Program directory · Parks Canada

Emergency and Wildland Fire Management

Department

Parks Canada

Program code

BGW08 (PCA)

Core responsibility

Protecting and Presenting Canada's Natural and Cultural Heritage

In Departmental Plans

2026-27 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

The Emergency and Wildland Fire Management Program enhances public safety by ensuring preparedness and response to a range of hazards and incidents through proactive planning, risk assessment, prevention and mitigation efforts, and coordinated emergency response operations.

This includes preparing for and responding to wildfires, adverse weather events, avalanches and other emergencies. Activities include evacuation, wildfire, and emergency management planning, implementing mitigation and prevention measures, and responding to incidents. Emergency response activities include fire suppression, incident management, law enforcement, search and rescue, and avalanche response, among other things. The program also focuses on conducting after-action reviews to ensure continuous improvements, rebuilding and recovery efforts to restore affected areas, and supporting Indigenous stewardship practices.

Through collaboration with local, regional, provincial/territorial, national partners and agencies, Indigenous partners, and other federal government departments, the program strengthens emergency preparedness, response, and recovery efforts to protect visitors and communities.

The program increases resilience of Parks Canada managed lands to protect public safety and maintain and restore ecological integrity, cultural resources and cultural continuity.

The program not only safeguards natural and cultural heritage but also contributes to community well-being, safety, and environmental sustainability. By anticipating, mitigating and preventing the impacts of emergencies, long-term costs are reduced, producing safer, more resilient communities.

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

History and lineage

First appears in the Departmental Plans in 2026-27. 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).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

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.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

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

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