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PAA_FIN_BLJ11

Program code
BLJ11 (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_BLJ11 2013-14: $493MPAA_FIN_BLJ11 2014-15: $934MPAA_FIN_BLJ11 2015-16: $613MPAA_FIN_BLJ11 2016-17: $493MPAA_FIN_BLJ11 2017-18: $523MPAA_FIN_BLJ11
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_BLJ11This program2013-14 – 2017-18$3.06B

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 $934M, against $493M in 2013-14 (+90%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2015-16Spending $613M, against $934M in 2014-15 (−34%).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: $493M2013-142014-15: $934M2014-152015-16: $613M2015-162016-17: $493M2016-172017-18: $493M2017-18: $523M2017-18
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—$493M
2014-15—$934M
2015-16—$613M
2016-17—$493M
2017-18$493M$523M

Employees (FTEs)

2016-17: 02016-17: 12016-172017-18: 02017-18: 12017-18
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
2016-1701
2017-1801

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$492,872,596
Actual$523,002,548

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