Chief Information Officer Branch
The Chief Information Officer Branch (CIOB) provides strategic direction and leadership for the government-wide pursuit of excellence in information management and information technology. The CIOB is responsible for policy development, monitoring, management oversight, and leading community development and capacity-building initiatives in information management, information technology, identity management and security, and access to information and privacy, to ensure the sound management and stewardship of the Government of Canada's information and technology assets and its communities of practice.

Corporate Administrative Shared Services Initiative
The Corporate Administrative Shared Services (CASS) initiative proposes to standardize the delivery of internal corporate and administrative services for the Government of Canada, including human resources, finance, and materiel management. By implementing common business processes and supporting systems, the proposed CASS initiative will improve the way these services are managed, reducing overlap and duplication, thus delivering better results to Canadians. The CASS initiative will move forward incrementally, focussing initially on human resources, with subsequent phases for finance and materiel management.

Corporate Services Branch
The Corporate Service Branch is composed of five directorates: Finance and Administration, Human Resources, Information Management and Technology, Security Services, and Internal Audit and Evaluation. The respective services provided by these directorates are available to employees of the Department of Finance Canada and the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. Partial services are also provided to the Canada Public Service Agency, the Privy Council Office, and the Canada School of Public Service.

Expenditure Management Sector
The Expenditure Management Sector (EMS) provides a central focus within the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (Secretariat) on the functions that support and strengthen the Secretariat's role in the government's broader expenditure management system. The work of the EMS covers the entire expenditure management cycle—from expenditure analysis, forecasting and expenditure management strategies, policies, and operations through to results-based budgeting, evaluation, accountability, and reporting. The EMS plays a strong integration role in planning and coordinating the expenditure management initiatives and providing a whole-of-government perspective on matters related to direct program spending, including strategic reviews and management of reserves. The sector is responsible for developing the Expenditure Management Information System (EMIS) to its full maturity and for implementing the Management, Resources, and Results Structure Policy.

Labour Relations and Compensation Operations
The Labour Relations and Compensation Operations (LRCO) sector focuses and strengthens the capacity of the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat to fulfill its responsibilities in supporting the Treasury Board as employer of the public service. This is an essential part of a human resources management framework that enables the federal public service to more efficiently manage the people who deliver government programs and services to Canadians and that promotes effective labour-management relations and compensation operations in the public service of Canada. The LRCO's areas of responsibility include bargaining (strategy, negotiations, and statistical support) for the core public administration; the collective bargaining mandating process for separate agencies; the National Joint Council; essential services agreements; exclusions; union dues; union consultation; bargaining agent certification; pay administration; compensation policies and projects; compensation for excluded and unrepresented groups, the Royal Canadian Mountain Police (RCMP), and the military; various administrative and employee reimbursement policies; policy direction on discipline; adjudication of grievances; occupational health and safety; human rights complaints; and pay equity.

Legal Services
The Treasury Board Legal Services unit provides legal advice to the Canada Public Service Agency, the Canada School of Public Service, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (Secretariat), the Treasury Board, and the President, with respect to their powers and duties. This unit, staffed by Department of Justice Canada lawyers, supports the Treasury Board in its role as the board of management of the public service of Canada by ensuring that the conduct of government affairs is in accordance with the law.

Legal Services lawyers give specialized legal advice to the Secretariat and the Government of Canada in connection with the Secretariat's central agency functions pertaining to the legislation for which the Treasury Board and the President of the Treasury Board are responsible. The Legal Services unit represents the Treasury Board as the employer and deputy ministers and separate agencies with respect to labour- and employment-related matters before the Public Service Labour Relations Board and other administrative tribunals, the Federal Court of Canada, and the Federal Court of Appeal.

Office of the Comptroller General
The Office of the Comptroller General (OCG) is focussed on strengthening financial management and internal audit across the federal government through a wide range of activities to improve the quality of financial information, oversight, systems, and reporting; attract and retain a professional cadre of financial management and internal audit personnel; oversee government spending; provide leadership across the public service to the financial management and internal audit communities; and ensure that financial management and internal audit policies are set and observed.

