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Resilient Infrastructure

Program code
BYT03 (OICC)
Core responsibility
Public Transit, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Community Building
In Departmental Plans
2025-26 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

Set policies, implement programs, and ensure funding stewardship of investments that build more climate resilient and net-zero infrastructure.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in the Departmental Plans in 2025-26. 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).

2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-272027-282028-29Public Infrastructure and Communities Investment 2021-22: $16.1MPublic Infrastructure and Communities Investment 2022-23: $21.7MPublic Infrastructure and Communities Investment 2023-24: $26.7MPublic Infrastructure and Communities Investment 2024-25: $24.8MPublic Infrastructure and Communities Investment 2025-26: $19.6MPublic Infrastructure and Communities Investment 2026-27: $12.7MResilient Infrastructure 2025-26: $521MResilient Infrastructure 2026-27: $442MResilient Infrastructure 2027-28: $507MResilient Infrastructure 2028-29: $452MPublic Infrastructure and Communities InvestmentResilient Infrastructure
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.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Public Infrastructure and Communities InvestmentEarlier program (name match, low confidence)2021-22 – 2026-27$89.2M
Resilient InfrastructureThis program2025-26 – 2028-29—

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
2025-26Appears to replace Public Infrastructure and Communities InvestmentCanada Spends name match across plans (an inference)
2028-29Planned employees (FTEs) 137, against 186 in 2027-28 (−26%).FTEs (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

No results reported yet.

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

Number of standardization strategies advanced that incorporate climate change considerations
Expected result: New climate resilient standardization strategies are identified to design, build and operate climate-resilient assets and systems across Canada
202026-27

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2026-27≥ 202027—Planned

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2025-26: $521M2025-262026-27: $442M2026-272027-28: $507M2027-282028-29: $452M2028-29
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2025-26$521M—
2026-27$442M—
2027-28$507M*—
2028-29$452M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2025-26: 2292025-262026-27: 1932026-272027-28: 1862027-282028-29: 1372028-29
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2025-26229—
2026-27193—
2027-28186*—
2028-29137*—

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

Plan2025-262026-272027-282028-29
2025-26 plan$521,380,976$526,935,499$540,493,716
2026-27 plan$441,735,313$507,117,412$452,344,061
Actual

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