On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic. To address the consequences of the pandemic on the Canadian economy, the federal government of Canada announced and implemented various support and recovery measures for businesses, households, students, the vulnerable population and organizations helping individuals. The table Federal government expenditures on COVID-19 response measures presents the major federal measures announced and implemented, their treatment in the national accounts (in particular, in the Income and Expenditure Accounts), the table numbers where the pertinent series may be found and the amount of expenditure on a quarterly basis.

For a comprehensive explanations on the treatment of COVID-19 government support measures in the national accounts, please refer to the documents Recording COVID-19 measures in the national account and Recording new COVID measures in the national accounts.

Treatment in national accounts: Subsidies on production, by quarter at quarterly rates

COVID-19 measure	2020				2021
	First quarter	Second quarter	Third quarter	Fourth quarter	First quarter	Second quarter
	$ millions
Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) - business	4,359	29,351	22,711	10,703	10,033	7,633
Temporary Wage Subsidy (TWS) - business	169	739
Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy (CERS) - business			52	1,558	1,714	1,096
Lockdown Support (LS) - business			5	209	341	237
Source: Statistics Canada, tables 36-10-0103, 36-10-0118, 36-10-0477.

Treatment in national accounts: Current transfers to non-profit institutions serving households (NPISH), by quarter at quarterly rates

COVID-19 measure	2020				2021
	First quarter	Second quarter	Third quarter	Fourth quarter	First quarter	Second quarter
	$ millions
Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) - NPISH	200	1,095	1,051	573	549	325
Temporary Wage Subsidy (TWS) - NPISH	13	46
Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy (CERS) - NPISH			1	36	38	22
Lockdown Support (LS) - NPISH			0	4	7	4
Source: Statistics Canada, tables 36-10-0118, 36-10-0477, 36-10-0115.

Treatment in national accounts: Subsidies on products and imports, by quarter at quarterly rates

COVID-19 measure	2020				2021
	First quarter	Second quarter	Third quarter	Fourth quarter	First quarter
	$ millions
Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance (CECRA)		1,130	904
Federal contribution		849	679
Provincial contribution		281	225
Source: Statistics Canada, tables 36-10-0103, 36-10-0118, 36-10-0477.

Treatment in national accounts: Current transfers to households - Employment Insurance benefits, by quarter at quarterly rates

COVID-19 measure	2020				2021
	First quarter	Second quarter	Third quarter	Fourth quarter	First quarter	Second quarter
	$ millions
Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) - EI stream		19,127	9,239	864
Source: Statistics Canada, tables 36-10-0118, 36-10-0477, 36-10-0112.

Treatment in national accounts: Transfers to households -Other federal transfers to households, by quarter at quarterly rates

COVID-19 measure	2020				2021
	First quarter	Second quarter	Third quarter	Fourth quarter	First quarter	Second quarter
	$ millions
Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) - CRA stream		29,002	15,597	704
Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB)		1,386	1,550	8	2
Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB)				6,073	7,280	6,516
Canada Recovery Caregiving Benefit (CRCB)				900	960	933
Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit (CRSB)				246	144	188
Source: Statistics Canada, tables 36-10-0118, 36-10-0477, 36-10-0112.

Preliminary Estimate for 2021 and Intentions for 2022

Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)

This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the Annual Exploration, Development and Capital Expenditures Survey Petroleum and Natural Gas Industry Preliminary Estimate for 2021 and Intentions for 2022.

If you need more information, please call the Statistics Canada Help Line at the number below.

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Table of contents

Reporting period information
Definitions

Reporting period information

For the purpose of this survey, please report information for your 12 month fiscal period for which the final day occurs on or between April 1, 2021 – March 31, 2022.

