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Accessibility Standards Canada

What Accessibility Standards Canada spent in fiscal year 2025-26: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Spending, 2025-26

Net spending, 2025-26

$21.3M

spent by Accessibility Standards Canada, less revenues it kept

Share, 2025-26

0.0%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Accessibility Standards Canada spend its budget in 2025-26?

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, 2025-26

Transfer payments

Personnel

Professional and special services

Information

Rentals

Transportation and communications

Other subsidies and payments

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Acquisition of land, buildings and works

Repair and maintenance

Utilities, materials and supplies

$8.5M

$7.7M

$3.9M

$695K

$258K

$112K

$57K

$48K

$32K

$14K

$4K

Total: $21.3M.

Workforce, 2025-26

Personnel spending

$7.7M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

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, 2025-26

The grants, contributions and other transfers Accessibility Standards Canada paid, program by program: $8.5M in all, against $8.5M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Contributions under the Advancing Accessibility Standards Research ProgramPaymentsContribution$6,844,612
Grants under the Advancing Accessibility Standards Research ProgramPaymentsGrant$1,655,388
2 programs$8,500,000

Accessibility Standards Canada’s share of federal net spending

Sources

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.