Canadian Heritage
What Canadian Heritage spent in fiscal year 2008-09: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Canadian Heritage; the overview shows it in that ministry.
What Canadian Heritage does
Canadian Heritage is responsible for federal policy and programming related to arts, culture, heritage, sport, and Canadian identity, including support for official languages, multiculturalism, and Indigenous languages and cultures. It also funds and oversees a number of affiliated cultural organizations and Crown corporations.
Spending, 2008-09
Net spending, 2008-09
$1.39B
spent by Canadian Heritage, less revenues it kept
Share, 2008-09
0.7%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Canadian Heritage spend its budget in 2008-09?
By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending.
Spending by standard object, 2008-09
Transfer payments
Personnel
Professional and special services
Transportation and communications
Information
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Utilities, materials and supplies
Rentals
Repair and maintenance
Other subsidies and payments
Internal revenues
External revenues
$1.1B
$209M
$44M
$15.1M
$9.8M
$7.8M
$4.1M
$2.8M
$2.6M
$1.6M
-$65K
-$4.3M
Total: $1.39B.
Workforce, 2008-09
Personnel spending
$209M
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $273,708 | $1,907,496 | $12,501 | $2,164,069 | $4,357,774 |
| 2024 | $221,412 | $2,257,196 | $3,425 | $2,295,280 | $4,777,313 |
| 2023 | $167,552 | $2,450,535 | $5,720 | $1,989,225 | $4,613,031 |
| 2022 | $256,813 | $3,482,715 | $17,981 | $2,923,038 | $6,680,547 |
| 2021 | $262,955 | $2,610,998 | $12,888 | $1,661,622 | $4,548,463 |
| 2020 | $353,321 | $1,816,814 | $25,763 | $2,928,383 | $5,124,281 |
| 2019 | $417,814 | $2,698,369 | $32,324 | $3,538,857 | $6,687,364 |
| 2018 | $617,414 | $3,188,906 | $97,611 | $3,663,682 | $7,567,613 |
| 2017 | $897,953 | $3,402,062 | $33,351 | $3,793,328 | $8,126,693 |
Canadian Heritage’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Canadian Heritage
- Women and Gender Equality Canada
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Canada Council for the Arts
- Library and Archives Canada
- Telefilm Canada
- Public Service Commission of Canada
- Canadian Museum of History
- National Film Board
- Canadian Museum of Nature
- National Gallery of Canada
- National Arts Centre Corporation
- National Museum of Science and Technology
- Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
- Public Service Labour Relations Board
- The National Battlefields Commission
- Canadian Museum for Human Rights
- Public Service Staffing Tribunal
- Registry of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Tribunal
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2009, 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.
