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The 2005-06 reporting year is the first year that a standardized Performance Measurement section appears in Departmental Annual Reports. This section is another step in our process to provide Manitobans with a more complete picture of the activities of

government and their impacts on the province. That process was begun in 2005 with the release of the document, Reporting to

Manitobans on Performance, 2005 Discussion Document, which can be found at www.gov.mb.ca/finance/performance.

Performance indicators in departmental Annual Reports are intended to provide Manitobans with meaningful and useful information about government’s activities, complementary to financial results. Some measures incorporate data collected by the provincial government, while others show data that are collected by external agencies. A range of existing, new and proposed measures may be reported in subsequent years, as the process continues to evolve.

Your comments on performance measures are valuable to us. You can send comments or questions to [email protected].

What is being measured and how?

Why is it important to measure this?

What is the most recent available value for this indicator?

What is the trend over time for this indicator?

Comments/ recent actions/report links

The safety and economic advantage of Manitoba’s key inter-jurisdictional highways, by tracking the increase in investment specifically for twinning.

A greater amount of twinned inter-jurisdictional (linking to other provinces and states) highway indicates

Manitoba’s stronger competitive positioning and advantage in offering road users safe, efficient and economical travel routes.

Investment in twinning increased by over $4 million in 2005/2006.

03/04 $15,059,226.88 04/05 $16,445,564.07 05/06 $20,467,733.80

Improving significantly as

evidenced by the fact that the Trans-Canada Highway will be twinned to the

Saskatchewan border by the end 2007/2008 and the Perimeter Highway around Winnipeg, will be completely twinned by the end of 2008/2009.

The safety of transportation infrastructure, by measuring the KM of winter roads constructed over a land base.

28 communities (approx. 38,000 residents) lack all- weather road access. The essential cost-effective stand-in is the temporary network of winter roads used to truck in bulk

supplies. Tracking the KM of

2005/2006 Winter Road Season

577 km (26 percent) of winter roads have been added to the network since 1999.

654 km (30 percent) of winter roads have been

Improving

Since 1999 the trend has been continuous

improvement of the length and the quality (safety, accessibility, environmental sustainability) of the winter roads within Manitoba.

The larger issue of global warming impacts the period of time that the winter road network can be safely opened to commercial transport.

The Winter Roads Network, with a $6.1 million annual

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What is being measured and how?

Why is it important to measure this?

What is the trend over time for this indicator?

Comments/ recent actions/report links What is the most recent

available value for this indicator?

winter roads built on a solid land base measures the human and environmental safety of the network.

realigned away from water and moved to a land-base since 1999.

Federal-Provincial cost- shared budget (2005/2006), also provides significant employment for remote Northern communities. The two way trade flows

through the Churchill rail and port gateway.

The volume of import and export tonnage is indicative of Manitoba’s efforts, at $200,000 per annum and in partnership with OmniTRAX and the federal government, at supporting the Churchill Gateway Development Corporation (CGDC), whose mandate is to grow and diversify two way traffic through the Gateway away from a reliance on Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) grains;

The best and most recent value for this indicator is overall two-way tonnage volumes through Churchill, best differentiated between Canadian Wheat Board grains and non-Wheat Board products since inception of the Corporation in 2003.

The target is to diversify and grow traffic to 1 million tonnes annually by 2010. Results are affected by numerous factors not necessarily under CGDC control (Weather, CWB and other grain company sales ability, supporting rail logistics and so on). The trend over time for this indicator is the 2003-2006 shipping years – see table below.

Key supporting actions by CGDC have been to partner with a major multinational grain company to market the gateway for non-CWB products, and developing linkages with Russian interests on “Arctic Bridge” marine development between Churchill and Murmansk, Russia.

Year CWB Grains Non-CWB Grains Total Crop Exports Range of Non-CWB Crops Inbound Traffic Other Outbound Traffic

2003 470,000 145,000 615,000 Canola, Linola, Feed Peas Fuel (from Port only), Nunavut Dry

Cargo

2004 360,000 40,000 400,000 Canola Scrap Metal Fuel (Rail and Port), Nunavut Dry

Cargo

2005 353,000 113,000 466,000 Canola, Feed Peas Fuel (Rail and Port), Nunavut Dry

Cargo

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What is being measured and how?

Why is it important to measure this?

What is the most recent available value for this indicator?

What is the trend over time for this indicator?

Comments/ recent actions/report links

The progress in minimizing waste in resource use in the 264 (2005/2006) owned and leased provincial buildings and facilities, by measuring the volume of materials diverted to recycling annually.

Tracking the volume of materials recycled indicates how much we have avoided unnecessary resource use, like consuming trees, and how much space in landfill has not been taken up unnecessary.

In 2005/2006 Waste Stream Services’ systematic

approach has diverted over

420 tonnes of material from

buildings within the TGS portfolio. Recycling paper within these facilities has saved approximately 6000 trees.

No Trend Established Yet.

This initiative started in 2004/2005. Waste Stream Services completed 34 facilities prior to 2005/2006 and in 2005/2006.

implemented the program in 158 facilities with 11 in progress. All buildings are scheduled to be operating within the Waste Stream Services approach by 2006/2007. On-going measurement of diverted materials will commence at that time.

The use of environmentally preferred alternate ethanol fuels in government fleet vehicles, by measuring the litres of ethanol fuel purchased for use in government fleet vehicles annually.

The use of ethanol fuels in vehicles reduces the degradation of the environment with

greenhouse gas emissions.

Use of E-10 Ethanol by government departments was 19% of all fuel purchased, other than diesel, in 2005/06.

No Trend Established Yet.

Use of ethanol fuel commenced in 2003/2004 however supply is variable, especially outside of Winnipeg and it is not suitable for diesel vehicles.

A related measure that is coming on stream in

2006/2007 is the percentage of fuel efficient hybrid- vehicles in the government fleet.

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