• May 1, 2020 – April 30, 2021
• June 1, 2020 – May 31, 2021
• July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021
• August 1, 2020 – July 31, 2021
• September 1, 2020 – August 31, 2021
• October 1, 2020 – September 30, 2021
• November 1, 2020 – October 31, 2021
• December 1, 2020 – November 30, 2021
• January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021
• February 1, 2021 – January 31, 2022
• March 1, 2021 – February 28, 2022
• April 1, 2021 – March 31, 2022

Here are other examples of fiscal periods that fall within the required dates:

• September 18, 2020 to September 15, 2021 (e.g., floating year-end)
• June 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021 (e.g., a newly opened business)

Definitions

• When there are partnerships and joint venture activities or projects, report the expenditures reflecting this corporation's net interest in such projects or ventures.
• Report all dollar amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars ('000).
• Do not include sales tax. Percentages should be rounded to whole numbers.
• When precise figures are not available, please provide your best estimates.

If there are no capital expenditures, please enter '0'.

What are Capital Expenditures?

Capital Expenditures are the gross expenditures on fixed assets for use in the operations of your organization or for lease or rent to others. Gross expenditures are expenditures before deducting proceeds from disposals, and credits (capital grants, donations, government assistance and investment tax credits).

Include:

• Cost of all new buildings, engineering, machinery and equipment which normally have a life of more than one year and are charged to fixed asset accounts
• Modifications, acquisitions and major renovations
• Capital costs such as feasibility studies, architectural, legal, installation and engineering fees
• Subsidies received and used for capital expenditures
• Capitalized interest charges on loans with which capital projects are financed
• Work done by own labour force
• Additions to capital work in progress.

Exclude:

• transfers from capital work in progress (construction-in-progress) to fixed assets accounts
• assets associated with the acquisition of companies property developed for sale and machinery or equipment acquired for sale (inventory).

1. Oil and gas rights acquisition and retention costs (exclude inter-company sales or transfers):

Include acquisition costs and fees for oil and gas rights (include bonuses, legal fees and filing fees), and oil and gas retention costs

2. Exploration and evaluation, capitalized or expensed (e.g., seismic, exploration drilling):

These expenditures include geological, geophysical and seismic expenses, exploration drilling, and other costs incurred during the reporting period in order to determine whether oil or gas reserves exist and can be exploited commercially. Report gross expenditures, before deducting any incentive grants, incurred for oil and gas activities on a contracted basis and/or by your own employees. Exclude the cost of land acquired from other oil and gas companies.

3. Building construction (e.g., process building, office building, camp, storage building, and maintenance garage):

Include capital expenditures on buildings such as office buildings, camps, warehouses, maintenance garages, workshops, and laboratories. Fixtures, facilities and equipment that are integral parts of the building are included.

4. Other construction assets (e.g., development drilling and completions, processing facilities, natural gas plants, upgraders):

Include all infrastructure, other than buildings, such as the cost of well pads, extraction and processing infrastructure and plants, upgrading units, transportation infrastructure, water and sewage infrastructure, tailings, pipelines and wellhead production facilities (pumpjacks, separators, etc). Include all preconstruction planning and design costs such as development drilling, regulatory approvals, environmental assessments, engineering and consulting fees and any materials supplied to construction contractors for installation, as well as site clearance and preparation. Equipment which is installed as an integral or built-in feature of a fixed structure (e.g. casings, tanks, steam generators, pumps, electrical apparatus, separators, flow lines, etc.) should be reported with the construction asset; however, when the equipment is replaced within an existing structure, the replacement cost should be reported in machinery and equipment (sustaining capital).

5. Machinery and equipment purchases (e.g., trucks, shovels, computers, etc.):

Include transportation equipment for people and materials, computers, software, communication equipment, and processing equipment not included in the above categories.

Research and Development

Research and experimental development (R&D) comprise creative and systematic work undertaken in order to increase the stock of knowledge – including knowledge of humankind, culture and society – and to devise new applications of available knowledge.

For an activity to be an R&D activity, it must satisfy five core criteria:

1. To be aimed at new findings (novel);
2. To be based on original, not obvious, concepts and hypothesis (creative);
3. To be uncertain about the final outcome (uncertainty);
4. To be planned and budgeted (systematic);
5. To lead to results to could be possibly reproduced (transferable/ or reproducible).

