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Economic Development Fund Management System Replacement

Privacy Impact Assessment #: ECD-PIA-2025-01
Public Body Name : Economic Development
Date of Approval: Monday, January 27, 2025

The Department of Economic Development ("EcDev") within the Government of Yukon provides funding to develop a thriving, prosperous, and diversified Yukon economy. Major grants include the Economic Development Fund and the Community Development Fund, along with a suite of media development and labour market development funds.

EcDev is seeking a digital system to manage these funding programs to improve service delivery by reducing the administrative burden, expanding reporting and analysis capabilities, and improving data quality and security. The management system provided by the company, SmartSimple, has been selected.

The SmartSimple system is a grant management cloud solution hosted by AWS and an end-to-end solution that provides a robust audit trail, giving users a comprehensive view of how to manage applications to projects and the related funds, budgets, and allocations more effectively.

Temporary Landlord Assistance Program

Privacy Impact Assessment #: ECD-PIA-2024-02
Public Body Name : Economic Development
Date of Approval: Wednesday, January 17, 2024

The Temporary Landlord Assistance Program (TLAP) provides a one-time rebate to landlords for units that were available for rent during the 2023 calendar year. Landlords can apply for a payment of $338 per unit.
The program helps residential landlords affected by the change in rent cap regulations for the 2023 calendar year. Rent increases are now capped at a maximum of 5 per cent.

Announced Oct 19, 2023. Effect Nov 2, 220 - Feb 29, 2024

Small Business Flood Recovery Funding Program

Privacy Impact Assessment #: ECD-PIA-2024-01
Public Body Name : Economic Development
Date of Approval: Friday, January 5, 2024

The Small Business Flood Recovery Funding Program is a one-time program providing financial assistance to small business owners who were impacted by and incurred significant uninsured damages and loss as a result of the May 2023 flooding in the Klondike Valley area.

Effective Jun 30, 2023 - Oct 3, 2023

All supporting documentation must be submitted by Oct 1, 2024

Media Development – Performing Musicians Fund

Privacy Impact Assessment #: ECD-PIA-2023-06
Public Body Name : Economic Development
Date of Approval: Monday, June 5, 2023

The Yukon Government (“YG”) has developed the Performing Musicians Fund (“PMF”) managed by the Media Development (“MD”) team, for:
• activities that help musicians refine their skills, including preproduction activities and workshops;
• professional sound recording activities intended for commercial release, applying to showcases and auditions; and
• marketing activities for newly-released music.

Economic Development Fund

Privacy Impact Assessment #: ECD-PIA-2023-05
Public Body Name : Economic Development
Date of Approval: Tuesday, April 11, 2023

The Economic Development Fund (EDF) started April 1, 2021 and amalgamated three funds (the Strategic Industries Development Fund (SIDF), the Regional Development Fund (REDF) and the Enterprise Trade Fund (ETF) into one fund. The aim of the new fund is to help maximize the impact of funding investments and support innovation, job creation and private sector growth. The amalgamation of the three funds is accompanied with some additional features, including an expansion of the list of eligible activities, such as capital expenditures, multiple intake dates for applications, and funding for up to 75% of total project costs and up to 50% of capital expenses. The aim of this funding program is to provide financial support to economic development actors in Yukon for projects that grow and diversify Yukon’s economy.

COVID-19- Stimulus Programs

Privacy Impact Assessment #: ECD-PIA-2023-01
Public Body Name : Economic Development
Date of Approval: Monday, March 20, 2023

COVID-19 Stimulus Programs are designed to assist businesses and Non-Government Organizations
(NGOs) meet their labour shortage and financial obligations during this time of reduced income and self isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vaccine Verification Rebate

Privacy Impact Assessment #: ECD-PIA-2023-03
Public Body Name : Economic Development
Date of Approval: Monday, March 20, 2023

The Vaccine Verification Rebate (VVR) program was introduced in response to the Vaccine Verification rules brought into effect November 13, 2021. The program aims to help businesses and societies offset the purchase costs of scanners or equivalent technology required for them to comply with the new vaccine verification rules, using the YG approved application. The program is available to all Yukon businesses and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that are required to verify vaccine status under the Civil Emergency Measures Act (CEMA). Governments and their corporations are not eligible. The program provides a rebate for eligible equipment purchases made between November 8, 2021 and December 20, 2021. Businesses or societies whose applications are approved receive a 50% rebate of eligible expenses to a maximum rebate of $500.

