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Program directory · Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada

Passport

Program code
COA00 (CI)
Core responsibility
Managed migration and facilitated travel that promote Canadian interests and protect the health, safety and security of Canadians.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2014-15 – 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 2014-15. 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).

2014-152015-162016-172017-18Passport 2014-15: -$287MPassport 2015-16: -$252MPassport 2016-17: -$306MPassport 2017-18: -$236MPassport
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
PassportThis program2014-15 – 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.

No significant changes detected.

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

2014-15: -$287M2014-152015-16: -$252M2015-162016-17: -$306M2016-172017-18: -$236M2017-18
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
2014-15—-$287M
2015-16—-$252M
2016-17—-$306M
2017-18—-$236M

Employees (FTEs)

2014-15: 8022014-15: 5852014-152015-16: 7822015-16: 6742015-162016-17: 6322016-17: 6192016-172017-18: 6432017-18: 6762017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2014-15802585
2015-16782674
2016-17632619
2017-18643676

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.