Program directory · Department of Finance Canada

Fiscal Arrangements with Provinces and Territories

Department

Department of Finance Canada

Program code

BUV08 (FIN)

Core responsibility

Economic and Fiscal Policy

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

This Program ensures that the Government of Canada’s fiscal arrangements with provinces and territories are efficiently managed:

- Statutory federal transfer payments to provinces and territories are administered in compliance with legislation and negotiated agreements.

- Additional targeted support to provinces and territories is administered in compliance with legislation and negotiated agreements.

The statutory federal transfer payments programs to provinces and territories are:

- Fiscal Equalization (Part I—Federal Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act);

- Territorial Formula Financing (Part I.1—Federal Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act);

- Fiscal Stabilization (Part II—Federal Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act);

- Canada Health Transfer (Part V.1 — Federal Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act);

- Canada Social Transfer (Part V.1—Federal Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act);

- Statutory Subsidies (Constitution Act, 1867; Constitution Act, 1982, and other statutory authorities);

- Youth Allowances Recovery (Federal Provincial Fiscal Revision Act, 1964); and

- Alternative Payments for Standing Programs (Part VI—Federal Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act).

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. 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).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

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.