Flow condition: If respondent is in the NPO sample, go to Q27. Otherwise, go to Q1.

Business or organization information

1. Which of the following categories best describes this business or organization?

  • Government agency
  • Private sector business
  • Non-profit organization
    • Who does this organization primarily serve?
      • Households or individuals
        e.g., child and youth services, community food services, food bank, women's shelter, community housing services, emergency relief services, religious organization, grant and giving services, social advocacy group, arts and recreation group
      • Businesses
        e.g., business association, chamber of commerce, condominium association, environmental support or protection services, group benefit carriers (pensions, health, medical)
  • Don't know

Business or organization information

2. In what year was this business or organization first established?

Please provide the year this business or organization first began operations.

Year business or organization was first established:
OR
Don't know

  • Approximately how long ago was this business or organization first established?
    • 2 years ago or less
      Established in 2024, 2023, or 2022.
    • 3 to 10 years ago
      Established in 2014 to 2021.
    • 11 to 20 years ago
      Established in 2004 to 2013.
    • More than 20 years ago
      Established in 2003 or earlier.
    • Don't know

3. Over the last 12 months, which of the following international activities did this business or organization conduct?

Select all that apply.

  • Export or sell goods outside of CanadaInclude both intermediate and final goods.
  • Export or sell services outside of Canada
    Include services delivered virtually and in person.
    e.g., software, cloud services, legal services, environmental services, architectural services, digital advertising
  • Make investments outside of Canada
  • Sell goods to businesses or organizations in Canada who then resold them outside of Canada
  • Import or buy goods from outside of CanadaInclude both intermediate and final goods.
  • Import or buy services from outside of Canada
    Include services received virtually and in person.
    e.g., software, cloud services, legal services, environmental services, architectural services, digital advertising
  • Relocate any business or organizational activities or employees from another country into Canada
    Exclude temporary foreign workers.
  • Relocate any business or organizational activities or employees from Canada to another country
  • Engage in other international business or organizational activities
    OR
  • None of the above

4. Over the next three months, how are each of the following expected to change for this business or organization?

Exclude seasonal factors or conditions.

  • Number of employees
    • Increase
    • Stay about the same
    • Decrease
    • Not applicable
    • Don't know
  • Vacant positions
    • Increase
    • Stay about the same
    • Decrease
    • Not applicable
    • Don't know
  • Sales of goods and services offered by this business or organization
    • Increase
    • Stay about the same
    • Decrease
    • Not applicable
    • Don't know
  • Selling price of goods and services offered by this business or organization
    • Increase
    • Stay about the same
    • Decrease
    • Not applicable
    • Don't know
  • Demand for goods and services offered by this business or organization
    • Increase
    • Stay about the same
    • Decrease
    • Not applicable
    • Don't know
  • Imports of goods or services
    • Increase
    • Stay about the same
    • Decrease
    • Not applicable
    • Don't know
  • Exports of goods or services
    • Increase
    • Stay about the same
    • Decrease
    • Not applicable
    • Don't know
  • Operating income
    • Increase
    • Stay about the same
    • Decrease
    • Not applicable
    • Don't know
  • Operating expenses
    • Increase
    • Stay about the same
    • Decrease
    • Not applicable
    • Don't know
  • Profitability
    • Increase
    • Stay about the same
    • Decrease
    • Not applicable
    • Don't know
  • Cash reserves
    • Increase
    • Stay about the same
    • Decrease
    • Not applicable
    • Don't know
  • Capital expenditures
    e.g., machinery, equipment
    • Increase
    • Stay about the same
    • Decrease
    • Not applicable
    • Don't know
  • Training expenditures
    • Increase
    • Stay about the same
    • Decrease
    • Not applicable
    • Don't know
  • Marketing and advertising budget
    • Increase
    • Stay about the same
    • Decrease
    • Not applicable
    • Don't know
  • Expenditures in research and development
    • Increase
    • Stay about the same
    • Decrease
    • Not applicable
    • Don't know

Flow condition: If “Decrease” is selected for “Number of employees” in Q4, go to Q5. Otherwise, go to Q6.

Number of employees

5. Is the expected decrease in employees primarily due to layoffs?

  • Yes
  • No
  • Don't know

Business or organization obstacles

6. Over the next three months, which of the following are expected to be obstacles for this business or organization?

Select all that apply.

  • Shortage of labour force
  • Recruiting skilled employees
  • Retaining skilled employees
  • Shortage of space or equipment
  • Rising cost of inputs
    An input is an economic resource used in a firm's production process.
    e.g., labour, capital, energy and raw materials
  • Rising costs in real estate, leasing or property taxes
  • Rising inflation
  • Rising interest rates and debt cost
    e.g., borrowing fees, interest payments
  • Difficulty acquiring inputs, products or supplies from within Canada
  • Difficulty acquiring inputs, products or supplies from abroad
  • Maintaining inventory levels
  • Insufficient demand for goods or services offered
  • Fluctuations in consumer demand
  • Attracting new or returning customers
  • Cost of insurance
  • Transportation costs
  • Obtaining financing
  • Increasing competition
  • Challenges related to exporting or selling goods and services outside of Canada
  • Maintaining sufficient cash flow or managing debt
  • Other obstacle
    • Specify other obstacle:
  • OR
  • None of the above

Flow condition: If at least two obstacles are selected in Q6, go to Q7. Otherwise, go to Q8.
Display condition: Display in Q7 the obstacles selected in Q6.

7. Of the obstacles selected in the previous question, what obstacle is expected to be the most challenging over the next three months?

  • Shortage of labour force
  • Recruiting skilled employees
  • Retaining skilled employees
  • Shortage of space or equipment
  • Rising cost of inputs
    An input is an economic resource used in a firm's production process.
    e.g., labour, capital, energy and raw materials
  • Rising costs in real estate, leasing or property taxes
  • Rising inflation
  • Rising interest rates and debt costs
    e.g., borrowing fees, interest payments
  • Difficulty acquiring inputs, products or supplies from within Canada
  • Difficulty acquiring inputs, products or supplies from abroad
  • Maintaining inventory levels
  • Insufficient demand for goods or services offered
  • Fluctuations in consumer demand
  • Attracting new or returning customers
  • Cost of insurance
  • Transportation costs
  • Obtaining financing
  • Increasing competition
  • Challenges related to exporting or selling goods and services outside of Canada
  • Maintaining sufficient cash flow or managing debt
  • Other obstacle

Flow condition: If "Difficulty acquiring inputs, products or supplies from within Canada", "Difficulty acquiring inputs, products or supplies from abroad", or "Maintaining inventory levels" is selected in Q6, go to Q8. Otherwise, go to Q11.

Supply chain challenges

8. How long does this business or organization expect the following to continue to be an obstacle?

  • Difficulty acquiring inputs, products or supplies from within Canada
    • Less than 3 months
    • 3 months to less than 6 months
    • 6 months to less than 12 months
    • 12 months or more
    • Don't know
  • Difficulty acquiring inputs, products or supplies from abroad
    • Less than 3 months
    • 3 months to less than 6 months
    • 6 months to less than 12 months
    • 12 months or more
    • Don't know
  • Maintaining inventory levels
    • Less than 3 months
    • 3 months to less than 6 months
    • 6 months to less than 12 months
    • 12 months or more
    • Don't know

9. Over the last three months, how have supply chain challenges experienced by this business or organization changed?

Supply chain challenges include difficulty acquiring inputs, products or supplies from within Canada or abroad and difficulty maintaining inventory levels.

Exclude seasonal factors or conditions.

  • Supply chain challenges have worsened
    • Which of the following factors have contributed to these challenges?
      Select all that apply.
      • Increased prices of inputs, products or supplies
      • Increased delays in deliveries of inputs, products or supplies
      • Supply shortages resulted in fewer inputs, products or supplies being available
      • Supply shortages resulted in no inputs, products or supplies available
      • Other factor
        • Specify other factor:
      • OR
      • Don't know
  • Supply chain challenges have remained about the same
  • Supply chain challenges have improved

10. Over the next three months, how does this business or organization expect supply chain challenges to change?

Supply chain challenges include difficulty acquiring inputs, products or supplies from within Canada or abroad and difficulty maintaining inventory levels.

Exclude seasonal factors or conditions.

  • Supply chain challenges are expected to worsen
  • Supply chain challenges are expected to remain about the same
  • Supply chain challenges are expected to improve

Flow condition: If "Government agency" is selected in Q1, go to Q12. Otherwise, go to Q11.
Display condition: If "Non-profit organization" is selected in Q1, do not display "Transfer the business" or "Sell the business" in Q11.

Expectations for the next year

11. Over the next 12 months, does this business or organization plan to do any of the following?

Select all that apply.

  • Expand current location of this business or organization
  • Expand operations of this business or organization internationally
  • Expand operations of this business or organization into a new province or territory within Canada
  • Move operations of this business or organization to another province or territory within Canada entirely
  • Expand this business or organization to other locations within the same province or territory
  • Expand this business or organization without increasing physical space
    i.e., hiring more staff who will work remotely, or expanding online sales capacity
  • Restructure this business or organization
    Restructuring involves changing the financial, operational, legal or other structures of the business or organization to make it more efficient or more profitable.
  • Acquire other businesses, organizations or franchises
  • Invest in other businesses or organizations
  • Merge with other businesses or organizations
  • Reduce the physical space of this business or organization
  • Scale down operations of this business or organization to within a single province or territory within Canada
  • Transfer the business
  • Sell the business
  • OR
  • Close the business or organization
  • OR
  • Don't know
  • OR
  • None of the above

2023 revenues compared with 2022

12. Compared with 2022, how did the revenues of this business or organization change in 2023?

Compared with 2022:

  • Revenues were higher in 2023
    • Compared with 2022, by approximately what percentage were revenues higher in 2023?
      Provide your best estimate rounded to the nearest percentage.
      • Percentage revenues were higher by in 2023:
      • OR
      • Don't know
  • Revenues were the same in 2023
  • Revenues were lower in 2023
    • Compared with 2022, by approximately what percentage were revenues lower in 2023?
      Provide your best estimate rounded to the nearest percentage.
      • Percentage revenues were lower by in 2023:
      • OR
      • Don't know
  • Don't know

Online sales

13. What percentage of total sales were made online in 2023?

Online sales, or electronic commerce (e-commerce) refers to all sales of a business' goods or services where orders were received, and the commitment to purchase was made, over the Internet.
Include sales made on this business's or organization's website and third-party websites and apps.
Exclude the delivery of digital products and services for which orders were not made online and orders received or commitments to purchase made by telephone, videoconferencing, facsimile or email.
If there were no sales made online, enter "0".
Provide your best estimate rounded to the nearest percentage.

Percentage of total sales in 2023 made online:
OR
Don't know

Wages

14. Over the next 12 months, does this business or organization expect the average wages paid to change?

  • Average wages are expected to increase
    • By what percentage are average wages expected to increase?
      Provide your best estimate rounded to the nearest percentage.
      • %:
      • OR
      • Don't know
  • Average wages are expected to decrease
    • By what percentage are average wages expected to decrease?
      Provide your best estimate rounded to the nearest percentage.
      • %:
      • OR
      • Don't know
  • Average wages are expected to stay approximately the same
  • Don't know

Interest rates

15. What is the level of impact interest rates have on this business or organization?

  • No impact
  • Low impact
  • Medium impact
  • High impact
  • Don't know

Flow condition: If "Low impact", "Medium impact", or "High impact" is selected in Q15, go to Q16. Otherwise, go to Q17.

16. Which of the following has been most impacted by interest rates for this business or organization?

  • New borrowing costs
  • Cost of existing debt
  • Capital expenditures
  • Sales of products and services offered by this business or organization
  • Financing for customers
  • Exchange rates
  • Investments made by this business or organization
  • Don't know

Net zero carbon emissions

17. Does this business or organization have commitments, or is it considering commitments to net zero carbon emissions?

Net zero carbon emissions means cutting greenhouse gas emissions to as close to zero as possible, with any remaining emissions re-absorbed from the atmosphere, by oceans and forests for instance.

  • Yes, this business already has commitments to net zero carbon emissions
  • Yes, this business is considering commitments to net zero carbon emissions
  • No, this business has no current commitments and is not considering commitments to net zero carbon emissions
  • Don't know

Generative AI

18. Which of the following best describes this business's or organization's use of Generative AI?

Generative AI takes data from data scientists and learns to identify patterns based on what it has learned. Examples might include tools like ChatGPT or Dall-E, or other tools that create new or original content, chat responses, designs, or synthetic data.

  • Already using Generative AI
  • Have plans to use Generative AI
  • Considered using but have no current plans to implement Generative AI
  • Have not considered using Generative AI
  • Don't know

Flow condition: If "Already using Generative AI" or "Have plans to use Generative AI" is selected in Q18, go to Q19. Otherwise, go to Q20.

19. How does or how can Generative AI create value for this business or organization?

Generative AI takes data from data scientists and learns to identify patterns based on what it has learned. Examples might include tools like ChatGPT or Dall-E, or other tools that create new or original content, chat responses, designs, or synthetic data.

Select all that apply.

  • Accelerate development of creative content
    e.g., social media posts, advertising campaign
  • Increase automation in tasks, without reducing employment
  • Automate tasks to replace employees
  • Achieve cost efficiencies
  • Improve client or customer experience
  • Drive data-driven decision making
  • Minimize workforce recruitment and retention challenges
  • Other manner
    • Specify other manner:

Liquidity

20. Does this business or organization have the cash or liquid assets required to operate for the next three months?

  • Yes
  • No
    • Will this business or organization be able to acquire the cash or liquid assets required?
      • Yes
      • No
      • Don't know
  • Don't know

Debt

21. Over the next three months, does this business or organization plan to apply for a new line of credit, a new term loan, a new non-residential mortgage, or refinancing of an existing non-residential mortgage?

Include commercial mortgages.
Exclude residential mortgages.

  • Yes
  • No
    • Does this business or organization have the ability to take on more debt?
      Answer based on this business's or organization's ability, even if there are no plans to take on more debt.
      • Yes
      • No
        • For which of the following reasons is this business or organization unable to take on more debt?
          Select all that apply.
          • Cash flow
          • Lack of confidence or uncertainty in future sales
          • Request would be turned down
          • Too difficult or time consuming to apply
          • Interest rates are unfavourable
          • Payment terms are unfavourable
          • Credit rating
          • Other reason
            • Specify other reason:
          • OR
          • Not applicable
          • OR
          • Don't know
      • Don't know
  • Don't know

Working arrangements

22. Over the next three months, what percentage of the employees of this business or organization is anticipated to do each of the following?

Exclude contractors.
Exclude employees that are primarily engaged in providing driving or delivery services or employees that primarily work at client premises.

Working on-site refers to working from an office or job site.
Working remotely refers to an employee working from home or another location of the employee's choosing, other than their regular on-site location.

Provide your best estimate rounded to the nearest percentage.
If the percentages are unknown, leave the question blank.

a. Work on-site exclusively
Percentage of employees:
b. Work on-site most hours
Percentage of employees:
c. Work approximately the same number of hours on-site and remotely
Percentage of employees:
d. Work remotely most hours
Percentage of employees:
e. Work remotely exclusively
Percentage of employees:

Future outlook

23. Over the next 12 months, what is the future outlook for this business or organization?

  • Very optimistic
  • Somewhat optimistic
  • Somewhat pessimistic
  • Very pessimistic
  • Don't know

Employment information

24. For each of the employment categories below, please provide the proportion of employees of this business or organization that are women and men.

For a smaller business or organization, a senior management position could be the owner or operator.

For a larger business or organization, senior management positions may include: Executive Director, President, Vice-President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, General Manager, Chairperson, or Corporate Controller.

Provide your best estimate rounded to the nearest percentage.

  • In senior management positions
    • Percentage of employees that are women:
    • Percentage of employees that are men:
  • In all other management positions
    • Percentage of employees that are women:
    • Percentage of employees that are men:
  • In all other positions
    i.e., employees who do not occupy a management position
    • Percentage of employees that are women:
    • Percentage of employees that are men:

Flow condition: If "Private sector business" is selected in Q1, go to Q25. Otherwise, go to "Contact person".

Ownership

(i) The groups identified within the following questions are included in order to gain a better understanding of businesses owned by members of various communities across Canada.

25. What percentage of this business or organization is owned by each of the following groups?

Provide your best estimate rounded to the nearest percentage.
If the business or organization is not owned by anyone that falls under that group, please enter "0".

What percentage of this business or organization is owned by women?
Percentage of business or organization owned by women:
OR
Don't know

What percentage of this business or organization is owned by First Nations, Métis or Inuit peoples?
Percentage of business or organization owned by First Nations, Métis or Inuit peoples:
OR
Don't know

What percentage of this business or organization is owned by immigrants to Canada?
Percentage of business or organization owned by immigrants to Canada:
OR
Don't know

What percentage of this business or organization is owned by persons with a disability?
Percentage of business or organization owned by persons with a disability:
OR
Don't know

What percentage of this business or organization is owned by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or two-spirited (LGBTQ2) people?
Percentage of business or organization owned by LGBTQ2 people:
OR
Don't know

What percentage of this business or organization is owned by members of visible minorities?
A member of a visible minority in Canada may be defined as someone (other than an Indigenous person) who is non-white in colour or race, regardless of place of birth.
Percentage of business or organization owned by visible minorities:
OR
Don't know

Flow condition: If more than 50% of this business or organization is owned by members of visible minorities, go to Q26. Otherwise, go to "Contact person".

26. It was indicated that at least 51% of this business or organization is owned by members of visible minorities. Please select the categories that describe the owner or owners.

Select all that apply.

  • South Asian
    e.g., East Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan
  • Chinese
  • Black
  • Filipino
  • Latin American
  • Arab
  • Southeast Asian
    e.g., Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Thai
  • West Asian
    e.g., Afghan, Iranian
  • Korean
  • Japanese
  • Other group
    • Specify other group:
  • OR
  • Prefer not to say

Flow condition: If respondent is not in the NPO sample, go to "Contact person".

Board members

27. Does this organization have a board of directors?

  • Yes
    • As of December 31, 2023, how many filled positions and vacant positions did the board of directors have?
      If the numbers are unknown, leave the question blank.
      • Number of filled positions:
      • Number of vacant positions:
      • OR
      • Don't know
  • No
  • Don't know

Flow condition: If "Yes" is selected in Q27 and the "Number of filled positions" is greater than 0, go to Q28. Otherwise, go to Q29.

(i) The groups identified within the following question are included in order to better understand the composition of boards of directors of non-profit organizations across Canada.

28. As of December 31, 2023, how many of this organization's board members were part of each of the following groups?

If the board of directors does not include anyone that falls under that group, please enter "0".

How many of this organization's board members were women?

Include cisgender and transgender women.
Number of board members that were women:
OR
Don't know

How many of this organization's board members were non-binary?
Include persons who are not exclusively men nor women.
e.g., agender, gender fluid, queer, two-spirit
Number of board members that were non-binary:
OR
Don't know

How many of this organization's board members were First Nations, Métis or Inuit peoples?
Number of board members that were First Nations, Métis or Inuit peoples:
OR
Don't know

How many of this organization's board members were persons with a disability?
Include visible and non-visible disabilities.
Number of board members that were persons with a disability:
OR
Don't know

How many of this organization's board members were members of visible minorities?
A member of a visible minority in Canada may be defined as someone (other than an Indigenous person) who is non-white in colour or race, regardless of place of birth.
Number of board members that were members of visible minorities:
OR
Don't know

Flow condition: If "Yes" is selected in Q27, go to Q29. Otherwise, go to Q30.

