Office of the Auditor General of Canada’s 2025–26 Departmental Plan: At a glance
A departmental plan describes a department’s priorities, plans, and associated costs for the upcoming 3 fiscal years.
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In the 2025–26 fiscal year, the Office of the Auditor General of Canada plans to have 750 full-time-equivalent employees and is expecting $136.2 million in parliamentary authorities (Main Estimates).
With these resources, we plan to complete the following:
- 98 financial audits of the federal government, territorial governments, and Crown corporations and more than 50 other financial engagements
- at least 25 performance audits of government activities and programs
- 4 special examinations of Crown corporations
- our annual report on environmental petitions
- our annual commentary report on our financial audit work
- follow-up and reporting on the status of implementation of selected recommendations
Key priorities
During the 2025–26 fiscal year, we will advance our multi-year transformation initiative, which is focused on evolving to meet present-day and future needs and challenges. This initiative strives to strengthen and modernize the way we conduct and report on our audits and to optimize our internal processes as we continue to increase the value of our work for parliamentarians and Canadians.
In the coming fiscal year, the Office of the Auditor General of Canada (OAG) will focus on these areas:
- Delivering audits focused on improving outcomes for Canada’s peoples. We will evolve our processes to select and conduct audits that drive meaningful changes in services and programs. This includes leveraging innovation and technologies to adapt and respond rapidly to emerging issues. We will enhance our assessment of the impact of our work by modernizing our approach to monitoring and reporting on the implementation of our recommendations. We will remain focused on delivering quality work grounded in the highest professional standards.
- Data and digital solutions for organization‑wide improvements. We will continue to digitally empower our workforce and workplace and will enhance decision making by strengthening and modernizing our service delivery model. This will involve leveraging data analytics, exploring the use of new technologies and tools, and implementing our digital literacy action plan.
Highlights
In 2025–26, total planned spending for the OAG is $136,240,285 and total planned full-time-equivalent staff is 750. For complete information on the OAG’s total planned spending and human resources, read the Planned spending and human resources section of the full plan.
The following provides a summary of the OAG’s planned achievements for 2025–26 according to its approved departmental results framework. A departmental results framework consists of an organization’s core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve, and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.
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Core responsibility: Legislative auditing
- Planned spending: $136,240,285
- Planned human resources: 750 full-time-equivalent employees
- Departmental result:
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Government acts on recommendations to improve public sector programs, service delivery, and financial management and reporting.
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The OAG is the legislative audit office for the Government of Canada and the governments of the 3 northern territories. Through our audit reports, we provide assurance and recommendations to improve public sector programs, service delivery, and financial management and reporting. We plan to deliver at least 25 performance audits, 4 special examinations, 98 financial audits, and more than 50 other financial engagements during the 2025–26 fiscal year.
More information about legislative auditing can be found in the full plan.