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Program directory · Canadian Heritage

Official Languages

Program code
ADN00 (CH)
Core responsibility
Canadians share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity.
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).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Official Languages 2010-11: $354MOfficial Languages 2011-12: $359MOfficial Languages 2012-13: $359MOfficial Languages 2013-14: $353MOfficial Languages 2014-15: $357MOfficial Languages 2015-16: $359MOfficial Languages 2016-17: $366MOfficial Languages 2017-18: $364MOfficial Languages
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
Official LanguagesThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$2.87B

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) 171, against 132 in 2011-12 (+30%).FTEs (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: $353M2013-142014-15: $357M2014-152015-16: $359M2015-162016-17: $366M2016-172017-18: $364M2017-18
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—$353M
2014-15—$357M
2015-16—$359M
2016-17—$366M
2017-18—$364M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 992013-14: 1502013-142014-15: 1342014-15: 1452014-152015-16: 1422015-16: 1522015-162016-17: 1502016-17: 1472016-172017-18: 1492017-18: 1442017-18
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
2013-1499150
2014-15134145
2015-16142152
2016-17150147
2017-18149144

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.