29. What is the primary role of the board of directors for this organization?

  • Overseeing the day-to-day operations of the organization
  • Ensuring the organization's mission and purpose are met
  • Providing proper financial, fiduciary, and strategic oversight and direction
  • Overseeing fundraising, membership efforts, and community relations
  • Ensuring presence of adequate resources, legal and ethical integrity, accountability and professional discipline
  • Other role
    • Specify other role:

Flow condition: If the non-profit organization has at least one employee, go to Q30. Otherwise, go to Q31.

Senior managers

(i) The groups identified within the following question are included in order to better understand the composition of senior managers of non-profit organizations across Canada.

30. Does this organization have senior managers?

Senior managers: A senior manager's position might be a Director, Executive Director, President, Vice-President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, General Manager, or Corporate Controller.

Please consider senior managers in the context of your organization.

  • Yes
    • As of December 31, 2023, how many total senior managers did this organization have and how many were part of each of the following groups?
      If this organization's senior managers do not include anyone that falls under that group, please enter "0".
      If the number of senior managers in that group is unknown, leave it blank.
      • How many total senior managers did this organization have?
        • Total number of senior managers:
      • How many senior managers were women?
        Include cisgender and transgender women.
        • Number of senior managers that were women:
      • How many senior managers were non-binary?
        Include persons who are not exclusively men nor women.e.g., agender, gender fluid, queer, two-spirit
        • Number of senior managers that were non-binary:
      • How many senior managers were First Nations, Métis or Inuit peoples?
        • Number of senior managers that were First Nations, Métis or Inuit peoples:
      • How many senior managers were persons with a disability?
        Include visible and non-visible disabilities.
        • Number of senior managers that were persons with a disability:
      • How many senior managers were members of visible minorities?
        A member of a visible minority in Canada may be defined as someone (other than an Indigenous person) who is non-white in colour or race, regardless of place of birth.
        • Number of senior managers that were members of visible minorities:
  • No
  • Don't know

Volunteers

31. How many people did volunteer work for this organization in 2023?

Please provide your best estimate.
Exclude volunteers who were paid employees of this organization.

Number of volunteers:
OR
Don't know

Financial information

32. Which of the following types of external financing did this organization apply for in the past 12 months?

Select all that apply.

  • Mortgage
  • Business line of credit
  • Term loan
  • Business credit card
  • Government grants, subsidies, government guaranteed loans or non-repayable contributions
  • Other type of external financing
    • Specify other type of external financing:
  • OR
  • Don't know
  • OR
  • None of the above

Flow condition: If "None of the above" is selected in Q32, go to Q33. Otherwise, go to Q34.

33. Over the last 12 months, for which of the following reasons did this organization not request external financing?

Select all that apply.

  • Thought the request would be turned down
  • Applying for financing is too difficult or time consuming
  • Cost of financing is too high
  • Unaware of financing sources (private or government) that are available to this organization
  • Other reason
    • Specify other reason:
  • OR
  • Financing was not required
  • OR
  • Don't know

Funding

34. In 2023, what percentage of this organization's funding was received from each of the following sources?

Please provide your best estimate.

Funding from government

  • Percentage of funding, received from the Federal Government:
  • Percentage of funding, received from provincial or territorial governments:
  • Percentage of funding, received from municipal governments:
  • Percentage of funding, received from other government organizations:

Donations and foundation funding

  • Percentage of funding, fees for goods and services, other than those provided to government:
  • Percentage of funding, membership fees or dues:
  • Percentage of funding, earnings from endowments or investments, including interest income:
  • Percentage of funding, charitable gaming:
    • e.g., bingo, raffles, pull-tickets

Other sources of funding

  • Percentage of funding, individual donations:
    • Include funds from planned giving received during the year.
  • Percentage of funding, corporate sponsorships, donations or grants:
    • Include support from corporate foundations.
  • Percentage of funding, fundraising organizations:
    • Include federated groups and intermediaries such as the United Way, CanadaHelps and fundraising arms that are separately registered.
    • e.g., hospital foundations
  • Percentage of funding, foundation gifts or grants:
    • e.g., family foundations, trusts, donor advised funds, community foundations
  • Percentage of funding, other transfers or disbursements from charities or non-profit organizations:
  • Percentage of funding, all other funding not included above:

Total: Should sum to 100%.

Expenses

35. In 2023, what percentage of this organization's expenses were spent on each of the following items?

Please provide your best estimate.

  • Percentage of expenses, salaries and benefits:
    • Include subcontractors.
  • Percentage of expenses, rental and building occupancy:
    • Include office space, land, buildings, equipment and vehicles.
  • Percentage of expenses, office and computer related expenses:
    • Include costs related to telephone, Internet, office supplies, postage and computer upgrades.
  • Percentage of expenses, professional and business fees:
    • e.g., legal, accounting, consulting fees, technical fees
  • Percentage of expenses, business taxes, licenses and permits:
    • e.g., business tax, license fees, property taxes
  • Percentage of expenses, all other expenses not included above:

Total: Should sum to 100%.

Groups served

36. In 2023, which of the following groups did this organization serve through its programs and activities?

Consider programs and activities that are focused on specific communities.

Select all that apply.

  • General public or all people in a particular area
  • First Nations, Métis or Inuit peoples
  • Racialized communities
  • People living with mental health conditions
  • People living with physical health conditions
  • Women
  • Men
  • Members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community
  • Children or youth
  • Seniors
  • People of particular ethnic, cultural or linguistic backgrounds
  • People of a particular religion or spiritual affiliation
  • Migrants or asylum seekers
  • People with addictions
  • Low-income households or individuals
  • Families
  • Veterans
  • Those formerly incarcerated
  • Rural, remote or northern populations
  • People in particular occupations, or union members
  • Other groups
    • Specify other groups:
  • OR
  • This organization doesn't directly serve people or groups
  • OR
  • Don't know

Flow condition: If at least two groups served are selected in Q36, go to Q37. Otherwise, go to Q38.
Display condition: Display in Q37 the groups served selected in Q36.

37. Of the groups that this organization indicated serving through its programs and activities in the previous question, what is the primary group that this organization served?

  • General public or all people in a particular area
  • First Nations, Métis or Inuit peoples
  • Racialized communities
  • People living with mental health conditions
  • People living with physical health conditions
  • Women
  • Men
  • Members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community
  • Children or youth
  • Seniors
  • People of particular ethnic, cultural or linguistic backgrounds
  • People of a particular religion or spiritual affiliation
  • Migrants or asylum seekers
  • People with addictions
  • Low-income households or individuals
  • Families
  • Veterans
  • Those formerly incarcerated
  • Rural, remote or northern populations
  • People in particular occupations, or union members
  • Other groups
  • Don't know

Fundraising

38. In 2023, what percentage of this organization's fundraising target was met?

Please provide your best estimate.
If the level of fundraising exceeded the organization's target, enter a percentage over 100%.

Percentage of fundraising target met:
OR
This organization did not conduct any fundraising
OR
Don't know

Services

39. In 2023, what percentage of users who received services from this organization received those services free of charge?

If no users received services free of charge, enter "0".

Percentage of users who received services free of charge:
OR
Don't know

Demand for organization's services or products

40. Has the overall level of demand for this organization's services or products changed over the past year?

  • Demand has increased significantly
  • Demand has increased modestly
  • Demand has remained about the same
  • Demand has decreased modestly
  • Demand has decreased significantly
  • Don't know

41. Has this organization's overall capacity to meet demand for its services or products changed over the past year?

  • Capacity has increased significantly
  • Capacity has increased modestly
  • Capacity has remained about the same
  • Capacity has decreased modestly
  • Capacity has decreased significantly
  • Don't know

Quarterly Civil Aviation Survey - 2024

Why do we conduct this survey?

This survey collects financial and operational data from the Canadian Level I and II air carriers needed to measure the growth and the performance of the airline industry. The information is also used by Statistics Canada as input to the Canadian System of National Accounts.

Your information may also be used by Statistics Canada for other statistical and research purposes.

Your participation in this survey is required under the authority of the Statistics Act.

Other important information

Authorization to collect this information

Data are collected under the authority of the Statistics Act, Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, Chapter S-19.

Confidentiality

By law, Statistics Canada is prohibited from releasing any information it collects that could identify any person, business or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent, or as permitted by the Statistics Act. Statistics Canada will use the information from this survey for statistical purposes only.

Record linkages

To enhance the data from this survey and to reduce the response burden, Statistics Canada may combine the acquired data with information from other surveys or from administrative sources.

Data-sharing agreements

To reduce respondent burden, Statistics Canada has entered into data-sharing agreements with provincial and territorial statistical agencies and other government organizations, which have agreed to keep the data confidential and use them only for Statistical purposes. Statistics Canada will only share data from this survey with those organizations that have demonstrated a requirement to use the data.

Section 12 of the Statistics Act provides for the sharing of information with federal, provincial or territorial government organizations. For this survey there are Section 12 agreements with Transport Canada the Canadian Transportation Agency.

Under Section 12, you may refuse to share their information with the Canadian Transportation Agency by writing a letter of objection to the Chief Statistician, and mailing it to the following address:

Chief Statistician of Canada
Statistics Canada
Attention of Director, Enterprise Statistics Division
150 Tunney's Pasture Driveway
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0T6

You may also contact us by email at Statistics Canada Help Desk - this link will open in a new window or by fax at 613-951-6583.

Business or organization and contact information

1. Verify or provide the business or organization's legal and operating name, and correct information if needed.

Note: Legal name should only be modified to correct a spelling error or typo.

Note: Press the help button (?) for additional information.

Legal name

The legal name is one recognized by law, thus it is the name liable for pursuit or for debts incurred by the business or organization. In the case of a corporation, it is the legal name as fixed by its charter or the statute by which the corporation was created.

Modifications to the legal name should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.

To indicate a legal name of another legal entity you should instead indicate it in question 3 by selecting "Not currently operational" and then choosing the applicable reason and providing the legal name of this other entity along with any other requested information.

Operating name

The operating name is a name the business or organization is commonly known as if different from its legal name. The operating name is synonymous with trade name.

  • Legal name:
  • Operating name (if applicable):

2. Verify or provide the contact information for the designated contact person for the business or organization, and correct information if needed.

Note: The designated contact person is the person who should receive this questionnaire. The designated contact person may not always be the one who actually completes the questionnaire.

  • First name:
  • Last name:
  • Title:
  • Preferred language of communication:
    • English
    • French
  • Mailing address (number and street):
  • City:
  • Province, territory or state:
  • Postal code or ZIP code:
  • Country:
    • Canada
    • United States
  • Email address
  • Telephone number (including area code):
  • Extension number (if applicable):
  • Fax number (including area code):

3. Verify or provide the current operational status of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.

  • Operational
  • Not currently operational
    e.g., temporarily or permanently closed, change of ownership
    Why is this business or organization not currently operational?
    • Seasonal operations
      • When did this business or organization close for the season?
        • Date
      • When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
        • Date
    • Ceased operations
      • When did this business or organization cease operations?
        • Date
      • Why did this business or organization cease operations?
        • Bankruptcy
        • Liquidation
        • Dissolution
        • Other - Specify the other reasons why operations ceased
    • Sold operations
      • When was this business or organization sold?
        • Date
      • What is the legal name of the buyer?
    • Amalgamated with other businesses or organizations
      • When did this business or organization amalgamate?
        • Date
      • What is the legal name of the resulting or continuing business or organization?
      • What are the legal names of the other amalgamated businesses or organizations?
    • Temporarily inactive but expected to reopen
      • When did this business or organization become temporarily inactive?
        • Date
      • When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
        • Date
      • Why is this business or organization temporarily inactive?
    • No longer operating because of other reasons
      • When did this business or organization cease operations?
        • Date
      • Why did this business or organization cease operations?

4. Verify or provide the current main activity of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.

Note: The described activity was assigned using the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

This question verifies the business or organization's current main activity as classified by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). The NAICS is an industry classification system developed by the statistical agencies of Canada, Mexico and the United States. Created against the background of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is designed to provide common definitions of the industrial structure of the three countries and a common statistical framework to facilitate the analysis of the three economies. NAICS is based on supply-side or production-oriented principles, to ensure that industrial data, classified to NAICS, are suitable for the analysis of production-related issues such as industrial performance.

The target entity for which NAICS is designed are businesses and other organizations engaged in the production of goods and services. They include farms, incorporated and unincorporated businesses and government business enterprises. They also include government institutions and agencies engaged in the production of marketed and non-marketed services, as well as organizations such as professional associations and unions and charitable or non-profit organizations and the employees of households.

The associated NAICS should reflect those activities conducted by the business or organizational units targeted by this questionnaire only, as identified in the "Answering this questionnaire" section and which can be identified by the specified legal and operating name. The main activity is the activity which most defines the targeted business or organization's main purpose or reason for existence. For a business or organization that is for-profit, it is normally the activity that generates the majority of the revenue for the entity.

The NAICS classification contains a limited number of activity classifications; the associated classification might be applicable for this business or organization even if it is not exactly how you would describe this business or organization's main activity.

Please note that any modifications to the main activity through your response to this question might not necessarily be reflected prior to the transmitting of subsequent questionnaires and as a result they may not contain this updated information.

The following is the detailed description including any applicable examples or exclusions for the classification currently associated with this business or organization.

Description and examples

  • This is the current main activity
  • This is not the current main activity

Provide a brief but precise description of this business or organization's main activity:

  • e.g., breakfast cereal manufacturing, shoe store, software development

Main activity

5. You indicated that is not the current main activity.

Was this business or organization's main activity ever classified as?

  • Yes
    When did the main activity change?
    • Date:
  • No

6. Search and select the industry activity classification that best corresponds to this business or organization's main activity.

How to search:

  • If desired, you can filter the search results by first selecting the business or organization's activity sector.
  • Enter keywords or a brief description that best describe the business or organization's main activity.
  • Press the Search button to search the database for an industry activity classification that best matches the keywords or description you provided.
  • Select an industry activity classification from the list.

Select this business or organization's Activity sector (optional)

  • Farming or logging orperating
  • Construction company or general contractor
  • Manufacturer
  • Wholesaler
  • Retailer
  • Provider of passenger or freight transportation
  • Provider of investment, savings or insurance products
  • Real estate agency, real estate brokerage or leasing company
  • Provider of professional, scientific or technical services
  • Provider of health care or social services
  • Restaurant, bar, hotel, motel or other lodging establishment
  • Other sector Enter keywords or a brief description, then press the search button

Enter keywords or a brief description, then press the search button

Statement of Revenues and Expenses, Quarterly - Statement 21 (I, II)

1. What were the details of this business's income statement during this reporting period?

Report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Operating revenue

Scheduled services

Transportation of passengers or goods, or both, by an aircraft provided by an air carrier that operates the air service and that, directly or indirectly, sells some or all of its seats or part or all of its cargo space to the public on a price per seat, price per unit of mass or price per volume of cargo basis.

Charter services

Transportation of passengers or goods, or both, by aircraft pursuant to a contract under which a person, other than the air carrier that operates the air service, or its agent, reserves a block of seats or part of the cargo space of an aircraft for the person's use or for resale to the public.

Include air ambulance service and the movement of people and goods to logging or heli-logging sites.

Exclude firefighting and heli-logging activities and the movement of people and goods to a firefighting site. (The former Transport Canada TP 8880 document “Starting a Commercial Air Service“ outlining a list of activities which are specialty has been replaced with a new document TP 4711 “Air Operator Certification Manual” as of December 2020. PDF version of volumes of this manual can be requested at: Air Operator Certification Manual – TP 4711)

Passenger revenue

Refers to the revenue earned from the transportation of passengers on scheduled and charter services. Include revenue from all surcharges (baggage, fuel, seat selection, and so on) that are retained by the air carrier. Exclude amounts such as taxes, navigation fees, security fees, and so on that are collected but passed on to other entities.

Goods revenue

Refers to the revenue earned from the transportation of goods on scheduled and charter services. Exclude taxes such as the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) or Provincial Sales Tax (PST).

All other operating revenue

Refers to the revenue earned from all other sources. Include air transport activities not included in passenger revenue or goods revenue, revenue from other flying services (such as flying training, recreational flying and other specialty flying), subsidies and net incidental air transport related revenue, that is revenue less expenses from non-flying services incidental to air transport including aircraft fuel and oil sales; maintenance and aircraft ramp handling service and so on for other carriers; commissions (or sales revenue minus payments to the carrier that does the flying) received for the sale of transportation which takes place on other carriers; and revenue received for the provision of aircraft to other carriers from operations under their control.

Total operating revenue

The sum of passenger revenue, goods revenue and all other operating revenue.

Operating expenses

Turbo fuel expenses

Include fuel used in both turboprop and jet aircraft.

Include the expenses for turbo fuel consumed for all scheduled and/or charter operations, regardless of where purchased. Include throughput charges, non-refundable duties and taxes. If the fuel was supplied by a customer, an approximate value may be provided based on prevailing market rates. Expenses should be reported in Canadian dollars, regardless of where purchased.

Employee wages, salaries and benefits

Include the wages, salaries and benefits (employer contributions to pensions, medical benefits, insurance, and so on and layover expenses such as hotels and meals, for flight and cabin crews) for all employees.

All other operating expenses

Include all operating expenses not reported in the two expense categories above.

Total operating expenses

The sum of the previous three expense items.

Income

Net operating income (a loss should be a negative number)

Total operating revenue less total operating expenses from above.

Net non-operating income (enter a negative number for a loss)

Include provision for income taxes.

Include:

  • interest and discount income from all sources, including cash discounts on the purchase of materials and supplies;
  • interest on unpaid taxes and all classes of debt, including premiums, discounts and expenses on short-term obligations, as well as amortization of premiums, discounts and expenses on short-term and long-term obligations;
  • capital gains (or losses) from retiring operating property and equipment, aircraft equipment, expendable parts, miscellaneous materials and supplies and other assets, when they are sold or otherwise retired from service as part of a general program and not as incidental sales performed as a service to others;
  • gains or losses made on investments in securities;
  • net miscellaneous non-operating income or loss, which refers to revenue and expenses attributable to financing or other activities that are not an integral part of the air transportation activities undertaken by the carrier, or its incidental services. These could include dividend income, the balance of all income or losses from affiliated companies reimbursed to the carrier, foreign exchange adjustments and special items, such as restructuring expenses, which do not occur on a regular basis;
  • provisions for taxes payable on net income for the accounting period and adjustments of income taxes relating to previous years, including the provisions for deferred income taxes resulting from differences between accounting income and taxable income that arise when the time of including items of revenue and expense in the computation of accounting income and taxable income do not coincide.

Exclude staff reduction expenses which should be included under all other operating expenses.

Net income (a loss should be a negative number)

Net operating income plus net non-operating income from above.

What were the details of this business's income statement during this reporting period?
  CAN$ '000
Operating revenue  
a. Scheduled services - passenger revenue
Include revenue from fees such as baggage, fuel, seat selection, etc.
 
b. Scheduled services - goods revenue  
c. Charter services - passenger revenue  
d. Charter services - goods revenue  
e. All other operating revenue  
Total operating revenue  
Operating expenses  
a. Turbo fuel expenses
Include fuel used in both turboprop and jet aircraft.
 
b. Employee wages, salaries and benefits  
c. All other operating expenses  
Total operating expenses  
Income  
a. Net operating income (a loss should be a negative number)  
b. Net non-operating income (enter a negative number for a loss)
Include provision for income taxes.
 
