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Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

What Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada spent in fiscal year 2012-13: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Spending, 2012-13

Net spending, 2012-13

$8.1B

spent by Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, less revenues it kept

Share, 2012-13

3.6%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada spend its budget in 2012-13?

By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending. Transfer payments are broken into their largest named programs.

Spending by standard object, 2012-13

Transfer payments

Personnel

Other subsidies and payments

Professional and special services

Transportation and communications

Information

Rentals

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Utilities, materials and supplies

Acquisition of land, buildings and works

Repair and maintenance

Internal revenues

$6.73B

$507M

$485M

$291M

$31.1M

$14.5M

$13.7M

$10.2M

$6.3M

$5.5M

$2.6M

-$743K

Total: $8.1B.

Workforce, 2012-13

Full-time equivalents

4,997

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

Personnel spending

$507M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$101K

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.

Transfer payment programs, 2012-13

The grants, contributions and other transfers Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada paid, program by program: $6.73B in all, against $6.73B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Payments to support Indians, Inuit and Innu for the purpose of supplying public services in educationPaymentsContribution$1,696,709,703
Payments to support Indians, Inuit and Innu for the purpose of supplying public services in social developmentPaymentsContribution$1,684,260,414
Payments to support Indians, Inuit and Innu for the purpose of supplying public services in capital facilities and maintenancePaymentsContribution$1,040,273,035
Grants to First Nations to settle specific claims negotiated by Canada and/or awarded by the Specific Claims TribunalPaymentsGrant$556,500,759
Contributions to beneficiaries and various implementing bodies for implementing comprehensive land claim agreementsPaymentsContribution$213,281,787
Payments to support Indians, Inuit and Innu for the purpose of supplying public services in Indian government supportPaymentsContribution$198,356,372
Grant for band support fundingPaymentsGrant$151,571,905
Grants to support First Nations, Inuit, tribal councils, organizations or other levels of government for the implementation activities as stipulated in the various agreementsPaymentsGrant$124,927,320
Payments to self‑governing aboriginal organizations, pursuant to comprehensive land claims agreements self‑government agreements or treaty legislationPaymentsGrant$123,224,449
Payments to support Indians, Inuit and Innu for the purpose of supplying public services in economic developmentPaymentsContribution$89,453,049
Payments to Yukon First Nations pursuant to individual self‑government agreementsPaymentsGrant$77,434,585
Grants to aboriginal organizations designated to receive claim settlement payments pursuant to comprehensive land claim settlement actsPaymentsGrant$69,488,308
Contribution to support access to healthy foods in isolated northern communitiesPaymentsContribution$62,317,423
Contributions for emergency management assistance for activities on reservesPaymentsContribution$56,307,352
Grants for Mi'kmaq education in Nova ScotiaPaymentsGrant$53,842,011
58 programs$6,729,717,214
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Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada’s share of federal net spending