Program directory · Office of the Chief Electoral Officer

Political Entities Regulatory Compliance

Department

Office of the Chief Electoral Officer

Program code

BYJ02 (CEO)

Core responsibility

Regulatory Oversight

In Departmental Plans

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

What it does

Elections Canada’s Political Entities Regulatory Compliance program administers the political financing provisions of the Canada Elections Act and monitors compliance of political entities with disclosure and reporting requirements, including by auditing their financial returns and issuing subsidies and election expense reimbursements in accordance with the legislation. The program ensures that political entities have the tools and training required to comply with the Act. It is also responsible for regulatory instruments in the form of opinions, guidelines, and interpretation notes on the correct application of the Canada Elections Act (not limited to political financing provisions) and the maintenance of an online registry. The program is responsible for registering political entities and maintaining a registry of political entities. It also ensures that Parliament, the Commissioner of Canada Elections, Canadians and other stakeholders have timely access to financial information and data that they require on political finance and emerging trends and issues.

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.