Natural Resources Canada
What Natural Resources Canada spent in fiscal year 2024-25: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Energy and Natural Resources; the overview shows it in that ministry.
What Natural Resources Canada does
Natural Resources Canada is responsible for federal policy and science related to Canada's energy, forestry, and minerals and mining sectors, including geoscience, energy regulation, and nuclear energy research and safety.
Spending, 2024-25
Net spending, 2024-25
$4.42B
spent by Natural Resources Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2024-25
0.9%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Natural Resources Canada spend its budget in 2024-25?
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, 2024-25
Transfer payments
Personnel
Professional and special services
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Utilities, materials and supplies
Information
Rentals
Transportation and communications
Acquisition of land, buildings and works
Other subsidies and payments
Repair and maintenance
Internal revenues
External revenues
$3.35B
$741M
$170M
$50.7M
$29.7M
$25.5M
$22.2M
$18.6M
$16.3M
$9.9M
$5.3M
-$5.6M
-$16.2M
Total: $4.42B.
Spending by program, 2024-25
The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $4.42B in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.
$1.19B
$987M
$443M
$291M
$233M
$228M
$137M
$101M
$62.4M
$59.2M
$56.7M
$51.9M
$50.9M
$45.5M
$39.5M
$38.4M
$35.3M
$35.2M
$34.2M
$27.6M
$26.2M
$21.5M
$21.5M
$21.4M
$20.7M
$18.9M
$18.2M
$17.7M
$15.7M
$15.4M
$15.3M
$11.6M
$10.5M
$8.2M
$7.4M
$6.8M
$5.7M
$2.5M
$2.1M
Workforce, 2024-25
Full-time equivalents
5,887
the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them
Personnel spending
$741M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
Personnel spending per FTE
$126K
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, 2024-25
The grants, contributions and other transfers Natural Resources Canada paid, program by program: $3.35B in all, against $3.35B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Payments to the Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Resource Revenue FundPayments | Contribution | $985,000,118 |
| Contributions in support of Home RetrofitsPayments | Contribution | $706,326,675 |
| Grants in support of Home RetrofitsPayments | Grant | $331,852,116 |
| Contributions in support of Smart Renewables and Electrification Pathways projectsPayments | Contribution | $223,559,423 |
| Contributions for Growing Canada's Forests - 2 Billion TreesPayments | Contribution | $200,240,997 |
| Contributions in Support of Electricity Pre-Development ProjectsPayments | Contribution | $153,258,088 |
| Contributions in Support of the Clean Fuels Fund and Codes and Standards ProgramPayments | Contribution | $102,189,554 |
| Contributions in support of the Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure programPayments | Contribution | $96,468,762 |
| Contributions in support of Energy EfficiencyPayments | Contribution | $85,074,518 |
| Contributions in support of the Energy Innovation ProgramPayments | Contribution | $66,167,241 |
| Contributions in support of Fighting and Managing Wildfires in a Changing ClimatePayments | Contribution | $61,007,459 |
| Contributions in support of Clean Energy for Rural and Remote CommunitiesPayments | Contribution | $56,314,036 |
| Contributions in support of Investments in the Forest Industry Transformation ProgramPayments | Contribution | $43,001,546 |
| Contributions in support of the Forest Innovation programPayments | Contribution | $22,076,315 |
| Contributions in support of the Technology and Innovation InitiativePayments | Contribution | $20,535,304 |
| 62 programs | $3,352,476,890 | |
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 | $3,003,699 | $5,166,434 | $217,865 | $30,275,691 | $38,663,689 |
| 2024 | $3,517,529 | $5,425,329 | $159,068 | $40,241,394 | $49,343,319 |
| 2023 | $2,505,445 | $4,840,142 | $194,326 | $37,745,630 | $45,285,543 |
| 2022 | $2,469,141 | $4,136,573 | $99,613 | $30,143,193 | $36,848,519 |
| 2021 | $2,921,723 | $4,830,770 | $121,339 | $22,228,409 | $30,102,242 |
| 2020 | $2,700,229 | $3,775,953 | $196,616 | $17,338,158 | $24,010,956 |
| 2019 | $3,948,738 | $5,217,998 | $244,868 | $25,174,787 | $34,586,392 |
| 2018 | $3,804,814 | $6,289,409 | $188,497 | $25,355,521 | $35,638,241 |
| 2017 | $3,810,248 | $6,421,480 | $268,194 | $21,854,875 | $32,354,796 |
Natural Resources Canada’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Energy and Natural Resources
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2025, 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.