Media Development - Film Fund

Privacy Impact Assessment #: ECD-PIA-2023-04
Public Body Name : Economic Development
Date of Approval: Friday, March 17, 2023

The Yukon Government ("VG") has developed four media funding programs managed by the Media Development ("MD") team, which aims at:
• Maintaining and ultimately increasing the level of total independent media production
and expenditure in the Yukon;
• Maximizing Yukon employment opportunities for Yukoners resulting from media
production in the Yukon; and
• Encouraging sustainable growth in the Yukon media production sector, resulting in a
stronger infrastructure of skills and services.

YG Immigration - Yukon Nominee Program

Privacy Impact Assessment #: ECD-PIA-2023-02
Public Body Name : Economic Development
Date of Approval: Tuesday, February 14, 2023

The Yukon Nominee Program (YNP) is an economic immigration program designed to fill labour market shortages unfilled by the local labour market by nominating qualified workers for permanent residence (PR) in Canada. The Government of Yukon administers the program in partnership with Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) under the Agreement for Canada-Yukon Co-operation on Immigration. The Government of Canada allocates a limited number of nominations each year to Yukon.

Yukon Emergency Relief Program

Privacy Impact Assessment #: ECD-PIA-2022-01
Public Body Name : Economic Development
Date of Approval: Wednesday, May 25, 2022

The Yukon Emergency Relief Program (YERP) supports Yukon businesses and nongovernment organizations (NGOs) impacted by the state of emergency declared on November 8, 2021, and restrictions imposed under the Civil Emergency Measures Act (CEMA). The funding program focuses on funding eligible fixed costs for businesses and non-recoverable financial commitments or incremental expenses incurred by NGOs for events cancelled or significantly altered due to CEMA orders.
The program is very similar to the Yukon Business Relief Program (YBRP) which was discussed in detail in the COVID-19 Stimulus Programs updated PIA completed in September 2021 (included in Appendix D). As noted in that PIA, any information collected relates to a business and not a specific individual.
YERP provides funding for eligible businesses that can demonstrate operating at a deficit as a direct result of the state of emergency. Funding is to cover eligible costs incurred from November 13, 2021 until 2 weeks following the end of the state of emergency. Documents
that applicant businesses will submit to support their application will include business revenue and fixed costs. Eligible fixed costs include: property taxes; business insurance; commercial rent or lease; electricity and heating; business licenses; mortgage interest on owned business premises; pest control; software, data services and financial and booking systems; telephone, cable, internet and satellite; vehicle leasing for vehicles used solely by the business; water, sewage and waste disposal. Home-based businesses are not eligible for
YERP.
YERP also provides funding for NGOs that can demonstrate they incurred costs relating to an event that was cancelled or significantly altered. Eligible events are those that were scheduled before November 8, 2021 and were intended to occur between November 13,
2021 and January 1, 2022. Due to additional restrictions imposed, the program was adjusted to include events scheduled between January 7 and February 5, 2022, or while the state of emergency was in place. The NGO may be eligible to receive a rebate to cover the actual
amounts incurred due to the cancellation of the event, or incremental costs for significantly altering the event in order to comply with health and safety measures (such as requiring a larger venue to accommodate the same number of guests). Examples of events include
conferences, trade and craft fairs; workshops with more than 25 confirmed participants; and seated, ticketed events (such as arts and sports). In this NGO stream, eligible costs may include perishable food and drinks; printing and advertising services; service booking and
cancellations with vendors; venue rental costs.
The program ended March 31, 2022.