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Program directory · Senate Ethics Officer

Administration and Interpretation of the Ethics and Conflict of Interest Code for Senators

Program code
BTE00 (OSEO)
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2018-19 – 2024-25

What it does

The mandate of the Senate Ethics Officer is to administer and interpret the Ethics and Conflict of Interest Code for Senators that sets out standards of conduct for Members of the Senate. The primary functions of the Senate Ethics Officer are: to provide confidential opinions and advice on any matter respecting Senators' obligations under the Code; to review confidential annual disclosure statements (listing sources of income, assets, liabilities, government contracts, financial and other interests), advise Senators on possible conflicts and compliance measures, and prepare public disclosure summaries; to conduct inquiries and investigations, if necessary, regarding compliance with the Code.

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).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-25Administration and Interpretation of the Ethics and Conflict of Interest Code for Senators 2018-19: $1.1MAdministration and Interpretation of the Ethics and Conflict of Interest Code for Senators 2019-20: $1.1MAdministration and Interpretation of the Ethics and Conflict of Interest Code for Senators 2020-21: $962KAdministration and Interpretation of the Ethics and Conflict of Interest Code for Senators 2021-22: $898KAdministration and Interpretation of the Ethics and Conflict of Interest Code for Senators 2022-23: $966KAdministration and Interpretation of the Ethics and Conflict of Interest Code for Senators 2023-24: $952KAdministration and Interpretation of the Ethics and Conflict of Interest Code for Senators 2024-25: $1.1MAdministration and Interpretation of the Ethics and Conflict of Interest Code for Se…
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
Administration and Interpretation of the Ethics and Conflict of Interest Code for SenatorsThis program2018-19 – 2024-25$7.1M

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

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: $1.1M2018-192019-20: $1.1M2019-202020-21: $962K2020-212021-22: $898K2021-222022-23: $966K2022-232023-24: $952K2023-242024-25: $1.1M2024-25
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
2018-19—$1.1M
2019-20—$1.1M
2020-21—$962K
2021-22—$898K
2022-23—$966K
2023-24—$952K
2024-25—$1.1M

Employees (FTEs)

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
Actual

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