Program directory · Natural Resources Canada
Geological Knowledge for Canada's Onshore and Offshore Land
- Department
- Natural Resources Canada
- Program code
- BTL02 (NR)
- Core responsibility
- Natural Resource Science and Risk Mitigation
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
Through this program, NRCan produces geoscientific data and knowledge to map the regional geological context of Canada’s onshore and offshore lands. NRCan provides information on new mineral and hydrocarbon potential to support other sectors and departments with strategic resource assessments, methodologies and data to make evidence-based decisions. NRCan also increases the availability and use of geoscience data assets and knowledge products by developing value-added analyses and tailoring information to broader audiences. NRCan acquires and interprets geophysical data that will be the basis of a formal submission defining the outer limits of the extended continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans as part of Canada’s obligation to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. International recognition of this new offshore territory will give Canada sovereign rights over the natural resources on the seabed and subsoil.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geological Knowledge for Canada's Onshore and Offshore Land | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $205M |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | Employees (FTEs) 128, against 166 in 2019-20 (−23%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2025-26 | Planned spending $59.6M, against $35.3M in 2024-25 (+69%). | Latest Departmental Plan |
| 2028-29 | Planned spending $19.8M, against $44.2M in 2027-28 (−55%). | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 75 | 2019 | 80.5 | Met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 1,650 | 2020 | 2,080 | Met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 1,000 | 2021 | 5,092 | Met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 1,500 | 2022 | 1,282 Although the department surpassed the target for this indicator last year, the decline in this year’s target may be attributed to the following: • The Geo-Mapping for Energy and Minerals Program (GEM) did not do fieldwork and therefore, there were no products available to the public • The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is under a renewal process and did not publish any p… | Not met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 1,500 | 2023 | 2,582 | Met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 1,500 | 2024 | 45,929 This is an annual indicator and GSC will be reporting on it at the end of FY 23-24 but starting in 24-25 will report twice a year. The high number of downloads in the recent fiscal year can be attributed to a few things: 1.The sitemaps for GEOSCAN publications were not working at some time in 2020-2022 and were fixed at some point in 2023. This means that our publications were not being crawled b… | Met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 1,500 | 2025 | — In 2024-25, Open S&T Repository (OSTR) was unable to support Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) with this metric due to a lack of capacity. | No result reported |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 1,500 | 2027 | — | Planned |
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $36.7M | $31.9M |
| 2019-20 | $32.5M | $28.5M |
| 2020-21 | $21M | $23.9M |
| 2021-22 | $38.9M | $25.1M |
| 2022-23 | $24.4M | $29.4M |
| 2023-24 | $37.1M | $31.1M |
| 2024-25 | $36.8M | $35.3M |
| 2025-26 | $59.6M | — |
| 2026-27 | $52.4M | — |
| 2027-28 | $44.2M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $19.8M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 167 | 166 |
| 2019-20 | 156 | 166 |
| 2020-21 | 121 | 128 |
| 2021-22 | 116 | 136 |
| 2022-23 | 116 | 135 |
| 2023-24 | 123 | 126 |
| 2024-25 | 111 | 116 |
| 2025-26 | 96 | — |
| 2026-27 | 84 | — |
| 2027-28 | 60* | — |
| 2028-29 | 59* | — |
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 | $36,748,755 | $33,424,890 | $22,544,146 | ||||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $32,522,346 | $21,713,534 | $21,282,788 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $20,972,835 | $20,688,591 | $20,787,790 | ||||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $38,927,281 | $38,933,911 | $38,304,544 | ||||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $24,448,289 | $24,191,174 | $23,218,379 | ||||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $37,125,614 | $33,844,224 | $30,882,993 | ||||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $36,782,735 | $34,260,602 | $33,125,810 | ||||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $59,643,090 | $57,697,450 | $47,580,327 | ||||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $52,384,791 | $44,226,778 | $19,810,237 | ||||||||
| Actual | $31,897,619 | $28,452,744 | $23,947,399 | $25,093,665 | $29,395,185 | $31,075,140 | $35,314,387 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
