Program directory · Office of the Chief Electoral Officer

Office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections

Department

Office of the Chief Electoral Officer

Program code

BYJ01 (CEO)

Core responsibility

Regulatory Oversight

In Departmental Plans

2022-23 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

The Office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections program supports the integrity of Canada’s electoral process by ensuring compliance with, and enforcement of, the Canada Elections Act and the Referendum Act. The Commissioner of Canada Elections receives complaints from the public and referrals from Elections Canada that form the basis of its compliance and enforcement work. Compliance and enforcement actions undertaken by the Commissioner are the result of reviews and investigations stemming from these complaints and referrals.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2022-23. 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).

Significant changes in scope and budget

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.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

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

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