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Strategic Policy and Reviews

Program code
BUW02 (FTRAC)
Core responsibility
Compliance with Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Legislation and Regulations
In Departmental Plans
2018-19 – 2025-26 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada’s Strategic Policy and Reviews Program works closely with the Department of Finance and other regime partners to share operational and strategic expertise and knowledge of Canada’s law enforcement and national security priorities and to identify potential enhancements to legislation and regulations with a view to strengthening Canada’s overall anti-money laundering and antiterrorism financing regime.

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).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-272027-28Strategic Policy and Reviews 2018-19: $393KStrategic Policy and Reviews 2019-20: $555KStrategic Policy and Reviews 2020-21: $391KStrategic Policy and Reviews 2021-22: $690KStrategic Policy and Reviews 2022-23: $895KStrategic Policy and Reviews 2023-24: $746KStrategic Policy and Reviews 2024-25: $30KStrategic Policy and Reviews 2025-26: $1.4MStrategic Policy and Reviews 2026-27: $1.3MStrategic Policy and Reviews 2027-28: $1.3MStrategic Policy and Reviews
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
Strategic Policy and ReviewsThis program2018-19 – 2027-28$3.7M

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.

No significant changes detected.

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

Percentage of key international and domestic AML/ATF committees and working groups in which FINTRAC participates and influences policy decisions based on its expertise in preventing, detecting and deterring ML and TF activities.
Expected result: FINTRAC contributes to improving the effectiveness of Canada’s overall anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing regime.
100%2018-19✓ met94%2019-20✓ met100%2020-21✓ met100%2021-22✓ met100%2022-23✓ met100%2023-24✓ met100%2024-25✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2018-19≥ 75%2019100%Met
2019-20≥ 75%202094%Met
2020-21≥ 75%2021100%Met
2021-22≥ 75%2022100%Met
2022-23≥ 75%2023100%Met
2023-24≥ 75%2024100%Met
2024-25≥ 75%2025100%Met

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2018-19: $422K2018-19: $393K2018-192019-20: $427K2019-20: $555K2019-202020-21: $461K2020-21: $391K2020-212021-22: $754K2021-22: $690K2021-222022-23: $662K2022-23: $895K2022-232023-24: $613K2023-24: $746K2023-242024-25: $985K2024-25: $30K2024-252025-26: $1.4M2025-262026-27: $1.3M2026-272027-28: $1.3M2027-28
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
2018-19$422K$393K
2019-20$427K$555K
2020-21$461K$391K
2021-22$754K$690K
2022-23$662K$895K
2023-24$613K$746K
2024-25$985K$30K
2025-26$1.4M—
2026-27$1.3M*—
2027-28$1.3M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 22018-19: 22018-192019-20: 32019-20: 22019-202020-21: 22020-21: 22020-212021-22: 32021-22: 32021-222022-23: 32022-23: 22022-232023-24: 32023-24: 32023-242024-25: 62024-25: 02024-252025-26: 62025-262026-27: 62026-272027-28: 72027-28
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
2018-1922
2019-2032
2020-2122
2021-2233
2022-2332
2023-2433
2024-2560
2025-266—
2026-276*—
2027-287*—

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

Plan2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-272027-28
2018-19 plan$422,293$432,281$432,281
2019-20 plan$426,633$436,304$437,845
2020-21 plan$460,905$504,556$494,254
2021-22 plan$754,414$791,218$767,942
2022-23 plan$661,847$582,731$778,852
2023-24 plan$612,939$778,851$762,296
2024-25 plan$984,953$1,000,400$990,973
2025-26 plan$1,352,121$1,334,753$1,340,030
Actual$393,273$554,783$390,703$689,924$894,511$746,346$30,333

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