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Future Canadian Space Capacity

Program code
ANW00 (CSA)
Core responsibility
Canada's exploration of space, provision of space services and development of its space capacity meet the nation's needs for scientific knowledge, innovation and information.
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).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Future Canadian Space Capacity 2010-11: $7.3MFuture Canadian Space Capacity 2011-12: $69.6MFuture Canadian Space Capacity 2012-13: $52.5MFuture Canadian Space Capacity 2013-14: $55.5MFuture Canadian Space Capacity 2014-15: $58MFuture Canadian Space Capacity 2015-16: $61.8MFuture Canadian Space Capacity 2016-17: $79MFuture Canadian Space Capacity 2017-18: $86.1MFuture Canadian Space Capacity
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
Future Canadian Space CapacityThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$470M

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
2011-12Spending $69.6M, against $7.3M in 2010-11 (+853%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2016-17Spending $79M, against $61.8M in 2015-16 (+28%).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: $55.5M2013-142014-15: $58M2014-152015-16: $61.8M2015-162016-17: $79M2016-172017-18: $86.1M2017-18
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
2013-14—$55.5M
2014-15—$58M
2015-16—$61.8M
2016-17—$79M
2017-18—$86.1M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 1082013-14: 952013-142014-15: 922014-15: 902014-152015-16: 1012015-16: 872015-162016-17: 1052016-17: 1062016-172017-18: 1032017-18: 1152017-18
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
2013-1410895
2014-159290
2015-1610187
2016-17105106
2017-18103115

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.