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International Commerce

Program code
AJQ00 (EA)
Core responsibility
International Commercial and Consular Services for Canadians - Canadians are satisfied with commercial and consular services.
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).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18International Commerce 2010-11: $315MInternational Commerce 2011-12: $167MInternational Commerce 2012-13: $161MInternational Commerce 2013-14: $157MInternational Commerce 2014-15: $170MInternational Commerce 2015-16: $164MInternational Commerce 2016-17: $194MInternational Commerce 2017-18: $205MInternational Commerce
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
International CommerceThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$1.53B

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 $167M, against $315M in 2010-11 (−47%).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: $157M2013-142014-15: $170M2014-152015-16: $164M2015-162016-17: $194M2016-172017-18: $205M2017-18
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—$157M
2014-15—$170M
2015-16—$164M
2016-17—$194M
2017-18—$205M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 1,3782013-14: 1,2912013-142014-15: 1,1822014-15: 1,2412014-152015-16: 1,3242015-16: 1,3112015-162016-17: 1,3592016-17: 1,3382016-172017-18: 1,3642017-18: 1,3592017-18
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
2013-141,3781,291
2014-151,1821,241
2015-161,3241,311
2016-171,3591,338
2017-181,3641,359

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.