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Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada

What Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada spent in fiscal year 2012-13: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

What Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada does

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is the federal department responsible for managing immigration policy, issuing passports, processing visas and permanent residency applications, and supporting newcomers to Canada. It plays a central role in shaping Canada's immigration system, refugee protection policies, and pathways to citizenship.

Spending, 2012-13

Net spending, 2012-13

$1.52B

spent by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, less revenues it kept

Share, 2012-13

0.7%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship 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

Professional and special services

Transportation and communications

Other subsidies and payments

Rentals

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Information

Utilities, materials and supplies

Repair and maintenance

$933M

$409M

$111M

$18.5M

$16M

$9.9M

$8.5M

$7.4M

$6.2M

$2.9M

Total: $1.52B.

Workforce, 2012-13

Full-time equivalents

4,657

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

Personnel spending

$409M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$88K

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 Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada paid, program by program: $933M in all, against $933M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Settlement programPaymentsContribution$585,511,769
Grant for the Canada‑Quebec Accord on ImmigrationPaymentsGrant$284,501,000
Resettlement assistancePaymentsContribution$50,738,858
Contributions in support of the Multiculturalism programPaymentsContribution$6,673,122
Contributions in support of the Community historical recognition programPaymentsContribution$2,005,715
International Organization for MigrationPaymentsContribution$1,488,745
Grants in support of the Multiculturalism programPaymentsGrant$1,250,352
Grant for the Institute for Canadian CitizenshipPaymentsGrant$643,257
Grant for Migration policy developmentPaymentsGrant$348,976
Task force for International cooperation on Holocaust education, remembrance and researchPaymentsContribution$39,753
10 programs$933,201,547

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 yearGoodsServicesConstructionAcquisition cardsTotal
2025$365,002$1,003,541$0$5,804,407$7,172,950
2024$429,319$386,252$0$10,438,737$11,254,309
2023$534,029$932,652$0$13,493,219$14,959,899
2022$838,600$704,979$0$7,595,848$9,139,428
2021$1,226,532$994,254$0$5,849,169$8,069,955
2020$1,285,625$850,964$0$5,583,857$7,720,445
2019$4,119,663$1,401,205$0$7,681,491$13,202,359
2018$3,897,477$1,525,461$0$6,668,996$12,091,934
2017$4,537,691$1,920,230$0$4,294,448$10,752,370

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s share of federal net spending

Other organizations in Citizenship and Immigration