Program directory · Natural Resources Canada
Geoscience to Keep Canada Safe
- Department
- Natural Resources Canada
- Program code
- BTL11 (NR)
- Core responsibility
- Natural Resource Science and Risk Mitigation
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
This program undertakes the monitoring, research and effective planning against various natural and human-induced hazards, including earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides and impacts related to climate change, geomagnetic storms, radiological and nuclear incidents. Through the provision of hazard information, NRCan helps other levels of government, including international government bodies, as well as the private sector and professional organizations to prevent, mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from natural disasters. Similarly, geoscience information is used by these stakeholders to minimize the risk of climate change to communities and infrastructure in vulnerable areas.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geoscience to Keep Canada Safe | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $164M |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | Spending $31.5M, against $20.1M in 2020-21 (+57%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2024-25 | Spending $20.7M, against $28.4M in 2023-24 (−27%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
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% by March 2019 100% by March 2022 | 2019 | 100% | Met |
| 2019-20 | 75% by March 2020 100% by March 2023 | 2020 | 97% | Met |
| 2020-21 | 90% by March 2021 100% by March 2023 | 2021 | 100% | Met |
| 2021-22 | 90% by March 2021 100% by March 2023 | 2022 | 100% | No result reported |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 100% | 2023 | 100% | Met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 90% | 2024 | 100% | Met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 100% | 2025 | 100% | Met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | 100% – 100% | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $17.2M | $20.2M |
| 2019-20 | $16.8M | $18.4M |
| 2020-21 | $25M | $20.1M |
| 2021-22 | $27.5M | $31.5M |
| 2022-23 | $25.8M | $24.8M |
| 2023-24 | $26.2M | $28.4M |
| 2024-25 | $19M | $20.7M |
| 2025-26 | $20.1M | — |
| 2026-27 | $20.7M | — |
| 2027-28 | $19.2M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $19M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 136 | 129 |
| 2019-20 | 118 | 126 |
| 2020-21 | 128 | 129 |
| 2021-22 | 134 | 132 |
| 2022-23 | 139 | 125 |
| 2023-24 | 126 | 122 |
| 2024-25 | 120 | 117 |
| 2025-26 | 120 | — |
| 2026-27 | 110 | — |
| 2027-28 | 109* | — |
| 2028-29 | 110* | — |
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 | $17,175,141 | $16,774,006 | $16,742,265 | ||||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $16,824,421 | $16,904,725 | $16,878,270 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $25,046,990 | $27,685,274 | $24,288,403 | ||||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $27,466,816 | $24,040,343 | $24,010,519 | ||||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $25,750,303 | $26,121,945 | $18,883,366 | ||||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $26,175,072 | $18,933,642 | $18,933,642 | ||||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $18,973,803 | $19,183,011 | $18,898,426 | ||||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $20,136,883 | $19,915,482 | $19,015,025 | ||||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $20,652,378 | $19,220,935 | $18,978,022 | ||||||||
| Actual | $20,231,984 | $18,352,891 | $20,109,609 | $31,525,269 | $24,844,506 | $28,426,260 | $20,710,398 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
