Program directory · Global Affairs Canada
International Security
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Program code
- BVB22 (EA)
- Core responsibility
- International Advocacy and Diplomacy
- In Departmental Plans
- 2025-26 – 2025-26 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
The program is responsible for leading the coordination of Canada’s international security policy through the provision of advice, strategic analysis, and management of defence, security, and intelligence partnerships. By working closely with Canada’s intergovernmental, bilateral, and multilateral partners, including the G7, the program plays a key role in supporting Canada’s responses to global conflicts and crises, and in addressing emerging security challenges, such as those related to cyber, digital and emerging technologies, international crime and terrorism, weapons proliferation, peace and stabilization, and threats to democracy, including foreign interference and authoritarianism. The program also oversees export controls policy and operations for strategic and non-strategic goods and manages Canada’s sanctions regime as key tools towards advancing Canada’s national security and foreign policy interests.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in the Departmental Plans in 2025-26. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Law | Earlier program (name match, low confidence) | 2018-19 – 2026-27 | $167M |
| International Security Policy and Diplomacy | Earlier program (name match, medium confidence) | 2019-20 – 2026-27 | $712M |
| International Security | This program | 2025-26 – 2027-28 | — |
| International Security and Political Affairs | Later program (name match, medium confidence) | 2026-27 – 2028-29 | — |
| International Platform | Later program (name match, low confidence) | 2026-27 – 2028-29 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Appears to combine earlier programs: International Law; International Security Policy and Diplomacy | Canada Spends name match across plans (an inference) |
| 2026-27 | Appears to be split across: International Security and Political Affairs; International Platform | Canada Spends name match across plans (an inference) |
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
No results reported yet.
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | $362M | — |
| 2026-27 | $357M* | — |
| 2027-28 | $358M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 424 | — |
| 2026-27 | 404* | — |
| 2027-28 | 394* | — |
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 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 plan | $361,957,247 | $357,497,022 | $358,310,389 |
| Actual |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
