Infrastructure Canada
What Infrastructure Canada spent in fiscal year 2020-21: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Published as Infrastructure Canada that year; it is now Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada.
Reports through Infrastructure and Communities; the overview shows it in that ministry.
What Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada does
Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC) is responsible for federal policies and programs that support public infrastructure, affordable housing, and community development. Working with provinces, territories, and municipalities, it funds major infrastructure projects and administers the National Housing Strategy, which supports the construction, repair, and preservation of affordable housing. It also oversees the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and supports public transit, clean energy, and community infrastructure through programs such as the Canada Infrastructure Bank.
Spending, 2020-21
Net spending, 2020-21
$5.49B
spent by Infrastructure Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2020-21
1.2%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Infrastructure Canada 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
Public debt charges
Professional and special services
Repair and maintenance
Acquisition of land, buildings and works
Rentals
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Other subsidies and payments
Transportation and communications
Information
Utilities, materials and supplies
$5.3B
$79.9M
$43.5M
$37.9M
$13.4M
$11.9M
$2.2M
$1.5M
$605K
$506K
$406K
$44K
Total: $5.49B.
Spending by program, 2020-21
The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $5.49B in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.
$2.17B
$1.13B
$667M
$648M
$334M
$218M
$87.7M
$60.3M
$55.9M
$32.6M
$26M
$20.5M
$9.5M
$7.5M
$6.4M
$6M
$2.1M
$1.8M
$1.3M
$1M
$823K
$768K
$512K
Workforce, 2020-21
Full-time equivalents
701
the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them
Personnel spending
$79.9M
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 Infrastructure Canada paid, program by program: $5.3B in all, against $5.3B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Gas Tax Fund (Keeping Canada's Economy and Jobs Growing Act)Payments | Other transfer | $2,170,315,887 |
| New Building Canada Fund-Provincial-Territorial Infrastructure Component-National and Regional ProjectsPayments | Contribution | $954,155,887 |
| Investing in Canada Infrastructure ProgramPayments | Contribution | $650,830,302 |
| Public Transit Infrastructure FundPayments | Contribution | $400,772,299 |
| Clean Water and Wastewater FundPayments | Contribution | $242,862,744 |
| New Building Canada Fund-National Infrastructure ComponentPayments | Contribution | $217,994,628 |
| Contributions under the Building Canada Fund Major Infrastructure ComponentPayments | Contribution | $205,715,266 |
| New Building Canada Fund-Provincial-Territorial Infrastructure Component-Small Communities FundPayments | Contribution | $173,864,736 |
| Toronto Waterfront Revitalization InitiativePayments | Contribution | $60,000,000 |
| Payments for commitments of P3 Canada Fund of PPP CanadaPayments | Contribution | $56,757,280 |
| Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation FundPayments | Contribution | $52,373,303 |
| Contributions under the Green Infrastructure FundPayments | Contribution | $33,465,254 |
| Provincial-Territorial Infrastructure Base Funding ProgramPayments | Other transfer | $20,266,859 |
| Canada Healthy Communities InitiativePayments | Contribution | $19,193,000 |
| Capacity Building for Climate Change Challenges FundPayments | Contribution | $19,128,078 |
| 20 programs | $5,300,448,253 | |
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 year | Goods | Services | Construction | Acquisition cards | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $24,719 | $102,543 | $0 | $1,920,021 | $2,047,282 |
| 2024 | $39,404 | $41,293 | $0 | $1,339,631 | $1,420,328 |
| 2023 | $47,341 | $83,876 | $0 | $1,706,124 | $1,837,341 |
| 2022 | $45,465 | $47,246 | $0 | $1,351,511 | $1,444,222 |
| 2021 | $74,356 | $115,352 | $0 | $697,852 | $887,561 |
| 2020 | $39,084 | $62,843 | $0 | $492,154 | $594,082 |
| 2019 | $81,861 | $127,780 | $0 | $1,065,755 | $1,275,395 |
| 2018 | $89,673 | $193,725 | $0 | $883,578 | $1,166,976 |
| 2017 | $74,886 | $71,603 | $0 | $745,283 | $891,772 |
Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Infrastructure and Communities
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2021, 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)
- Proactive Publication - Contracts: Aggregated Total - Contracts $10K and under
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.
