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Natural Resources Canada

What Natural Resources Canada spent in fiscal year 2013-14: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

What Natural Resources Canada does

Natural Resources Canada is responsible for federal policy and science related to Canada's energy, forestry, and minerals and mining sectors, including geoscience, energy regulation, and nuclear energy research and safety.

Spending, 2013-14

Net spending, 2013-14

$2.09B

spent by Natural Resources Canada, less revenues it kept

Share, 2013-14

0.9%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Natural Resources Canada spend its budget in 2013-14?

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, 2013-14

Transfer payments

Personnel

Professional and special services

Other subsidies and payments

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Utilities, materials and supplies

Information

Rentals

Transportation and communications

Repair and maintenance

Acquisition of land, buildings and works

Internal revenues

External revenues

$1.2B

$447M

$295M

$68M

$33.7M

$27.6M

$17.1M

$14.1M

$13.7M

$4.4M

$1.7M

-$3.4M

-$25.8M

Total: $2.09B.

Workforce, 2013-14

Full-time equivalents

4,032

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

Personnel spending

$447M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$111K

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, 2013-14

The grants, contributions and other transfers Natural Resources Canada paid, program by program: $1.2B in all, against $1.2B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Payments to the Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Resource Revenue FundPaymentsContribution$731,533,986
Contributions in support of ecoENERGY for renewable powerPaymentsContribution$127,117,878
Contributions in support of ecoENERGY for biofuelsPaymentsContribution$113,656,336
Payments to the Nova Scotia Offshore Revenue AccountPaymentsContribution$43,861,520
Contributions in support of ecoENERGY innovation initiativePaymentsContribution$34,325,606
Contribution in support of the Investments in forest industry transformation programPaymentsContribution$25,625,000
Wind power production incentive contribution programPaymentsContribution$25,304,000
Contributions in support of the Forest innovation programPaymentsContribution$24,353,130
Contribution Program for expanding market opportunitiesPaymentsContribution$13,639,058
Payments of the Crown Share Adjustment for Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum ResourcesPaymentsContribution$12,855,636
Clean Energy Fund programPaymentsContribution$9,704,540
Contributions in support of the Isotope technology acceleration program to advance the development of alternatives to existing medical isotope production technologiesPaymentsContribution$8,995,000
Contribution to the Canada/Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum BoardPaymentsContribution$4,708,800
Climate change adaptation initiativesPaymentsContribution$4,297,080
Contributions in support of organizations associated with the research, development and promotion of activities that contribute to departmental objectivesPaymentsContribution$3,150,271
29 programs$1,197,282,250
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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$3,003,699$5,166,434$217,865$30,275,691$38,663,689
2024$3,517,529$5,425,329$159,068$40,241,394$49,343,319
2023$2,505,445$4,840,142$194,326$37,745,630$45,285,543
2022$2,469,141$4,136,573$99,613$30,143,193$36,848,519
2021$2,921,723$4,830,770$121,339$22,228,409$30,102,242
2020$2,700,229$3,775,953$196,616$17,338,158$24,010,956
2019$3,948,738$5,217,998$244,868$25,174,787$34,586,392
2018$3,804,814$6,289,409$188,497$25,355,521$35,638,241
2017$3,810,248$6,421,480$268,194$21,854,875$32,354,796

Natural Resources Canada’s share of federal net spending