Public Safety Canada
What Public Safety Canada spent in fiscal year 2004-05: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Solicitor General (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness); the overview shows it in that ministry.
What Public Safety Canada does
Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs Canada (Public Safety Canada) is the federal department responsible for national security, emergency preparedness, and community safety. Established in 2003, it consolidates security, law enforcement, and emergency management functions, coordinating federal responses to threats and developing policies on crime prevention, cyber resilience, and disaster preparedness while overseeing intelligence-sharing with domestic and international partners.
Federal spending on public safety fluctuates with evolving security threats, emergency events, and changes in government policy, and has reflected heightened investment over time in counterterrorism, cyber defence, and disaster response.
Major policy shifts, unforeseen events such as natural disasters, and global security concerns can significantly affect the department's annual spending. The COVID-19 pandemic, for example, led to a sharp increase in federal emergency response funding in 2020.
Spending, 2004-05
Net spending, 2004-05
$365M
spent by Public Safety Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2004-05
0.2%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Public Safety Canada spend its budget in 2004-05?
By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending.
Spending by standard object, 2004-05
Transfer payments
Personnel
Professional and special services
Transportation and communications
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Rentals
Repair and maintenance
Information
Utilities, materials and supplies
Other subsidies and payments
$221M
$68.8M
$54.7M
$7.6M
$6.3M
$2M
$1.8M
$1.7M
$1.3M
$124K
Total: $365M.
Workforce, 2004-05
Personnel spending
$68.8M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
A full-time equivalent is a measure of employment, not a headcount: two half-time employees are one FTE. Personnel spending includes benefits and pension contributions, so per FTE it is not an average salary.
Contracts of $10,000 and under
Contracts this small are not published one by one: Treasury Board publishes each organization's totals, by calendar year, for contracts of $10,000 and under (their original value and their amendments) and for acquisition card purchases. They are the value of contracts entered into, not what was paid in a fiscal year, so they are not part of the net expenditure above, and the years are calendar years.
| Calendar year | Goods | Services | Construction | Acquisition cards | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $75,604 | $358,222 | $0 | $2,527,234 | $2,961,060 |
| 2023 | $112,234 | $462,155 | $0 | $2,271,260 | $2,845,648 |
| 2022 | $72,803 | $527,126 | $0 | $1,715,857 | $2,315,786 |
| 2021 | $71,805 | $585,769 | $0 | $1,151,665 | $1,809,239 |
| 2020 | $57,211 | $472,609 | $0 | $1,544,091 | $2,073,910 |
| 2019 | $149,052 | $630,434 | $0 | $2,663,095 | $3,442,581 |
| 2018 | $157,329 | $579,130 | $0 | $2,300,740 | $3,037,199 |
| 2017 | $282,664 | $1,062,751 | $0 | $1,805,763 | $3,151,179 |
Public Safety Canada’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Solicitor General (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness)
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Correctional Service Canada
- Canada Border Services Agency
- Canadian Security Intelligence Service
- Canadian Firearms Centre
- Office of Indian Residential Schools Resolution of Canada
- Parole Board of Canada
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police Public Complaints Commission
- The Correctional Investigator Canada
- RCMP External Review Committee
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2005, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- Proactive Publication - Contracts: Aggregated Total - Contracts $10K and under
Department figures are net expenditure (Public Accounts, Volume II), which doesn’t add up to the accrual expenses of the overview’s headline. See the methodology.
