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Admissibility Determination

Program code
AXB00 (CBSA)
Core responsibility
International trade and travel is facilitated across Canada's border and Canada's population is protected from border-related risks.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2010-11 – 2017-18

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2010-11. 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).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Admissibility Determination 2010-11: $244MAdmissibility Determination 2011-12: $583MAdmissibility Determination 2012-13: $586MAdmissibility Determination 2013-14: $816MAdmissibility Determination 2014-15: $982MAdmissibility Determination 2015-16: $900MAdmissibility Determination 2016-17: $847MAdmissibility Determination 2017-18: $904MAdmissibility Determination
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Admissibility DeterminationThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$5.86B

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.

YearWhat changedSource
2011-12Spending $583M, against $244M in 2010-11 (+138%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2013-14Spending $816M, against $586M in 2012-13 (+39%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2013-14: $816M2013-142014-15: $982M2014-152015-16: $900M2015-162016-17: $847M2016-172017-18: $904M2017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14—$816M
2014-15—$982M
2015-16—$900M
2016-17—$847M
2017-18—$904M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 7,3402013-14: 7,0052013-142014-15: 7,0732014-15: 7,2972014-152015-16: 7,6552015-16: 7,4492015-162016-17: 7,6872016-17: 7,2402016-172017-18: 7,4272017-18: 7,1692017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-147,3407,005
2014-157,0737,297
2015-167,6557,449
2016-177,6877,240
2017-187,4277,169

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
Actual

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.