Baseline Funding stream – Canada Public Transit Fund

It is expected that applications for baseline funding will be submitted by transit agencies and transit asset owners.

As the primary objective of the Baseline Funding stream is to support communities with existing public transit systems, minimum eligibility criteria have been established. Recipients must meet the following eligibility requirements in order to apply:

• The applicant has a minimum of 3 (preferably 5) years of historical ridership, population served, and capital investment data;
• The applicant’s public transit system includes fixed route service;
• The applicant must have a minimum average capital investment of $100,000 annually; and
• The applicant’s transit system must have a minimum annual ridership of 30,000.

In addition to meeting the minimum eligibility criteria noted above, applicants must be an eligible recipient, which includes:

• A municipal or regional 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 (such as a transit agency);
• a federally or provincially incorporated not-for-profit organization or charity;
• a provincial or territorial government;
• an Indigenous recipient, Indigenous development corporation or Indigenous benefiting organization;
• a private sector, or for-profit body, if they are working in collaboration with an eligible public sector entity or with an eligible Indigenous recipient.