The term R&D covers three types of activity: basic research, applied research and experimental development. Basic research is experimental or theoretical work undertaken primarily to acquire new knowledge of the underlying foundations of phenomena and observable facts, without any particular application or use in view. Applied research is original investigation undertaken in order to acquire new knowledge. It is, however, directed primarily towards a specific, practical aim or objective. Experimental development is systematic work, drawing on knowledge gained from research and practical experience and producing additional knowledge, which is directed to producing new products or processes or to improving existing products or processes.

Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)

This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the Annual Capital Expenditures Survey

Preliminary Estimate for 2021 and Intentions for 2022. If you need more information, please call the Statistics Canada Help Line at the number below.

Help Line: 1-833-977-8287 (1-833-97STATS)

Table of contents

• Reporting period information
• Definition
• Industry characteristics

Reporting period information

For the purpose of this survey, please report information for your 12 month fiscal period for which the Final day occurs on or between April 1, 2021 – March 31, 2022.

• May 1, 2020 – April 30, 2021
• June 1, 2020 – May 31, 2021
• July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021
• August 1, 2020 – July 31, 2021
• September 1, 2020 – August 31, 2021
• October 1, 2020 – September 30, 2021
• November 1, 2020 – October 31, 2021
• December 1, 2020 – November 30, 2021
• January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021
• February 1, 2021 – January 31, 2022
• March 1, 2021 – February 28, 2022
• April 1, 2021 – March 31, 2022

Here are other examples of fiscal periods that fall within the required dates:

• September 18, 2020 to September 15, 2021 (e.g., floating year-end)
• June 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021 (e.g., a newly opened business)

Dollar amounts

• all dollar amounts reported should be rounded to thousands of Canadian dollars (e.g., $6,555,444.00 should be rounded to $6,555);
• exclude sales tax;
• your best estimates are acceptable when precise figures are not available;
• if there are no capital expenditures, please enter '0'.

Definitions

What are Capital Expenditures?

Capital Expenditures are the gross expenditures on fixed assets for use in the operations of your organization or for lease or rent to others. Gross expenditures are expenditures before deducting proceeds from disposals, and credits (capital grants, donations, government assistance and investment tax credits).

Include:

• Cost of all new buildings, engineering, machinery and equipment which normally have a life of more than one year and are charged to fixed asset accounts
• Modifications, acquisitions and major renovations
• Capital costs such as feasibility studies, architectural, legal, installation and engineering fees
• Subsidies received and used for capital expenditures
• Capitalized interest charges on loans with which capital projects are financed
• Work done by own labour force
• Additions to capital work in progress.

Exclude:

• transfers from capital work in progress (construction-in-progress) to fixed assets accounts
• assets associated with the acquisition of companies
• property developed for sale and machinery or equipment acquired for sale (inventory).

How to Treat Leases

Include:

• assets acquired as a lessee through either a capital or financial lease;
• assets acquired for lease to others as an operating lease.

Industry characteristics

Report the value of the projects expected to be put in place during the year. Include the gross expenditures (including subsidies) on fixed assets for use in the operations of your organization or for lease or rent to others. Include all capital costs such as feasibility studies, architectural, legal, installation and engineering fees as well as work done by your own labour force. Include all additions to work in progress.

New Assets, Renovation, Retrofit, includes both existing assets being upgraded and acquisitions of new assets.

Purchase of Used Canadian Assets

Definition: Used fixed assets may be defined as existing buildings, structures or machinery and equipment which have been previously used by another organization in Canada that you have acquired during the time period being reported on this questionnaire.

Explanation: The objective of our survey is to measure gross annual new acquisitions to fixed assets separately from the acquisition of gross annual used fixed assets in the Canadian economy as a whole.

Hence, the acquisition of a used fixed Canadian asset should be reported separately since such acquisitions would not change the aggregates of our domestic inventory of fixed assets, it would simply mean a transfer of assets within Canada from one organization to another.

Imports of used assets, on the other hand, should be included with the new assets (Column 1) because they are newly acquired for the Canadian economy.

Work in Progress

Work in progress represents accumulated costs since the start of capital projects which are intended to be capitalized upon completion.

