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PAA_FIN_BLJ02

Program code
BLJ02 (FIN)
Core responsibility
A strong economy and sound public finances for Canadians.
In Departmental Plans
2017-18 – 2017-18 · No longer in the latest plan

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 2013-14. 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).

2013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18PAA_FIN_BLJ02 2013-14: $1.3BPAA_FIN_BLJ02 2014-15: $29.4MPAA_FIN_BLJ02 2015-16: $357MPAA_FIN_BLJ02 2016-17: $5.2MPAA_FIN_BLJ02 2017-18: $611KPAA_FIN_BLJ02
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
PAA_FIN_BLJ02This program2013-14 – 2017-18$1.7B

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
2014-15Spending $29.4M, against $1.3B in 2013-14 (−98%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2015-16Spending $357M, against $29.4M in 2014-15 (+1111%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2016-17Spending $5.2M, against $357M in 2015-16 (−99%).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: $1.3B2013-142014-15: $29.4M2014-152015-16: $357M2015-162016-17: $5.2M2016-172017-18: $612K2017-18: $611K2017-18
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—$1.3B
2014-15—$29.4M
2015-16—$357M
2016-17—$5.2M
2017-18$612K$611K

Employees (FTEs)

2016-17: 02016-17: 52016-172017-18: 02017-18: 52017-18
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
2016-1705
2017-1805

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

Plan2017-18
2017-18 plan$612,286
Actual$610,623

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