Western Economic Diversification Canada
What Western Economic Diversification Canada spent in fiscal year 2020-21: 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.
Reports through Innovation, Science and Economic Development; the overview shows it in that ministry.
Spending, 2020-21
Net spending, 2020-21
$907M
spent by Western Economic Diversification Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2020-21
0.2%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Western Economic Diversification 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
Professional and special services
Information
Rentals
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Transportation and communications
Other subsidies and payments
Utilities, materials and supplies
Repair and maintenance
$855M
$43.8M
$6.3M
$832K
$718K
$615K
$235K
$74K
$65K
$40K
Total: $907M.
Spending by program, 2020-21
The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $907M in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.
$418M
$286M
$98.6M
$89.9M
$14.7M
Workforce, 2020-21
Full-time equivalents
386
the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them
Personnel spending
$43.8M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
Personnel spending per FTE
$113K
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 Western Economic Diversification Canada paid, program by program: $855M in all, against $855M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Payments to provide financing support to small and medium-sized businesses pursuant to the Public Health Events of National Concern Payments ActPayments | Contribution | $300,176,942 |
| Contributions under the Regional Economic Growth through Innovation programPayments | Contribution | $216,406,603 |
| Payments for the Community Futures Network pursuant to the Public Health Events of National Concern Payments ActPayments | Contribution | $162,700,000 |
| Contributions for the Western Diversification ProgramPayments | Contribution | $130,242,298 |
| Contributions for the Community Futures ProgramPayments | Contribution | $26,058,699 |
| Contributions for the Women's Enterprise InitiativePayments | Contribution | $9,775,000 |
| Payments to the Canadian Seafood Stabilization Fund pursuant to the Public Health Events of National Concern Payments ActPayments | Contribution | $9,518,000 |
| 7 programs | $854,877,542 | |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Other organizations in Innovation, Science and Economic Development
- Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
- National Research Council Canada
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
- Statistics Canada
- Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
- Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
- Canadian Space Agency
- Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
- Destination Canada
- Standards Council of Canada
- Copyright Board Canada
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.
