Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
What Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada spent in fiscal year 2025-26: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs; the overview shows it in that ministry.
Spending, 2025-26
Net spending, 2025-26
$9.21B
spent by Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2025-26
1.9%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs 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
Other subsidies and payments
Professional and special services
Personnel
Transportation and communications
Rentals
Utilities, materials and supplies
Information
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Repair and maintenance
Internal revenues
$6.51B
$1.71B
$751M
$237M
$4.3M
$3.4M
$1M
$987K
$941K
$279K
-$8.8M
Total: $9.21B.
Workforce, 2025-26
Personnel spending
$237M
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 Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada paid, program by program: $6.51B in all, against $6.51B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Grants to First Nations to settle specific claims negotiated by Canada and/or awarded by the Specific Claims Tribunal, and to Indigenous groups to settle special claimsPayments | Grant | $2,923,113,563 |
| Grants to implement comprehensive land claims and self-government agreements and other agreements to address Section 35 RightsPayments | Grant | $1,979,705,712 |
| Contributions to support the negotiation and implementation of Treaties, Claims and self-government agreements or initiativesPayments | Contribution | $568,225,701 |
| Contributions to support access to healthy foods in isolated northern communitiesPayments | Contribution | $154,339,593 |
| Contributions for Métis Nation Early Learning Child CarePayments | Contribution | $141,013,060 |
| Contributions for promoting the safe use, development, conservation and protection of the North's natural resources, and promoting scientific developmentPayments | Contribution | $120,829,045 |
| Contributions to support Métis housingPayments | Contribution | $85,498,720 |
| Federal Interlocutor's Contribution ProgramPayments | Contribution | $82,300,007 |
| Grant for the National Council for ReconciliationPayments | Grant | $65,000,000 |
| Grants to the Government of the Northwest Territories and the Government of Nunavut for health care of Indians and InuitPayments | Grant | $64,974,000 |
| Contributions to support Indigenous governments and institutions, and to build strong governancePayments | Contribution | $47,527,676 |
| Contributions for the purpose of consultation and policy developmentPayments | Contribution | $45,838,392 |
| Contributions to address the legacy of residential schoolsPayments | Contribution | $41,036,132 |
| Grants to land claim organizations, self-government agreement holders and First Nations organizations to support harvesting of country foods and Grants to Northern Communities in support of market food accessPayments | Grant | $40,263,000 |
| Contributions to support the basic organizational capacity of Indigenous representative organizationsPayments | Contribution | $33,715,390 |
| 28 programs | $6,513,828,286 | |
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs
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)
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.
