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Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions

What Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions spent in fiscal year 2020-21: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Spending, 2020-21

Net spending, 2020-21

$550M

spent by Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions, less revenues it kept

Share, 2020-21

0.1%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions spend its budget in 2020-21?

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, 2020-21

Transfer payments

Personnel

Professional and special services

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Rentals

Other subsidies and payments

Information

Transportation and communications

Utilities, materials and supplies

Repair and maintenance

$502M

$41.1M

$4.3M

$1M

$902K

$711K

$295K

$220K

$37K

$7K

Total: $550M.

Spending by program, 2020-21

The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $550M in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.

Workforce, 2020-21

Full-time equivalents

359

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

Personnel spending

$41.1M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$114K

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, 2020-21

The grants, contributions and other transfers Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions paid, program by program: $502M in all, against $502M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Contributions under the Regional Economic Growth through Innovation programPaymentsContribution$274,960,115
Contributions under the Community Futures ProgramPaymentsContribution$79,173,093
Payments for the Community Futures Network pursuant to the Public Health Events of National Concern Payments ActPaymentsOther transfer$65,000,000
Contributions under the Quebec Economic Development ProgramPaymentsContribution$57,269,017
Payments to provide financing support to small and medium-sized businesses pursuant to the Public Health Events of National Concern Payments ActPaymentsOther transfer$25,000,000
Payments to the Canadian Seafood Stabilization Fund pursuant to the Public Health Events of National Concern Payments ActPaymentsOther transfer$380,296
Grants under the Quebec Economic Development ProgramPaymentsGrant$25,000
7 programs$501,807,521

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
2025$77,162$87,042$0$202,998$367,202
2024$93,762$184,244$0$382,524$660,529
2023$108,979$130,918$0$358,242$598,138
2022$102,752$349,424$0$270,982$723,157
2021$104,896$111,652$0$277,904$494,452
2020$148,955$86,877$0$278,818$514,650
2019$12,687,097$24,965,188$0$22,344,267$59,996,552
2017$198,879$299,638$0$194,881$693,398

Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions’s share of federal net spending

Each year is the organization that existed that year:

  • Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions, 2006-07 to 2025-26
  • Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, 2002-03 to 2005-06