Program directory · Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
Residential Schools Legacy
- Program code
- BWM14 (INAC)
- Core responsibility
- Crown-Indigenous Relations
- In Departmental Plans
- 2023-24 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
This Program facilitates the implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Actions 72-76. Program funding supports Indigenous community-led initiatives to locate, document, commemorate, and memorialize unmarked burial sites associated with the 140 residential schools included in the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement and 5 residential schools included in the Newfoundland and Labrador Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, as well as to honour families' wishes to bring children's remains home.
This Program also supports the activities of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, which is the primary centralized, non-government repository for historical records pertaining to Indian residential schools. CIRNAC provides funding support to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to develop and maintain the National Residential School Student Death Register, and a National Residential School Cemetery Register.
The Program supports multi-generational and community healing for all Indigenous peoples harmed by residential school policies, which in turn contributes to the renewal of Crown-Indigenous Relations.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2022-23. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential Schools Legacy | This program | 2022-23 – 2028-29 | $254M |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Budget 2022 measure “Addressing the Shameful Legacy of Residential Schools”: $276M in total over its years (linked to this program by name, a best-effort match). | Budget 2022, PDF page 199 |
| 2023-24 | Spending $106M, against $63.5M in 2022-23 (+67%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2025-26 | Planned employees (FTEs) 65, against 31 in 2024-25 (+110%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2026-27 | Planned employees (FTEs) 38, against 65 in 2025-26 (−42%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2028-29 | Planned employees (FTEs) 3, against 38 in 2027-28 (−92%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2028-29 | Planned spending $749K, against $58.2M in 2027-28 (−99%). | Latest Departmental Plan |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | ≥ 60% | 2024 | 100% | Met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 60% | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | — | $63.5M |
| 2023-24 | $54.2M | $106M |
| 2024-25 | $34.2M | $84.8M |
| 2025-26 | $69M | — |
| 2026-27 | $68.3M | — |
| 2027-28 | $58.2M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $749K* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | — | 25 |
| 2023-24 | 22 | 33 |
| 2024-25 | 31 | 31 |
| 2025-26 | 65 | — |
| 2026-27 | 38 | — |
| 2027-28 | 38* | — |
| 2028-29 | 3* | — |
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 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 plan | $54,249,589 | $34,197,258 | $6,500,000 | |||
| 2024-25 plan | $34,173,423 | $6,500,000 | $6,944,398 | |||
| 2025-26 plan | $68,961,841 | $11,126,468 | $967,588 | |||
| 2026-27 plan | $68,349,582 | $58,171,675 | $749,401 | |||
| Actual | $105,854,005 | $84,817,456 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
