User fees consultation and pre-proposal notification - November 2012

Table of contents - details

1. Introduction
2. Objective of user fees consultations
3. Purpose of consultation document
4. Providing your input
   • 4.1 We value your input. We want to hear:
   • 4.2 Appropriate input excludes the following:
   • 4.3 How to submit your input
   • 4.4 What happens when your input is received?
   • 4.5 Independent advisory panels
   • 4.6 Taking your input into account
   • 4.7 Next steps after consultations
5. Background information
   • 5.1 Our fees and funding
   • 5.2 Authority to change fees
   • 5.3 Legal and policy requirements
   • 5.4 Guiding principles
   • 5.5 Principles for setting user fees
6. Our services
7. Proposed user fees
   • 7.1 Annual increases
   • 7.2 More background about our proposed user fees
8. How changing user fees would affect you
   • 8.1 Producers and grain companies
   • 8.2 Canadians
9. Comparison to user fees in other countries
10. Review cycle
11. How we determined costs
    • 11.1 Fee calculation example
    • 11.2 Public benefit appropriation
    • 11.3 Total projected costs and revenues
12. Service standards, performance measurement and tracking

• Annex 1: Requirements of the User Fees Act
• Annex 2: Our user fees
• Annex 3: Comparison to user fees and service standards in the United States and Australia
• Annex 4: Example illustrating how the Canadian Grain Commission determined costs for a forecast average year