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Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

What Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada spent in fiscal year 2018-19: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Spending, 2018-19

Net spending, 2018-19

$4.43B

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

Share, 2018-19

1.6%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada spend its budget in 2018-19?

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, 2018-19

Transfer payments

Personnel

Professional and special services

Other subsidies and payments

Transportation and communications

Rentals

Information

Acquisition of land, buildings and works

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Utilities, materials and supplies

Repair and maintenance

Internal revenues

$3.56B

$307M

$268M

$242M

$19.1M

$11.9M

$5.9M

$5.4M

$4.4M

$4M

$3.9M

-$1.3M

Total: $4.43B.

Spending by program, 2018-19

The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $4.43B in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.

Workforce, 2018-19

Full-time equivalents

3,287

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

Personnel spending

$307M

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, 2018-19

The grants, contributions and other transfers Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada paid, program by program: $3.56B in all, against $3.56B 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 Tribunal, and to Indigenous groups to settle special claimsPaymentsGrant$1,514,146,328
Grants to implement comprehensive land claims and self-government agreements and other agreements to adress Section 35 RightsPaymentsGrant$649,593,388
Contributions to support the negotiation and implementation of Treaties, Claims and self-government agreements or initiativesPaymentsContribution$402,115,403
Contributions to support Land Management and Economic DevelopmentPaymentsContribution$233,098,372
Contributions to support the construction and maintenance of community infrastructurePaymentsContribution$150,200,704
Contribution for promoting the safe use, development, conservation and protection of the North's natural resources, and promoting scientific development for Indigenous Peoples and the NorthPaymentsContribution$93,484,703
Contribution to support access to healthy foods in isolated northern communitiesPaymentsContribution$80,212,690
Grants to the Government of the Northwest Territories and the Government of Nunavut for health care of Indians and InuitPaymentsGrant$56,563,000
Grants to Aboriginal organizations designated to receive claim settlement payments pursuant to Comprehensive Land Claim Settlement ActsPaymentsGrant$55,908,222
Contributions to First Nations for the management of contaminated sitesPaymentsContribution$47,640,676
Contributions to support Métis housingPaymentsContribution$45,000,000
Contributions for the purpose of consultation and policy developmentPaymentsContribution$44,597,379
Federal Interlocutor's Contribution ProgramPaymentsContribution$36,523,946
Contributions to supply public services in Indian Government Support and to build strong governance, administrative and accountability systemsPaymentsContribution$34,536,110
Contributions to support the basic organizational capacity of Indigenous representative organizationsPaymentsContribution$31,709,199
29 programs$3,561,241,068
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Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada’s share of federal net spending

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