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Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

What Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada spent in fiscal year 2015-16: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Spending, 2015-16

Net spending, 2015-16

$7.96B

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

Share, 2015-16

3.3%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada spend its budget in 2015-16?

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, 2015-16

Transfer payments

Other subsidies and payments

Personnel

Professional and special services

Acquisition of land, buildings and works

Transportation and communications

Rentals

Information

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Utilities, materials and supplies

Repair and maintenance

Internal revenues

$6.57B

$563M

$425M

$281M

$51.7M

$27.4M

$16.5M

$9.3M

$6.4M

$3.5M

$1.7M

-$2.4M

Total: $7.96B.

Workforce, 2015-16

Full-time equivalents

4,524

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

Personnel spending

$425M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$94K

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, 2015-16

The grants, contributions and other transfers Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada paid, program by program: $6.57B in all, against $6.57B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Contributions to support First Nations Elementary and Secondary Educational AdvancementPaymentsContribution$1,399,815,020
Contributions to support the construction and maintenance of community infrastructurePaymentsContribution$1,124,511,157
Contributions to provide income support to on-reserve residentsPaymentsContribution$1,032,502,927
Contributions to provide women, children and families with Protection and Prevention ServicesPaymentsContribution$708,789,784
Grants to implement comprehensive land claims and self-government agreementsPaymentsGrant$436,540,831
Contributions to support the negotiation and implementation of Treaties, Claims and self-government agreements or initiativesPaymentsContribution$338,726,631
Contributions to support First Nations and Inuit Post-Secondary Educational AdvancementPaymentsContribution$335,101,393
Contributions to supply public services in Indian Government Support and to build strong governance, administrative and accountability systemsPaymentsContribution$222,925,961
Contributions to support Land Management and Economic DevelopmentPaymentsContribution$180,935,241
Grant for Band Support FundingPaymentsGrant$157,748,998
Contributions for emergency management assistance for activities on reservesPaymentsContribution$111,982,318
Contributions to support access to healthy foods in isolated northern communitiesPaymentsContribution$68,498,325
Grants to Aboriginal organizations designated to receive claim settlement payments pursuant to Comprehensive Land Claim Settlement ActsPaymentsGrant$57,412,370
Grants to the Government of the Northwest Territories and the Government of Nunavut for health care of Indians and InuitPaymentsGrant$53,301,000
Contributions to support the Urban Aboriginal StrategyPaymentsContribution$48,999,433
40 programs$6,572,292,948
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Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada’s share of federal net spending