Program directory · Public Safety Canada

Corrections

Department

Public Safety Canada

Program code

BVT06 (PSEP)

Core responsibility

Community Safety

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

The Program supports the Minister’s public policy leadership role in Canadian corrections and criminal justice, with emphasis on the Minister’s legislative responsibility to initiate, recommend, coordinate, implement and promote policies, programs or projects relating to Correctional Services Canada, the Parole Board of Canada and review agencies. The Program is responsible for providing advice on the strategic priorities of these agencies and on a broad range of national correctional and criminal justice program, policy and legislative issues and activities; and coordinating legislative reforms and the management of litigation. In fulfilling its mandate, the Program coordinates the efforts of the Portfolio’s agencies, and actively works with and supports provincial and territorial partners as well as consulting with other stakeholders such as non-governmental organizations and senior justice officials. The Program also develops and implements innovative approaches to community justice, Indigenous corrections and community safety, and safe and effective community release and reintegration through grant and contribution funding, as well as facilitating the sharing of information to promote public safety objectives concerning the correctional system generally and, in particular, with respect to victims through the National Office for Victims.

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).

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.