Program directory · Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada
Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs
- Program code
- BNZ02 (FJA)
- Core responsibility
- Services and support to federally appointed judges
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
Provides services to federally appointed judges including compensation and pension services, financial services, information technology/information management, language training, editing of the Federal Courts Reports, services to the Minister of Justice through the Judicial Appointments Secretariat including the Supreme Court of Canada, and international judicial cooperation.
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).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $74.8M |
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.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | Indicators added: % of the aggregate of financial, compensation, pension, IT, language training and Federal Courts Reports services delivered in a timely and accurate fashion | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2026-27 | Indicators dropped: % of judges satisfied with services provided | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2026-27 | Renamed from “Federal Judicial Affairs” to “Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs”. | GC InfoBase program names by year |
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
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 90% | 2019 | — Unable to assess – no survey was administered during the year. | No result reported |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 90% | 2020 | — Unable to assess – no survey was administered during the year. | No result reported |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 90% | 2021 | — Unable to assess – no survey was administered during the year. | No result reported |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 90% | 2022 | — Unable to assess – no survey was administered during the year. | No result reported |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 90% | 2023 | — Unable to assess – no survey was administered during the year. | No result reported |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 90% | 2024 | — Unable to assess – no survey was administered during the year. | No result reported |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 90% | 2025 | — Unable to assess – no survey was administered during the year. | No result reported |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 95% | 2027 | — | Planned |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $8.1M | $8.7M |
| 2019-20 | $9.2M | $9.9M |
| 2020-21 | $9.5M | $10.2M |
| 2021-22 | $10.4M | $10.6M |
| 2022-23 | $11.5M | $12M |
| 2023-24 | $10.6M | $11.4M |
| 2024-25 | $11.1M | $12M |
| 2025-26 | $10.5M | — |
| 2026-27 | $10.5M | — |
| 2027-28 | $10.5M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $10.5M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 51 | 44 |
| 2019-20 | 51 | 46 |
| 2020-21 | 51 | 47 |
| 2021-22 | 51 | 50 |
| 2022-23 | 50 | 48 |
| 2023-24 | 50 | 50 |
| 2024-25 | 50 | 47 |
| 2025-26 | 45 | — |
| 2026-27 | 46 | — |
| 2027-28 | 46* | — |
| 2028-29 | 46* | — |
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 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $8,093,556 | $8,093,868 | $8,201,523 | ||||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $9,159,160 | $8,266,769 | $8,267,094 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $9,485,208 | $9,464,261 | $9,474,346 | ||||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $10,410,282 | $10,444,045 | $10,444,045 | ||||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $11,511,508 | $10,511,508 | $10,511,508 | ||||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $10,579,816 | $10,579,816 | $10,579,816 | ||||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $11,075,042 | $11,108,633 | $11,111,187 | ||||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $10,536,128 | $10,540,315 | $10,540,315 | ||||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $10,487,742 | $10,487,742 | $10,487,742 | ||||||||
| Actual | $8,709,151 | $9,909,089 | $10,177,440 | $10,557,895 | $12,006,009 | $11,399,001 | $11,993,472 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
