Program directory · Natural Resources Canada

Canada Lands Survey System

Department

Natural Resources Canada

Program code

BTL05 (NR)

Core responsibility

Natural Resource Science and Risk Mitigation

In Departmental Plans

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

What it does

The Canada Lands Survey System provides the statutory framework, standards and information systems and the land survey ground infrastructure that legally identifies and protects the boundaries of property rights and enables land transactions on Canada Lands (Indigenous Reserves, National Parks, the Northern Territories and Canada’s Offshore region). This program underpins land governance and provides the boundary certainty required to protect and manage lands and resources and to support sustainable social and economic development for Canadians, Indigenous Peoples, industry and federal, provincial and territorial governments. It is a key contributor to reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples, both in its mandated role of delivering the System pursuant to the Canada Lands Surveys Act and in its accompanying role of providing legal survey and boundary expertise to Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, Indigenous Services and other government departments.

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.