Natural Resources Canada
What Natural Resources Canada spent in fiscal year 2025-26: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through 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, 2025-26
Net spending, 2025-26
$4.65B
spent by Natural Resources Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2025-26
1.0%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Natural Resources 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
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Rentals
Utilities, materials and supplies
Information
Acquisition of land, buildings and works
Transportation and communications
Other subsidies and payments
Repair and maintenance
Internal revenues
External revenues
$3.56B
$753M
$171M
$41.8M
$34.6M
$29.2M
$24.6M
$22.3M
$16.6M
$10.8M
$7.4M
-$10.4M
-$17.6M
Total: $4.65B.
Workforce, 2025-26
Personnel spending
$753M
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 Natural Resources Canada paid, program by program: $3.56B in all, against $3.56B 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 | $1,624,935,094 |
| Contributions for Growing Canada's Forests - 2 Billion TreesPayments | Contribution | $308,709,078 |
| Contributions in support of Home RetrofitsPayments | Contribution | $234,015,195 |
| Contributions in support of the Energy Innovation ProgramPayments | Contribution | $164,613,404 |
| Contributions in support of Smart Renewables and Electrification Pathways projectsPayments | Contribution | $158,825,743 |
| Contributions in support of Energy EfficiencyPayments | Contribution | $154,819,611 |
| Contributions in Support of the Clean Fuels Fund and Codes and Standards ProgramPayments | Contribution | $141,829,243 |
| Contributions in support of the Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure programPayments | Contribution | $92,698,546 |
| Grants in support of Home RetrofitsPayments | Grant | $88,806,066 |
| Contributions in support of Fighting and Managing Wildfires in a Changing ClimatePayments | Contribution | $82,790,853 |
| Contributions in support of Clean Energy for Rural and Remote CommunitiesPayments | Contribution | $57,267,585 |
| Contributions in support of Investments in the Forest Industry Transformation ProgramPayments | Contribution | $54,012,111 |
| Contributions in support of the Critical Minerals Infrastructure FundPayments | Contribution | $40,958,166 |
| Contributions in Support of Electricity Pre-Development ProjectsPayments | Contribution | $39,514,655 |
| Contributions in support of the Resilient Communities through FireSmart programPayments | Contribution | $24,453,187 |
| 60 programs | $3,564,097,701 | |
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 Natural Resources
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.
