Active Transportation Fund – Capital Projects │Housing, Infrastructure, and Communities Canada (HICC)

An applicant must be a legal entity capable of entering into legally binding agreements. To be considered an eligible recipient, applicants must fit within one of the following categories:

• A municipal, local or regional government established by or under provincial or territorial statute;
• A provincial or territorial government;
• A public sector body that is established by or under provincial or territorial statute or by regulation or is wholly owned by a province, territory, municipal or regional government, including, but not limited to:
  • Municipally-owned corporations (for example, autonomous organizations owned by municipalities, used to produce or deliver local public services outside the local bureaucracy);
  • A provincial or territorial organization that delivers municipal services (for example, public utilities, community health services, economic development bodies);
  • Any other form of local governance that exists outside of the municipality description (for example, local service districts);
• A federally or provincially incorporated not-for-profit organization or charity.

Eligible Indigenous Recipients include:

• Indigenous Governing Body:
  • A band council within the meaning of Section 2 of the Indian Act;
  • A First Nation, Inuit or Métis government or authority established pursuant to a Self-Government Agreement or a Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement between His Majesty the King in right of Canada and an Indigenous people of Canada, that has been approved, given effect and declared valid by federal legislation;
  • A First Nation, Inuit or Métis government that are established by or under legislation whether federal, provincial or territorial that incorporates a governance structure;
• A federally or provincially incorporated not-for-profit organization whose primary purpose is to improve Indigenous outcomes; and
• Indigenous development corporations.