Corporate information

Departmental profile

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

Associate minister: The Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, MP

Deputy Minister: Stefanie Beck, Deputy Minister

Chief of the Defence Staff: General Jennie Carignan, CMM, MSC, MSM, 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 Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces' website.

Organizational contact information

Mailing address: 60 Moodie Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0K2, Canada

Telephone: 613-992-4581

Email: information@forces.gc.ca

Website: Department of National Defence

Supplementary information tables

The following supplementary information tables are available on the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces' website:

• Details on transfer payment programs
• Gender-based analysis plus
• Response to parliamentary committee and external audits
• Status report on transformational and major capital projects
• Incremental Costs for Major Canadian Armed Forces Operations

Federal tax expenditures

The tax system can be used to achieve public policy objectives through the application of special measures including low tax rates, exemptions, deductions, deferrals and credits. The Department of Finance Canada publishes cost estimates and projections for these measures each year in the Report on Federal Tax Expenditures. This report also provides detailed background information on tax expenditures, including descriptions, objectives, historical information and references to related federal spending programs as well as evaluations and GBA Plus of tax expenditures.