Program directory · Transport Canada
National Security and Intelligence Program
- Department
- Transport Canada
- Program code
- BTW27 (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 Security and Intelligence Program covers TC’s horizontal national security and intelligence activities that are undertaken to protect Canada’s transportation system from harm. This Program complements other multi modal oversight Programs by focusing on national security or horizontal security issues that cut across the existing surface, marine, and aviation regulatory frameworks.
The Security Intelligence Assessment Branch (SIAB) provides intelligence support to Transport Canada and its partners, to help ensure a safe and secure transportation system in Canada and abroad.
SIAB’s responsibilities include helping ensure Transport Canada compliance with Government of Canada national security and intelligence legislation, policy, transparency, and external review requirements.
The National Security Integration (NSI) branch provides mode agnostic national security support to Transport Canada and its partners, to help ensure a safe and secure transportation system in Canada and abroad.
NSI responsibilities include stakeholder engagement, policy development, and support to decision making in the following horizontal, national security program areas: Critical Infrastructure; Cyber Security; Transportation System Resilience, National Security Committees, Reviews, Foreign Interference, and Issues Management.
This program aligns with TC’s core responsibility 1: a safe and secure transportation system and complements TC’s planning and reporting process by tying into result 2: a secure transportation system.
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).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Security and Intelligence Program | This program | 2025-26 – 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.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Budget 2023 measure “Additional Resources for National Security and Intelligence Reviews”: $43M in total over its years (linked to this program by name, a best-effort match). | Budget 2023, PDF page 167 |
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
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | $4M | — |
| 2026-27 | $4.3M | — |
| 2027-28 | $4.2M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $4.1M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 28 | — |
| 2026-27 | 27 | — |
| 2027-28 | 27* | — |
| 2028-29 | 26* | — |
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 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 plan | $4,046,920 | $3,329,794 | $2,917,091 | |
| 2026-27 plan | $4,292,573 | $4,226,437 | $4,098,216 | |
| Actual |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
