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Arts

Program code
ACS00 (CH)
Core responsibility
Canadian artistic expressions and cultural content are created and accessible at home and abroad.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2010-11 – 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 2010-11. 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).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Arts 2010-11: $115MArts 2011-12: $110MArts 2012-13: $118MArts 2013-14: $113MArts 2014-15: $114MArts 2015-16: $111MArts 2016-17: $195MArts 2017-18: $203MArts
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
ArtsThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$1.08B

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
2012-13Employees (FTEs) 118, against 89 in 2011-12 (+33%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2016-17Spending $195M, against $111M in 2015-16 (+75%).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: $113M2013-142014-15: $114M2014-152015-16: $111M2015-162016-17: $195M2016-172017-18: $203M2017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14—$113M
2014-15—$114M
2015-16—$111M
2016-17—$195M
2017-18—$203M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 1412013-14: 1152013-142014-15: 1372014-15: 1242014-152015-16: 1232015-16: 1282015-162016-17: 1232016-17: 1372016-172017-18: 1512017-18: 1412017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14141115
2014-15137124
2015-16123128
2016-17123137
2017-18151141

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.