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Fees report - Fiscal year 2020–21

Table of Contents

Minister’s message

About this report

Remissions

Overall totals, by fee setting mechanism

Totals, by fee grouping, for fees set by act, regulation or fees notice

Details on each fee set by act, regulation or fees notice

Minister’s message

The Honourable Joyce Murray

On behalf of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the Canadian Coast Guard, I am pleased to present our report on fees for 2020–21.

The Service Fees Act provides a modern legislative framework that enables cost-effective delivery of services and, through better reporting to Parliament, improves transparency and oversight.

Similar to last year, the report provides details on each fee, such as the type and rate of adjustment, the service standard, and performance result. As the Department is in the process of modernizing its information system, a breakdown of revenue collected for all fees will be forthcoming in the near future.

This year’s report again includes fees where the authority to collect has been delegated to provincial and territorial governments. We have included the revenues and expenditures for Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. As the report is still evolving in its processes, we will continue to work with the Government of Quebec to incorporate its revenue and expenditure information. The information provides context for each fee, in the spirit of open and transparent fee management.

I welcome the increased transparency and oversight that the Service Fees Act’s reporting regime embodies. I will continue to lead my department’s transition to this modern framework.


The Honourable Joyce Murray, P.C., M.P.
Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard

About this report

This report, which is tabled under section 20 of the Service Fees Act, including the Low Materiality Fees Regulations and subsection 4.2.8 of the Directive on Charging and Special Financial Authorities, contains information about the fees that Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) had the authority to set in 2020–21.Footnote1

Government of Canada departments may set fees for services, licences, permits, products, the use of facilities, for other authorizations of rights or privileges, or to recover, in whole or in part, costs incurred in relation to a regulatory scheme.

For reporting purposes, fees must be categorized under the following three fee-setting mechanisms:

  1. Act, regulation or fees notice
    • An act of Parliament delegates the fee-setting authority to a department, minister or Governor in Council.
  2. Contract
    • Ministers have the authority to enter into contracts, which are usually negotiated between the minister and an individual or organization, and which cover fees and other terms and conditions. In some cases, that authority may also be provided by an act of Parliament.
  3. Market rate or auction
    • The authority to set these fees is pursuant to an act of Parliament or regulation, and the minister, department or Governor in Council has no control over the fee amount.

This report contains information about all fees that are under DFO and the Canadian Coast Guard’s authority.

The information covers fees subject to the Service Fees Act.

For fees set by contract, the report provides totals only. For fees set by act, regulation or fees notice, the report provides totals for fee groupings, as well as detailed information for each fee.

Although the fees that DFO charges under the Access to Information Act were subject to the Service Fees Act, they are not included in this report. Information on DFO access to information fees for 2020–21 can be found in our access to information report, which is posted on our Web page: Corporate management and reporting.

Remissions

This report does not include remissions issued under the authority of the Service Fees Act, since this requirement took effect on April 1, 2021. Remissions issued under the Service Fees Act will be reported for the first time, as applicable, in the 2021–22 Fees Report, which will be published in 2022–23.

The Service Fees Act requires departments to remit a fee, in part or in full, to a fee payer when a service standard is deemed not met. Under the Service Fees Act and the Directive on Charging and Special Financial Authorities, departments had to develop policies and procedures for determining:

The DFO remission policy and procedures were made available to the public as of April 1, 2021, and can be found on the following web page: Fisheries and Oceans Canada – Policy on Remissions.

Overall totals, by fee setting mechanism

The following table presents the total revenue, cost and remissions for all fees that DFO had the authority to set in 2020–21, by fee-setting mechanism.

Overall totals for 2020–21, by fee-setting mechanism
Fee-setting
mechanism
Revenue ($) Cost ($) Remissions ($)
Fees set by contract 892,616 14,643,413 Remissions do not apply to fees set by contract.
Fees set by market rate, auction 0 0 0
Fees set by act, regulation or fees notice 79,807,345 763,008,617 0
Total 80,699,961 777,652,030 0

Totals, by fee grouping, for fees set by act, regulation or fees notice

The following section presents, for each fee grouping, the total revenue, cost and remissions for all fees that DFO had the authority to set in 2020–21 that are set by any of the following:

A fee grouping is a set of fees relating to a single business line, directorate or program that a department had the authority to set for those activities.

Fisheries management – Licensing Fee: totals for 2020–21Footnote2

Fee grouping
Fisheries management – Licensing Fee

Revenue ($) Cost ($) Remissions ($)
38,848,161Footnote3 225,426,460Footnote4 0

Aquaculture – Licensing Fee : totals for 2020–21

Fee grouping
Aquaculture – Licensing Fee

Revenue ($) Cost ($) Remissions ($)
606,429 4,362,082 0

Hydrography: totals for 2020–21

Fee grouping
Hydrography

Revenue ($) Cost ($) Remissions ($)
181,756 10,120,628 0

Icebreaking services: totals for 2020–21

Fee grouping
Icebreaking services

Revenue ($) Cost ($) Remissions ($)
5,090,500 180,656,696 0

Maintenance Dredging Services Tonnage Fee: totals for 2020–21

Fee grouping
Maintenance Dredging Services Tonnage Fee

Revenue ($) Cost ($) Remissions ($)
6,456,331 6,819,546 0

Marine Navigation Services Fee: totals for 2020–21

Fee grouping
Marine Navigation Services Fee

Revenue ($) Cost ($) Remissions ($)
28,604,202 332,394,620 0

Small Craft Harbours Fee: totals for 2020–21

Fee grouping
Small Craft Harbours Fee

Revenue ($) Cost ($) Remissions ($)
19,966 3,228,585 0

Details on each fee set by act, regulation or fees notice

This section provides detailed information on each fee that DFO had the authority to set in 2020–21 and that was set by any of the following:

The complete list of DFO and Canadian Coast Guard fees are available on the department’s website.


Fee grouping

Fee

Fee-setting authority

Year fee-setting authority was introduced

Last year fee setting authority was amended

Service standard

Performance result

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Last year fee setting authority was amended

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Last year fee setting authority was amended

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Last year fee setting authority was amended

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Performance result

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Last year fee setting authority was amended

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Performance result

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Last year fee setting authority was amended

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Last year fee setting authority was amended

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Last year fee setting authority was amended

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Last year fee setting authority was amended

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