August 2016. Government of Canada. In addition to its successful pursuit of additional provincial endowment funding, TAF also reached out to the federal government to mobilize additional resources for its mandate. This document is the pre-budget submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance to propose a federal investment in TAF’s endowment to drive high-impact, low-carbon solutions. These efforts have since evolved into an initiative to bring TAF’s unique model to other major Canadian cities.