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Program directory · Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

Residential Schools Resolution

Program code
HGH00 (INAC)
Core responsibility
The People - Individual, family and community well-being for First Nations and Inuit.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2011-12 – 2017-18

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 2011-12. 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).

2011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Residential Schools Resolution 2011-12: $560MResidential Schools Resolution 2012-13: $593MResidential Schools Resolution 2013-14: $574MResidential Schools Resolution 2014-15: $493MResidential Schools Resolution 2015-16: $317MResidential Schools Resolution 2016-17: $168MResidential Schools Resolution 2017-18: $82.4MResidential Schools Resolution
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
Residential Schools ResolutionThis program2011-12 – 2017-18$2.79B

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
2015-16Spending $317M, against $493M in 2014-15 (−36%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2016-17Employees (FTEs) 333, against 458 in 2015-16 (−27%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2016-17Spending $168M, against $317M in 2015-16 (−47%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2017-18Employees (FTEs) 262, against 333 in 2016-17 (−21%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2017-18Spending $82.4M, against $168M in 2016-17 (−51%).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: $574M2013-142014-15: $493M2014-152015-16: $317M2015-162016-17: $168M2016-172017-18: $82.4M2017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14—$574M
2014-15—$493M
2015-16—$317M
2016-17—$168M
2017-18—$82.4M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 6252013-14: 5212013-142014-15: 6312014-15: 5212014-152015-16: 3522015-16: 4582015-162016-17: 402016-17: 3332016-172017-18: 2602017-18: 2622017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14625521
2014-15631521
2015-16352458
2016-1740333
2017-18260262

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
Actual

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