Department of Indigenous Services Canada
What Department of Indigenous Services Canada spent in fiscal year 2019-20: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Published as Department of Indigenous Services Canada that year; it is now Department of Indigenous Services.
Reports through Indigenous Services; the overview shows it in that ministry.
What Department of Indigenous Services does
Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) are two distinct federal departments tasked with advancing Indigenous priorities in Canada. Established in 2017 following the dissolution of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), they divide the work: ISC delivers essential services to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities — health care, education, housing, and child and family services — and works to transfer control of those services to Indigenous-led organizations, while CIRNAC leads treaty negotiations, self-government agreements, land claims, and Northern affairs.
Federal spending on Indigenous priorities shifts over time with population growth, policy changes, new self-government and claim-settlement agreements, and one-time events such as the settlement of compensation claims for First Nations child and family services. Significant challenges nonetheless remain in areas such as housing, health care access, and infrastructure in remote Indigenous communities.
Spending, 2019-20
Net spending, 2019-20
$13.3B
spent by Department of Indigenous Services Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2019-20
4.4%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Department of Indigenous Services Canada spend its budget in 2019-20?
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, 2019-20
Transfer payments
Personnel
Professional and special services
Utilities, materials and supplies
Transportation and communications
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Rentals
Other subsidies and payments
Repair and maintenance
Information
Acquisition of land, buildings and works
Internal revenues
External revenues
$11.2B
$586M
$577M
$544M
$356M
$56.7M
$15.7M
$7.3M
$3.8M
$2.5M
$213K
-$1.1M
-$33.4M
Total: $13.3B.
Spending by program, 2019-20
The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $13.3B in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.
$2.39B
$1.57B
$1.48B
$983M
$648M
$639M
$562M
$519M
$478M
$474M
$431M
$398M
$371M
$244M
$241M
$209M
$175M
$158M
$156M
$148M
$140M
$109M
$97.6M
$91M
$89.9M
$86M
$53.4M
$45.4M
$45M
$42.4M
$31.5M
$28.9M
$25.2M
$22.8M
$18.5M
$18.1M
$14.4M
$12M
$7.9M
$6.3M
$6M
$3.5M
$2.1M
$1.1M
Workforce, 2019-20
Full-time equivalents
5,693
the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them
Personnel spending
$586M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
Personnel spending per FTE
$103K
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, 2019-20
The grants, contributions and other transfers Department of Indigenous Services Canada paid, program by program: $11.2B in all, against $11.2B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Contributions to support First Nations Elementary and Secondary Educational AdvancementPayments | Contribution | $2,050,274,576 |
| Contributions to support the construction and maintenance of community infrastructurePayments | Contribution | $1,941,076,840 |
| Contributions to provide women, children and families with Protection and Prevention ServicesPayments | Contribution | $1,522,668,138 |
| Contributions for First Nations and Inuit Primary Health CarePayments | Contribution | $1,390,938,867 |
| Contributions to provide income support to on-reserve residents and Status Indians in the Yukon TerritoryPayments | Contribution | $1,073,540,260 |
| Contributions for First Nations and Inuit Health Infrastructure SupportPayments | Contribution | $851,677,798 |
| Grant to support the new fiscal relationship for First Nations under the Indian ActPayments | Grant | $636,028,829 |
| Contributions to support the First Nations Post-Secondary Education StrategyPayments | Contribution | $355,832,084 |
| Contributions for First Nations and Inuit Supplementary Health BenefitsPayments | Contribution | $300,727,932 |
| Contributions for emergency management assistance for activities on reservesPayments | Contribution | $236,918,741 |
| Contributions to supply public services in Indian Government Support and to build strong governance, administrative and accountability systemsPayments | Contribution | $213,374,219 |
| Grant for Band Support FundingPayments | Grant | $165,343,129 |
| Contributions to support Land Management and Economic DevelopmentPayments | Contribution | $135,283,504 |
| Contributions to increase First Nations and Inuit Youth Participation in Education and Labour Market OpportunitiesPayments | Contribution | $68,116,208 |
| Contributions in connection with the First Nations infrastructure (Keeping Canada's Economy and Jobs Growing Act)Payments | Grant | $59,088,073 |
| 30 programs | $11,159,427,003 | |
Department of Indigenous Services’s share of federal net spending
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2020, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II: Transfer payments (multi-year open data)
- GC InfoBase – Federal Programs – Actual and Planned Spending (programs_spending.csv)
- GC InfoBase – Federal Programs – Actual and Planned Employees (programs_ftes.csv)
Department figures are net expenditure (Public Accounts, Volume II), which doesn’t add up to the accrual expenses of the overview’s headline. See the methodology.