Net income (a loss should be a negative number)  

2. What was the average number of people employed by this business during this reporting period?

Average number of employees

Refers to the average number of people employed during the quarter. Include all employees (all categories), temporary or permanent, on the payroll of the air carrier during the quarter being reported. Part-time employees should be included in the total, prorated to the amount of time worked when compared with the time worked by full-time employees (for example, two part-time employees working half-time are equivalent to one full-time employee).

  • Average number of employees:

Scheduled Services, Revenue Operating Statistics, Quarterly - Statement 10 (I, II)

1. Please provide the details of this business's scheduled services by sector of operation during this reporting period.

Scheduled services - operating statistics

Include fixed wing and helicopter services.

Sector of operation

Refers to the regions where carriers provide transportation services. There are three breakdowns - domestic, transborder (Canada-US) and other international.

Domestic

Includes operations between points in Canada.

Transborder (Canada-US)

Includes operations between points in Canada and points in the United States (including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico).

Other international

Includes all other operations (including between points outside of Canada).

Data reported must include both fixed wing and helicopter services, where:

Fixed wing

Means a power-driven, heavier-than-air aircraft, deriving its lift in flight chiefly from aerodynamic reactions on surfaces which remain fixed. An aircraft having wings fixed to the airplane fuselage and outspread in flight - that is non-rotating wings.

Helicopter

Means a rotary wing, heavier-than-air aircraft, supported in flight chiefly by the reactions of the air on one or more power-driven rotors on substantially vertical axes. A helicopter does not have conventional fixed wings, nor is it provided with a conventional propeller for forward thrust.

Scheduled services

Transportation of passengers or goods, or both, by an aircraft provided by an air carrier that operates the air service and that, directly or indirectly, sells some or all of its seats or part or all of its cargo space to the public on a price per seat, price per unit of mass or price per volume of cargo basis.

Enplaned passengers

Refers to revenue passengers1 who board aircraft and surrender one or more flight coupons or other documents good for transportation over the itinerary specified in these coupons or documents.

1 Revenue passengers correspond to passengers for which an air carrier receives remuneration and who are travelling with tickets purchased (a) under a publicly available promotional offer; (b) through a loyalty program or through the redemption of loyalty points or miles; (c) with a corporate discount or at a preferential fare; or obtained (d) as compensation for denied boarding. It excludes (a) passengers travelling for free, at a fare available only to persons who are employees or agents of an air carrier or are travelling on the business of an air carrier; and (b) persons, such as infants, who do not occupy seats.

Passenger-kilometres

Represents the carriage of one revenue passenger on each flight stage multiplied by the number of kilometres flown on that stage. Passenger-kilometres are obtained by totalling the number of kilometres flown by all passengers.

Let's take an example with two flight stages, where:

  • Flight stage A to B
  • Number of passengers = 5
  • Distance between points (km) = 161
  • Passenger-kilometres = 805
  • Flight stage B to C
  • Number of passengers = 4
  • Distance between points (km) = 322
  • Passenger-kilometres = 1,288

The total number of passenger-kilometres for the flights covering A to B and B to C is 2,093.

Conversion factor

To convert nautical miles (6 080 feet) into kilometres (km), multiply by 1.852.

To convert statute miles (5 280 feet) into kilometres (km), multiply by 1.609344.

Available seat-kilometres

Represents the aircraft kilometres flown on each flight stage multiplied by the number of seats available for use on that stage. This represents the total passenger carrying capacity offered. Seats not actually available for the carriage of passengers should be excluded.

Hours flown

Represents the block hours, in other words, the number of hours which elapsed between the time the aircraft started to move to commence a flight and the time the aircraft came to its final stop after the conclusion of a flight. Report the total number of block hours flown to the nearest hour.

Enplaned goods

Refers to all types of non-passenger traffic. It includes priority freight, freight, mail and excess baggage for which revenue is obtained. Enplaned goods should be reported to the nearest kilogram.

Conversion factor

To convert pounds (lbs.) into kilograms (kg), multiply by 0.453592.

Goods tonne-kilometres

Represents the carriage of one tonne of goods on each flight stage multiplied by the number of kilometres flown on that stage. Goods tonne-kilometres are obtained by totalling the number of kilometres flown with all tonnes of goods.

Let's take an example with two flight stages, where:

  • Flight stage A to B
  • Tonnes of goods = 5
  • Distance between points (km) = 161
  • Goods tonne-kilometres = 805
  • Flight stage B to C
  • Tonnes of goods = 4
  • Distance between points (km) = 322
  • Goods tonne-kilometres = 1,288

The total number of goods tonne-kilometres for the flights covering A to B and B to C is 2,093.

Conversion factor

To convert nautical miles (6 080 feet) into kilometres (km), multiply by 1.852.

To convert statute miles (5 280 feet) into kilometres (km), multiply by 1.609344.

Available tonne-kilometres

Represents the aircraft kilometres flown on each flight stage multiplied by the usable weight capacity of the aircraft. This represents the load carrying capacity offered for passengers and/or goods.

Please provide the details of this business's scheduled services by sector of operation during this reporting period.
  Domestic Transborder
(Canada-US)
Other
international
Total
Scheduled services - operating statistics
Include fixed wing and helicopter services.
       
a. Number of enplaned passengers        
b. Number of passenger-kilometres        
c. Number of available seat-kilometres        
d. Number of hours flown        
e. Enplaned goods (kilograms)        
f. Goods tonne-kilometres
(tonne-kilometres)
       
g. Available tonne-kilometres
(tonne-kilometres)
       

2. What was the distribution by sector of the operating revenue reported on the revenue/expenses screen for scheduled services - passenger revenue [amount] and for scheduled services - goods revenue [amount] ?

Report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Scheduled services - revenue

Include fixed wing and helicopter services.

Passenger revenue

Refers to the revenue earned from the transportation of passengers on scheduled services. Include revenue from all surcharges (baggage, fuel, seat selection, and so on) that are retained by the air carrier. Exclude amounts such as taxes, navigation fees, security fees, and so on that are collected but passed on to other entities. Total passenger revenue should equal the passenger revenue from scheduled services from the first screen.

Goods revenue

Refers to the revenue earned from the transportation of goods on scheduled services. Exclude taxes such as the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) or Provincial Sales Tax (PST). Total goods revenue should equal the goods revenue from scheduled services from the first screen.

What was the distribution by sector of the operating revenue reported on the revenue/expenses screen for scheduled services - passenger revenue [amount] and for scheduled services - goods revenue [amount] ?
  Domestic Transborder
(Canada-US)
Other
international
Total
Scheduled services - revenue
Include fixed wing and helicopter services.
       
a. Passenger revenue        
b. Goods revenue        

Charter Services, Revenue Operating Statistics, Quarterly - Statement 12 (I, II)

1. Please provide the details of this business's charter services by sector of operation during this reporting period.

Charter services - operating statistics

Include fixed wing and helicopter services.

Sector of operation

Refers to the regions where carriers provide transportation services. There are three breakdowns - domestic, transborder (Canada-US) and other international.

Domestic

Includes operations between points in Canada.

Transborder (Canada-US)

Includes operations between points in Canada and points in the United States (including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico).

Other international

Includes all other operations (including between points outside of Canada).

Data reported must include both fixed wing and helicopter services, where:

Fixed wing

Means a power-driven, heavier-than-air aircraft, deriving its lift in flight chiefly from aerodynamic reactions on surfaces which remain fixed. An aircraft having wings fixed to the airplane fuselage and outspread in flight - that is non-rotating wings.

Helicopter

Means a rotary wing, heavier-than-air aircraft, supported in flight chiefly by the reactions of the air on one or more power-driven rotors on substantially vertical axes. A helicopter does not have conventional fixed wings, nor is it provided with a conventional propeller for forward thrust.

Charter services

Transportation of passengers or goods, or both, by aircraft pursuant to a contract under which a person, other than the air carrier that operates the air service, or its agent, reserves a block of seats or part of the cargo space of an aircraft for the person's use or for resale to the public.
Include air ambulance service and the movement of people and goods to logging or heli-logging sites.

Exclude firefighting and heli-logging activities and the movement of people and goods to a firefighting site. (The former Transport Canada TP 8880 document “Starting a Commercial Air Service“ outlining a list of activities which are specialty has been replaced with a new document TP 4711 “Air Operator Certification Manual” as of December 2020. PDF version of volumes of this manual can be requested at: Air Operator Certification Manual – TP 4711)

Enplaned passengers

Refers to revenue passengers1 who board aircraft and surrender one or more flight coupons or other documents good for transportation over the itinerary specified in these coupons or documents.

1 Revenue passengers correspond to passengers for which an air carrier receives remuneration and who are travelling with tickets purchased (a) under a publicly available promotional offer; (b) through a loyalty program or through the redemption of loyalty points or miles; (c) with a corporate discount or at a preferential fare; or obtained (d) as compensation for denied boarding. It excludes (a) passengers travelling for free, at a fare available only to persons who are employees or agents of an air carrier or are travelling on the business of an air carrier; and (b) persons, such as infants, who do not occupy seats.

Passenger-kilometres

Represents the carriage of one revenue passenger on each flight stage multiplied by the number of kilometres flown on that stage. Passenger-kilometres are obtained by totalling the number of kilometres flown by all passengers.

Let's take an example with two flight stages, where:

  • Flight stage A to B
  • Number of passengers = 5
  • Distance between points (km) = 161
  • Passenger-kilometres = 805
  • Flight stage B to C
  • Number of passengers = 4
  • Distance between points (km) = 322
  • Passenger-kilometres = 1,288

The total number of passenger-kilometres for the flights covering A to B and B to C is 2,093.

Conversion factor

To convert nautical miles (6 080 feet) into kilometres (km), multiply by 1.852.

To convert statute miles (5 280 feet) into kilometres (km), multiply by 1.609344.

Hours flown

Represents the block hours, in other words, the number of hours which elapsed between the time the aircraft started to move to commence a flight and the time the aircraft came to its final stop after the conclusion of a flight. Report the total number of block hours flown to the nearest hour.

Enplaned goods

Refers to all types of non-passenger traffic. It includes priority freight, freight, mail and excess baggage for which revenue is obtained. Enplaned goods should be reported to the nearest kilogram.

Conversion factor

To convert pounds (lbs.) into kilograms (kg), multiply by 0.453592.

Goods tonne-kilometres

Represents the carriage of one tonne of goods on each flight stage multiplied by the number of kilometres flown on that stage. Goods tonne-kilometres are obtained by totalling the number of kilometres flown with all tonnes of goods.

Let's take an example with two flight stages, where:

  • Flight stage A to B
  • Tonnes of goods = 5
  • Distance between points (km) = 161
  • Goods tonne-kilometres = 805
  • Flight stage B to C
  • Tonnes of goods = 4
  • Distance between points (km) = 322
  • Goods tonne-kilometres = 1,288

The total number of goods tonne-kilometres for the flights covering A to B and B to C is 2,093.

Conversion factor

To convert nautical miles (6 080 feet) into kilometres (km), multiply by 1.852.

To convert statute miles (5 280 feet) into kilometres (km), multiply by 1.609344.

Please provide the details of this business's charter services by sector of operation during this reporting period.
  Domestic Transborder
(Canada-US)
Other
international
Total
Charter services - operating statistics
Include fixed wing and helicopter services.
       
a. Number of enplaned passengers        
b. Number of passenger-kilometres        
c. Number of hours flown        
d. Enplaned goods (kilograms)        
e. Goods tonne-kilometres
(tonne-kilometres)
       

2. What was the distribution by sector of the operating revenue reported on the revenue/expenses screen for charter services - passenger revenue [amount] and for charter services - goods revenue [amount] ?

Report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Charter services - revenue

Include fixed wing and helicopter services.

Passenger revenue

Refers to the revenue earned from the transportation of passengers on charter services. Include revenue from all surcharges (baggage, fuel, seat selection, and so on) that are retained by the air carrier. Exclude amounts such as taxes, navigation fees, security fees, and so on that are collected but passed on to other entities. Total passenger revenue should equal the passenger revenue from charter services from the first screen.

Goods revenue

Refers to the revenue earned from the transportation of goods on charter services. Exclude taxes such as the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) or Provincial Sales Tax (PST). Total goods revenue should equal the goods revenue from charter services from the first screen.

What was the distribution by sector of the operating revenue reported on the revenue/expenses screen for charter services - passenger revenue [amount] and for charter services - goods revenue [amount] ?
  Domestic Transborder
(Canada-US)
Other
international
Total
Charter services - revenue
Include fixed wing and helicopter services.
       
a. Passenger revenue        
b. Goods revenue        

Changes or events

3. Indicate any changes or events that affected the reported values for this business or organization compared with the last reporting period.

Select all that apply.

  • Strike or lock-out
  • Exchange rate impact
  • Price changes in goods or services sold
  • Contracting out
  • Organizational change
  • Price changes in labour or raw materials
  • Natural disaster
  • Recession
  • Change in product line
  • Sold business or business units
  • Expansion
  • New or lost contract
  • Plant closures
  • Acquisition of business or business units
  • Other
    Specify the other change or event:
  • No changes or events

Contact person

4. Statistics Canada may need to contact the person who completed this questionnaire for further information.

Is Provided Given Name, Provided Last Name the best person to contact?

  • Yes
  • No

Who is the best person to contact about this questionnaire?

  • First name:
  • Last name:
  • Title:
  • Email address:
  • Telephone number (including area code):
  • Extension number (if applicable):
  • Fax number (including area code):

Feedback

5. How long did it take to complete this questionnaire?

Include the time spent gathering the necessary information.

  • Hours:
  • Minutes:

6. Do you have any comments about this questionnaire?

  • Enter your comments:

Recent Analytical Products, Consumer Price Index

The following table provides an overview of the most recent analytical products published alongside the Consumer Price Index (CPI). These documents are intended for a varied audience, ranging from users interested in general information to those requiring more technical or conceptual details related to the CPI. The list will be updated periodically to include latest releases.

Recent Analytical Products, Consumer Price Index
Release Date (yyyy-mm) Product
2024
2024-02 The Canadian Consumer Price Index Enhancement Timeline
Description: An interactive timeline of the modernization of the CPI and related programs with dates, links, and summary of key developments.
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2023
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Eh Sayers Episode 16 - How Do You Say "Language Revitalization" in Cree?

Release date: March 27, 2024

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How Do You Say Language Revitalization in Cree

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How Do You Say Language Revitalization in Cree?

More than 70 distinct Indigenous languages are spoken by First Nations people, Métis and Inuit in Canada, but these languages are under threat.

In this episode, we speak with Randy Morin and Belinda kakiyosēw Daniels, who share their knowledge of the Cree language with learners at the Nêhiyawak Language Experience, about the wisdom encoded in Indigenous languages, as well as the opportunities for these languages and the barriers they face.

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Tegan Bridge

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Randy Morin, Belinda kakiyosēw Daniels

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Eh Sayers Episode 16 - How Do You Say "Language Revitalization" in Cree? - Transcript

Tegan:  Welcome to Eh Sayers, a podcast from Statistics Canada, where we meet the people behind the data and explore the stories behind the numbers. I’m your host, Tegan Bridge. 

When we’re talking about Indigenous languages, we’re not talking about one thing. Canada is home to over 70 distinct Indigenous languages (Indigenous languages across Canada). 

They have different statuses. For example, Inuktitut is an official language of both Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, and almost 40,000 Inuit reported that they speak it well enough to have a conversation in the 2021 census. The Cree and Ojibway languages also have tens of thousands of speakers, making these three the most widely reported Indigenous languages spoken in Canada. Then, there are also languages like Haisla, Haida and Ktunaxa, each with less than 300 speakers. But among these, between the 2016 and the 2021 census, the number of Ktunaxa and Haisla speakers rose, while the number of Haida speakers declined.

Just over 237,000 Indigenous people in Canada reported speaking an Indigenous language well enough to have a conversation in the 2021 census, however, this number declined since the previous Census, when approximately 260 thousand Indigenous people reported being able to speak an Indigenous language. This decline is driven by an ongoing decrease in the number of people with an Indigenous language as a mother tongue (Indigenous languages across Canada). 

At the same time, the 2021 census found that more Indigenous people are learning an Indigenous language as a second language. Second-language speakers accounted for over one-quarter of Indigenous language speakers overall, up 4,100 speakers, or 6.7%, from 2016 (Indigenous languages across Canada).

UNESCO, or the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, considers all Indigenous languages in Canada “at risk,” that is, either vulnerable or endangered. Indigenous languages are threatened because of discrimination and colonization and practices, including the Indian Residential School system, which aimed to destroy Indigenous cultures and languages (Indigenous languages across Canada). Indigenous children had their language taken away from them when they were forcibly removed from their families and punished or shamed for speaking their language.

All that means today, these languages are at risk, and Indigenous communities are fighting to keep their languages alive.

Randy: Yeah, they say, there’s only gonna be three languages that are gonna be still spoken in 20, 25 years and Cree is one of them. Cree, Inuktitut and Ojibwe.  That's what the stats are saying.

Tegan: This is knowledge keeper Randy Morin.

Randy: Randy Morin, Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan. 

Tegan: There were almost 87,000 Cree speakers in Canada according to the last Census (Indigenous languages in Canada, 2021). Cree would be the most widely spoken Indigenous language in Canada... if there were a single Cree language. But there are actually many Cree languages, and they aren't all the same. 

Randy: There is a great risk, especially for the smaller dialects, like the R dialect, the L dialect.  Those ones are more like Eastern Canada. But we do have also small dialects in Saskatchewan, the N dialect and the TH dialect, Woodland Cree, Swampy Cree, but the biggest one would be the Plains Cree dialect. So that one will probably survive a little more than the other dialects.

Tegan: It's not just that different dialects sound different or use different words.

Randy: Each dialect has their own distinct way of looking at the world, right? The Swampy Crees have their own way, the Woodland Cree, they call themselves the Rock Cree, and us Plains Cree, there's differences in the dialects and how we see the world.

Tegan: Randy is a first language Cree speaker.

Randy: Well, I grew up speaking the language. It was just spoken to me right from the womb, so I didn't speak any English until I was 10 years old.  And I often tell this story, how did I pass kindergarten and grade one with just speaking Cree? Many of us in my community, my age, we all spoke the language, and we passed grade one and kindergarten. So I just grew up speaking it. I didn't know any different. It's like a fish, a fish doesn't know it's in water, that's just how I was, in my language. I was just immersed in it was all around me.

Tegan: But, as I mentioned, many speakers of Indigenous languages learned these as second languages, like Belinda Kakiyosew Daniels.

Belinda:  Dr. Belinda Kakiyosew Daniels, University of Victoria. The Indigenous Education Department. 

As far as learning goes, I’ve always listened to the language ever since I was born. I was raised by my grandparents most of my life and so they spoke Cree to each other. They didn't encourage me to speak to them, but I've often heard the language. And so, just their ability to speak to each other in our original language was inspiring to me, and this is what raised the curiosity of why am I not encouraged to speak my own language? 

Tegan: In 2017, half of Indigenous youth reported that speaking an Indigenous language was important or very important, and while they were less likely to have an Indigenous mother tongue, many were learning it as a second language (Chapter 4: Indigenous Youth in Canada). The majority of First Nations and Inuit youth, 68% and 87% respectively, who could speak an Indigenous language learned their language as a mother tongue. Among Métis youth who could speak an Indigenous language, the share was closer to half, as 55% learned their language as a mother tongue and the remaining share learned it as a second language.

