Correctional Service Canada
What Correctional Service Canada spent in fiscal year 2025-26: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness; the overview shows it in that ministry.
Spending, 2025-26
Net spending, 2025-26
$3.6B
spent by Correctional Service Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2025-26
0.8%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Correctional Service 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
Personnel
Professional and special services
Utilities, materials and supplies
Other subsidies and payments
Acquisition of land, buildings and works
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Repair and maintenance
Transportation and communications
Rentals
Transfer payments
Information
External revenues
Internal revenues
$2.51B
$539M
$238M
$170M
$103M
$95.9M
$46.4M
$32M
$30.7M
$5.5M
$1.3M
-$4M
-$165M
Total: $3.6B.
Workforce, 2025-26
Personnel spending
$2.51B
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 Correctional Service Canada paid, program by program: $5.5M in all, against $5.5M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Correctional Service of Canada's National Infrastructure Contribution ProgramPayments | Contribution | $4,298,734 |
| Indigenous Offender Reintegration Contribution ProgramPayments | Contribution | $1,050,142 |
| Grant to the University of Saskatchewan for Forensic Research CentrePayments | Grant | $200,000 |
| 3 programs | $5,548,876 | |
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 | $90,587,830 | $24,325,266 | $1,760,582 | $44,851,087 | $161,524,765 |
| 2024 | $104,988,836 | $27,061,166 | $4,191,817 | $26,850,229 | $163,092,049 |
| 2023 | $106,344,090 | $28,360,457 | $5,155,047 | $24,022,652 | $163,882,247 |
| 2022 | $94,855,662 | $26,355,936 | $3,097,360 | $19,086,648 | $143,395,606 |
| 2021 | $87,262,132 | $26,948,348 | $296,761 | $16,849,829 | $131,357,070 |
| 2020 | $91,066,687 | $25,894,561 | $4,557,605 | $16,633,269 | $138,152,123 |
| 2019 | $85,490,127 | $32,201,934 | $5,525,095 | $15,075,224 | $138,292,381 |
| 2018 | $91,024,490 | $32,090,988 | $4,722,590 | $10,327,991 | $138,166,059 |
| 2017 | $80,639,497 | $31,268,436 | $3,678,943 | $9,088,093 | $124,674,969 |
Correctional Service Canada’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2026, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II: Transfer payments (multi-year open data)
- 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.
