Parks Canada
What Parks Canada spent in fiscal year 2024-25: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Published as a ministry of its own this year; the overview shows it under its own name.
What Parks Canada does
Parks Canada Agency protects and presents representative examples of Canada's natural and cultural heritage and fosters public understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of these places. The agency manages the country's system of national parks, national marine conservation areas, national historic sites, and historic canals. Its work spans conservation science and ecosystem monitoring, the maintenance of visitor facilities and heritage structures, public safety and fire management in protected places, and the delivery of visitor programming and services. The agency also works with Indigenous partners in the stewardship of protected areas and administers funding programs for communities and organizations undertaking projects connected to the places it manages.
Spending, 2024-25
Net spending, 2024-25
$1.37B
spent by Parks Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2024-25
0.3%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Parks 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
Personnel
Professional and special services
Acquisition of land, buildings and works
Transfer payments
Rentals
Other subsidies and payments
Utilities, materials and supplies
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Repair and maintenance
Transportation and communications
Information
Public debt charges
$627M
$184M
$174M
$104M
$66.7M
$63.3M
$60.9M
$38.7M
$23.2M
$19.7M
$7.9M
$2K
Total: $1.37B.
Spending by program, 2024-25
The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $1.37B in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.
$463M
$402M
$137M
$108M
$82.1M
$52.5M
$45.3M
$28M
$15.7M
$12.3M
$6.7M
$6.6M
$5.4M
$3.7M
$182K
Workforce, 2024-25
Full-time equivalents
6,097
the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them
Personnel spending
$627M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
Personnel spending per FTE
$103K
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 Parks Canada paid, program by program: $104M in all, against $104M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Contributions in support of activities or projects related to national parks, national marine conservation areas, national historic sites and historic canalsPayments | Contribution | $86,630,720 |
| Grants for the Implementation of Rights and Reconciliation Agreements in Atlantic CanadaPayments | Grant | $7,275,004 |
| Work placements through the Youth Employment and Skills StrategyPayments | Contribution | $3,758,864 |
| Grants in support of activities or projects related to national parks, national marine conservation areas, national historic sites and historic canalsPayments | Grant | $2,471,562 |
| Tallurutiup Imanga Inuit Stewardship Program Seed FundPayments | Grant | $2,100,000 |
| Contributions in support of the National Historic Sites Cost-Sharing ProgramPayments | Contribution | $1,358,792 |
| Grant to the International Peace GardenPayments | Grant | $22,700 |
| 7 programs | $103,617,642 | |
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 | $9,130,956 | $12,641,269 | $1,169,828 | $28,637,497 | $51,579,550 |
| 2024 | $8,713,202 | $13,679,687 | $1,387,805 | $16,366,619 | $40,147,314 |
| 2023 | $7,269,623 | $14,290,885 | $1,001,313 | $35,727,143 | $58,288,964 |
| 2022 | $10,777,742 | $19,782,386 | $4,692,275 | $32,545,338 | $67,797,740 |
| 2021 | $9,000,318 | $13,720,915 | $1,260,166 | $29,309,085 | $53,290,483 |
| 2020 | $9,317,243 | $10,062,295 | $1,214,503 | $26,896,905 | $47,490,945 |
| 2019 | $10,357,309 | $13,999,285 | $1,769,313 | $30,810,998 | $56,936,906 |
| 2018 | $9,527,291 | $13,135,845 | $1,404,065 | $26,291,410 | $50,358,611 |
| 2017 | $11,498,966 | $13,172,188 | $1,541,756 | $28,806,149 | $55,019,059 |
Parks Canada’s share of federal net spending
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.
