Program directory · Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Setting Rules for Food Safety and Consumer Protection
- Department
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Program code
- BUH09 (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 Setting Rules Program develops and maintains rules to reduce risks to the food safety system in Canada. It is risk based and aims to protect consumer health, keep consumers safe from harmful and/or misleading practices, and facilitates domestic and international trade.
Rules include legislation, acts, regulations, policies, standards & frameworks.
The program impacts consumers in Canada as well as CFIA staff, industry, non-governmental organizations, academia, regulatory partners (domestic and international), and third-party service providers.
The program reduces risk with the following activities: gathering data and information to develop risk intelligence, conducting risk analysis, and developing strategies to support implementation of risk control measures.
These activities, enabled by digital tools, form the basis of the Agency’s risk-based approach to food safety and consumer protection. When setting these rules, it is crucial to work closely with federal, provincial, territorial and regulatory partners (domestic and international). It is also crucial to work with consumer advocacy groups, Indigenous Peoples, academia, industry and associations.
The program aligns with the Departmental Results Framework Core Responsibility: “Safe food and healthy plants and animals.” It also supports the Departmental Result: “Food sold in Canada is safe and accurately represented to Canadians.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setting Rules for Food Safety and Consumer Protection | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $404M |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2027-28 | Planned employees (FTEs) 301, against 400 in 2026-27 (−25%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
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 | ≥ 95% | 2019 | 98.6% | Met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 95% | 2020 | 98.4% | Met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 95% | 2021 | 98.5% | Met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 95% | 2022 | 98.6% | Met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 95% | 2023 | 97.6% | Met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 95% | 2024 | 98.2% | Met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 95% | 2025 | 98.6% | Met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 95% | 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 | $52.2M | $55M |
| 2019-20 | $55.8M | $62.8M |
| 2020-21 | $55.8M | $52.6M |
| 2021-22 | $51.7M | $54.8M |
| 2022-23 | $57.7M | $56.1M |
| 2023-24 | $52.2M | $60.3M |
| 2024-25 | $58.7M | $62.3M |
| 2025-26 | $58.1M | — |
| 2026-27 | $57.5M | — |
| 2027-28 | $43.2M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $40.2M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 428 | 444 |
| 2019-20 | 456 | 462 |
| 2020-21 | 456 | 420 |
| 2021-22 | 402 | 443 |
| 2022-23 | 448 | 446 |
| 2023-24 | 407 | 460 |
| 2024-25 | 442 | 466 |
| 2025-26 | 412 | — |
| 2026-27 | 400 | — |
| 2027-28 | 301* | — |
| 2028-29 | 280* | — |
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 | $52,178,031 | $50,667,104 | $50,677,717 | ||||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $55,772,953 | $49,764,192 | $47,789,197 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $55,773,000 | $50,922,000 | $50,922,000 | ||||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $51,723,000 | $51,774,000 | $51,337,000 | ||||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $57,741,000 | $51,425,000 | $51,666,000 | ||||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $52,174,000 | $51,824,000 | $51,875,000 | ||||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $58,693,000 | $53,077,000 | $52,846,000 | ||||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $58,097,000 | $55,921,000 | $55,288,000 | ||||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $57,450,000 | $43,224,000 | $40,221,000 | ||||||||
| Actual | $54,954,600 | $62,815,431 | $52,626,053 | $54,753,021 | $56,069,955 | $60,250,194 | $62,334,884 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