Land

Capital expenditures for land should include all costs associated with the purchase of the land that are not amortized or depreciated.

Residential Construction

Report the value of residential structures including the housing portion of multi-purpose projects and of townsites.

Exclude:

• buildings that have accommodation units without self-contained or exclusive use of bathroom and kitchen facilities (e.g., some student and senior citizen residences)
• the non-residential portion of multi-purpose projects and of townsites
• associated expenditures on services

The exclusions should be included in the appropriate construction (e.g., non-residential) asset.

Non-Residential Building Construction (excluding land purchase and residential construction)

Building construction represents any permanent structure with walls and a roof affording protection and shelter from and for a social and/or physical environment for people and/or materials.

For example, building construction represents expenditures on aircraft hangars, factories, hospitals, hotels, office buildings, railway stations, schools and shopping centres.

Report the total cost incurred during the year of building construction (contract and by own employees) whether for your own use or rent to others.

Include also:

• the cost of demolition of buildings, land servicing and of site-preparation
• leasehold and land improvements
• all preconstruction planning and design costs such as engineer and consulting fees and any materials supplied to construction contractors for installation, etc.
• townsite facilities, such as streets, sewers, stores, schools.

Non-residential engineering construction

Engineering construction encompasses the direct or indirect conveyance of people, machinery, materials, gases, and/or electrical impulses. It also includes free standing structures which contain or restrain such objects either as part of such conveyance or separately and independently.

In addition, the cost associated with significantly altering any terrain in the preparation for specialized use of that terrain will fall under engineering construction.

Report the total cost incurred during the year of engineering construction (contract and by own employees) whether for your own use or rent to others. Include also:

• the cost of demolition of buildings, land servicing and of site-preparation
• leasehold and land improvements
• all preconstruction planning and design costs such as engineer and consulting fees and any materials supplied to construction contractors for installation, etc.
• oil or gas pipelines, including pipe and installation costs
• communication engineering, including transmission support structures, cables and lines, etc.
• electric power engineering, including wind and solar plants, nuclear production plants, power distribution networks, etc.

Machinery and Equipment

Report total cost incurred during the year of all new machinery, whether for your own use or for lease or rent to others. Any capitalized tooling should also be included. Include progress payments paid out before delivery in the year in which such payments are made. Receipts from the sale of your own fixed assets or allowance for scrap or trade-in should not be deducted from your total capital expenditures. Any balance owing or holdbacks should be reported in the year the cost is incurred.

Include:

• automobiles, trucks, professional and scientific equipment, office and store furniture and appliances
• computers (hardware and software), broadcasting, telecommunication and other information and communication technology equipment
• motors, generators, transformers
• any capitalized tooling expenses
• progress payments paid out before delivery in the year in which such payments are made
• any balance owing or holdbacks should be reported in the year the cost is incurred
• leasehold improvements.

Software

Capital expenditures for software should include all costs associated with the purchase or development of software.

Include:

• Pre-packaged software
• Custom software developed in-house/own account
• Custom software design and development, contracted out

Research and Development

Research and experimental development (R&D) comprise creative and systematic work undertaken in order to increase the stock of knowledge – including knowledge of humankind, culture and society – and to devise new applications of available knowledge.

For an activity to be an R&D activity, it must satisfy five core criteria:

1. To be aimed at new findings (novel);
2. To be based on original, not obvious, concepts and hypothesis (creative);
3. To be uncertain about the final outcome (uncertainty);
4. To be planned and budgeted (systematic);
5. To lead to results to could be possibly reproduced (transferable/ or reproducible).

The term R&D covers three types of activity: basic research, applied research and experimental development. Basic research is experimental or theoretical work undertaken primarily to acquire new knowledge of the underlying foundations of phenomena and observable facts, without any particular application or use in view. Applied research is original investigation undertaken in order to acquire new knowledge. It is, however, directed primarily towards a specific, practical aim or objective. Experimental development is systematic work, drawing on knowledge gained from research and practical experience and producing additional knowledge, which is directed to producing new products or processes or to improving existing products or processes.