Randy and Kakiyosew work with second language speakers to hone their skills. They share the Cree language with students at a language immersion camp.

Belinda:  We are co-directors for the Néhiyawak Language Experience, which is grassroots not for profit. We are having our 20th anniversary this summer. 

So, this is exciting for the work that we do.  I would suggest that we are actually pioneers in this way of reclaiming land and language immersion in our home territories as a focused intention. 

Tegan: Their efforts range from grassroots to academia.

Belinda: We also write books together. We do research together.

I have 12 graduate students that I'm either supervising or sitting on a committee.

Randy: I teach the Cree language at the University of Saskatchewan. I'm creating a Cree speaking certificate program there, hoping to launch it next year.

Tegan: But it doesn't stop there! We're also talking TV and books.

Randy: I've also done a lot of work with APTN. So, I've done a lot of Cree work for Wapos Bay, the cartoon. Also, the Guardians, the cartoon. And now, the newest children's series is called CHUMS. And that's going to be launching this year, so I've been doing a lot of work in the Cree.

Belinda:  I'm holding the book that I coauthored with, um, Andrea Custer and it's called, Speaking Cree in the Home: A Beginner's Guide for Families. nēhiyawētān kīkināhk.

Tegan: There isn't one single way to revitalize Indigenous languages. There are historical reasons why these languages are at risk, but there are also barriers that exist to this day. 

Belinda: What are the barriers? Let's get some policy into place in making our languages official.  Let's get some funding in place for our First Nations languages in our school systems.  The money has always been underrated or underfunded. Let's start validating our speakers and showing the respect that those speakers deserve when it comes to credentials.  They might not have a B. Ed. degree or a Ph d. degree, but they are a speaker of the language and hold this vast amount of knowledge about the world.  So, let's value that and credit that.

Randy: Growing up, we all spoke the language and all of a sudden FM radio came, and pop culture came.  Oh, my goodness, everyone overnight just started speaking English, you know, and it's just been on a decline ever since with like, modernization, globalization, and celebrity...  I guess our young people look up to celebrities… the wealth, and that’s what they want to be. And so we need to bring them back to own role models, and that's a challenge. 

The federal and provincial governments, they really messed up, with Indigenous people for years, but there's still not that sense of urgency, like they need to like really to push for this sense of urgency. 

And universities need to work with language people. There's only two of us at the University of Saskatchewan, and it's a real challenge. We need more. We need more people that… All hands on deck is what we’re saying. There are only two schools in Saskatoon, St. Francis and wâhkôhtowin.

There's a lot of challenges, but there's also a lot of successes. Technology can be used to connect with people in remote communities.  In fact, our friend, Bill Cook, our brother, who is part of NLE, his PhD project is to connect speakers, remote communities to learners and, and they get paid. Isn't that cool? What an awesome project! All these elders that are home could be making money on their computers, talking to learners, man, what a project! I wish I thought of that for my PhD. So, lots of challenges, but also a lot of successes.

Belinda: I wanted to add to grassroots successes. So, I mentioned my name, right? Kakiyosew. I'm from Pakitahwâkan sâkahikan. Sturgeon Lake First Nations, Saskatchewan.  And as far as grassroots goes, I, for one, I'm always being of service to my home community and, overall, to my nation.

Some of the successes have been creating signs of Nēhiyawēwin in our home community. Um, creating camps for families, creating Oskapios programs for boys and men, creating a whole community wide language program from leadership to the different agencies that are employed in our home community, such as the health department, the education department, our economic department, resources for roads and for the bison, everybody learning Cree.

We have Indigenous language revitalization as a field of study at the University of Victoria. I know that First Nations University of Canada is always working, is also working on the same thing. As Néhiyawak people, original peoples of Turtle Island, we're working together. We're coming together, working together to help lift up our original languages. So these are some successes.

Tegan: Earlier in our conversation, Randy mentioned that the different Cree languages have their own unique worldviews. Different languages aren't just interchangeable labels for the same things. Languages are pretty interesting. English, with all its funny spellings and weird idioms, carries its history within itself. And the Cree languages are unique in their own way too.

Randy: You definitely see the world in two different ways when you know the language. And I'm speaking from experience, so your worldview is really different.

You can understand the stories, you know, the teachings that are embedded within the stories. You'll understand the ceremonies a lot more if you have an intimate knowledge of the language.

Humor also plays a big part in the language. The humor is so descriptive, you can see it in your mind better than in English. English, it's kind of one dimensional.So yeah, it's relationships to the natural world.  And how we see the world as living, and that really clashes with this worldview today. Like there's no connections to the earth. You know, they see the earth as inanimate. Not alive.  They see animals as having no spirits. Insects. Birds. You know, we call these CREE our relatives, eh? So, you have a better relationship when you have that. 

The language teaches you values. Laws, teachings, these are in our languages and again, if I mentioned valid knowledge systems are embedded in it, and this language is thousands of years old.

So, you see the world differently in two different ways.  Uh, and I wanna, you know, people ask me, how do you see it in two different ways?  I see it as making you a better human being. You know, you’re not as greedy. You’re not as selfish.

But in our, in our language it’s for the whole, for the betterment because we believe, philosophically, spiritually, we go back to the spirit world. So, we have to have these laws, we have to follow these teachings, because our time (Randy snaps his fingers) is like that. We can't take anything with us, right? So, uh, so that's the fundamental differences I think of seeing the world in two different ways.

Tegan: If you're familiar with French, you're familiar with the way it sorts its nouns by gender, masculine and feminine. Cree sorts its nouns according to animacy: that which is living and that which is not.

Belinda: Animacy is how we view the world as alive and with spirit, imbued with spirit.  And so, when we look at the land, askiy, the land provides us with everything that we need, that we’ve needed, so the land is alive, the earth is alive with a spirit. And when you look at the trees and the rocks and the mountains and the rivers, the animals, the ocean, the sun, even the weather. If you have that perspective of these elements are alive with spirit, imbued with a life force of something, a source, and if you can think of them like the way you think of your own parents, your own grandparents, your brother, your sister, your newborn child. That whole way of thinking of the natural world makes you more conscious and respectful and grateful of where we're living. 

Tegan: You mentioned going the importance of nature. Why you run a language camp with camp being a very key word, I think. Why is a camp being out in nature and disconnected, unplugged? Why is that the ideal place? Not for a language camp generally. But a Cree language camp specifically, why is that the best place?

Belinda: This is how our ancestors lived. This is what our ancestors have always done.  This is the solution. And again, just coming back and connecting. It's a spiritual place, like being out in nature, walking on the land, swimming in the waters, listening to the birds when they start singing early in the morning, and going to sleep when they stop. It's amazing. And then learning the language for your surroundings. I don't know why or how but when I'm out in the context, in the language, hearing the language, something goes on in my head in my brain in the way I think. There's a shift that happens and I often try to describe it as like... like a puzzle being put together. That's what happens to my brain. Like I can literally feel this connection to the context, on the land, in the language.  And my whole worldview is just, you know, like a switch goes off, and I leave this English world behind.  I leave all the memories of the violence behind in the English colonial context. And when I'm out on the land.  It's a feeling of sâkihitowin. It's a feeling of love. 

Randy: It teaches you humility, you know, being out on the land, you know, there's no ego, there's no power tripping, and you get to connect with the communities that you're in. It's the energy of the place, eh, it’s a really clean environment, detoxifying. It's empowering. It's very loving. It's very gentle.  It's very organic… It's just a feeling of home, you know, your spirit just, you leave this concrete jungle and go out into the natural, and the spirits of the land… It's a beautiful place.

Belinda: It's a natural rhythm.

Randy: Mm hmm.

Tegan: When your language categorizes nouns by being imbued by spirit, how does that affect your perception of the natural world? Especially in the context of the climate crisis?

Randy: Well, I'll say it in one word. Wâhkôhtowin, wâhkôhtowin, we are all related. That includes the plants, that includes the stars, the moon, the mountains. 

If you're related to a relative, are you going to hurt that relative? Because in our laws, we have pâstâhowin, overstepping Creator's law.  Right. So, if you know that you're not going to cut down trees… not overharvesting for the profit of exorbitant amounts. 

People are getting rich and, and, you know, there's no word in their worldview about wâhkôhtowin. And then we have this thing called ohcinêwin, it's like harm against sentient beings. And that includes everything in creation. The water is alive; we're not gonna poison the water; we're not gonna drill in the water. You know what I mean? We have all these examples of what not to do, in their language.

Belinda: It's just saying what we were saying earlier in regards to this idea of animacy. The word for people, like I'm always saying, the Néhiyawak is plural, but we also refer to that, such as like the trees, mîtos, mîtosak, or the animals, or like birds, piyêsîsak, it's the same reference of something being alive, rocks, asiniyak, it's the same reference of they're alive with spirit and that's how they referred to.  So, if you think of the world as alive and refer to them as kin, like Randy said, like we said earlier, you're not going to clear cut. You're not going to extract and build those big mining holes. Climate change is on this drastic rise. We're seeing it with the change in temperatures, these warm temperatures. It's frightening, unusual. You see bears coming out of this winter habitat. You see geese having ducklings, and it's only January.  

Tegan: It's unnatural.

Randy: Yeah, so different languages around the world refer, like, they know the Earth is a mother. The Earth is a mother. She provides. It's not just a concept. It's actually like a real belief that the Earth is our mother, right? So, with that understanding, like Belinda said, we're going to protect, we're going to protect and care for our mother and the medicine she provides for us. Everything has a medicinal purpose and a spirit, right? So, it's on us to learn those, those medicines so we keep them for future generations.

Tegan: Ryan DeCaire said: “It's said that people revitalize a language, but really, it's a language that revitalizes a people.” What are the benefits of learning an Indigenous language, whether as a first or a second language?

Belinda: The benefits are unlimiting, just as Randy was speaking as going through my own thoughts and the benefits are reclaiming your language is your connection to land. Your connection to where you belong, your culture, your connection to what you know of natural laws and natural governance in, in those systems and also the people, your connection to the people. So, there's multiple benefits. 

As well… once you realize and know where you belong and where you come from, where you've been, moving forward, you can walk into the trauma. You can walk into that historical trauma, that intergenerational trauma, and you can smash it. Once you know your language and where you come and understand all of that. And it's been that way for me. And it's been a feeling of coming home, knowing my purpose, knowing my role, knowing that my ancestors are behind me, and I stand on the shoulders of giants.

Tegan: What are your hopes for the future of your language and your community, and do you think the work will ever be done?

Belinda: My dreams for the future. I was kind of asked that question about 10 years ago so I'm glad I'm getting asked this question again. My dreams for the future is that our languages are federal, provincial laws throughout Canada. I hope that our communities are speaking, and the languages are flourishing in our communities, that our schools are land based, spaces and places operated all in the language and that we're speaking, not just our language, but our neighboring languages.

Prior to contact, this is based on Onowa McIvor’s work, is that our languages were very multilingual. We were a very multilingual continent. And we spoke more than one language. We had to speak multiple languages to have this commerce, this massive commerce, trading, alliance system. And when the early settlers came over, they learned our languages. So it's only been recent that we've had this banning of our ways of knowing and being and doing within the last hundred years or so, and so my dreams are, how do we rectify this? How does the federal government rectify this? And then how do the powers that be help lift up our languages?

And my dreams are, again, that we have this love and understanding and empathy for the original peoples of this land. And that there is no one incarcerated. That we have no addictions. That we have no homelessness. That we don't have mental illnesses. Those are my dreams, and I just hold on to that. 

Tegan: Randy?

Randy: I hope our environment’s also intact. And I hope we get an Indigenous prime minister. You know what I mean? These are all my hopes and dreams, but I want my children, my grandchildren to be in this world that values them for who they are. Cause you know, look at me, wherever I go, people are scared of me in my own lands, my own treaty territory. People are scared of me. I get stereotyped, the racism that's thrown at me daily. I want the future to be better for my children and grandchildren. We can get along and work together from kindergarten all the way to university that the language is, you know, is embedded, language instruction… Everyone's just speaking the language, it's a goal of mine, but I don't know if I'll see it, but that's what I want to see.

Tegan: Is there anything that I haven't brought up that you'd like to talk about?

Belinda: Oh, I would like to say for people listening, learn the original, names of the nations that live on Turtle Island. I'm not exactly sure where the word Indigenous comes from, but I would prefer being called a Nehiyawakamakiano. We're one nation. There's multiple nations within Canada. Learn a greeting, learn how to say hello in whatever lands you live on. I've learned how to say 'uy' skweyl. I've learned how to say 'uy' skweyl ch'u. Like, these are just very helpful little words, that go a long way. Especially if you're a visitor on lands that you don't originally come from. And I'm not sure if I said this, but encourage your children like you do, you know, with sports or with dance or with music. Encourage your children to speak the language and to participate in the culture. Those are just a couple of things that come to my mind.

Tegan: You've been listening to Eh Sayers. Thank you to Randy Morin and Belinda Kakiyosew Daniels for taking the time to speak with us.

You can subscribe to this show wherever you get your podcasts. There, you can also find the French version of our show, called Hé-coutez bien! If you liked this show, please rate, review, and subscribe. Thanks for listening!

Sources

Anderson, Thomas. “Chapter 4: Indigenous Youth in Canada.” Statistics Canada. Government of Canada, December 1, 2021.

Statistics Canada. “Indigenous Languages across Canada.” Statistics Canada. Government of Canada, March 29, 2023.

Indigenous Languages in Canada, 2021.” Statistics Canada. Government of Canada, March 29, 2023.

Requests for information – Retail and wholesale

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Retail sales by type of product

Business information for those operating streaming audio and audiovisual services

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2023 Annual Survey of Environmental Goods and Services – Reporting guide

Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)

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Table of contents

Reporting instructions

  • Report dollar amounts rounded to the nearest Canadian dollar.
  • When precise figures are not available, please provide your best estimates.
  • Exclude federal, provincial and territorial sales taxes and excise duties and taxes.

For the purposes of this survey, clean technology can be considered to consist of any product, process, or service designed with the primary purpose of contributing to remediating or preventing any type of environmental damage.

Definitions

Legal Name

The legal name is one recognized by law, thus it is the name liable for pursuit or for debts incurred by the business or organization. In the case of a corporation, it is the legal name as fixed by its charter or the statute by which the corporation was created.

Modifications to the legal name should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.

To indicate a legal name of another legal entity you should instead indicate it in question 3 by selecting 'Not currently operational' and then choosing the applicable reason and providing the legal name of this other entity along with any other requested information.

Operating Name

The operating name is a name the business or organization is commonly known as if different from its legal name. The operating name is synonymous with trade name.

Current main activity of the business or organization

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is an industry classification system developed by the statistical agencies of Canada, Mexico and the United States. Created against the background of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is designed to provide common definitions of the industrial structure of the three countries and a common statistical framework to facilitate the analysis of the three economies. NAICS is based on supply-side or production-oriented principles, to ensure that industrial data, classified to NAICS, are suitable for the analysis of production-related issues such as industrial performance.

The target entity for which NAICS is designed are businesses and other organizations engaged in the production of goods and services. They include farms, incorporated and unincorporated businesses and government business enterprises. They also include government institutions and agencies engaged in the production of marketed and non-marketed services, as well as organizations such as professional associations and unions and charitable or non-profit organizations and the employees of households.

The associated NAICS should reflect those activities conducted by the business or organizational unit(s) targeted by this questionnaire only, and which can be identified by the specified legal and operating name. The main activity is the activity which most defines the targeted business or organization's main purpose or reason for existence. For a business or organization that is for-profit, it is normally the activity that generates the majority of the revenue for the entity.

The NAICS classification contains a limited number of activity classifications; the associated classification might be applicable for this business or organization even if it is not exactly how you would describe this business or organization's main activity.

Please note that any modifications to the main activity through your response to this question might not necessarily be reflected prior to the transmitting of subsequent questionnaires and as a result they may not contain this updated information.

