Corporate information

Organizational profile

Appropriate minister(s): The Honourable Bill Blair, PC, MP

Associate minister: The Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, MP

Institutional head: Bill Matthews, Deputy Minister

Chief of Defence Staff: General Wayne D. Eyre, CMM, MSC, CD

Ministerial portfolio:

• Department of National Defence
• Canadian Armed Forces
• National Defence and Canadian Forces Ombudsman
• Independent Review Panel for Defence Acquisition
• Office of the Chief Military Judge
• Defence Research and Development Canada
• Communications Security Establishment
• Military Police Complaints Commission of Canada
• Military Grievances External Review Committee

Enabling instrument(s):

• National Defence Act
• Communications Security Establishment Act
• Emergencies Act
• Aeronautics Act
• Fisheries Act

For further information, see Legislation and National Defence.

Year of incorporation / commencement: 1923

For additional corporate information visit the DND/CAF website.

Organizational contact information

Mailing address: 60 Moodie Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0K2, Canada
Telephone: 613-992-4581
Email: information@forces.gc.ca
Website(s): https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence.html

Supplementary information tables

The following supplementary information tables are available on the DND/CAF website:

• Details on transfer payment programs
• Gender-based analysis plus
• Status report on transformational and major Crown projects

Information on the DND/CAF departmental sustainable development strategy can be found on the DND/CAF website.

Federal tax expenditures

The DND/CAF departmental plan does not include information on tax expenditures.

Tax expenditures are the responsibility of the Minister of Finance. The Department of Finance Canada publishes cost estimates and projections for government wide tax expenditures each year in the Report on Federal Tax Expenditures.

This report provides detailed information on tax expenditures, including objectives, historical background and references to related federal spending programs, as well as evaluations, research papers and GBA Plus.