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Canada Council for the Arts

Program code
BFJ00 (CC)
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2018-19 – 2024-25

What it does

To foster and promote the study, enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts.

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).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-25Canada Council for the Arts 2018-19: $293MCanada Council for the Arts 2019-20: $328MCanada Council for the Arts 2020-21: $429MCanada Council for the Arts 2021-22: $510MCanada Council for the Arts 2022-23: $423MCanada Council for the Arts 2023-24: $369MCanada Council for the Arts 2024-25: $364MCanada Council for the Arts
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
Canada Council for the ArtsThis program2018-19 – 2024-25$2.72B

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
2020-21Spending $429M, against $328M in 2019-20 (+31%).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

2018-19: $293M2018-192019-20: $328M2019-202020-21: $429M2020-212021-22: $510M2021-222022-23: $423M2022-232023-24: $369M2023-242024-25: $364M2024-25
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
2018-19—$293M
2019-20—$328M
2020-21—$429M
2021-22—$510M
2022-23—$423M
2023-24—$369M
2024-25—$364M

Employees (FTEs)

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.