Parks Canada
What Parks Canada spent in fiscal year 2025-26: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Environment and Climate Change; the overview shows it in that ministry.
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, 2025-26
Net spending, 2025-26
$1.3B
spent by Parks Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2025-26
0.3%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Parks 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
Acquisition of land, buildings and works
Transfer payments
Utilities, materials and supplies
Other subsidies and payments
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Rentals
Repair and maintenance
Transportation and communications
Information
Public debt charges
$624M
$163M
$131M
$119M
$65M
$59.7M
$44.4M
$36.5M
$29.1M
$17.9M
$6.9M
$10K
Total: $1.3B.
Workforce, 2025-26
Personnel spending
$624M
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 Parks Canada paid, program by program: $119M in all, against $119M 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 | $101,899,356 |
| Grants for the Implementation of Rights and Reconciliation Agreements in Atlantic CanadaPayments | Grant | $6,602,514 |
| Work placements through the Youth Employment and Skills StrategyPayments | Contribution | $3,770,000 |
| Grants in support of activities or projects related to national parks, national marine conservation areas, national historic sites and historic canalsPayments | Grant | $2,834,562 |
| Contributions in support of the National Historic Sites Cost-Sharing ProgramPayments | Contribution | $1,859,709 |
| Tallurutiup Imanga Inuit Stewardship Program Seed FundPayments | Grant | $1,600,000 |
| Grant to the International Peace GardenPayments | Grant | $22,700 |
| 7 programs | $118,588,841 | |
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
Other organizations in Environment and Climate Change
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.
