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Regulation of Electoral Activities

Program code
HGI00 (CEO)
Core responsibility
An Accessible Electoral Framework that Canadians Trust and Use.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2011-12 – 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 2011-12. 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).

2011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Regulation of Electoral Activities 2011-12: $103MRegulation of Electoral Activities 2012-13: $37.5MRegulation of Electoral Activities 2013-14: $28MRegulation of Electoral Activities 2014-15: $18.1MRegulation of Electoral Activities 2015-16: $117MRegulation of Electoral Activities 2016-17: $12.7MRegulation of Electoral Activities 2017-18: $15.2MRegulation of Electoral Activities
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
Regulation of Electoral ActivitiesThis program2011-12 – 2017-18$331M

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
2012-13Spending $37.5M, against $103M in 2011-12 (−64%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2013-14Spending $28M, against $37.5M in 2012-13 (−25%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2014-15Spending $18.1M, against $28M in 2013-14 (−35%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2015-16Spending $117M, against $18.1M in 2014-15 (+545%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2016-17Spending $12.7M, against $117M in 2015-16 (−89%).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: $28M2013-142014-15: $18.1M2014-152015-16: $117M2015-162016-17: $12.7M2016-172017-18: $15.2M2017-18
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
2013-14—$28M
2014-15—$18.1M
2015-16—$117M
2016-17—$12.7M
2017-18—$15.2M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 762013-14: 752013-142014-15: 732014-15: 702014-152015-16: 592015-16: 812015-162016-17: 822016-17: 872016-172017-18: 752017-18: 792017-18
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
2013-147675
2014-157370
2015-165981
2016-178287
2017-187579

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.

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