Program directory · Parks Canada

Operations Management

Department

Parks Canada

Program code

BGW10 (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 Operations Management Program ensures the place-based leadership and coordinated delivery of Parks Canada’s whole mandate across national marine, and urbans parks, as well as national historic sites and heritage canals. It is the essential mix of managing the people, systems, plans, partnerships, operational infrastructure, and resources required for safe, effective, and sustainable operations.

The program ensures that assets, including staff housing and general works compounds, are responsibly maintained; that other program outcomes are optimized, even when public interests may be competing; resource allocations are strategic, and the capacity to respond to chronic and emergent operational risks and incidents is sustained. It ensures staff are equipped and prepared to operate in complex, unique and often remote environments.

Transparent and accountable decision-making is undertaken by integrating regulatory demands, permitting, stakeholder engagement, and issues management, while responding to expectations around public safety, legal compliance, and risk mitigation. It also supports the navigation of jurisdictional and land management matters, litigation, and relationships with Indigenous and federal, provincial, and municipal governments.

By honouring and supporting Indigenous stewardship, the program helps ensure that heritage place governance respects Indigenous legal orders, rights, and responsibilities and supports Indigenous economic and tourism opportunities.

Through effective management, the program delivers clear value to Canadians by protecting what matters, creating economic multipliers, and enhancing quality of life.

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.