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Western Economic Diversification Canada

What Western Economic Diversification Canada spent in fiscal year 2018-19: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Published as Western Economic Diversification Canada that year; it is now Prairies Economic Development Canada.

Spending, 2018-19

Net spending, 2018-19

$242M

spent by Western Economic Diversification Canada, less revenues it kept

Share, 2018-19

0.1%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Western Economic Diversification 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

Transportation and communications

Repair and maintenance

Rentals

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Information

Utilities, materials and supplies

Other subsidies and payments

$200M

$32.4M

$5.6M

$1.4M

$1.4M

$673K

$629K

$363K

$112K

$5K

Total: $242M.

Spending by program, 2018-19

The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $242M in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.

Workforce, 2018-19

Full-time equivalents

309

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

Personnel spending

$32.4M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$105K

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 Western Economic Diversification Canada paid, program by program: $200M in all, against $200M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Contributions for the Western Diversification ProgramPaymentsContribution$163,194,046
Contributions for the Community Futures ProgramPaymentsContribution$30,193,278
Contributions for the Women's Enterprise InitiativePaymentsContribution$4,225,000
Contributions under the Growth through Regional Innovation Program known as Regional Economic Growth through InnovationPaymentsContribution$2,114,950
4 programs$199,727,274

Contracts of $10,000 and under

Contracts this small are not published one by one: Treasury Board publishes each organization's totals, by calendar year, for contracts of $10,000 and under (their original value and their amendments) and for acquisition card purchases. They are the value of contracts entered into, not what was paid in a fiscal year, so they are not part of the net expenditure above, and the years are calendar years.

Calendar yearGoodsServicesConstructionAcquisition cardsTotal
2026-$1,751$38,965$0$196,408$233,623
2025$10,013$160,422$0$717,428$887,863
2024$38,153$84,369$0$892,961$1,015,483
2023$65,408$242,293$0$961,814$1,269,515
2022$78,416$306,233$0$979,413$1,364,062
2020$53,066$244,012$0$510,785$807,863
2019$215,412$152,518$0$288,743$656,674
2018$145,932$670,673$0$742,214$1,558,819
2017$129,450$348,413$0$619,127$1,096,991

Prairies Economic Development Canada’s share of federal net spending