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Program directory · Parks Canada

Visitor Experience

Department
Parks Canada
Program code
AHA00 (PCA)
Core responsibility
Canadians have a strong sense of connection to their national parks, national historic sites, heritage canals, and national marine conservation areas and these protected places are experienced in ways that leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of present and future generations.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2010-11 – 2017-18

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 2010-11. 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).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Visitor Experience 2010-11: $348MVisitor Experience 2011-12: $263MVisitor Experience 2012-13: $240MVisitor Experience 2013-14: $264MVisitor Experience 2014-15: $291MVisitor Experience 2015-16: $400MVisitor Experience 2016-17: $491MVisitor Experience 2017-18: $499MVisitor Experience
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
Visitor ExperienceThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$2.8B

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
2015-16Spending $400M, against $291M in 2014-15 (+37%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)

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

2013-14: $264M2013-142014-15: $291M2014-152015-16: $400M2015-162016-17: $491M2016-172017-18: $499M2017-18
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
2013-14—$264M
2014-15—$291M
2015-16—$400M
2016-17—$491M
2017-18—$499M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 2,0902013-14: 1,9232013-142014-15: 1,9492014-15: 2,0702014-152015-16: 2,1282015-16: 2,0642015-162016-17: 1,9272016-17: 2,2192016-172017-18: 2,2102017-18: 2,5292017-18
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
2013-142,0901,923
2014-151,9492,070
2015-162,1282,064
2016-171,9272,219
2017-182,2102,529

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.