Glossary of Terms

3D
Three dimensional
Additives/ catalysts
Products that enhance the rate of a chemical reaction.
Adhesives
Adhesives or bioadhesives are made from natural polymeric materials that act as adhesives; e.g., a glue formed synthetically from biological monomers such as sugars.
Advanced batteries
Batteries incorporating materials that improve energy storage density, or reduce the weight and size, compared to traditional batteries e.g., nickel-hydride and lithium ion batteries.
Advanced insulation
Solutions for improving thermal insulation in new and existing buildings producing significant energy savings. Includes spray foam and other products that are alternatives to traditional forms of insulation.
Advanced thermostats
Advanced thermostats (also known as smart thermostats) maximize efficiency and off-peak energy usage to help save money and reduce emissions. Additionally, advanced thermostats incorporate other technologies such as sensors and Wi-Fi connectivity.
Aerodynamic device
An aerodynamic resistance or drag reduction technology that reduces fuel consumption.
Aircraft components using lightweight materials
A lightweight material is defined as having a higher strength to weight or stiffness to weight ratio. May also include, components that are made lighter when using the same material by changing how it is designed or manufactured e.g., through additive manufacturing / 3D printing.
Algae biodiesel
A type of biodiesel fuel made from algae oils.
Anaerobic digester
A mechanical chamber which breaks down organic material using micro-organisms (bacteria) in an oxygen-free environment to produce renewable energy (biogas) and other biomaterials.
Automobile components using lightweight materials
A lightweight material is defined as having a higher strength to weight or stiffness to weight ratio, compared to conventional materials. Alternatively, components may be made lighter when using the same material by changing how it is designed or manufactured e.g., through additive manufacturing or 3D printing.
Auxiliary power unit
An idling reduction technology that stores power when the engine is running and supplies it to the vehicle's electrical devices when the engine is off.
Biobutanol
A renewable fuel produced from corn, sugar beets, and other types of biomass.
Biochar
A solid material obtained from thermochemical conversion of biomass in an oxygen-limited environment. Biochar can be used for a wide range of applications such as a soil amendment, carbon sequestration, and a source of renewable energy.
Biochemicals
Synthesized chemicals made using vegetable oils derived from corn, soybean, canola, and corn starches. They can be made into solvents, lubricants, waxes, adhesives, acetic acid, succinic acid, glycerol and methanol without using traditional petroleum bases.
Biocrude
A feedstock used in a petroleum refinery that is derived from one or more renewable feedstocks replacing, in part, conventional crude oil.
Bioenergy
Renewable energy produced from biological materials.
Bioenergy feedstock planning and management
Ensuring a sustainable biomass supply from the forestry and agricultural sectors, as well as from other organic residues such as municipal solid waste and algae.
Bioenergy feedstock valuation
Services which focus on modelling, technologies and techniques that lower the costs and increase quantities of renewable feedstocks while maintaining and improving the quality of the product.
Biofuel
Biofuels are enhanced biomass-derived fuels that can take the form of a liquid such as ethanol or renewable diesel fuels, a gas such as biogas or syngas or a solid such as pellets or char.
Biogas
A combustible gas and type of biofuel produced by the decomposition of biological materials e.g., forestry residues and municipal waste, through anaerobic digestion or fermentation. Typical biogas consists of 50 to 60% methane and carbon dioxide.
Biohydrogen
Hydrogen produced biologically, most commonly by algae or bacteria, from both cultivation and waste organic materials.
Biomaterials
Materials derived from nature or synthesized in the laboratory using a variety of chemical approaches utilizing plant oils, sugars, or starches to create bioplastics, biofoams, biorubber, or reinforced biocomposites and biofibres.
Biopesticides
Pest management agents and chemicals derived from natural sources e.g., bacteria, fungi, viruses, plants, animals and minerals. They provide an alternative to synthetic chemicals and are used to control pest populations in crop production and other settings. Typically a biopesticide is target-specific and has little or no impact on non-target organisms and the environment.
Biopolymers
A non-petroleum based form of plastic derived from renewable biomass sources such as vegetable oil or corn starch.
Biosolvents
Bio-based agent for cleaning or degreasing parts, stripping paint or removing inks. Derived from agricultural crops e.g., corn, soybeans, citrus fruit skins or tree bark.
Biostimulants
A material which contains substances or microorganisms whose function is to stimulate natural processes in plant growth e.g., nutrient uptake, nutrient use efficiency, tolerance to abiotic stress, and crop quality. Biostimulants are a bio-based alternative to fossil-fuel based fertilizers.
BOMA
The Building Owners and Managers Association
CAN$
Canadian dollars
Carbon capture and sequestration technologies and storage
Technologies used to capture, transport and store carbon dioxide produced as the result of an industrial process, before its release to the atmosphere.
Cellulose filaments (CF)
Extracted from wood pulp fibres using a mechanical process that requires no chemicals or enzymes. CF are extremely strong, flexible and light, and has a unique bonding capacity that makes them an exceptional reinforcement additive for a wide range of products such as bioplastics, adhesives, as well as paints and other coatings.
Cellulosic Ethanol
Ethanol produced from cellulose e.g., the stringy fibre of a plant, typically from grasses, grains or wood.
Centrifuges
Machines or equipment that spin a vessel at high speeds to create separation of materials. Centrifugation can be used to recover solids from slurries, or to clarify liquids and solids.
Chipper
A machine used to mechanically reduce the size of feedstock wood material to a size suitable for further processing e.g., for producing wood pellets or as an input into another bio-manufacturing process.
CHP
Combined heat and power
Clean coal
Technology and processes that mitigate the emissions produced from the burning of coal for electrical power. Generally, to be considered "clean" the combustion should result in an emission intensity equal to or less than that produced by burning natural gas.
CNG
Compressed natural gas (CNG) is methane that is stored at a high pressure and can be used in place of gasoline. CNG may be found naturally above oil deposits or is collected from landfills or wastewater treatment plants e.g., biogas.
Coagulant
A material (iron or aluminum salts, e.g., aluminum sulphate, ferric sulphate, ferric chloride, polymers) added to a colloidal solution to remove suspended particles through coagulation. Often used in water treatment.
Combined heat and power and cogeneration
Combined heat and power (CHP) is a cogeneration system that involves the simultaneous production of electricity and heat from a single fuel source. It uses waste heat recovery technology to capture heat by-products to generate electricity. CHP is not a single technology but an integrated energy system that can be modified depending on the needs of the energy user.
Combined heat and power bioenergy systems
Combined heat and power (CHP) is a cogeneration system that involves the simultaneous production of electricity and heat from a single fuel source. It uses waste heat recovery technology to capture heat by-products to generate electricity. CHP is not a single technology but an integrated energy system that can be modified depending on the needs of the energy user. CHP bioenergy systems use a biomass fuel source instead of a fossil fuel source.
Composite materials
Materials consisting of strong, stiff fibres in a tough resin matrix and used to reduce weight for fuel efficiency purposes. Composite materials used in the aerospace industry include carbon and glass-fibre reinforced plastics and metals used in cabin components and functional components in the wings, engines or landing gear.
Compressed air
Compressed air energy storage (CAES) is a way to store energy by compressing air and storing it in underground caverns, depleted wells or aquifers.
Crop canopy sensors
A technology used in precision agriculture that uses visible light (VIS) and near infrared light (NIR) to determine plant nitrogen levels in a crop. This technology can assist in identifying specific areas of a field that require fertilization.
Cyber security
Services assisting utility companies with the protection of critical smart grid infrastructure assets from cyber security threats. Cyber security services protect data and access to all components of the smart grid. This includes threat detection and compliance management.
Desalination processes
Various technologies and processes used to remove salt from water.
Distillation tower
Equipment used to refine and separate purified products and aqueous streams during biofuel production.
DME
Dimethyl Ether
Double layer capacitor
Capacitors with enhanced cycle stability and extremely high power capability; very efficient energy storage capability compared to traditional capacitors and batteries.
Dryer
Equipment used to remove moisture from a liquid/solid mixture. Dryers vary in application and function e.g., rotating drum dryers, rotary dryers, flash dryers, fluidized bed dryers, spray dryers, conveyor dryers, tray dryers, thin-film dryers.
Efficient turbine
A fuel efficient turbine engine is one that uses less fuel to produce the same output e.g., either in the form of thrust for a jet engine or horsepower for a turboshaft engine. Engine weight is an important factor associated with the efficiency of the turbine.
Electric vehicle
A vehicle using a battery to store electrical energy that powers the motor.
Electro-deionization technologies
A process which combines semi-impermeable membrane technology with ion-exchange media to provide a high-efficiency demineralization process.
Emission control
Technologies that reduce the amount of air pollutants, including greenhouse gases, released into the atmosphere.
Energy efficiency
Energy efficiency is a way of managing and restraining the growth in energy consumption. Something is more energy efficient if it delivers more services for the same energy input, or the same services for less energy input.
Energy logs
A cleaner burning fuel than firewood and other densified fire logs.
Engine control module
Controls the engine's performance, fuel efficiency and emissions; monitors the operation of the vehicle; and troubleshoots mechanical problems.
Engineered wood products
A variety of products required in mass timber construction and design (i.e., cross laminated timber) that generally involve lamination and compression of multiple layers of smaller pieces of wood to create large panels. The process creates a very strong panel that meets the safety requirements needed to build tall structures.
Environmental employment
Positions that directly or indirectly contribute to preserving or restoring environmental quality. For example, this may include jobs related to the production of goods or provision of services that help to: protect ecosystems and biodiversity; reduce the use of energy, materials, and water consumption in manufacturing processes; lower the carbon expenditure of industrial processes, or; minimize or altogether avoid generation of waste and pollution.
Environmental measurement apparatus
Equipment or instruments that assist in data collection involving the assessment of chemical, physical, or biological factors in the environment.
Ethanol
A renewable alcohol fuel made from plant material e.g., corn, sugar cane or grasses.
FC
Fuel cell
Fluoridation
The addition of fluoride in a public water supply to reduce tooth decay.
Flywheel
A rotating mechanical device that is used to store rotational energy.
Foams
Foams or biofoams are biopolymers made from plant materials that are biodegradable and may be industrially composted at high temperatures. They are durable and suitable for long-term use in virtually all technical and packaging applications.
FTE
Full-time equivalent
Fuel cell vehicle FC stack
A fuel cell FC stack is an assembly of individual membrane electrode assemblies that use hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity in a fuel cell vehicle.
GIS
Geographic Information System
GPS
Global Positioning System
Green building certification
A process administered by a recognized body that approves a construction project as environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a structure's life-cycle.
Greywater reuse system
A system that collects greywater from showers and sinks, for the purpose of filtering and purifying, for further non-potable uses e.g., toilet flushing or irrigation. It consists of a tank, a pump, a disinfection additive such as chlorine and a filtration component.
Greensand filtration
A specialized filtration process that removes iron, manganese and hydrogen sulphide from water.
Hot dry rock (HDR)
A type of geothermal energy resource that uses heat recovered from dry subsurface rocks to generate electricity.
HVAC
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
Hybrids
Vehicles containing both an electric motor and an internal combustion engine (ICE). The electric motor uses batteries charged from the grid, and which may be re-charged through energy conversion mechanisms while in operation. The ICE uses traditional fuels, e.g., gasoline or diesel.
ICE
Internal combustion engine
Industrial design and related services
Refers to the design of energy efficient technologies and products for market, or part of a contracted service for industries such as transportation, aerospace, commercial energy projects, etc.
Intelligent traffic control
Optimizing the performance of traffic signals for real-time traffic conditions and improving traffic flow, resulting in a reduction in idling time, traffic congestion and emissions from vehicles at intersections.
ISO
International organization for standardization
Leak detection
A device that detects the presence of gases in an area, often as part of a safety system. This type of equipment is used to detect a gas leak and interface with a control system so a process can be automatically shut down. Gas detectors can be used to detect combustible, flammable and toxic gases, and oxygen depletion.
Li-ion
Lithium-ion battery
Livestock precision feeding technology
Technology consisting of animal-specific data collection and automated feeding systems to conserve livestock feed inputs.
LNG
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas that has been converted to liquid form.
Low emitting burner
High-efficiency burners e.g., low NOx and low SOx burners, that minimize the amount of pollutants produced during combustion.
Low rolling resistance tire
Designed to reduce rolling resistance, or the energy lost from drag and friction of a tire rolling over a surface, to improve fuel efficiency in vehicles.
Management systems
Software systems that employ artificial intelligence or rules based on process knowledge to control energy distribution.
Mass timber design
Mass timber design companies design and construct complete buildings using large, prefabricated engineered wood products such as cross laminated timber or glue-laminated timber in place of steel.
Microgrid solutions
Services that design and develop comprehensive microgrid solutions for energy infrastructure projects. A microgrid is a local energy grid with control capability that can disconnect from the traditional grid and operate autonomously.
Micro/ ultrafiltration
Membrane technologies used to treat drinking water.
Micro-screening
A water treatment technology to remove suspended solids, micro pollutants and to increase the efficiency of downstream treatment systems.
Mixer
Industrial mixers are able to blend combinations of solids, gases and liquids. Mixing is usually completed in either single-phase or multi-phase formats.
Modelling services
The use of specially designed energy modelling software and other building data to simulate a variety of building details during construction or renovation projects. Used to optimize roof and wall construction, lighting and power densities, domestic hot water usage, and heating and ventilation systems. Modifying variables e.g., outdoor and indoor temperature, solar orientation, humidity, energy costs, construction materials, and occupant levels allow the energy modeller to come up with different scenarios to optimize a building's design and meet energy efficiency objectives.
Nano-crystalline cellulose
Nano-structures made from pure cellulose. They may be used in coating, papermaking, biocide dispersion, or in composite products.
Nanofiltration
Nanofiltration is a water-softening membrane technology that removes most organic compounds, nearly all viruses, most natural organic matter and a range of salts from water.
NaNiCl
Sodium-nickel chloride batteries
NaS
Sodium-sulphur batteries
NiCd
Nickel-cadmium battery
NiMH
Nickel-metal hydride battery
NOx
Nitrogen oxides
Nuclear energy
The energy that is released through a nuclear reaction or radioactive decay process.
Nuclear island
The part of the nuclear power plant that incorporates all equipment, systems, installation and control, heating and ventilation and other relevant hardware installed within the reactor and reactor auxiliary buildings. Steam generators that transfer heat from the primary circuit within the reactor to a secondary circuit for power generation are included in the nuclear island.
Nuclear reactor
The heart of a nuclear power plant in which nuclear fission may be initiated and controlled in a self-sustaining chain reaction to generate energy or produce useful radiation.
pH
Potential of hydrogen
Phasor measurement unit
A phasor measurement unit (PMU) is a device which measures the electrical waves on a power grid to monitor and control load and detect faults.
Powder metallurgy, coatings, polishing, anodizing for fuel efficiency
Surface treatments used to improve the finish, durability and corrosion resistance of many components. Also used for restorative maintenance e.g., secondary to fuel efficiency. Metal powders can be used in additive manufacturing which has the potential to make parts lighter (therefore improving fuel efficiency).
Pumped hydro
A system for generating hydroelectric power for peak periods by pumping water from a lower to an upper reservoir during low-demand/off-peak periods e.g., charging. When required, the water flows back from the upper to the lower reservoir to produce electricity e.g., discharging.
Pyrolysis
Pyrolysis is the transformation of a carbon-rich substance into one or more substances e.g., syngas or biochar, through heating in the absence of oxygen.
Pyrolysis oil
A renewable liquid fuel derived from woody biomass via fast pyrolysis process.
R-2000
Energy efficient homes rating
Renewable diesel
Diesel fuel substitute made from renewable materials such as vegetable oil, waste, cooking oil, animal fat, fish oil or cellulosic feedstocks consisting of agriculture and forest biomass. It can be used in all modern diesel engines without requiring engine modifications.
Reverse osmosis
A water treatment process that uses pressure to move a liquid through a membrane, thereby removing ions of salt, calcium and chlorine or larger molecules such as bacteria, urea and glucose.
RFID
Radio-frequency identification
Self-healing grids
A monitoring solution for a more efficient energy grid. A self-healing grid is a system comprised of sensors, automated controls and advanced software that utilizes real-time distribution data to detect and isolate faults and to reconfigure the distribution network to minimize service disruptions.
Shredder
Equipment used to cut, shear, tear, slice, or rip apart materials into smaller pieces typically in a strip or chip-like output shape. Shredders may be used to process forestry and agricultural biomass to convert it into a more useable form for further biofuel or biomaterial processing.
Smart grid
Adaptions to a conventional power grid, allowing two-way communications, control and automation capabilities to make it more reliable, flexible, efficient, clean, safe and customer-friendly.
Smart inverter
Inverters that enable the integration of distributed photovoltaic power generation into the power grid.
SOx
Sulphur oxides
Storage systems
Includes above and underground types of storage systems. The tanks can be used for storage, mixing, or as vessels for chemical processes.
Super-conducting magnetic energy storage
Energy storage using a magnetic field created by the flow of direct current in a superconducting coil kept below its superconducting critical temperature.
Sustainable forestry services
Sustainable forestry service companies are forestry service companies who have policies in place which ensure they carefully manage forest resources to preserve and maximize the value of every harvest. Sustainable forestry service companies are certified by one of the three independent, third-party forest management organizations in Canada (Canadian Standards Association, Forest Stewardship Council, and Sustainable Forestry Initiative). A certified sustainable forestry service company meets the Government of Canada’s forest management laws and regulations and verifies the company’s responsible forest management practices. Certified companies practice a number of forest restoration or sustainable forestry management techniques such as planting new trees after each harvest, selective logging by removing only certain, mature trees while preserving a balanced forest ecosystem (not clear cutting) and allowing more time in between harvests so trees can mature to their full potential.
Syngas
Syngas, also called synthesis gas, is an intermediate product produced by gasification from biomass feedstocks. Syngas can then be converted into hydrogen, a variety of chemicals, fertilizers and liquid fuels, or used to generate electricity.
Thermal storage systems
Encompasses a wide range of technologies that allow thermal energy to be collected and stored for later use. Storage mediums include water, bedrock, deep aquifers, and phase-change materials.
Traffic management
Improving the flow of traffic through the use of data and design.
UAV/drone
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone is an aircraft designed to fly without a human operator on board. They are equipped with video and multispectral cameras, GPS receivers and advanced data collection and sensor technologies to perform agriculture-related monitoring.
UV
Ultraviolet
Ultrasonic detection
Ultrasonic-level measurement devices employ sound waves for detection of liquid levels.
Variable rate technology
Instrumentation and equipment used for varying the rates of application of fertilizer, pesticides and seeds as it moves across a field.
Vehicle emission monitoring
Technologies such as catalytic converters, exhaust gas recirculation, engine monitoring sensors, computer controls and feedback systems that aid in the reduction of greenhouse gases, volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen.
Vehicle fleet management and logistics
Support services comprised of consulting, tools, products, and software designed for companies with fleets of commercial vehicles or trucks (excluding rentals) that help optimize fleet operations such as communication, tracking and routing, maintenance, and management of fuel consumption.
Washer
Refers to the washing step of biofuel refining where impurities are adsorbed using a material such as magnesium silicate. Purified biodiesel liquid is then separated from the solid dry wash adsorbent and filtered, resulting in clarified biodiesel.
Yield Sensors
Sensors used to aid the monitoring of yields within a field.

Reporting period information

Report information for this establishment's 12-month fiscal period (normal business year) ending between April 1st, 2023 and March 31st, 2024. Please indicate the reporting period covered by this questionnaire.

Activity sectors

Report goods manufactured as part of an environmental service provided under Service provider, and include the sales of related machinery, equipment, and products.

Total revenue

Total revenue is the sum of the value of sales (before royalties, taxes and other charges) and all other revenues, except contributions from owners.

When precise figures are not available please provide your best estimates.

Include:

  • sales of all goods and services
  • other operating revenue
  • non-operating revenue.

Report in Canadian dollars.

Sales of goods

Report domestic and export sales of selected environmental goods or clean technology goods.

Include (where applicable):

  • sales (domestic sales and export sales) of goods manufactured at a Canadian location
  • sales of goods manufactured outside Canada and imported for sale

Exclude:

  • federal, provincial and territorial sales taxes
  • excise duties and taxes
  • subsidies

Some goods listed may be used for more than one of the environmental functions listed. Report sales under the environmental function category that best reflects the ultimate use of your product.

Sales of environmental goods are defined as revenues derived from the sale of goods (cash or credits) falling within a business's ordinary activities. Sales should be reported net of excise and federal, provincial or territorial sales taxes.

For the purposes of this survey, clean technology can be considered to consist of any product, process, or service designed with the primary purpose of contributing to remediating or preventing any type of environmental damage.

Revenue from services

Report domestic and international revenues of selected environmental services or clean technology services.

Include (where applicable):

  • revenues from goods sold as part of a service delivered (related machinery, products and equipment)
  • domestic and international sales of services provided from a Canadian location.

Exclude:

  • federal, provincial and territorial sales taxes
  • excise duties and taxes
  • subsidies

Sales of environmental and clean technology services are defined as amounts derived from the provision of environmental and clean technology services falling within a business's ordinary activities. Sales should be reported net of excise and federal, provincial or territorial sales taxes.

For the purposes of this survey, clean technology can be considered to consist of any product, process, or service designed with the primary purpose of contributing to remediating or preventing any type of environmental damage.

Thank you for your participation.

Why do we conduct this survey?

This survey is conducted by Statistics Canada in order to collect the necessary information to support the Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP). This program combines various survey and administrative data to develop comprehensive measures of the Canadian economy.

The statistical information from the IBSP serves many purposes, including:

  • Obtaining information on the supply of and/or demand for energy in Canada
  • Enabling governmental agencies to fulfill their regulatory responsibilities in regards to public utilities
  • Enabling all levels of government to establish informed policies in the energy area
  • Assisting the business community in the corporate decision-making process.

Your information may also be used by Statistics Canada for other statistical and research purposes.

Your participation in this survey is required under the authority of the Statistics Act.

Other important information

Authorization to collect this information

Data are collected under the authority of the Statistics Act, Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, Chapter S-19.

Confidentiality

By law, Statistics Canada is prohibited from releasing any information it collects that could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent, or as permitted by the Statistics Act. Statistics Canada will use the information from this survey for statistical purposes only.

Record linkages

To enhance the data from this survey and to reduce the reporting burden, Statistics Canada may combine the acquired data with information from other surveys or from administrative sources.

Data-sharing agreements

To reduce respondent burden, Statistics Canada has entered into data-sharing agreements with provincial and territorial statistical agencies and other government organizations, which have agreed to keep the data confidential and use them only for statistical purposes. Statistics Canada will only share data from this survey with those organizations that have demonstrated a requirement to use the data.

