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Program directory · Office of the Chief Electoral Officer

Electoral Integrity and Regulatory Policy

Program code
BYJ03 (CEO)
Core responsibility
Regulatory Oversight
In Departmental Plans
2022-23 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

Elections Canada’s Electoral Integrity and Regulatory Policy Program strengthens the agency’s capacity to deliver on its mandate in a manner that is consistent with electoral integrity principles including accessibility, reliability, fairness, security, transparency, and independence. This includes providing integrity risk assessments and integrity assurance advice and developing policy instruments to support electoral operations and political registration and financing.

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).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-272027-282028-29Electoral Integrity and Regulatory Oversight 2018-19: $14.2MElectoral Integrity and Regulatory Oversight 2019-20: $103MElectoral Integrity and Regulatory Oversight 2020-21: $4.1MElectoral Integrity and Regulatory Oversight 2021-22: $80.7MElectoral Integrity and Regulatory Oversight 2022-23: $15.9MElectoral Integrity and Regulatory Oversight 2023-24: $13.5MElectoral Integrity and Regulatory Policy 2022-23: $3.4MElectoral Integrity and Regulatory Policy 2023-24: $3.7MElectoral Integrity and Regulatory Policy 2024-25: $4MElectoral Integrity and Regulatory Policy 2025-26: $3.4MElectoral Integrity and Regulatory Policy 2026-27: $4.7MElectoral Integrity and Regulatory Policy 2027-28: $4.2MElectoral Integrity and Regulatory Policy 2028-29: $4.1MElectoral Integrity and Regulatory OversightElectoral Integrity and Regulatory Policy
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
Electoral Integrity and Regulatory OversightEarlier program (name match, medium confidence)2018-19 – 2023-24$202M
Electoral Integrity and Regulatory PolicyThis program2022-23 – 2028-29$11.1M

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
2022-23Appears to be split across: Electoral Integrity and Regulatory Oversight; ceo-byj02Canada Spends name match across plans (an inference)

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

Percentage of integrity risk mitigation and/or integrity assurance recommendations accepted by risk owners.
Expected result: Canada has a fair, secure, and transparent process free of undue influence
100%2022-23✓ met100%2023-24✓ met95%2024-25✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2022-23≥ 80%2023100%Met
2023-24≥ 80%2024100%Met
2024-25≥ 90%202595%Met

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

Percentage of integrity risk mitigation and/or integrity assurance recommendations accepted by risk owners.
Expected result: Canada has a fair, secure, and transparent process free of undue influence
90%2026-27

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2026-27≥ 90%2027—Planned

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2022-23: $2.7M2022-23: $3.4M2022-232023-24: $3.6M2023-24: $3.7M2023-242024-25: $3.7M2024-25: $4M2024-252025-26: $3.4M2025-262026-27: $4.7M2026-272027-28: $4.2M2027-282028-29: $4.1M2028-29
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
2022-23$2.7M$3.4M
2023-24$3.6M$3.7M
2024-25$3.7M$4M
2025-26$3.4M—
2026-27$4.7M—
2027-28$4.2M*—
2028-29$4.1M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2022-23: 262022-23: 322022-232023-24: 322023-24: 292023-242024-25: 342024-25: 312024-252025-26: 322025-262026-27: 362026-272027-28: 322027-282028-29: 312028-29
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
2022-232632
2023-243229
2024-253431
2025-2632—
2026-2736—
2027-2832*—
2028-2931*—

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.