation in international cyber exercises to identify gaps in security systems and resolve them prior to an incident, to test incident response plans, and to raise awareness for cyber security.

212,522

Counter Radicalization to Violence

The Government of Canada is taking a whole of government approach to preventing radicalization to violence. The Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence provides leadership on Canada's response to radicalization to violence by coordinating talent and expertise, mobilizing and supporting community outreach and enhancing research in the area.

209,777

Regional Resilience Assessment Program

The Regional Resilience Assessment Program is a vulnerability and dependency assessment program for owners and operators of Critical Infrastructure (CI) facilities within the 10 CI sectors in Canada. This program involves site assessments to help organizations measure and improve their resilience to all hazards in Canada, such as cyber threats, accidental or intentional man-made events, and natural catastrophes.

187,241

Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

The Aboriginal Community Safety Planning Initiative works to prevent incidents of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, provides a means to enhance accessibility to Restorative Justice programming and responds to the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Public Safety Canada worked with Indigenous communities and organizations across Canada providing facilitation services to support the development of Community Safety Plans. A large part of this commitment requires both Public Safety Canada employees and facilitators to work with every community.

127,086

Drug-Impaired Driving

Public Safety Canada is working with federal, provincial and territorial partners and with road safety advocates to help raise awareness of the dangers of driving while impaired by cannabis or other drugs. The working group is collecting and reviewing data to set up data collection procedures. This initiative also includes sessions for national training conference that allows Public Safety Canada and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to work collaboratively to train law enforcement on the usage of the approved drug screening equipment.

81,098

National Risk Profile

Public Safety Canada is currently developing a National Risk Profile (NRP). The objective of the NRP is to design and develop an approach for a national disaster risk and emergency management capability assessment aimed at providing decision-makers and practitioners an understanding of threats and hazards and their trends over time. The NRP is a key initiative designed to support the Emergency Management Strategy for Canada which is a collaborative, whole-of-society roadmap to strengthen Canada's ability to assess risks, prevent/mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. In that regard, the NRP will support Canada's ability to better predict, prepare for, and respond to disasters, including weather-related emergencies and natural disasters.

64,068

Opioids and Other Drugs

Support for domestic and international travel of the Opioids and Other Drugs team to advance its supply reduction efforts with a range of stakeholders, including participation in the North American Dialogue on Drug Policy, the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the Canada-US Joint Action Plan on Opioids, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Drug Advisory Committee and other information-sharing conferences.

61,393

Public Safety Broadband Network

A Public Safety Broadband Network (PSBN) is a secure high-speed wireless data communications network that can be used by emergency responders and public safety personnel during day-to-day operations or major planned and unplanned events. A Public Safety Canada-led PSBN Temporary National Coordination Office (TNCO) was established with key stakeholders to finalize national recommendations and requirements for a future PSBN as well as to undertake analysis to develop options for a permanent coordination structure to guide the work going forward. To this end, TNCO members from across Canada participated in face-to-face meetings over the course of the TNCO mandate (two in 2019-20 a third was planned but cancelled due to the fall election). In addition, one meeting also included a concurrent stakeholder engagement session with industry to ensure the development of a consolidated view for a PSBN in Canada.

45,242

Total Significant Initiatives

988,427

^[1]Significant initiatives THC actuals are presented for information purposes to bolster transparency and are based on a fair estimate of expenditures for these initiatives.