Program directory · Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

Spectrum and Telecommunications

Department

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

Program code

BNP06 (ISC)

Core responsibility

Companies, Investment and Growth

In Departmental Plans

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

What it does

The Spectrum and Telecommunications program enables Canadians to benefit from a globally competitive digital economy that drives innovation, productivity and future prosperity through the development and administration of domestic regulations, procedures and standards that govern Canada's radiocommunication and telecommunications industries. The program sets legislative and policy frameworks to ensure a fair and competitive marketplace and puts into place the right conditions for market-driven telecommunications investment, innovation, and growth. The program maximizes the public benefits of spectrum by managing it efficiently and effectively, through spectrum and radio licensing, including auctions, compliance monitoring, and enforcement. The program protects Canadian interests in the radiocommunications and telecommunications industry by negotiating international treaties and agreements. The program plays a role in protecting Canadians by supporting Information and Communication Technology critical infrastructure, in making spectrum available for first responders, in supporting the telecommunications industry in times of emergency, in leading cyber resilience initiatives and supporting cyber security. This program supports the departmental result “Canadian businesses and industries are innovative and growing” under the Companies, Investment and Growth core responsibility.

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.