Program directory · Courts Administration Service
E-Courts
- Department
- Courts Administration Service
- Program code
- BEG03 (CAS)
- Core responsibility
- Administration services supporting Canada’s national Courts
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2025-26 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
The e-court program aims to harness the potential of technology to modernize the administration of justice by providing a range of modern, scalable and fully integrated electronic court and registry management solutions.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| E-Courts | This program | 2018-19 – 2027-28 | $11.7M |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Planned spending $8.2M, against $14K in 2024-25 (+59781%). | Latest Departmental Plan |
| 2026-27 | Planned spending $1.3M, against $8.2M in 2025-26 (−84%). | Latest Departmental Plan |
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 80% | 2019 | 32% This result represents the average of court documents filed electronically across the four Courts. As e-filing capability is further deployed as part of the implementation of a modern Courts and Registry Management System (CRMS), this result is expected to improve gradually. The result achieved for 2019–20 will be used as a baseline for the CRMS. | Not met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 80% | 2020 | 26.5% This result represents the average of court documents filed electronically across the four Courts. As e-filing capability is further deployed as part of the implementation of a modern Courts and Registry Management System (CRMS), this result is expected to improve gradually. The result achieved for 2019–20 will be used as a baseline for the CRMS. | Not met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 80% | 2021 | 54% With the move to virtual operations during the COVID-19 pandemic, CAS expanded its e-court capacity, enhanced the e-filing capabilities of the Courts and accelerated the digitization of Court documents. However, this work is far from being completed; e-filing will be further facilitated by a new Courts and Registry Management System planned for the Courts. | Not met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 80% | 2022 | 73% The move to virtual operations during the COVID-19 pandemic led to an expansion of e-court capacity and capability, with progress ongoing and continued increases expected. Additionally driving the increase was a return to normal procedures for larger, institutional users of the Courts. | Not met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 80% | 2023 | 82% | Met |
| 2023-24 | 80% – 100% | 2024 | 88% | Met |
| 2024-25 | 80% – 100% | 2025 | 90.5% | Met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $407K | $471K |
| 2019-20 | $611K | $2.5M |
| 2020-21 | $2M | $2.8M |
| 2021-22 | $926K | $3M |
| 2022-23 | $2.1M | $2.6M |
| 2023-24 | $356K | $334K |
| 2024-25 | $4M | $14K |
| 2025-26 | $8.2M | — |
| 2026-27 | $1.3M* | — |
| 2027-28 | $89K* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019-20 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020-21 | 2 | 5 |
| 2021-22 | 6 | 9 |
| 2022-23 | 5 | 2 |
| 2023-24 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-25 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-26 | 0 | — |
| 2026-27 | 0* | — |
| 2027-28 | 0* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $406,999 | $406,007 | $421,722 | |||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $611,365 | $612,679 | $613,638 | |||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $2,017,000 | $1,280,000 | $1,080,000 | |||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $926,484 | $0 | $0 | |||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $2,120,854 | $1,427,867 | $1,428,628 | |||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $355,822 | $0 | $0 | |||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $3,987,658 | $5,004,914 | $912,000 | |||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $8,195,482 | $1,302,149 | $89,180 | |||||||
| Actual | $470,690 | $2,521,076 | $2,768,880 | $2,970,598 | $2,631,585 | $334,160 | $13,686 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
