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Western Economic Diversification Canada

What Western Economic Diversification Canada spent in fiscal year 2019-20: 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, 2019-20

Net spending, 2019-20

$309M

spent by Western Economic Diversification Canada, less revenues it kept

Share, 2019-20

0.1%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Western Economic Diversification 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

Transportation and communications

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Rentals

Information

Utilities, materials and supplies

Repair and maintenance

Other subsidies and payments

$261M

$36.9M

$6.6M

$1.4M

$1.3M

$885K

$535K

$149K

$109K

$30K

Total: $309M.

Spending by program, 2019-20

The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $309M in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.

Workforce, 2019-20

Full-time equivalents

334

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

Personnel spending

$36.9M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$111K

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 Western Economic Diversification Canada paid, program by program: $261M in all, against $261M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Contributions under the Regional Economic Growth through Innovation programPaymentsContribution$116,068,924
Contributions for the Western Diversification ProgramPaymentsContribution$112,934,024
Contributions for the Community Futures ProgramPaymentsContribution$28,216,989
Contributions for the Women's Enterprise InitiativePaymentsContribution$3,900,000
4 programs$261,119,937

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