Section 11 of the Statistics Act provides for the sharing of information with provincial and territorial statistical agencies that meet certain conditions. These agencies must have the legislative authority to collect the same information, on a mandatory basis, and the legislation must provide substantially the same provisions for confidentiality and penalties for disclosure of confidential information as the Statistics Act. Because these agencies have the legal authority to compel businesses to provide the same information, consent is not requested and businesses may not object to the sharing of the data.

For this survey, there are Section 11 agreements with the provincial and territorial statistical agencies of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Québec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the Yukon. The shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province or territory.

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For this survey, there are Section 12 agreements with the statistical agencies of Prince Edward Island, Northwest Territories and Nunavut as well as with the Canada Energy Regulator and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

For a complete list of the provincial and territorial government ministries responsible for the energy sector, you can visit the following link: Information for survey participants

For agreements with provincial and territorial government organizations, the shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province or territory.

Business or organization and contact information

1. Verify or provide the business or organization's legal and operating name and correct where needed.

Note: Legal name modifications should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.

Legal Name

The legal name is one recognized by law, thus it is the name liable for pursuit or for debts incurred by the business or organization. In the case of a corporation, it is the legal name as fixed by its charter or the statute by which the corporation was created.

Modifications to the legal name should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.

To indicate a legal name of another legal entity you should instead indicate it in question 3 by selecting 'Not currently operational' and then choosing the applicable reason and providing the legal name of this other entity along with any other requested information.

Operating Name

The operating name is a name the business or organization is commonly known as if different from its legal name. The operating name is synonymous with trade name.

  • Legal name
  • Operating name (if applicable)

2. Verify or provide the contact information of the designated business or organization's contact person for this questionnaire and correct where needed.

Note: The designated contact person is the person who should receive this questionnaire. The designated contact person may not always be the one who actually completes the questionnaire.

  • First name
  • Last name
  • Title
  • Preferred language of communication
    • English
    • French
  • Mailing address (number and street)
  • City
  • Province, territory or state
  • Postal code or ZIP code
  • Country
    • Canada
    • United States
  • Email address
  • Telephone number (including area code)
  • Extension number (if applicable)
  • The maximum number of characters is 10.
  • Fax number (including area code)

3. Verify or provide the current operational status of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.

  • Operational
  • Not currently operational (e.g., temporarily or permanently closed, change of ownership)
    Why is this business or organization not currently operational?
    • Seasonal operations
      • When did this business or organization close for the season?
        • Date
      • When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
        • Date
    • Ceased operations
      • When did this business or organization cease operations?
        • Date
      • Why did this business or organization cease operations?
        • Bankruptcy
        • Liquidation
        • Dissolution
        • Other
      • Specify the other reasons why the operations ceased
    • Sold operations
      • When was this business or organization sold?
        • Date
      • What is the legal name of the buyer?
    • Amalgamated with other businesses or organizations
      • When did this business or organization amalgamate?
        • Date
      • What is the legal name of the resulting or continuing business or organization?
      • What are the legal names of the other amalgamated businesses or organizations?
    • Temporarily inactive but will re-open
      • When did this business or organization become temporarily inactive?
        • Date
      • When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
        • Date
      • Why is this business or organization temporarily inactive?
    • No longer operating due to other reasons
      • When did this business or organization cease operations?
        • Date
      • Why did this business or organization cease operations?

4. Verify or provide the current main activity of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.

This question verifies the business or organization's current main activity as classified by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). The NAICS is an industry classification system developed by the statistical agencies of Canada, Mexico and the United States. Created against the background of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is designed to provide common definitions of the industrial structure of the three countries and a common statistical framework to facilitate the analysis of the three economies. NAICS is based on supply-side or production-oriented principles, to ensure that industrial data, classified to NAICS , are suitable for the analysis of production-related issues such as industrial performance.

The target entity for which NAICS is designed are businesses and other organizations engaged in the production of goods and services. They include farms, incorporated and unincorporated businesses and government business enterprises. They also include government institutions and agencies engaged in the production of marketed and non-marketed services, as well as organizations such as professional associations and unions and charitable or non-profit organizations and the employees of households.

The associated NAICS should reflect those activities conducted by the business or organizational units targeted by this questionnaire only, as identified in the 'Answering this questionnaire' section and which can be identified by the specified legal and operating name. The main activity is the activity which most defines the targeted business or organization's main purpose or reason for existence. For a business or organization that is for-profit, it is normally the activity that generates the majority of the revenue for the entity.

The NAICS classification contains a limited number of activity classes; the associated classification might be applicable for this business or organization even if it is not exactly how you would describe this business or organization's main activity.

Please note that any modifications to the main activity through your response to this question might not necessarily be reflected prior to the transmitting of subsequent questionnaires and as a result they may not contain this updated information.

The following is the detailed description including any applicable examples or exclusions for the classification currently associated with this business or organization.

Description and examples

  • This is the current main activity
    • Provide a brief but precise description of this business or organization's main activity
    • e.g., breakfast cereal manufacturing, shoe store, software development
  • This is not the current main activity

Main activity

5. You indicated that is not the current main activity.

Was this business or organization's main activity ever classified as: ?

  • Yes
    • When did the main activity change?
    • Date
  • No

6. Search and select the industry classification code that best corresponds to this business or organization's main activity.

How to search:

  • If desired, you can filter the search results by first selecting the business or organization's activity sector.
  • Enter keywords or a brief description that best describe the business or organization's main activity.
  • Press the Search button to search the database for an industry activity classification that best matches the keywords or description you provided.
  • Select an industry activity classification from the list.

Select this business or organization's activity sector (optional)

  • Farming or logging operation
  • Construction company or general contractor
  • Manufacturer
  • Wholesaler
  • Retailer
  • Provider of passenger or freight transportation
  • Provider of investment, savings or insurance products
  • Real estate agency, real estate brokerage or leasing company
  • Provider of professional, scientific or technical services
  • Provider of health care or social services
  • Restaurant, bar, hotel, motel or other lodging establishment
  • Other sector

7. You have indicated that the current main activity of this business or organization is:

Main activity

Are there any other activities that contribute significantly (at least 10%) to this business or organization's revenue?

  • Yes, there are other activities
    • Provide a brief but precise description of this business or organization's secondary activity
    • e.g., breakfast cereal manufacturing, shoe store, software development
  • No, that is the only significant activity

8. Approximately what percentage of this business or organization's revenue is generated by each of the following activities?

When precise figures are not available, provide your best estimates.

Approximately what percentage of this business or organization's revenue is generated by each of the following activities?
  Percentage of revenue
Main activity  
Secondary activity  
All other activities  
Total percentage  

Method of collection

1. Indicate whether you will be answering the remaining questions or attaching files with the required information.

  • Answering the remaining questions
  • Attaching files

Attach files

2. Please attach the files that will provide the information required for the Annual Oil and Gas Extraction Survey.

To attach files

  • Press the Attach files button.
  • Choose the file to attach. Multiple files can be attached.

Note:

  • Each file must not exceed 5 MB .
  • All attachments combined must not exceed 50 MB .
  • The name and size of each file attached will be displayed on the page.

Accounting Standards and Methods

1. What accounting standard is used for this report?

  • IFRS
  • GAAP
  • ASPE
  • Other
    • Specify other accounting standard

2. What method is used in accounting for exploration expenditures?

  • Successful efforts
  • Full cost
  • Other
    • Specify other method

North American Industry Classification System

3. Which of the following methods were used by this business to extract oil and gas?

Select all that apply.

Oil and gas extraction (except oil sands)

Formerly classified as 211113, Conventional oil and gas extraction, this Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the exploration for, and/or production of, petroleum or natural gas from wells in which the hydrocarbons will initially flow or can be produced using normal pumping techniques.

Oil sands extraction

Formerly classified as 211114, Non-conventional oil extraction, this industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in producing crude oil from oil sands or from reservoirs in which the hydrocarbons are semisolids and conventional production methods are not possible.

Oil and Gas Extraction (except oil sands)

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the exploration for, and/or production of, petroleum or natural gas from wells in which the hydrocarbons will initially flow or can be produced using normal pumping techniques. Include gas plants.

Oil Sands Extraction

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in producing crude oil from oil sands or from reservoirs in which the hydrocarbons are semisolids and conventional production methods are not possible. Include in-situ and mined oil sands projects.

Revenues and expenses, deductions and net income

4. What was this business's gross revenue from each of the following sources?

Gross revenues

a. Sales

Report the sales or transfer value of produced goods or services before any adjustment or intersegment elimination. Please include royalties and taxes that are imposed at the time of sale. Exclude GST.

b. Other production revenue

Include all other production revenue not reported in 4a. Include sales of services related to the oil and gas industry such as gas processing and well operating fees. Amount reported here should equal (question 6).

c. Other non-production revenue

Include all revenue not reported in sales of crude oil and natural gas (4a) or other production revenue (4b) such as foreign currency gains and losses, dividends. The amount reported here should equal (question 8).

The total gross revenues equal the sum of question 4a., 4b. and 4c.

What was this business's gross revenue from each of the following sources?
  CAN$ '000
a. Sales of crude oil and natural gas
Include all revenue associated with the sale of extracted oil and gas.
Exclude royalties, taxes and other charges.
 
b. Other production revenue
e.g., sales of services related to the oil and gas industry such as gas processing and well operating fees.
A breakdown of this revenue by provincial and territorial jurisdiction will be asked later in this questionnaire (question 6).
 
c. Other non-production revenue
Include all revenue not reported in 4a or 4b, such as foreign currency gains and losses, dividends.
A breakdown of this revenue by provincial and territorial jurisdiction will be asked later in this questionnaire (question 8).
 
Total gross revenue (a + b + c)  

5. For which of the following provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions did this business have any other production revenue?

Select all that apply.

  • Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only
  • Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only
  • Prince Edward Island
  • Nova Scotia — offshore only
  • Nova Scotia — mainland only
  • New Brunswick
  • Quebec
  • Ontario
  • Manitoba
  • Saskatchewan
  • Alberta
  • British Columbia
  • Yukon
  • Northwest Territories
  • Nunavut

6. For the [amount] reported as other production revenue, what is the breakdown by provincial and/or territorial jurisdiction?

Only include revenue associated to the oil and gas industry

Total of this question should sum to value reported in Q4 (b).

Other production revenue

Please provide a provincial breakdown of values reported in question 4b.

Include sales of services related to the oil and gas industry such as gas processing and well operating fees.

For the [amount] reported as other production revenue, what is the breakdown by provincial and/or territorial jurisdiction?
  CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only  
Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia — offshore only  
Nova Scotia — mainland only  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
Total - other production revenue  

7. For which of the following provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions did this business have any other non-production revenue?

Select all that apply.

  • Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only
  • Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only
  • Prince Edward Island
  • Nova Scotia — offshore only
  • Nova Scotia — mainland only
  • New Brunswick
  • Quebec
  • Ontario
  • Manitoba
  • Saskatchewan
  • Alberta
  • British Columbia
  • Yukon
  • Northwest Territories
  • Nunavut

8. For the [amount] reported as other non-production revenue, what is the breakdown by provincial and/or territorial jurisdiction?

Include all revenue such as foreign currency gains and losses, dividends

Total of this question should sum to value reported in Q4 (c).

Other non-production revenue

Please provide a provincial breakdown of values reported in question 4c.

Include all non-production revenue such as foreign currency gains and losses, dividends.

For the [amount] reported as other non-production revenue, what is the breakdown by provincial and/or territorial jurisdiction?
  CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only  
Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia — offshore only  
Nova Scotia — mainland only  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
Total - other non-production revenue  

9. What were this business's expenses and deductions for the following items?

Exclude capitalised expenditures, which are to be reported later in the questionnaire.

Note: regarding partnerships and joint venture activities or projects, report the expenditures reflecting your company's net interest in such projects or ventures, as applicable.

Expenses, deductions and net income

a. Royalties and Similar Payments

The value reported here should equal the sum of provincial and freehold royalties for the Oil Sands Extraction sector plus the federal crown, provincial, and non-crown royalties for the Oil and Gas Extraction (except oil sands) sector, as applicable.

b. Operating expenditures

Include cost of materials and supplies used in production, surface lease rentals, lifting costs and all other expenditures which are related to producing operations. All general and administrative costs related to producing activities and charged to current year operations should also be included here.

The value reported here should equal the sum of total operating expenditures for the Oil Sands Extraction sector plus the sum of total operating expenditures for the Oil and Gas Extraction (except oil sands) sector, as applicable. The breakdown of the operating expenditures will be requested later in the questionnaire.

Exclude any non-cash charges and royalties.

c. Salaries, wages and benefits

Include the cost of salaries and wages (including bonuses and commissions, employer contributions to pension, medical, unemployment insurance plans, etc. ) paid to your own workforce during the reporting period.

d. Other operating expenditures

Include only costs associated with non-producing operations and other expense items not reported elsewhere, e.g., a natural gas processing fee paid to other companies.

e. Interest expense

Include interest paid on bank loans, bonds, etc.

f. Federal income tax

Include federal income tax pertaining to the current period and assumed to be currently due.

g. Provincial income tax

Include provincial income tax pertaining to the current period and assumed to be currently due. The amount reported should include the Saskatchewan Corporate Capital Tax Surcharge if applicable.

h. Deferred income tax

Include accrued tax obligations reflected as an expense in the income statement, but not payable in the current reporting period.

i. Exploration and development charged to current operations

Include exploration and development expenses charged to current operations.

j. Amortization and depreciation expense

The systematic charge-off to expense of costs for depreciable assets that had been initially capitalised or deferred. Write-downs of depreciable assets resulting from impairments should be included in this category. However, write-offs arising from unusual dispositions and gains and/or losses on sales of assets should be reported in question 9l. and 9m. respectively.

k. Depletion

Include the current depletion charges for costs subject to such deduction. Write-offs resulting from the application of ceiling tests should be reported in question 9l., 'Write-offs and amortization of deferred charges'. Gains and losses on disposal of properties should be reported in question 9m., 'Other non-cash expenses and deductions'.

l. Write-offs and amortization of deferred charges

Adjustments may be made for non-operating items which the company ordinarily eliminates from its reported 'Internal cash flow'.

m. Other non-cash expenses and deductions

Include non-cash items not reported elsewhere such as unrealised losses on currency transactions, non-controlling shareholders' interest in earnings of consolidated subsidiaries, and the equity portion of losses of unconsolidated affiliates. This item should be reduced by such non-cash revenue items as unrealised currency gains, non-controlling shareholders' interest in losses of consolidated subsidiaries, and equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates.

The subtotal of expenses and deductions equals the sum of question 9a. to 9m.

The total net income equals the total gross revenues minus the subtotal of expenses and deductions.

What were this business's expenses and deductions for the following items?
  CAN$ '000
a. Royalties and similar payments  
b. Operating expenses
Figures reported here should equal the sum reported for the oil sands extraction sector (question 33) plus the sum reported for the oil and gas extraction sector (questions 35 to 38).
 
c. Salaries, wages and benefits  
d. Other operating expenses  
e. Interest expense  
f. Federal income tax  
g. Provincial income tax  
h. Deferred income tax  
i. Exploration and development charged to current operations  
j. Amortization and depreciation expense  
k. Depletion  
l. Write-offs and amortization of deferred charges  
m. Other non-cash expenses and deductions  
Subtotal expenses and deductions  
Total gross revenue
Previously reported in question 4.
 
Total net income
Total gross revenues minus total expenses and deductions.
 

10. How many employees did this business have?

Provide the number of employees associated with the expenses for salaries, wages and benefits (item 9c.).

Number of employees

Balance Sheet

11. What were this business's upstream assets?

Balance sheet

a. Total current assets

Include such items as cash, marketable securities, accounts receivable, inventories, etc.

b. Net capital assets

Include land not held for the purpose of re-sale, amortizable assets such as buildings, machinery and equipment, etc.

c. Other assets

Include all assets not reported as either current or capital assets.

Total assets equals the sum of questions 11a. to c.

What were this business's upstream assets?
  CAN$ '000
a. Total current assets  
b. Net capital assets  
c. Other assets  
Total assets  

12. What were this business's upstream liabilities and equity?

Balance sheet

a. Current liabilities

Include such items as current portion of long-term debt, accounts payable, notes payable, etc.

b. Long-term debt

Include all debt with a maturity of greater than one year.

c. Other liabilities

Include all liabilities not reported as either a current liability or long-term debt.

d. Equity

Include common shares, preferred shares, retained earnings and all other equity.

Total liabilities and equity equal the sum of questions 12a. to d.

What were this business's upstream liabilities and equity?
  CAN$ '000
a. Current liabilities  
b. Long term debt  
c. Other liabilities  
d. Equity  
Total liabilities and equity  

Abandonment and reclamation costs

13. Did this business have any associated abandonment and reclamation costs?

Include all costs such as well plugging and abandonment and remediation.

  • Yes
  • No

14. What were the associated abandonment and reclamation costs for your operations?

Include all costs such as well plugging and abandonment and remediation.

Figures reported here should equal to the sum reported for abandonment and reclamation costs by provincial and territorial jurisdictions (question 16).

Abandonment and Reclamation

Include costs such as well plugging and abandonment, well suspension, casing removal, zone abandonments, plug backs, reclamation and remediation.

CAN$ '000

15. For which of the following provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions did this business have abandonment and reclamation costs?

Select all that apply.

  • Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only
  • Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only
  • Prince Edward Island
  • Nova Scotia — offshore only
  • Nova Scotia — mainland only
  • New Brunswick
  • Quebec
  • Ontario
  • Manitoba
  • Saskatchewan
  • Alberta
  • British Columbia
  • Yukon
  • Northwest Territories
  • Nunavut

16. For the [amount] reported as abandonment and reclamation costs, what is the breakdown by provincial and/or territorial jurisdiction?

Abandonment and Reclamation

Include costs such as well plugging and abandonment, well suspension, casing removal, zone abandonments, plug backs, reclamation and remediation.

For which of the following provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions did this business have abandonment and reclamation costs?
  CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only  
Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia — offshore only  
Nova Scotia — mainland only  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
Total - abandonment and reclamation costs  

Capital expenditures for crude oil in-situ, mining or upgraders

17. Which of the following methods of crude oil extraction are employed by this business?

Include this business's own operations as well as partnerships and joint venture activities or projects as applicable. In the next section of the questionnaire, report the expenditures reflecting your company's net interest in such oil sands projects or ventures.

Select all that apply.

Capital expenditures for crude oil in situ, mining or upgraders

Note: Regarding partnerships and joint venture activities or projects, report the expenditures reflecting your company's net interest in such oil sands projects or ventures.

In situ:

In situ refers to extraction employing techniques of drilling wells and then injecting steam, combustion or other sources of heat into the reservoir to warm the bitumen so it can be pumped to the surface.

Mining:

Mining is the use of machinery and equipment to extract deposits that are close to the surface.

Upgraders:

Upgraders convert heavy bitumen into lighter crude oil.

  • In-situ
    • i.e., drilling wells and then injecting steam, combustion or other sources of heat into the reservoir to warm the bitumen so it can be pumped to the surface
  • Mining
    • i.e., the use of machinery and equipment to extract deposits that are close to the surface
  • Upgraders
    • i.e., converting heavy bitumen into lighter crude oil

18. In the oil sands extraction sector, what capital expenditures did this business have?

Note: regarding partnerships and joint venture activities or projects, report the expenditures reflecting your company's net interest in such oil sands projects or ventures.

Select all that apply.

