Public Safety Canada

What Public Safety Canada spent in fiscal year 2011-12: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Reports through 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, 2011-12

Net spending, 2011-12

$402M

spent by Public Safety Canada, less revenues it kept

Share, 2011-12

0.2%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Public Safety Canada spend its budget in 2011-12?

By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending.

Spending by standard object, 2011-12

Transfer payments

Personnel

Professional and special services

Transportation and communications

Rentals

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Information

Repair and maintenance

Acquisition of land, buildings and works

Utilities, materials and supplies

Other subsidies and payments

Internal revenues

$244M

$117M

$20.8M

$5.4M

$5.3M

$3M

$2.7M

$2.1M

$1.3M

$1M

$127K

-$1.6M

Total: $402M.

Spending by program, 2011-12

The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $402M in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.

$170M

$143M

$67.4M

$17.5M

$3M

$893K

Workforce, 2011-12

Full-time equivalents

1,098

the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them

Personnel spending

$117M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$107K

personnel spending divided by full-time equivalents

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

How Public Safety Canada’s programs performed

Other organizations in Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness

Sources

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.