Priorities and Planning Sector
The Priorities and Planning Sector leads processes to develop and implement the management agenda for the Government of Canada. Leadership, in this regard, is provided through the commitment of Treasury Board ministers and their subcommittees, deputy ministers and assistant deputy ministers of line departments and central agencies (particularly the Privy Council Office), and external experts, for the renewal of Treasury Board policies, the definition of management excellence, and assessing performance for all departments through the Management Accountability Framework (MAF) by analyzing government-wide management issues and risks; providing integrated policy advice and leadership on issues of strategic importance to the Secretary, President, and Treasury Board; and maintaining an extensive knowledge base on progress, trends, and requests related to public sector management.

In supporting the development and implementation of government-wide management priorities, the sector provides leadership in governance and planning processes within the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (Secretariat) to identify and ensure coherence among corporate priorities. The sector provides the Secretary of the Treasury Board and the other sectors within the Secretariat with a strategic view of the department and advice and support in implementing priority initiatives while monitoring progress and ensuring clear accountabilities.

Program Sectors (Government Operations; International Affairs, Security, and Justice; Economic; and Social and Cultural Sectors)
The program sectors support the Treasury Board in its role as a management board by providing analysis and advice on strategic resource allocation for the departments and agencies of government. In fulfilling this role, the program sectors provide advice on the effective use of resources; program design, viability, and responsiveness; funding pressures and mitigation strategies; and broad government operations issues and management strategies. The program sectors also play a lead role in relation to the oversight of the operations of Crown corporations. These four sectors, along with the Expenditure Management Sector and the Expenditure Operations and Estimates Division, work together in making recommendations to the Treasury Board on allocating financial resources in light of government priorities, fiscal targets, pressures relating to existing programs, and results achieved and developing and maintaining accountability frameworks, within which Parliament approves resources and in light of which departments and agencies report on their use. To this end, they coordinate the process whereby the government obtains funds from Parliament; monitor the implementation of approved policies and programs; advise the Treasury Board on success in achieving intended results; and advise the President of the Treasury Board, in his role as a member of Cabinet, on the resource impact that new strategic initiatives and new government projects could have on resources, while promoting innovative management and increased efficiency and effectiveness in delivering programs. They provide analysis and recommendations to the Treasury Board on Crown corporation corporate plans and budgets.

The Government Operations Sector is unique in that it has both program and policy responsibilities. It comprises the Assets and Acquired Services Directorate (AASD), the Governance Directorate, the Government Operations and Services Directorate, and the Human Resources and Parliamentary Affairs Directorate.

The Government Operations and Services Directorate provides advice to senior management and Treasury Board ministers on a broad range of policy and program design issues and financial and management practices, as well as all strategic issues of interest to the ministers. The directorate is divided into three divisions: Public Works and Government Services, Government Operations, and Human Resources Management.

The Government Operations Sector also includes the AASD, which comprises the Investment, Project Management, and Procurement Policy Directorate (IPMPPD); the Real Property and Materiel Policy Directorate (RPMPD); and the Professional Development and Certification Program (PDCP).

The AASD is the government's policy centre for investment planning; the management of procurement, projects, real property, and materiel; and related services. The directorate provides leadership and oversight for informed decision making by ministers and officials in central agencies and departments; develops, updates, and modernizes the government's policies for the efficient management of public assets and acquired services; provides policy support, interpretation, and advice to the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (Secretariat) and departments; manages the central registry of all federal real property and federal contaminated sites; co-manages the federal Contaminated Sites Accelerated Action Plan with Environment Canada; prepares reports to Parliament on the application of the Alternative Fuels Act; and develops and implements a professional development and certification program for the procurement, materiel management, and real property communities.

