Program directory · Canadian Heritage
Cultural Marketplace Framework
- Department
- Canadian Heritage
- Program code
- BSD02 (CH)
- Core responsibility
- Creativity, Arts and Culture
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
This program supports marketplace conditions for a strong, innovative and competitive cultural sector. This is accomplished through measures that foster the creation of and access to diverse Canadian cultural content that is valued at home and abroad. The program conducts monitoring, research and analysis of emerging trends, of industry performance and of the needs and interests of Canadians to provide evidence-based policy advice related to the cultural marketplace. It is responsible for policy development and advice to ensure a responsive legislative and policy framework in support of Canada’s cultural sector and the role it plays in enriching the cultural, political, social and economic fabric of Canada. It also ensures that Canadians have access to more safe, diverse and secure digital environment and aims to strengthen citizen resilience to online disinformation and other online harms. It includes the Broadcasting Act, Canada’s Policy on Audiovisual Treaty Coproduction, the Investment Canada Act, and the Copyright Act. This program also provides advice on international trade negotiations related to Canada’s cultural interests.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Marketplace Framework | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $238M |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | Indicators added: Gross domestic product (GDP) of the Canadian cultural sector. | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2023-24 | Indicators dropped: Gross domestic product (GDP) of the Canadian cultural sector (in billions of dollars). | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2025 | Budget 2025 measure “Strengthening Canadians' Resilience against Online Disinformation through the Digital Citizen Initiative”: $28M in total over its years (linked to this program by name, a best-effort match). | Budget 2025, PDF page 282 |
| 2025-26 | Planned spending $53.6M, against $39.5M in 2024-25 (+36%). | Latest Departmental Plan |
| 2026-27 | Planned employees (FTEs) 93, against 130 in 2025-26 (−28%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2026-27 | Planned spending $15.8M, against $53.6M in 2025-26 (−71%). | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | ≥ $56B | 2024 | $61B | Met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ $62B | 2025 | $65.3B | Met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | ≥ 635,900 | 2020 | — According to the Statistics Canada release schedule, 2019 data will be unavailable until 2021. | No result reported |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 673,138 | 2021 | 578,697 The COVID-19 pandemic had a large impact on cultural sector jobs. Methodology was modified. Calculated using the June 28, 2021 release of the Culture Satellite Account National Culture Indicators, released quarterly. This is the total of culture jobs in the Government’s 2020–21 fiscal year, divided by four. | Not met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 673,138 | 2022 | 653,780 Result obtained from Statistics Canada’s quarterly national culture and sports indicators as of July 2022 data release. Result is an average of quarterly jobs figures for the total culture domain from Q2 2021 to Q1 2022. Note that Statistics Canada may retroactively revise figures in future data releases | Not met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 615,000 | 2023 | 711,985 | Met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 615,000 | 2024 | 642,751 | Met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 710,000 | 2025 | 668,357 The number of jobs in the cultural sector in 2024–25 was lower than expected due to corporate responses to changing consumer behaviour, slower recovery in certain sub-sectors, and rising inflation and operational costs. | Not met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | ≥ 55 | 2020 | — According to the Statistics Canada release schedule, 2019 data will be unavailable until 2021. | No result reported |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 55 | 2021 | 51,000,000,000 The COVID-19 pandemic had a dramatic impact on cultural sector GDP. Methodology was modified. Calculated using the June 28, 2021 release of the Culture Satellite Account National Culture Indicators, released quarterly. This is the total of Culture GDP for the Government’s 2020-21 fiscal year. | Met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 55 | 2022 | 6,100,000,000,000 | Met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 56 | 2023 | 62.01 | Met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ $66B | 2027 | — | Planned |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 644,363 | 2027 | — | Planned |
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $11.2M | $25.7M |
| 2019-20 | $26M | $30M |
| 2020-21 | $29.5M | $33.9M |
| 2021-22 | $29.1M | $36.8M |
| 2022-23 | $37M | $37.8M |
| 2023-24 | $25.5M | $34M |
| 2024-25 | $43.7M | $39.5M |
| 2025-26 | $53.6M | — |
| 2026-27 | $15.8M | — |
| 2027-28 | $11M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $11M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 102 | 126 |
| 2019-20 | 129 | 135 |
| 2020-21 | 138 | 129 |
| 2021-22 | 131 | 133 |
| 2022-23 | 116 | 131 |
| 2023-24 | 132 | 112 |
| 2024-25 | 123 | 120 |
| 2025-26 | 130 | — |
| 2026-27 | 93 | — |
| 2027-28 | 80* | — |
| 2028-29 | 79* | — |
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 | $11,150,151 | $11,150,150 | $11,150,150 | ||||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $26,025,594 | $25,696,785 | $24,595,520 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $29,463,992 | $28,404,396 | $28,546,118 | ||||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $29,099,178 | $28,761,801 | $12,429,977 | ||||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $37,035,389 | $12,699,257 | $11,879,822 | ||||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $25,492,081 | $25,094,591 | $13,193,810 | ||||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $43,701,747 | $32,552,378 | $15,173,135 | ||||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $53,610,223 | $33,293,841 | $14,941,649 | ||||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $15,811,124 | $10,958,125 | $10,958,125 | ||||||||
| Actual | $25,663,315 | $29,953,415 | $33,856,219 | $36,848,808 | $37,810,153 | $34,027,038 | $39,524,952 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.