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Program directory · Public Prosecution Service of Canada

Regulatory Offences and Economic Crime Prosecution Program

Department: Public Prosecution Service of Canada
Program code: BRD02 (ODPP)
Core responsibility: Prosecution Services
In Departmental Plans: 2018-19 – 2018-19 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

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).

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.

Program	Relation	Years with data	Actual spending over those years
Regulatory Offences and Economic Crime Prosecution Program	This program	2018-19 – 2020-21	$22.3M

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.

No significant changes detected.

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

Number and nature of judicial stays for abuse of process based on the conduct of a federal prosecutor.

Expected result: Through professionally conducted prosecution related work, the ODPP contributes to the administration of justice.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2018-19	≤ 0	2019	0	Met

Number and nature of substantiated complaints made pursuant to the ODPP’s Complaints Policy.

Expected result: Through professionally conducted prosecution related work, the ODPP contributes to the administration of justice.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2018-19	≤ 0	2019	0	Met

Number and nature of successful malicious prosecution lawsuits.

Expected result: Through professionally conducted prosecution related work, the ODPP contributes to the administration of justice.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2018-19	≤ 0	2019	0	Met

Number and percentage of cases that went to trial and resulted in a judicial stay of proceedings due to Crown delay.

Expected result: Federal prosecutions are completed in a timely manner.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2018-19	≤ 4%	2019	0.1%	Met

Number and percentage of cases that went to trial and resulted in the Crown directing a stay of proceedings due to Crown delay.

Expected result: Federal prosecutions are completed in a timely manner.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2018-19	≤ 4%	2019	0.1%	Met

Number and percentage of prosecutions that result in a determination on the merits of the evidence.

Expected result: Through professionally conducted prosecution related work, the ODPP contributes to the administration of justice.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2018-19	≥ 96%	2019	99.7%	Met

Percentage of respondents satisfied with the comprehensiveness of legal advice.

Expected result: Timely and comprehensive legal advice is provided to investigative agencies.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2018-19	≥ 65%	2019	80%	Met

Percentage of respondents satisfied with the timeliness of legal advice.

Expected result: Timely and comprehensive legal advice is provided to investigative agencies.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2018-19	≥ 80%	2019	72% Key findings: 72% of respondents were “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with the timeliness of the legal advice they received from the PPSC. The most commonly cited explanation for why respondents were unsatisfied with the timeliness of the legal advice they received was that the PPSC was slow to respond, unresponsive or it took multiple follow-ups to get a response.	Not met

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

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 year	Planned	Actual
2018-19	$22.3M	$22.3M
2019-20	$20.1M*	—
2020-21	$20.1M*	—

Employees (FTEs)

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 year	Planned	Actual
2018-19	159	159
2019-20	159*	—
2020-21	159*	—

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
2018-19 plan	$22,256,875	$20,081,706	$20,092,171
Actual	$22,332,937

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

Regulatory Offences and Economic Crime Prosecution Program: planned and actual spending | Canada Spends