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National Enforcement Program

Program code
BTW26 (TC)
Core responsibility
Safe and Secure Transportation System
In Departmental Plans
2025-26 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

The National Enforcement Program (NEP) provides oversight and operational support for all Transport Canada enforcement actions through regionally and nationally-located enforcement services.

The NEP also undertakes direct evidence-based investigative operations where international, multi-jurisdictional or multi-modal contraventions have occurred. The results of these investigations lead to decisions regarding recommendations for prosecution or administrative monetary penalties against individuals and transportation system participants that have contravened TC legislation. The NEP also provides support at the administrative tribunal (TATC).

The NEP assists modes and programs within TC regarding their inspections to ensure compliance with relevant transportation-related legislation, regulations, rules and engineering standards.

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

History and lineage

First appears in the Departmental Plans in 2025-26. 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).

2025-262026-272027-282028-29National Enforcement Program 2025-26: $10.5MNational Enforcement Program 2026-27: $10.4MNational Enforcement Program 2027-28: $10.3MNational Enforcement Program 2028-29: $9.9MNational Enforcement Program
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.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
National Enforcement ProgramThis program2025-26 – 2028-29—

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.

No significant changes detected.

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

No results reported yet.

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

Percentage of enforcement investigations taken in response to referral of non-compliance with TC legislation, following Departmental Enforcement Standards.
Expected result: TC enforcement services are provided consistently and effectively across all modes nationally.
80%2026-27

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2026-27≥ 80%2027—Planned

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2025-26: $10.5M2025-262026-27: $10.4M2026-272027-28: $10.3M2027-282028-29: $9.9M2028-29
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2025-26$10.5M—
2026-27$10.4M—
2027-28$10.3M*—
2028-29$9.9M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2025-26: 882025-262026-27: 902026-272027-28: 882027-282028-29: 852028-29
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2025-2688—
2026-2790—
2027-2888*—
2028-2985*—

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

Plan2025-262026-272027-282028-29
2025-26 plan$10,487,719$9,974,494$9,927,428
2026-27 plan$10,443,115$10,258,245$9,905,510
Actual

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