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Program directory · National Research Council Canada

Legal Services

Program code
ISS03 (NRC)
Core responsibility
Internal Services
In Departmental Plans
2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

Legal services involve activities undertaken to enable government departments and agencies to pursue policy, program and service delivery priorities and objectives within a legally sound framework. Activities include the provision of the following services: legal advisory, litigation and legislative services.

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).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-272027-282028-29Legal Services 2018-19: $794KLegal Services 2019-20: $830KLegal Services 2020-21: $1MLegal Services 2021-22: $820KLegal Services 2022-23: $961KLegal Services 2023-24: $1.7MLegal Services 2024-25: $1.7MLegal Services 2025-26: $785KLegal Services 2026-27: $794KLegal Services 2027-28: $794KLegal Services 2028-29: $795KLegal ServicesLegal Service…Legal Services
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. The line at the bottom shows this program's names over time.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Legal ServicesThis program2018-19 – 2028-29$7.9M

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
2019-20Renamed from “Legal Service - National Research Council of Canada” to “Legal Services”.GC InfoBase program names by year

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

2018-19: $900K2018-19: $794K2018-192019-20: $900K2019-20: $830K2019-202020-21: $800K2020-21: $1M2020-212021-22: $800K2021-22: $820K2021-222022-23: $800K2022-23: $961K2022-232023-24: $799K2023-24: $1.7M2023-242024-25: $786K2024-25: $1.7M2024-252025-26: $785K2025-262026-27: $794K2026-272027-28: $794K2027-282028-29: $795K2028-29
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19$900K$794K
2019-20$900K$830K
2020-21$800K$1M
2021-22$800K$820K
2022-23$800K$961K
2023-24$799K$1.7M
2024-25$786K$1.7M
2025-26$785K—
2026-27$794K—
2027-28$794K*—
2028-29$795K*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 12018-19: 12018-192019-20: 12019-20: 12019-202020-21: 12020-21: 12020-212021-22: 12021-22: 12021-222022-23: 12022-23: 12022-232023-24: 02023-24: 12023-242024-25: 02024-25: 12024-252025-26: 12025-262026-27: 12026-272027-28: 12027-282028-29: 12028-29
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-1911
2019-2011
2020-2111
2021-2211
2022-2311
2023-2401
2024-2501
2025-261—
2026-271—
2027-281*—
2028-291*—

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

Plan2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-272027-282028-29
2018-19 plan$900,000$900,000$900,000
2019-20 plan$900,000$900,000$900,000
2020-21 plan$800,000$800,000$800,000
2021-22 plan$800,000$800,000$800,000
2022-23 plan$800,000$800,000$800,000
2023-24 plan$799,465$799,254$799,160
2024-25 plan$786,078$783,456$780,353
2025-26 plan$784,801$781,686$781,668
2026-27 plan$793,788$794,128$794,712
Actual$794,465$829,831$1,000,898$819,595$960,953$1,732,362$1,713,584

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