Program directory · Transport Canada
Marine Security Oversight
- Department
- Transport Canada
- Program code
- BTW11 (TC)
- Core responsibility
- Safe and Secure Transportation System
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
The Marine Security Oversight Program is an important contributor to Canadian security. We are responsible for overseeing all matters related to marine security for Canadian vessels, foreign vessels in Canadian waters and Canadian marine facilities and ports.
We achieve this by: supporting the marine industry’s compliance with the marine security regulatory framework through education and awareness, security, threat and risk assessments and validations, inspections and audits, including security plan approvals; incident management services and, when necessary, enforcement actions; monitoring of threats and events both domestically and abroad; developing procedures, plans, exercises and tools, coordinating maritime emergency management activities in partnership with all federal departments and agencies that have roles and responsibilities for marine security in Canada; and providing marine security expertise and support to our partner departments and agencies within the Marine Security Operations Centres.
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).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marine Security Oversight | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $69.3M |
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.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | Indicators added: Compliance rate for domestic vessels, ports and marine facilities inspected for security | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2022-23 | Indicators dropped: Percentage of planned risk-based oversight activities completed; The number of deficiencies recorded per certification inspection is decreasing | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
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
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | TBD | 2023 | 68 Since we did not have a baseline and the first year of data was to be collected for FY 2022-23, we entered the target as “at most 100%”. Going forward, results will better reflect the target since we will have a year of data to use as a baseline for the target. | No result reported |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 80% | 2024 | 37% The 2023-24 result achieved for this indicator indicates that Marine Security Inspectors are finding deficiencies through their inspections. Given the inclusion of verbal warnings in the methodology, all deficiencies regardless of severity are included in the calculation. Verbal warnings are the first step in the enforcement, when a non-compliance is encountered, corrected and is a first occurren… | Not met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 80% | 2025 | 61.3% The 2024-25 compliance rate (61.3%) has improved compared to the previous year (37%). This shows that Marine Security Inspectors are finding deficiencies through their inspections, but that the compliance is improving. Given the inclusion of verbal warnings in the methodology since 2023-24, all deficiencies regardless of severity are now included in the calculation. Verbal warnings are the first… | Not met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 90% | 2019 | 100% | Met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 90% | 2020 | 90.9% Total risk-based small vessel oversight inspection Planned=1045, Actual =950, Rate 90.9% | Met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 90% | 2021 | 88% Actual result is within the 10% threshold. | Not met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 90% | 2022 | 81% The 2021-22 result was 9% below the target due to several factors including COVID restrictions, staffing shortages, and lower overall foreign vessel traffic. | Not met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | — | 2020 | 3.2% Total Number of Inspection (Periodic+Monitoring)=1446 Total number of deficiency recorded= 4547 2018-2019 deficiency per inspection= 5.3 2019-2020 deficiency per inspection= 3.16 deficiency per inspection=3.16 | No result reported |
| 2020-21 | ≤ 80% | 2020 | 69% Number of marine security deficiencies divided by number of marine security inspections (Canadian Flagged Vessels, Foreign Flagged Vessels, and Ports and Marine Facilities). Note that some inspections will find no deficiencies, while other inspections will find more than one deficiency per vessel, port, or marine facility inspected. | Met |
| 2021-22 | ≤ 6% | 2022 | 0.6% | Met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 60% | 2027 | — | Planned |
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $8.6M | $10M |
| 2019-20 | $9.5M | $9.6M |
| 2020-21 | $10.2M | $10.3M |
| 2021-22 | $10.3M | $9.4M |
| 2022-23 | $10.3M | $9.1M |
| 2023-24 | $10.2M | $10.8M |
| 2024-25 | $10.7M | $10.2M |
| 2025-26 | $10.8M | — |
| 2026-27 | $10.7M | — |
| 2027-28 | $10.5M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $10.1M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 79 | 89 |
| 2019-20 | 87 | 93 |
| 2020-21 | 89 | 86 |
| 2021-22 | 88 | 84 |
| 2022-23 | 89 | 79 |
| 2023-24 | 88 | 81 |
| 2024-25 | 91 | 84 |
| 2025-26 | 92 | — |
| 2026-27 | 87 | — |
| 2027-28 | 86* | — |
| 2028-29 | 82* | — |
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 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $8,605,127 | $8,273,732 | $8,273,732 | ||||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $9,479,980 | $9,424,877 | $9,465,228 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $10,196,828 | $10,225,150 | $10,242,761 | ||||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $10,335,331 | $10,423,329 | $10,425,500 | ||||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $10,314,304 | $10,322,219 | $10,299,995 | ||||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $10,176,047 | $10,181,537 | $10,164,615 | ||||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $10,657,598 | $10,073,615 | $10,347,768 | ||||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $10,803,441 | $10,962,164 | $10,913,433 | ||||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $10,724,748 | $10,515,699 | $10,117,532 | ||||||||
| Actual | $9,959,435 | $9,643,029 | $10,270,729 | $9,432,522 | $9,063,802 | $10,760,667 | $10,187,710 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
