Program directory · Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada

Outreach and Education

Department: Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada
Program code: BVA02 (ORL)
Core responsibility: Regulation of lobbying
In Departmental Plans: 2018-19 – 2019-20 · 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 2017-18. 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
Outreach and Education	This program	2017-18 – 2021-22	$2.1M

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 of new registrations during the fiscal year

Expected result: Outreach and education lead to new registrations

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2018-19	≥ 1,200	2019	2,141	Met
2019-20	≥ 1,200	2020	1,738	Met

Percentage of monthly communication reports that are accurate

Expected result: Lobbyists are aware of the requirement to file accurate monthly communication reports in a timely manner

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2018-19	≥ 90%	2019	90%	Met
2019-20	≥ 90%	2020	91%	Met

Percentage of monthly communication reports that are filed in a timely manner

Expected result: Lobbyists are aware of the requirement to file accurate monthly communication reports in a timely manner

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2018-19	≥ 90%	2019	94%	Met
2019-20	≥ 90%	2020	92%	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
2017-18	—	$664K
2018-19	$849K	$749K
2019-20	$878K	$728K
2020-21	$878K*	—
2021-22	$878K*	—

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
2017-18	7	7
2018-19	7	7
2019-20	7	7
2020-21	7*	—
2021-22	7*	—

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
2018-19 plan	$848,564	$848,564	$848,564
2019-20 plan		$878,031	$878,031	$878,031
Actual	$748,745	$727,782

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