Program directory · National Security and Intelligence Review Agency Secretariat

Review of Canadian Security Intelligence Service operations

Department: National Security and Intelligence Review Agency Secretariat
Program code: BWY01 (SIRC)
Core responsibility: Investigations of Canadian Security Intelligence Services' operational activities
In Departmental Plans: 2018-19 – 2019-20 · Appeared and later dropped

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 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).

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.

Program	Relation	Years with data	Actual spending over those years
Review of Canadian Security Intelligence Service operations	This program	2018-19 – 2021-22	$3.1M
National security and intelligence activity reviews and complaints investigations	Later program (name match, low confidence)	2019-20 – 2028-29	$43.7M

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.

Year	What changed	Source
2020-21	Appears to be replaced by National security and intelligence activity reviews and complaints investigations	Canada Spends name match across plans (an inference)

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.

Historical: targets against results

% of high- and medium-risk operational activities reviewed annually

Expected result: CSIS complies with the law and its actions are reasonable and necessary

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2019-20	≥ 80%	2020	— The transition of the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC) to the National Security Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA) requires significant changes to the Departmental Results Framework, expected results and indicators. Consequently, 2019–20 actual results for NSIRA are not available. NSIRA will implement a new Departmental Results Framework starting in 2021–22.	No result reported

% of recommendations accepted by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service

Expected result: CSIS complies with the law and its actions are reasonable and necessary

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2018-19	≥ 90%	2019	— Not available. Responses are still pending from Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), given the transformation of SIRC to NSIRA in 2019.	No result reported
2019-20	≥ 90%	2020	— The transition of the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC) to the National Security Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA) requires significant changes to the Departmental Results Framework, expected results and indicators. Consequently, 2019–20 actual results for NSIRA are not available. NSIRA will implement a new Departmental Results Framework starting in 2021–22.	No result reported

% of recommendations advanced by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service

Expected result: CSIS complies with the law and its actions are reasonable and necessary

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2019-20	≥ 80%	2020	— The transition of the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC) to the National Security Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA) requires significant changes to the Departmental Results Framework, expected results and indicators. Consequently, 2019–20 actual results for NSIRA are not available. NSIRA will implement a new Departmental Results Framework starting in 2021–22.	No result reported

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

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 year	Planned	Actual
2018-19	$2.3M	$2.6M
2019-20	$2.3M	$471K
2020-21	$1.3M*	—
2021-22	$1.3M*	—

Employees (FTEs)

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 year	Planned	Actual
2018-19	0	12
2019-20	18	14
2020-21	10*	—
2021-22	10*	—

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	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22
2018-19 plan	$2,327,933	$2,325,433	$1,303,948
2019-20 plan		$2,337,445	$1,304,977	$1,304,977
Actual	$2,648,567	$470,747

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