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Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

What Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada spent in fiscal year 2016-17: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Spending, 2016-17

Net spending, 2016-17

$9.13B

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

Share, 2016-17

3.7%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada spend its budget in 2016-17?

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, 2016-17

Transfer payments

Personnel

Professional and special services

Other subsidies and payments

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

$8.14B

$434M

$267M

$186M

$42.9M

$24.7M

$17.6M

$7.1M

$5M

$3.7M

$1.5M

-$2.3M

Total: $9.13B.

Workforce, 2016-17

Full-time equivalents

4,643

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

Personnel spending

$434M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$93K

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, 2016-17

The grants, contributions and other transfers Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada paid, program by program: $8.14B in all, against $8.14B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Contributions to support the construction and maintenance of community infrastructurePaymentsContribution$1,702,422,689
Contributions to support First Nations Elementary and Secondary Educational AdvancementPaymentsContribution$1,680,325,427
Contributions to provide income support to on-reserve residentsPaymentsContribution$1,055,905,261
Contributions to provide women, children and families with Protection and Prevention ServicesPaymentsContribution$799,489,207
Grants to implement comprehensive land claims and self-government agreementsPaymentsGrant$477,415,037
Grants to First Nations to settle specific and special claims negotiated by Canada and/or awarded by the Specific Claims TribunalPaymentsGrant$393,695,147
Contributions to support First Nations and Inuit Post-Secondary Educational AdvancementPaymentsContribution$350,217,704
Contributions to support the negotiation and implementation of Treaties, Claims and self-government agreements or initiativesPaymentsContribution$337,134,529
Contributions to supply public services in Indian Government Support and to build strong governance, administrative and accountability systemsPaymentsContribution$247,412,053
Contributions to support Land Management and Economic DevelopmentPaymentsContribution$219,715,253
Grant for Band Support FundingPaymentsGrant$160,929,272
Contributions for emergency management assistance for activities on reservesPaymentsContribution$115,686,700
Contributions to increase First Nations and Inuit Youth Participation in Education and Labour Market OpportunitiesPaymentsContribution$76,217,997
Contributions to support access to healthy foods in isolated northern communitiesPaymentsContribution$71,871,143
Grants to Aboriginal organizations designated to receive claim settlement payments pursuant to Comprehensive Land Claim Settlement ActsPaymentsGrant$69,236,768
38 programs$8,144,984,805
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Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada’s share of federal net spending

Other organizations in Indigenous and Northern Affairs