DR Fund

Initiatives Funded in 1998-1999

Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency

$64,300.00 to develop and implement an awareness and training program, as well as an information resource base, to enhance the ability of the agency to resolve environmental assessment disputes through the increased and appropriate use of DR processes.

Canadian Human Rights Commission

$121,100 for development of a model to use mediation to attempt to resolve complaints prior to investigation, and training to support the implementation of this model.

Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission

$94,000 to develop a DR framework to assist the Commission in exercising its statutory mandate in a more effective and efficient manner, and training of Commission members and staff.

Canadian Transportation Agency

$42,000 for development of a DR conference mechanism to be incorporated into the existing agency structure, and training of members and staff.

Commissioner of Official Languages

$95,000 to develop a model for consultation with stakeholders and to design and implement practice and policy changes to address inefficiencies and shortcomings of the current ombudsperson role of the Commissioner.

Correctional Services Canada

$50,000 to develop and implement a strategy to establish four regional pilot projects in federal penal institutions (for which funding has been sought from the DR Fund for next year) to address conflicts within these institutions.

DIAND (Fiscal Relations)

$85,160.00 to support the research and development of a DR model, and training in the use of that model, in the context of fiscal relations disputes between the federal government and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations.

DIAND (Litigation Management Branch)

$212,420.00 to develop and deliver a pilot to train federal employees involved in DIAND litigation to develop DR strategies for particular types of disputes, as DIAND moves to a new portfolio approach to litigation management, and to assess the existing inventory of aboriginal litigation cases to identify those most suitable for non-litigious DR.

DIAND (Major Projects Branch)

$358,930.00 to implement a program of exploratory dialogues among institutional defendants and aboriginal survivors of abuse at residential schools, the aim of which is to consider appropriate non-litigious frameworks for resolution.

Environment Canada

$100,000.00 to develop and implement a program to negotiate compliance agreements with alleged offenders under new provisions of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, by providing DR training to Environment Canada personnel and Justice prosecutors, and by developing negotiation frameworks and guidelines.

Fisheries and Oceans

$105,929.00 to support the training and educational services costs of the department's recently established Office of Early Conflict Resolution, which has been established to address workplace conflict issues.

HRDC (Income Security Program)

$200,000.00 to support DR training and the development of DR programs in disputes arising in the context of the Canada Pension Plan disability program.

HRDC (Labour Program)

$200,000.00 to support training and development of DR pilot projects in two regions in the context of unjust dismissal and wage recovery disputes.

HRDC (New Brunswick Region)

$54, 112.00 to support the delivery of training, by both union and management employees, in workplace conflict and harassment training, in furtherance of HRDC's conflict and harassment policy.

Health Canada

Learning Centre Plus - $76,000.00 to support the training of federal public service mediators in Atlantic Canada in cases of harassment and conflict in the workplace

Human Rights Tribunal

$13,200 for review of the results of a test mediation project and development of a formal mediation program and training for members of the new tribunal.

Immigration and Refugee Board

$26,000.000 to support the training and translation costs of a pilot project to use DR to streamline the sponsorship appeals process.

National Farm Products Council

$20,000.00 to support the training for and implementation of a facilitation process established to assist in the resolution of disputes between industry stakeholders as an alternative to the statutorily-mandated public hearings process.

Public Service Staff Relations Board

$44,100.00 to implement a two-year pilot project to train and use Board members as mediators, in order to reduce the number of lengthier and more costly adjudications.

RCMP

$100,000 to develop and implement interactive, electronic DR training methods, in partnership with the Department of National Defence and Correctional Services, which are designed to optimize the time and cost benefits offered by a computer-based training strategy.

RCMP (British Columbia)

$25,000.00 to support the continued training of RCMP employees in British Columbia in interest-based negotiation for use in internal workplace disputes as well as in the carrying out of their public duties, in support of and in addition to the RCMP's ongoing ADR mediation grievance project.

Revenue Canada

$150,000.00 - to support DR training and awareness in the context of the implementation of a new conflict management system designed to address employment-related disputes as Revenue Canada assumes its new status as a departmental agency.

Veteran's Affairs

$55,000.00 to support the Office of Conflict Resolution in its training of employees to provide awareness of workplace conflict and options for resolution.