Program directory · Global Affairs Canada

International Security and Political Affairs

Department

Global Affairs Canada

Program code

BZA05 (EA)

Core responsibility

Advancing Canada’s interests and addressing global challenges

In Departmental Plans

2026-27 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

The program is responsible for leading the coordination of Canada’s international security policy and political affairs through the provision of advice, strategic analysis, and management of defence, security, and intelligence partnerships, as well as multilateral engagements in select international organizations. By working closely with Canada’s intergovernmental, bilateral, and multilateral partners (including the G7, NATO, UN, OSCE, Francophonie and Commonwealth), the program plays a key role in advancing Canada’s international security and political interests, protecting and promoting human rights and the rules-based international order, and addressing emerging security challenges. These include: cyber, digital and emerging technologies, international crime and terrorism, weapons proliferation, peace and stabilization, threats to democracy, including foreign interference and authoritarianism, back-tracking on human rights and rule of law, strategic competition against disruptive actors, and threats to sovereignty around the globe. The program also oversees export controls policy and operations for strategic and non-strategic goods and manages Canada’s sanctions regime as key tools toward 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 2026-27. 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).

Significant changes in scope and budget

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.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

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

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.