  • Capital expenditures for crude oil in situ, mining or upgraders
  • Oil rights acquisition and retention costs
  • Include all fees associated with using land agents.
  • Land and leases purchased from others
  • Include all fees associated with using land agents.
  • Machinery and Equipment
  • Include items such as boilers, compressors, motors, pumps and any other items that may be termed manufacturing or mining equipment as opposed to a fixed installation such as a building.
  • Housing
  • Value of residential structures and related infrastructures within a company town-site.
  • Drilling and pre-mining expenditures
  • Drilling expenditures include core hole and delineation drilling. Include the cost of casing and other materials and equipment left in place, core analysis, logging, road building, and other directly related services. Pre-mining costs include overburden removal and other pre-production expenditures.
  • Cost of capitalised overhead
  • Report the cost of capitalised overhead not allocated in questions 19-23. These overhead charges should exclude any amounts to be reported later in the questionnaire for the Oil and Gas Extraction (except oil sands) sector.
  • Research and other capital expenditures
  • Include all research costs associated with oil sands extraction and/or natural gas extraction, such as laboratory work, consultants' fees, performance evaluations and experimental pilot plants (including any capitalised operating expenditures). Other costs include items such as drainage systems, roadways, tankages, anti-pollution equipment and fixed installations not including machinery and equipment included in question 21.

Note: On the paper version of this questionnaire, these capital expenditures were reported in Schedule II, lines 1-6.

  • Oil rights acquisition, fees and retention
  • Land and leases purchased from others
  • Machinery and equipment
  • Housing
  • Drilling and pre-mining
  • Include over burden removal.
  • Capitalised overhead
  • Exclude operating expenditures and royalties.
  • Research and other expenditures

19. What were the capital expenditures for the acquisition of oil rights, fees and retention for the following operations?

Capital expenditures for crude oil in situ, mining or upgraders

Expenditures associated with land and lease acquisition relating to oil rights, fees and retention.

Include all fees associated with using land agents.

Note: Regarding partnerships and joint venture activities or projects, report the expenditures reflecting your company's net interest in such oil sands projects or ventures.

What were the capital expenditures for the acquisition of oil rights, fees and retention for the following operations?
  CAN$ '000
In-situ  
Mining  
Upgraders  
Total capital expenditures for the acquisition of oil rights, fees and retention  

20. What were the capital expenditures for land and leases purchased from other businesses for the following operations?

Capital expenditures for crude oil in situ, mining or upgraders

Expenditures associated with the purchase of land and lease from others.

Include all fees associated with using land agents.

Note: Regarding partnerships and joint venture activities or projects, report the expenditures reflecting your company's net interest in such oil sands projects or ventures.

What were the capital expenditures for land and leases purchased from other businesses for the following operations?
  CAN$ '000
In-situ  
Mining  
Upgraders  
Total capital expenditures for land and leases purchased from other businesses  

21. What were the capital expenditures for machinery and equipment for the following operations?

Capital expenditures for crude oil in situ, mining or upgraders

Include items such as boilers, compressors, motors, pumps and any other items that may be termed manufacturing or mining equipment as opposed to a fixed installation such as a building.

Note: Regarding partnerships and joint venture activities or projects, report the expenditures reflecting your company's net interest in such oil sands projects or ventures.

What were the capital expenditures for machinery and equipment for the following operations?
  CAN$ '000
In-situ  
Mining  
Upgraders  
Total capital expenditures for machinery and equipment  

22. What were the capital expenditures for housing for the following operations?

Capital expenditures for crude oil in situ, mining or upgraders

Value of residential structures and related infrastructures within a company town-site.

Note: Regarding partnerships and joint venture activities or projects, report the expenditures reflecting your company's net interest in such oil sands projects or ventures.

What were the capital expenditures for housing for the following operations?
  CAN$ '000
In-situ  
Mining  
Upgraders  
Total capital expenditures for housing  

23. What were the capital expenditures for drilling and pre-mining for the following operations?

Include overburden removal.

Capital expenditures for crude oil in situ, mining or upgraders

Drilling expenditures include core hole and delineation drilling. Include the cost of casing and other materials and equipment left in place, core analysis, logging, road building, and other directly related services. Pre-mining costs include overburden removal and other pre-production expenditures.

Note: Regarding partnerships and joint venture activities or projects, report the expenditures reflecting your company's net interest in such oil sands projects or ventures.

What were the capital expenditures for drilling and pre-mining for the following operations?
  CAN$ '000
In-situ  
Mining  
Upgraders  
Total capital expenditures for drilling and pre-mining  

24. What were the capital expenditures for capitalised overhead for the following operations?

Exclude operating expenditures and royalties.

Capital expenditures for crude oil in situ, mining or upgraders

Report the cost of capitalised overhead not allocated in questions 19-23. These overhead charges should exclude any amounts to be reported later in the questionnaire for the Oil and Gas Extraction (except oil sands) sector.

Note: Regarding partnerships and joint venture activities or projects, report the expenditures reflecting your company's net interest in such oil sands projects or ventures.

What were the capital expenditures for capitalised overhead for the following operations?
  CAN$ '000
In-situ  
Mining  
Upgraders  
Total capital expenditures for capitalised overhead  

25. What were the capital expenditures for research and other expenditures for the following operations?

Exclude operating expenditures and royalties.

Capital expenditures for crude oil in situ, mining or upgraders

Include all research costs associated with oil sands extraction oil and/or natural gas extraction, such as laboratory work, consultants' fees, performance evaluations and experimental pilot plants (including any capitalised operating expenditures). Other costs include items such as drainage systems, roadways, tankages, anti-pollution equipment and fixed installations not including machinery and equipment included in question 21.

What were the capital expenditures for research and other expenditures for the following operations?
  CAN$ '000
In-situ  
Mining  
Upgraders  
Total capital expenditures for research and other expenditures  

Summary of capital expenditure for crude oil in-situ, mining or upgraders

26. This is a summary of your business's capital expenditures in the oil sands extraction sector.

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This is a summary of your business's capital expenditures in the oil sands extraction sector.
  CAN$ '000
Total capital expenditures for in-situ  
Total capital expenditures for mining  
Total capital expenditures for upgraders  
Total capital expenditures  

Operating expenses for crude oil in-situ, mining or upgraders

27. What operating expenses did this business have?

Select all that apply.

Operating expenditures for crude oil in situ, mining or upgraders

Field, well or plant expenditures

Include all direct operating expenses and any other expenses directly related to the mining, stimulation, processing, upgrading and delivery of the product, and cost of purchased fuel and electricity.

Taxes

Include taxes to federal, provincial and municipal governments such as property taxes, commodity tax, and carbon tax but exclude royalties, income taxes, and taxes that are part of the list price of purchases.

Fuel and purchased electricity

Include costs for fuel and electricity for all sites.

Water handling and disposal

Include all costs pertaining to water handling and disposal.

Operating overhead

Include all remaining general and administrative expenses related to crude oil in situ, mining, upgraders or natural gas production, including any corporate allocation to this segment. (These overhead charges should exclude any reported at question 24 for capitalised overheads.)

  • Field, well and/or plant
  • Taxes
  • Exclude income taxes and royalties.
  • Purchased fuel and electricity
  • Water handling and disposal
  • Operating overhead

28. What were the field, well and/or plant expenses for the following operations?

Operating expenditures for crude oil in situ, mining or upgraders

Include all direct operating expenses and any other expenses directly related to the mining, stimulation, processing, upgrading and delivery of the product, and cost of purchased fuel and electricity.

What were the field, well and/or plant expenses for the following operations?
  CAN$ '000
In-situ  
Mining  
Upgraders  
Total operating expenses for field, well and/or plant  

29. What were the taxes incurred for the following operations?

Exclude income taxes and royalties.

Operating expenditures for crude oil in situ, mining or upgraders

Include taxes to federal, provincial and municipal governments such as property taxes, commodity tax, and carbon tax but exclude royalties, income taxes, and taxes that are part of the list price of purchases.

What were the taxes incurred for the following operations?
  CAN$ '000
In-situ  
Mining  
Upgraders  
Total taxes incurred from operations  

30. What were the purchased fuel and electricity expenses for the following operations?

Operating expenditures for crude oil in situ, mining or upgraders

Include costs for fuel and electricity for all sites.

What were the purchased fuel and electricity expenses for the following operations?
  CAN$ '000
In-situ  
Mining  
Upgraders  
Total operating expenses for purchased fuel and electricity  

31. What were the water handling and disposal expenses for the following operations?

Exclude operating expenditures and royalties.

Operating expenditures for crude oil in situ, mining or upgraders

Include all costs pertaining to water handling and disposal.

What were the water handling and disposal expenses for the following operations?
  CAN$ '000
In-situ  
Mining  
Upgraders  
Total operating expenses for water handling and disposal  

32. What were the operating overhead expenses for the following operations?

Exclude operating expenditures and royalties.

Operating expenditures for crude oil in situ, mining or upgraders

Include all remaining general and administrative expenses related to crude oil in situ, mining, upgraders or natural gas production, including any corporate allocation to this segment. (These overhead charges should exclude any reported at question 24 for capitalised overheads).

What were the operating overhead expenses for the following operations?
  CAN$ '000
In-situ  
Mining  
Upgraders  
Total operating expenses for overhead  

Summary of operating expenses for crude oil in-situ, mining or upgraders

33. This is a summary of operating expenses for crude oil in-situ, mining or upgraders.

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This is a summary of operating expenses for crude oil in-situ, mining or upgraders.
  CAN$ '000
Total operating expenses for crude oil in-situ  
Total operating expenses for crude oil mining  
Total operating expenses for crude oil upgraders  
Total operating expenses  

Operating expenses by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions - Oil and gas extraction sector (except oil sands)

34. For which of the following provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions did this business incur operating expenses?

Select all that apply.

Operating expenditures by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions

Operating costs include all direct operating expenses such as wages and salaries, materials and supplies, fuel and power, well conditioning costs, municipal taxes, other direct operating expenses, maintenance and repairs expensed and contract services. Also include the non-capitalised cost of purchased injection materials used in enhanced recovery projects.

  • Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only
  • Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only
  • Prince Edward Island
  • Nova Scotia — offshore only
  • Nova Scotia — mainland only
  • New Brunswick
  • Quebec
  • Ontario
  • Manitoba
  • Saskatchewan
  • Alberta
  • British Columbia
  • Yukon
  • Northwest Territories
  • Nunavut

Did not incur operating expenses within Canada

35. What were this business's operating expenses for field, well and gathering operations by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?

Operating expenditures by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions

Include primary, secondary, and tertiary recovery and pressure maintenance facilities, gathering systems and other well site facilities, surface lease rentals, and cost of purchased fuel and electricity.

What were this business's operating expenses for field, well and gathering operations by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?
  CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only  
Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia — offshore only  
Nova Scotia — mainland only  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
Total operating expenses for field, well and gathering operations  

36. What were this business's operating expenses for natural gas processing plants by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?

Operating expenditures by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions

Include expenses associated with field processing plants as well as reprocessing activities, recycling projects, and cost of purchased fuel and electricity.

What were this business's operating expenses for natural gas processing plants by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?
  CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only  
Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia — offshore only  
Nova Scotia — mainland only  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
Total operating expenses for natural gas processing plants  

37. What were this business's operating expenses for taxes by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?

Exclude income tax and royalties.

Operating expenditures by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions

Include taxes to federal, provincial and municipal governments, but exclude royalties, income taxes, and taxes that are part of the list price of purchases.

What were this business's operating expenses for taxes by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?
  CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only  
Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia — offshore only  
Nova Scotia — mainland only  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
Total operating expenses for taxes  

38. What were this business's operating expenses for overhead by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?

Operating expenditures by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions

Include all remaining general and administrative expenses related to upstream operations, including any corporate allocation to this segment.

What were this business's operating expenses for overhead by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?
  CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only  
Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia — offshore only  
Nova Scotia — mainland only  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
Total operating expenses for overhead  

Upstream expenditures by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions — Oil and gas extraction sector (except oil sands)

39. For which provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions did this business incur upstream capital expenditures in exploration, development and production?

Select all that apply.

  • Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only
  • Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only
  • Prince Edward Island
  • Nova Scotia — offshore only
  • Nova Scotia — mainland only
  • New Brunswick
  • Quebec
  • Ontario
  • Manitoba
  • Saskatchewan
  • Alberta
  • British Columbia
  • Yukon
  • Northwest Territories
  • Nunavut

Did not incur capital expenditures within Canada

40. What were this business's upstream exploration expenditures for oil and gas rights acquisition and retention by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?

Include overhead.

Upstream exploration expenditures by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions

Acquisition and retention costs and fees for oil and gas rights. Include bonuses, legal fees and filing fees. Exclude inter-company sales or transfers.

Include all fees associated with using land agents.

What were this business's upstream exploration expenditures for oil and gas rights acquisition and retention by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?
  CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only  
Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia — offshore only  
Nova Scotia — mainland only  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
Total upstream expenditures for oil and gas rights acquisition and retention  

41. What were this business's upstream exploration expenditures for land and leases purchased from other petroleum companies by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?

Upstream exploration expenditures by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions

Purchases from companies that are engaged primarily in petroleum activities.

Include all fees associated with using land agents.

What were this business's upstream exploration expenditures for land and leases purchased from other petroleum companies by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?
  CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only  
Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia — offshore only  
Nova Scotia — mainland only  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
Total upstream expenditures for land and leases purchased from other petroleum companies  

42. What were this business's upstream exploration expenditures for geological and geophysical services by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?

Upstream exploration expenditures by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions

Include such activities as seismic crew expenses, both company owned and contract. Include camp, bulldozing and dirt work, flying crews in and out, seismograph, velocity survey, gravity meter, magnetometer, core drilling, photo geological digital processing, magnetic playback and bottom hole contributions and environmental impact studies and other similar pre-exploration expenditures. All seismic or geological and geophysical expenditures (including stratigraphic tests) should be reported here, whether such activity is deemed exploration or development by the company.

What were this business's upstream exploration expenditures for geological and geophysical services by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?
  CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only  
Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia — offshore only  
Nova Scotia — mainland only  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
Total upstream expenditures for geological and geophysical services  

43. What were this business's upstream exploration expenditures for exploration drilling by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?

What were this business's upstream exploration expenditures for geological and geophysical services by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?

Drilling outside a proven area or within a proven area, but to a previously untested horizon, in order to determine whether oil or gas reserves exist rather than to develop proven reserves discovered by previous drilling. Include costs of dry wells, casing and other materials and equipment abandoned in place; productive wells, including capped wells; and wells still in progress at year-end. Also include costs incurred in fighting blow-outs, runaways, and in replacing damaged equipment.

What were this business's upstream exploration expenditures for exploration drilling by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?
  CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only  
Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia — offshore only  
Nova Scotia — mainland only  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
Total upstream expenditures for exploration drilling  

44. What were this business's upstream development expenditures for development drilling by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?

Upstream development expenditures by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions

Drilling within the proven area of an oil or gas reservoir to the depth of a stratigraphic horizon known to be productive for the purpose of extracting oil or gas reserves. This will cover costs of dry wells, including casing and other materials and equipment abandoned in place; productive wells, including capped well; and wells still in progress at year end. Include costs incurred in fighting blow-outs, runaways, and in replacing damaged equipment. Exclude costs associated with service wells.

Note: There should be no development expenditures until a development plan has been approved.

What were this business's upstream development expenditures for development drilling by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?
  CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only  
Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia — offshore only  
Nova Scotia — mainland only  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
Total upstream expenditures for development drilling  

45. What were this business's upstream development expenditures for proven reserves purchased by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?

Upstream development expenditures by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions

Purchases from those companies that are engaged primarily in petroleum activities.

What were this business's upstream development expenditures for proven reserves purchased by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?
  CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only  
Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia — offshore only  
Nova Scotia — mainland only  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
Total upstream expenditures for proven reserves purchased  

46. What were this business's upstream production expenditures for production and non-production facilities, contract drilling rigs and supply boats by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?

Upstream production expenditures by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions

Production facilities

Include tangible well and lease equipment comprising casing, tubing, wellheads, pumps, flowlines, separators, treaters, dehydrators. Include gathering pipelines, lease and centralized tank batteries and associated facilities prior to delivery to trunk pipelines terminals, and other production facilities. Also include costs associated with intangibles such as pre-production studies costs, and those expenditures that you consider to be pre-development.

Non-production facilities

Include automotive, aeroplane, communication, office and miscellaneous equipment not otherwise provided.

Drilling rigs and supply boats

Report expenditures including progress payments for the purchase of new and imported used and new drilling rigs (on and offshore) and supply boats.

What were this business's upstream production expenditures for production and non-production facilities, contract drilling rigs and supply boats by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?
  CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only  
Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia — offshore only  
Nova Scotia — mainland only  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
Total upstream expenditures for production and non-production facilities, contract drilling rigs and supply boats  

47. What were this business's upstream production expenditures for enhanced recovery projects by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?

Upstream production expenditures by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions

Include only expenditures on facilities in tertiary projects involving steam injection, miscible flooding, etc. Include service wells, both tangible and intangible, including the costs of drilling and equipping injection wells and also the cost of capitalised injection fuel (miscible fluid) costs, but exclude non-recoverable injection fluids charged to current operations.

What were this business's upstream production expenditures for enhanced recovery projects by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?
  CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only  
Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia — offshore only  
Nova Scotia — mainland only  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
Total upstream expenditures for production and non-production facilities, contract drilling rigs and supply boats  

48. What were this business's upstream production expenditures for natural gas processing plants by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?

Upstream production expenditures by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions

Report only the capitalised amounts of the plants, including structures, measuring, regulating and related equipment.

What were this business's upstream production expenditures for natural gas processing plants by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?
  CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only  
Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia — offshore only  
Nova Scotia — mainland only  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
Total upstream expenditures for natural gas processing plants  

49. What were this business's upstream overhead expenditures for exploration by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?

Upstream overhead expenditures by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions

Allocate capitalised upstream overhead to the categories indicated. These overhead charges should exclude any reported in question 38 (operating expenditures for overhead).

What were this business's upstream overhead expenditures for exploration by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?
  CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only  
Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia — offshore only  
Nova Scotia — mainland only  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
Total upstream expenditures for exploration  

50. What were this business's upstream overhead expenditures for development by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?

Upstream overhead expenditures by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions

Allocate capitalised upstream overhead to the categories indicated. These overhead charges should exclude any reported in question 38 (operating expenditures for overhead).

What were this business's upstream overhead expenditures for development by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?
  CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only  
Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia — offshore only  
Nova Scotia — mainland only  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
Total upstream expenditures for development  

51. What were this business's upstream overhead expenditures for production by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?

Upstream overhead expenditures by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions

Allocate capitalised upstream overhead to the categories indicated. These overhead charges should exclude any reported in question 38 (operating expenditures for overhead).

What were this business's upstream overhead expenditures for production by provincial and/or territorial jurisdictions?
  CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador — offshore only  
Newfoundland and Labrador — mainland only  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia — offshore only  
Nova Scotia — mainland only  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
Total upstream expenditures for production  

Changes or events

1. Indicate any changes or events that affected the reported values for this business or organization, compared with the last reporting period.

Select all that apply.

  • Strike or lock-out
  • Exchange rate impact
  • Price changes in goods or services sold
  • Contracting out
  • Organizational change
  • Price changes in labour or raw materials
  • Natural disaster
  • Recession
  • Change in product line
  • Sold business or business units
  • Expansion
  • New or lost contract
  • Plant closures
  • Acquisition of business or business units
  • Other
  • Specify the other changes or events:
  • No changes or events

Contact person

1. Statistics Canada may need to contact the person who completed this questionnaire for further information.

Is the provided given names and the provided family name the best person to contact?

