Report on fees 2017-2018

Message from the Chair and Chief Executive Officer

On behalf of the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA), I am pleased to present the 2017 to 2018 Report on Fees.

This report as been prepared as required by the Service Fees Act which has received royal assent on June 22, 2017, thereby repealing the User Fees Act.

Scott Streiner
Chair and Chief Executive Officer

General fees information

The tables that follow provide information on each category of fees, including:

the name of the fee category;
the date that the fee (or fee category) was introduced and last amended (if applicable);
service standards;
performance results against these standards; and,
financial information regarding total costs, total revenues and remissions.

General and financial information by fee category

General information

Fee category	Fees for processing requests filed under the Access to Information Act
Fee-setting authority	Access to Information Act
Year introduced	1983
Year last amended	2018
Service standard	A response is provided within 30 days following receipt of a request; the response time may be extended under section 9 of the Access to Information Act.
Performance results	Statutory deadlines were met 100% of the time.
Other information	Under the Access to Information Act, fees under $25 may be waived when deemed to be in the public interest. Fees waived during 2017 to 2018 totalled $105.

Financial information (dollars)

2016 to 2017 Revenue	2017 to 2018 Revenue	2017 to 2018 Cost^{Footnote 1}	2017 to 2018 Remissions^{Footnote 2}
$75^{Footnote 3}	$100^{Footnote 4}	$64,972^{Footnote 5}	Not applicable.

Fees under the Agency’s authority

Fee amounts for 2017 to 2018, 2019 to 2020, and a future fiscal year, as applicable (dollars)

Name of fee	2017 to 2018 Fee amount	2019 to 2020 Adjusted fee amount^{Footnote 6}	Future fee amount and fiscal year^{Footnote 7}
Not applicable.	Not applicable.	Not applicable.	Not applicable.

Endnotes

Note 1

The amount includes direct and indirect costs, where such costs are identifiable and material.

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Note 2

A remission is a partial or full return of a fee paid. Under the Service Fees Act, departments are required to develop policies that determine when fees will be remitted to fee payers should service standards not be met. The requirement for departments to remit is anticipated to come into effect on March 31, 2020. This effective date allows departments time to develop remissions policies and adjust service standard tracking and remittance systems. During fiscal year 2017 to 2018, some departments may have issued remissions, in accordance with the authority of their enabling legislation or regulation, as opposed to the authority given by the Service Fees Act. It is remissions issued under enabling legislations or regulations that are shown above.

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Note 3

Public Accounts of Canada 2016-2017

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Note 4

Public Accounts of Canada 2017-2018

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Note 5

Canadian Transportation Agency's 2017-2018 Annual Report on the Administration of the Access to Information Act

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Note 6

Fees are adjusted annually in one of two ways: (1) Under the Service Fees Act, fees are adjusted in each fiscal year by the percentage change over 12 months in the April All-Items Consumer Price Index for Canada, as published by Statistics Canada for the previous fiscal year. The Consumer Price Index rate for this report is 2.2%. (2) The fee is subject to a periodic adjustment at a predetermined rate, in accordance with another authority in legislation or regulation.

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Note 7

The “Future fee amount and fiscal year” is the new amount of the fee, in a future fiscal year other than 2019 to 2020, adjusted by a predetermined rate, in accordance with the authority in legislation or regulation.

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Date modified:: 2019-03-31

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