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Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

What Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada spent in fiscal year 2014-15: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Spending, 2014-15

Net spending, 2014-15

$7.69B

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

Share, 2014-15

3.3%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada spend its budget in 2014-15?

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, 2014-15

Transfer payments

Personnel

Other subsidies and payments

Professional and special services

Transportation and communications

Acquisition of land, buildings and works

Rentals

Information

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Utilities, materials and supplies

Repair and maintenance

Internal revenues

$6.44B

$444M

$409M

$311M

$27.1M

$26.4M

$15M

$12.1M

$7.3M

$4M

$3.4M

-$3.1M

Total: $7.69B.

Workforce, 2014-15

Full-time equivalents

4,649

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

Personnel spending

$444M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$95K

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, 2014-15

The grants, contributions and other transfers Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada paid, program by program: $6.44B in all, against $6.44B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Contributions to support First Nations Elementary and Secondary Educational AdvancementPaymentsContribution$1,370,659,613
Contributions to support the construction and maintenance of community infrastructurePaymentsContribution$1,103,841,614
Contributions to provide income support to indigent on-reserve residentsPaymentsContribution$991,939,516
Contributions to provide women, children and families ordinarily resident on-reserve with Protection and Prevention ServicesPaymentsContribution$678,553,838
Grants to implement comprehensive land claims and self-government agreementsPaymentsGrant$415,905,951
Contributions to support First Nations and Inuit Post-Secondary Educational AdvancementPaymentsContribution$331,538,650
Contributions to support the negotiation and implementation of Treaties, Claims and self-government agreements or initiativesPaymentsContribution$276,299,062
Contribution to supply services in Indian Government Support and to build strong governance, administrative and accountability systemsPaymentsContribution$219,697,456
Contributions to support Land Management and Economic DevelopmentPaymentsContribution$177,363,950
Grant for Band Support FundingPaymentsGrant$154,748,327
Contributions for emergency management assistance for activities on reservesPaymentsContribution$105,299,211
Grants to Aboriginal organizations designated to receive claim settlement payments pursuant to Comprehensive Land Claim Settlement ActsPaymentsGrant$69,051,514
Contribution to support access to healthy foods in isolated northern communitiesPaymentsContribution$65,499,766
Grants to the Government of the Northwest Territories and the Government of Nunavut for health care of Indians and InuitPaymentsGrant$52,256,000
Transfer payments to the Government of Yukon for the care and maintenance, remediation and management of the closure of contaminated sites in YukonPaymentsContribution$51,251,987
42 programs$6,436,034,415
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Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada’s share of federal net spending