The Governance Directorate comprises an operations division, which is responsible for the Secretariat's internal procedures, and a policy division, which oversees the monitoring of Crown corporations, develops external policies, and guides Crown corporations. The Governance Directorate provides leadership and support to ministers, agency representatives, and central agencies to help them make informed decisions; designs, updates, and modernizes government policies on governance and on the efficient start-up of new bodies; provides support, policy interpretation, and advice to the Secretariat, Crown corporations, and non-government bodies; administers and updates the list of federal bodies; and prepares the Annual Report to Parliament: Crown Corporations and Other Corporate Interests of Canada.

Secretary and Associate Secretaries' Office
The Secretary is the deputy minister who directs the work of the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and advises the President and the Treasury Board on the organization and management of that part of the public service under the Treasury Board's jurisdiction. The Office of the Secretary is responsible for the daily administrative functions of the organization.

Service Sector
The Service Sector provides leadership, enablement, and monitoring of Government of Canada service design, delivery, and management. This sector provides leadership, support, and guidance in the service delivery area to ensure that Canadians will receive the most responsive, efficient, and effective service delivery possible from their government; that ministers will benefit from an opportunity to help shape and ultimately endorse a coherent forward strategy regarding service delivery; that the government's public service renewal agenda will advance more rapidly as departmental initiatives are considered in the context of a broad strategy that recognizes the priorities related to the renewal agenda; that departments will receive value-added support and actions, such as the benefit of an integrated government-wide strategic plan; and that the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat will benefit from enhanced strategic leadership and oversight capacity related to service policy and delivery across government.

Strategic Communications and Ministerial Affairs
Strategic Communications and Ministerial Affairs (SCMA) is the focal point in the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (Secretariat) for ensuring that the President, Secretary, associate secretaries, and exempt staff are provided with the briefing, correspondence, and logistical support related to Treasury Board meetings, parliamentary affairs, Cabinet affairs, and dealings with other government departments and non‑governmental organizations. It manages and coordinates the Treasury Board meetings, coordinates the Secretariat's Access to Information and Privacy activities, and tracks and assists in the preparation of replies to correspondence addressed to the President and the Secretary. It also acts as a clearing house and maintains the official file for all submissions addressed to the Treasury Board from all government departments. It maintains, tracks, and distributes all Treasury Board submissions and Cabinet documents and papers from the Privy Council Office in the Secretariat.

SCMA also provides strategic communications advice to the President and the Secretary of the Treasury Board as well as to other branches within the Secretariat. As part of this effort, it provides operational support and professional services in communications, advertising, publishing, and public opinion research. Its communicators provide strategic direction through communications plans and draft and produce news releases, media lines, speeches, and presentations in support of Secretariat communications. SCMA provides an electronic media monitoring service to the Secretariat through the Secretariat news centre, as well as research and analysis of current issues and media trends. Media relations activities are also provided to facilitate the department's communications needs and to address specific questions from national and local media. It also manages and coordinates parliamentary affairs activities for the Treasury Board portfolio.

In addition, SCMA manages corporate communications. It provides strategic advice and services in the areas of internal communications, outreach, consultation, publishing, Web services, and Web development. It is also responsible for public inquiries, the fairs and exhibits program, and coordinating requests for copyrighted material. It manages the Secretariat website and is the departmental lead on Government On-Line (GOL) and common look and feel (CLF) standards.

SCMA liaises with Regional Federal Councils and coordinates the Secretariat's intergovernmental and international relations. SCMA ensures information sharing with international partners and stakeholders to facilitate a more effective, responsive, and integrated approach to developing and delivering federal programs and services throughout Canada. The sector is also responsible for the Government of Canada Regional Communications Network, which provides communications advice, expertise, tools, and support to departments, agencies, and Regional Federal Councils of the Government of Canada. SCMA liaises with the Privy Council Office and other departments on government-wide activities and issues. It also serves as the Treasury Board policy centre for the Federal Identity Program and the Communications Policy of the Government of Canada.