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February 7, 2025

Government of Canada: Capital Projects

Funding Opportunities

1. Active Transportation Fund: Capital Projects

Deadline: Wed, February 26, 2025

The Fund helps:

  • more people take the bus or bike
  • make transportation more affordable for all
  • connect current and planned infrastructure
  • reduce climate change
  • reduce air and noise pollution
  • access to jobs and resources for all

What capital projects are eligible: 
Capital projects are defined as new construction or an upgrade to existing infrastructure, design and safety features that encourage more active transportation. 

Eligible projects include building or fixing: 

  • paths, sidewalks, footbridges, separated bicycle lanes, and connections to other roadways like trails that connect to destination, services or amenities
  • bike storage, lighting, greenery, shade and benches
  • Crosswalks, speedbumps, fences and signage
  • promote use of active transportation but not increase infrastructure

Projects that are NOT eligible: 

  • encourage passenger or commercial vehicles; and
  • include items non-essential to the operation of the project (furnishings and non-fixed assets).

Who can apply:

  • be able to enter into legal binding agreements
  • and:
    • be a province or territory government
    • be a municipality or regional government created by or under provincial territorial statue
    • Be a municipally-owned corporation 
    • Be a provincial or territorial organization that delivers municipal services (public utilities, community health services)
    • Be a local governance that exists outside of the municipality description like a local service district
    • be a federally or provincially incorporated not-for-profit organization or charity

Deadlines and Resources:  

  • February 26 (3:00 p.m. EST) deadline
  • April 9 (3:00 p.m. EST) deadline for Indigenous applicants
APPLY HERE

2. Rural Transit Solutions Fund: Capital Projects Stream

Deadline:  Tues, March 4, 2025 

The Fund helps

  • support locally driven transit projects; and 
  • rural, remote, Indigenous and Northern communities access work, school, medical services and family.

Who can apply:

  • be able to enter into legal binding agreements, 
  • be in good standing with the government of Canada,
  • and:
    • be a province or territory government; 
    • be a municipality or regional government created by or under provincial territorial statue; 
    • be a federally or provincially incorporated not-for-profit organization or charity; 
    • be an Indigenous benefitting organization or recipient; 
    • federally or provincially incorporated not-for-profit organization assisting to improve Indigenous outcomes; and
    • an Indigenous development corporation.

Who CANNOT apply: 

  • Individual or private citizens; 
  • Federal groups, including federal Crown corporations; and 
  • Private sector entities (private companies).

What capital projects are eligible: 

  • Organizations with at least two years of transit experience. This can include local governments working in partnership with an experienced transit organization, or a finished public transit feasibility study (dated after January 1, 2020). Funding available: up to $10M

Organizations with less than two years of experience and no recent feasibility study may qualify for up to $250,000 in federal funding.

Deadlines and Resources:  

  • March 4 (3:00 p.m. EST) deadline
  • April 8 (3:00 p.m. EST) deadline for Indigenous applicants
APPLY HERE