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Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

What Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada spent in fiscal year 2017-18: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Spending, 2017-18

Net spending, 2017-18

$8.03B

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

Share, 2017-18

3.1%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada spend its budget in 2017-18?

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, 2017-18

Transfer payments

Personnel

Professional and special services

Other subsidies and payments

Transportation and communications

Acquisition of land, buildings and works

Rentals

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Information

Utilities, materials and supplies

Repair and maintenance

Internal revenues

$7.16B

$422M

$270M

$99.3M

$21.9M

$19.9M

$19.9M

$7.7M

$6.4M

$3.9M

$3.2M

-$2.4M

Total: $8.03B.

Workforce, 2017-18

Full-time equivalents

4,309

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

Personnel spending

$422M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$98K

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, 2017-18

The grants, contributions and other transfers Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada paid, program by program: $7.16B in all, against $7.16B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Grants to First Nations to settle specific and special claims negotiated by Canada and/or awarded by the Specific Claims TribunalPaymentsGrant$1,297,921,874
Contributions to support First Nations Elementary and Secondary Educational AdvancementPaymentsContribution$1,119,602,300
Contributions to support the construction and maintenance of community infrastructurePaymentsContribution$968,925,402
Contributions to provide income support to on-reserve residentsPaymentsContribution$715,698,725
Grants to implement comprehensive land claims and self-government agreementsPaymentsGrant$707,993,767
Contributions to provide women, children and families with Protection and Prevention ServicesPaymentsContribution$475,946,208
Contributions to support the negotiation and implementation of Treaties, Claims and self-government agreements or initiativesPaymentsContribution$395,968,053
Contributions to support First Nations and Inuit Post-Secondary Educational AdvancementPaymentsContribution$283,322,781
Contributions to support Land Management and Economic DevelopmentPaymentsContribution$234,356,021
Contributions to supply public services in Indian Government Support and to build strong governance, administrative and accountability systemsPaymentsContribution$190,209,313
Grant for Band Support FundingPaymentsGrant$93,411,224
Contribution to support access to healthy foods in isolated northern communitiesPaymentsContribution$77,487,000
Contributions to First Nations for the management of contaminated sitesPaymentsContribution$72,091,707
Grants to Aboriginal organizations designated to receive claim settlement payments pursuant to Comprehensive Land Claim Settlement ActsPaymentsGrant$62,777,288
Contributions for the purpose of consultation and policy developmentPaymentsContribution$61,577,980
38 programs$7,157,581,496
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Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada’s share of federal net spending

Other organizations in Indigenous and Northern Affairs