Canada Community-Building Fund (CCBF)
The Canada Community-Building Fund (formerly known as federal Gas Tax Fund until 2021) provides communities with stable and flexible funding for their infrastructure priorities across a wide range of categories.
Announced August 29, 2024, the Governments of Canada and Manitoba executed the 2024-2034 CCBF Administrative Agreement (effective April 1, 2024) to govern the flow of CCBF funding to Manitoba municipalities.
Manitoba’s approach to administering CCBF is allocation-based, whereby municipalities maintain the flexibility and authority to choose eligible projects based on local infrastructure priorities in their municipalities.
To date, Manitoba’s municipalities have utilized their CCBF allocation toward projects that contribute to three national program objectives: productivity and economic growth, clean environment, and strong cities and communities. As the program moves into the next 10-years, CCBF funding can assist to alleviate housing pressures tied to infrastructure gaps and contribute to housing supply and affordability outcomes (where applicable).
Municipalities determine how best to invest the funds, having the flexibility to support long-term infrastructure investments across 19 project categories:
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CCBF Outcomes Reports
As part of the reporting requirements under the 2024-2034 CCBF Agreement, Manitoba will provide outcomes reports to the federal government, which report in aggregate, on the degree to which investments are supporting the progress towards achieving the following four program benefits:
- Beneficial impacts on communities of completed eligible projects
- Enhanced impact of CCBF as a predictable source of funding
- Progress made on improving local government planning and asset management
- How CCBF Funding has alleviated housing pressures tied to infrastructure gaps and contributed to housing supply and affordability outcomes (where applicable)
Outcomes Reports is expected to be submitted annually to Canada under the 2024-2034 CCBF administrative agreement.
CCBF Historical Information
Since signing the 2014-2024 Canada-Manitoba agreement, Canada has provided some one-time transfers to provinces and territories as additional investment into the CCBF:
- In March 2017, Canada announced the transfer of over $30.1 million in uncommitted funds from several previously established funding programs to provinces and territories as a one-time top-up to the CCBF. Manitoba’s allocation under this transfer was over $835 thousand.
- In 2019, through the federal Budget, Canada issued a one-time supplemental transfer to provinces and territories. Manitoba’s allocation was over $72 million.
- In 2021, recognizing the critical role communities would play in Canada’s safe restart and to help reduce the risk of infrastructure projects being delayed or cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada provided another top-up to the CCBF. Manitoba’s allocation was over $72.5 million.
In 2021, the Gas Tax Fund was renamed Canada Community-Building Fund (CCBF) to better reflect the program’s evolution over time to a flexible and permanent source of federal infrastructure funding to support community infrastructure projects.
The Canada-Manitoba Administrative Agreement signed in November 2005, committed $167.3 million in federal gas tax revenues to Manitoba municipalities between 2005 and 2009 for environmentally sustainable municipal infrastructure. A further $267.6 million was provided through a four-year extension to the gas tax program starting in 2010 while under the 10-year (2014-2023) Administrative Agreement, Canada transferred $861.5 million in CCBF funding to Manitoba municipalities.