  • Yes
  • No

Who is the best person to contact about this questionnaire?

  • First name:
  • Last name:
  • Title:
  • Email address:
  • Telephone number (including area code):
  • Extension number (if applicable):
  • The maximum number of characters is 5.
  • Fax number (including area code):

Feedback

1. How long did it take to complete this questionnaire?

Include the time spent gathering the necessary information.

  • Hours:
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2. Do you have any comments about this questionnaire?

2024 Census Test - Data Quality Project - Dwelling Classification Survey

Form 91Q

Confidential when completed.

This information is collected under the authority of the Statistics Act. R.S.C., 1985, c. S-19

Control use

SSID

  • Prov.
  • CD No.
  • CU No.
  • VR Line No.

Contact person

Office Use Only

Result of interview

  1. Completed questionnaire
  2. Incomplete questionnaire

Section I — Address or Exact Location of This Dwelling

Transcribe from the Assignment List (Form 1B)

  • Street and No. or lot and concession
  • Apt. No.
  • City, town, village
  • Province/territory
  • Postal Code
  • AD

Section II — Verification of Dwelling

Interviewer check item:
1. Is there a dwelling (a set of living quarters with a private entrance) at the address listed above?

  1. Yes; Continue with Question 2
  2. No; What is located at this address?
    1. Business or professional office of some sort (e.g., dentist office, gas station); Continue with Question 2
    2. Dwelling under construction; Continue with Question 2
    3. Dwelling demolished; Continue with Question 2
    4. Empty lot; Continue with Question 2
    5. Could not locate address; End interview
    6. Apartment no longer used as a separate dwelling; Continue with Question 2
    7. Other – Specify; End interview

Read script: refer to Form 91R
2. On Census Test Day, Tuesday, May 14, was there a single set of living quarters at this address, or was there more than one?

  1. None; End interview
  2. One; Continue with Question 3
  3. More than one; Did each have a private entrance?
    1. Yes; Go to Question 3 and complete a separate questionnaire for each dwelling
    2. No; Go to Question 3

Interviewer check item:
3. Identify person contacted.

  • Family name
  • Given name and initial(s)
  1. Occupant
  2. Neighbour
  3. Superintendent or building manager
  4. Other; Specify

Section III — Dwelling Occupancy Status on May 14, 2024

4. Was someone living in the dwelling on Census Test Day?

  1. Yes; Continue with Question 5
  2. No; Go to Question 6
  3. Don't know; End interview and find another contact
  • If the dwelling is now occupied but the occupancy on May 14, 2024 is unknown, check "Don't know".
  • Only check "Yes" or "No" based on the occupancy on Census Test Day, Tuesday, May 14, 2024.

5. On Census Test Day, were they living in the dwelling on a temporary or occasional basis, or was it their usual home?
A temporary or occasional basis would include such things as staying at a summer home or a second home.

  1. Temporary – Specify; Go to Question 15
  2. Usual Home; Go to Question 17
  3. Don't know; Go to Question 17

6. Is the dwelling generally occupied on a temporary or occasional basis, or is it someone's usual home?
A temporary or occasional basis would include such things as a summer home or a second home.

  1. Temporary – Specify; Go to Question 15
  2. Usual Home; Continue with Question 7
  3. Don't know; Continue with Question 7

7. Were the usual residents temporarily away, or staying outside of Canada on Census Test Day, Tuesday, May 14?
Temporarily away includes being away on business, at a summer home, on vacation, or at school.

  1. Yes – Specify; Go to Question 17
  2. No; Continue with Question 8
  3. Don't know; Continue with Question 8

Section IV— Interview A — Dwelling Unoccupied on May 14, 2024

8. Was anyone living in the dwelling at any time between May 1st and Census Test Day, Tuesday, May 14?

  1. Yes; Continue with Question 9
  2. No; Go to Question 11
  3. Don't know; Go to Question 11

9. Were they living in this dwelling on a temporary or occasional basis, or was it their usual home?
A temporary or occasional basis would include such things as staying at a summer home or a second home.

  1. Temporary; Go to Question 15
  2. Usual home; Continue with Question 10
  3. Don't know; Go to Question 11

10. Could you tell me when these former occupants moved out of the dwelling?

  1. On or before May 13, 2024; Continue with Question 11
  2. On or after May 14, 2024; Return to Question 4, and obtain information about the dwelling for Census Test Day. Use a new questionnaire if necessary.
  3. Don't know; Continue with Question 11

Interviewer check item:
11. Is the person being interviewed an occupant of the dwelling listed in SECTION I?

  1. Yes; Continue with Question 12
  2. No; Go to Question 13

12. On what date did your household move into this dwelling?

  1. On or before May 14, 2024; Return to Question 4, and obtain information about the dwelling for Census Test Day. Use a new questionnaire if necessary.
  2. On or after May 15, 2024; Go to Question 15
  3. Don’t know; Go to Question 15

13. Is someone currently living in the dwelling?

  1. Yes; Continue with Question 14
  2. No; Go to Question 15
  3. Don't know; Go to Question 15

14. On what date did the current occupant(s) move into the dwelling?

  1. On or before May 14, 2024; Return to Question 4, and obtain information about the dwelling for Census Test Day. Use a new questionnaire if necessary.
  2. On or after May 15, 2024; Continue with Question 15
  3. Don't know; Continue with Question 15

15. Was this dwelling suitable for year-round occupancy on Census Test Day, Tuesday, May 14?
That is, did it have a source of heat or power, and provide complete shelter from the elements?

  1. Yes; Continue with Question 16
  2. No; Continue with Question 16
  3. Don't know; Continue with Question 16

16. Was this dwelling under construction or major renovation on Census Test Day, Tuesday, May 14?

  1. Yes; End interview and complete Question 24 and Question 25
  2. No; End interview and complete Question 24 and Question 25
  3. Don't know; End interview and complete Question 24 and Question 25

Section V — Interview B — Dwelling Occupied on May 14, 2024

17. How many persons were living in the dwelling on Census Test Day, Tuesday, May 14?

Include:

  • All persons who had their main residence at this address on May 14, 2024, including newborn babies, roommates and persons who were temporarily away,
  • Canadian citizens, landed immigrants (permanent residents), persons asking for refugee status (asylum seekers), persons from another country with a work or study permit and family members living here with them,
  • Persons who were staying at this address temporarily on May 14, 2024 who had no main residence elsewhere.

Exclude:

  • Visitors who had their main residence elsewhere in Canada,
  • Government representatives of another country or members of the Armed Forces of another country and their families,
  • Residents of another country visiting Canada, for example, on a business trip or on vacation.
  1. number of persons; Continue with Question 18
    If "00" persons (meaning ALL persons living in this dwelling are in the "Exclude" group) End interview and complete Question 24 and Question 25
  2. Don't know; Continue with Question 18

18. When did these people move into this dwelling?

  1. On or before May 14, 2024; Go to Question 21
  2. On or after May 15, 2024; Continue with Question 19
  3. Don't know; Go to Question 23

19. Did anyone live in the dwelling prior to these people?

  1. Yes; Continue with Question 20
  2. No; Return to Question 4, and obtain information about the dwelling for Census Test Day. Use a new questionnaire if necessary.
  3. Don't know; Go to Question 23

20. When did these former occupants move out of this dwelling?

  1. On or before May 13, 2024; Return to Question 4, and obtain information about the dwelling for Census Test Day. Use a new questionnaire if necessary
  2. On or after May 14, 2024; Return to Question 17 and obtain information for the May 14 occupants
  3. Don't know; Go to Question 23

21. Do these people still live in the dwelling?

  1. Yes; Go to Question 23
  2. No; Continue with Question 22
  3. Don't know; Go to Question 23

22. When did these people move out of the dwelling?

  1. On or before May 13, 2024; Return to Question 4, and obtain information about the dwelling for Census Test Day. Use a new questionnaire if necessary.
  2. On or after May 14, 2024; Go to Question 23
  3. Don't know; Go to Question 23

23. For each person usually living in the dwelling on Census Test Day, Tuesday, May 14, what is their approximate age?

Interviewer instructions:
Refer to Question 17 to obtain the total number of persons.
If Question 17 has no response or the number of persons is "00" or more than "06", End interview and complete Question 24 and Question 25.

  1. Number of persons

Obtain the age group for each person. If the age of a person is unknown, a best guess is acceptable. If it’s unclear which category to choose, read the age groups out loud to the respondent for clarification.

List of household members - Census Test Day, May 14, 2024
Table summary
This table contains no data. It is an example of an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada.
Household Members Person 1 Person 2 Person 3 Person 4 Person 5 Person 6
Age Group
  • 0-19
  • 20-29
  • 30-44
  • 45-59
  • 60+
  • 0-19
  • 20-29
  • 30-44
  • 45-59
  • 60+
  • 0-19
  • 20-29
  • 30-44
  • 45-59
  • 60+
  • 0-19
  • 20-29
  • 30-44
  • 45-59
  • 60+
  • 0-19
  • 20-29
  • 30-44
  • 45-59
  • 60+
  • 0-19
  • 20-29
  • 30-44
  • 45-59
  • 60+

End interview and complete Question 24 and 25.

Section VI — Classification of Dwelling

Interviewer:
To be completed by interviewer upon completion of interview.

24. What is the "dwelling type" of the dwelling listed in Section I? Mark one circle only.
For a list of dwelling types and their definitions refer to page 6.

  1. Single-detached house
  2. Semi-detached house
  3. Row house
  4. Apartment or flat in a duplex
  5. Apartment in a building that has five or more storeys
  6. Apartment in a building that has fewer than five storeys
  7. Other single-attached house
  8. Mobile home
  9. Other movable dwelling

25. Is the dwelling listed in Section l suitable for year round occupancy?
That is, does it have a source of heat or power, and provide complete shelter from the elements?

  1. Yes
  2. No
  3. Don't know

Section VII — Situations in the Field

Interviewer check item:
Check all that apply. Explain situations in Section VIII - Comments.

  1. "No dwelling exists" or "Could not locate address" - explain the situation
  2. More than one dwelling at the same address – explain the situation & write down the exact number of dwellings at this address
  3. Two addresses describe the same dwelling (i.e. AD=01) – write down the SSID for each dwelling
  4. Only one of the two addresses associated with the dwelling is listed on the Assignment List, Form 1B, you will conduct one interview for the entire dwelling (i.e. AD=02) – write the other address associated with the dwelling
  5. Dwelling is a business or collective dwelling with a private dwelling at the address – explain the situation
  6. Refusal by the occupant
  7. Refusal by NON-occupant
  8. Received a completed Form 2A during DCS
  9. Other – explain the situation

Section VIII — Comments

(Space for comments)

Private dwelling type codes - Definitions

1. Single-detached house
A single dwelling not attached to any other dwelling or structure (except its own garage or shed).
A single-detached house has open space on all sides, and has no dwellings either above it or below it.
A mobile home fixed permanently to a foundation should be coded as a single-detached house. (See Code 8.)
2. Semi-detached house
One of two dwellings attached side by side (or back to back) to each other, but not attached to any other dwelling or structure (except its own garage or shed). A semi-detached house has no dwellings either above it or below it and the two units, together, have open space on all sides.
3. Row house
One of three or more dwellings joined side by side (or occasionally side to back), such as a townhouse or garden home, but not having any other dwellings either above it or below. If townhouses are attached to high-rise buildings, assign Code 3 to each townhouse.
4. Apartment or flat in a duplex
One of two dwellings, located one above the other. If duplexes are attached to triplexes or other duplexes or to other non-residential structures (e.g., a store), assign Code 4 to each apartment or flat in the duplexes.
5. Apartment in a building that has five or more storeys
A dwelling unit in a high-rise apartment building which has five or more storeys. Also included are apartments in a building that has five or more storeys where the first floor and/or second floor are commercial establishments.
6. Apartment in a building that has fewer than five storeys
A dwelling unit attached to other dwelling units, commercial units, or other non-residential space in a building that has fewer than five storeys.
7. Other single-attached house
A single dwelling that is attached to another building and that does not fall into any of the other categories, such as a single dwelling attached to a non-residential structure (e.g., store or church) or occasionally to another residential structure (e.g., apartment building).
8. Mobile home

A single dwelling, designed and constructed to be transported on its own chassis and capable of being moved to a new location on short notice. It may be placed temporarily on a foundation pad and may be covered by a skirt.

A mobile home must meet the following two conditions:

  • It is designed and constructed to be transported on its base frame (or chassis) in one piece.
  • The dwelling can be moved on short notice. This dwelling can be easily relocated to a new location, because of the nature of its construction, by disconnecting it from services, attaching it to a standard wheel assembly and moving it without resorting to significant renovations and reconstructions.
9. Other movable dwelling
A single dwelling, other than a mobile home, used as a place of residence, but capable of being moved on short notice, such as a tent, recreational vehicle, travel trailer, houseboat or floating home.

Private dwelling type codes — Chart

Is this dwelling attached to another dwelling or structure (other than its own garage or shed)?

  • No
    Can this dwelling be moved on short notice?
    • No: Code 1
    • Yes
      Is this dwelling designed and constructed to be transported on its own frame (i.e., mobile home)?
      • No: Code 9
      • Yes: Code 8
  • Yes
    Does this dwelling have any other dwelling(s) above or below it?
    • No
      Is this dwelling in a building that has more than two dwellings attached side by side or back to back?
      • No
        Is this dwelling attached to only one other dwelling side by side or back to back (i.e., semi-detached)?
        • No: Code 7
        • Yes: Code 2
      • Yes: Code 3
    • Yes
      Is this dwelling in a building that has five or more storeys?
      • No
        Are there exactly two dwellings in this building?
        • No: Code 6
        • Yes: Code 4
      • Yes: Code 5

Visible minority concept consultative engagement

Opened: October 2022
Updated: September 2023
Results posted: June 2024

Consultative engagement objectives

The visible minority concept is currently under review. Statistics Canada has been committed to engaging with partners, stakeholders, ethnocultural groups, and the general public to identify the appropriate terminology and categories to describe the population and properly address data needs in health, education, justice, and employment equity.

Consultative engagement methods

These consultative engagements on the Visible Minority Concept were conducted virtually with group discussions and information sessions, and electronically with e-forms and written submissions in both official languages. It was publicized through Statistics Canada's Consulting Canadians page, various events and social media. Moreover, stakeholders and partners, ethnocultural groups, non profit and nongovernment organizations and researchers were invited by email to participate and to share the invitation with others within their network.

How participants got involved

Overall, Statistics Canada received feedback from more than 460 individuals in both official languages from a variety of people and organizations, including anti-racism groups, civil society organizations, ethnocultural community organizations, religious networks, social inclusion groups and the general public.

The consultative engagement also included several follow up discussions with subject-matter experts that came from these ethnic diverse groups.

Results

Statistics Canada wants to thank participants for their contributions to this consultative engagement initiative. Their insights have helped guide the agency in this review.

We invite you to read the Report and Draft Recommendations by following this link: Report and Draft Recommendations - Results of the Consultative Engagement on the Visible Minority Concept.

A summary of the key findings and recommendations from the Consultative Engagement on the Visible Minority Concept can be found below.

Key findings and draft recommendations of the consultative engagement

Terminology

What we heard regarding terminology to replace "visible minority"

A number of participants preferred the term "racialized groups." They noted that the term "racialized" is already used by various federal departments, by provincial and municipal governments, and in the media. They also argued that the term more accurately presents race as a social construct by emphasizing the process of racialization.

However, the term "racialized" was also the most controversial option. Most francophone participants did not think that Statistics Canada should adopt race-based terminology because it is more generally considered to be offensive in the French language. In fact, many participants (both French- and English-speaking) were offended when they were described as belonging to a racialized group. They also felt that labelling all non-White people as "racialized" reinforces that White is the dominant group. Participants also noted the various definitions of "racialization" currently in use, related to colour of skin, culture, religion, ethnicity, language, etc.

The term population group (or another neutral term, such as diverse groups) was the second most preferred. Participants argued that it is sufficiently broad and flexible to apply to a number of situations and to be defined differently according to the needs of different organizations or programs. It was considered to be a more neutral term that would likely have a longer lifespan, considering the sensitivity of this topic. Participants also noted that the term could include the White population, without making this population either the reference or the norm. On the other hand, some participants opposed this term because of its vagueness.

Recommendation: Align terminology in accordance with future amendments to the Employment Equity Act. In its final report to the labour minister, The Employment Equity Act Review Task Force (EEARTF) recommends changing the term “visible minority” to “racialized workers."Footnote 1

Groups measured

Option 1

  • White
  • South Asian
  • Chinese
  • Black
  • Filipino
  • Arab
  • Latin American
  • Southeast Asian
  • West Asian
  • Korean
  • Japanese

Option 2

  • White
  • South Asian
  • East Asian
  • Black
  • Southeast Asian
  • Middle Eastern
  • Latin American

Note:

  • The "Option 1 – Current categories" list above reflects the categories included in the last Census. Information collected from this question are in accordance with the Employment Equity Act. Respondents can select multiple categories and the data collected on these groups are used for various purposes, including in the fields of labour, education, health, justice, etc.
  • The Option 2 is currently being used by certain federal departments.
  • The Census does have a question on ethnic and cultural origin which includes a list of over 500 response options and derives multiple responses showing the diversity of the population at a very granular level (see this infographic created with data from the 2021 Census).
  • The Census also provides specific data on Indigenous identity, on place of birth, on generation status, on religion, and on languages.

What we heard regarding the groups measured

During the consultations, no clear consensus emerged on a list of categories to measure groups. Some participants suggested that combining certain categories, as seen below in option 2, would be more useful for anti-racism purposes because the resulting data collected would be more reflective of the perception of others rather than the respondent's personal identity - which often can be quite specific.

Other participants argued that more detail is always preferable and saw no advantage in a reduction of the number of categories. Moreover, these participants noted that reducing the number of categories would mean that detail for certain groups would be lost (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Arab, West Asian).

Various participants believed that Indigenous peoples should be able to answer this question, because this population is increasingly diverse.

One common criticism was that the categories on both lists are incoherent because they straddle race, ethnicity, nationality, and geographical descent. Most respondents believed that some categories (in particular, the "Black" category) are too broad and should be more granular.

That said, most respondents felt that comparability between census cycles is important for their data needs and were concerned with the potential impacts caused by changing the categories in the questionnaire.

Recommendation: Modify the categories to ensure relevance while retaining comparability and data quality.

Purpose of data

What we heard regarding the purpose of data

Participants expressed a wide range of applications for the data collected on "visible minorities," which is not reflected in the current emphasis on the Employment Equity Act.

Some data users called for Statistics Canada to develop a "race" data standard with explicit reference to this concept in the question.

Participants also expressed a clear need for data on racialization and experience of racism that is not fulfilled with the current question available in the Census.

Furthermore, we heard from various participants that data on religious groups are crucial to understand the various dimensions of racialization in Canada. 

Recommendation: Expand statistical programs to measure racism and discrimination.

Presentation of data

What we heard regarding presentation of data

In general, participants to the engagement expressed a need to have more flexibility in terms of data use and obtain more disaggregated data for certain groups.

Recommendation: Provide more options to meet various data needs, including combining variables and providing multiple responses variables.

For more detail on the results and recommendations from the consultative engagement, consult the full report: Report and Draft Recommendations - Results of the Consultative Engagement on the Visible Minority Concept.