Program directory · Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Permissions for Plant Products
- Department
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Program code
- BUH04 (CFIA)
- Core responsibility
- Safe food and healthy plants and animals
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
The program provides regulatory permission in the form of licences, permits and registrations, as well as certificates and other documentation in a timely manner so Canadian businesses and/or residents can operate and/or move a product.
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).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permissions for Plant Products | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $260M |
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.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | Spending $47.2M, against $30.6M in 2021-22 (+55%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2025-26 | Planned spending $33.3M, against $51.7M in 2024-25 (−36%). | Latest Departmental Plan |
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
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | — | 2019 | 98% Target to be developed in 2019-20. | No result reported |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 90% | 2020 | 98% | Met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 90% | 2021 | 87% Reporting on permissions was impacted due to COVID-19 restrictions (limited access to hard copy files throughout 2020/21). | Not met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 90% | 2022 | 95% | Met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 90% | 2023 | 89.1% The combined effects of the increased service requests, and the change management impacts of regulatory changes have strained our resources, resulting in a temporary inability to meet the established service standards | Not met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 90% | 2024 | 95.3% | Met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 90% | 2025 | 99.6% | Met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $27.4M | $26.8M |
| 2019-20 | $27.4M | $25M |
| 2020-21 | $28.9M | $25.9M |
| 2021-22 | $35M | $30.6M |
| 2022-23 | $40.4M | $47.2M |
| 2023-24 | $44.6M | $52.4M |
| 2024-25 | $41.1M | $51.7M |
| 2025-26 | $33.3M | — |
| 2026-27 | $33.4M | — |
| 2027-28 | $33.6M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $33.7M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 251 | 250 |
| 2019-20 | 251 | 244 |
| 2020-21 | 251 | 242 |
| 2021-22 | 260 | 271 |
| 2022-23 | 261 | 298 |
| 2023-24 | 275 | 289 |
| 2024-25 | 268 | 268 |
| 2025-26 | 258 | — |
| 2026-27 | 252 | — |
| 2027-28 | 252* | — |
| 2028-29 | 252* | — |
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 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $27,416,389 | $27,178,022 | $27,183,715 | ||||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $27,416,000 | $27,416,000 | $27,416,000 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $28,916,000 | $33,246,000 | $39,671,000 | ||||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $34,980,000 | $40,414,000 | $40,194,000 | ||||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $40,364,000 | $40,259,000 | $30,572,000 | ||||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $44,551,000 | $31,823,000 | $30,681,000 | ||||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $41,126,000 | $31,900,000 | $31,309,000 | ||||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $33,307,000 | $33,062,000 | $33,059,000 | ||||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $33,411,000 | $33,634,000 | $33,674,000 | ||||||||
| Actual | $26,805,788 | $24,952,865 | $25,914,951 | $30,562,335 | $47,240,604 | $52,428,402 | $51,680,125 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
