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Fees Report 2024-25

National Film Board of Canada
Fees Report
Fiscal year 2024-25

Steven Guilbeault, P.C., M.P.
Minister of Canadian Heritage

© His Majesty the King in Right of Canada, represented by the Minister of Canadian Heritage, 2025
Catalogue No. NF1-10E-PDF
ISSN 2562-1009
This document is available on the Government of Canada website at www.canada.ca.
This document is available in alternative formats upon request.

Minister’s message

I am pleased to present the National Film Board of Canada (NFB)’s Fees Report for 2024–25.

In 2024–2025, the NFB continued to fulfill its mandate by producing and distributing audiovisual works that reflect the diversity of Canadian realities and perspectives. These activities helped strengthen audience engagement both in Canada and internationally.

This report provides a breakdown of each fee category, along with a link to the NFB’s complete list of published fees. For the 2025–2026 fiscal year, the NFB will continue to make updated fee information available on its website.

I invite you to read this report prepared by the NFB under the Service Fees Act. I am pleased that this organization is supporting open and transparent fee management, as reflected in this report.

The Honourable Steven Guilbeault, P.C., M.P.
Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages

 

Ministre du Patrimoine canadien Steven Guilbeault

About this report

This report, which is tabled under section 20 of the Service Fees Act, the Low-Materiality Fees Regulations, and subsection 4.2.9 of the Treasury Board Directive on Charging and Special Financial Authorities, contains information about the fees the NFB had the authority to charge in fiscal year 2024–25.

The report covers fees that are subject to the Service Fees Act.

For reporting purposes, fees are categorized by fee-setting mechanism. There are three mechanisms:

  1. Act, regulation or fees notice
    The authority to set these fees is delegated to a department, minister or Governor in Council pursuant to an act of Parliament.
  2. Contract
    Ministers have the inherent authority to enter into contracts, which are usually negotiated between the minister and an individual or organization, and which cover fees and other terms and conditions. In some cases, that authority may also be provided by an act of Parliament.
  3. Market rate or auction
    The authority to set these fees comes from an act of Parliament or a regulation, and the minister, department or Governor in Council has no control in determining the fee amount.

For fees set by act, regulation or fees notice, the report provides totals for fee groupings, as well as detailed information for each fee. For fees set by contract, the report provides totals only.

Fees charged by the NFB under the Access to Information Act are not subject to the Service Fees Act and are not included in this report. Information on NFB’s access to information fees can be found in our annual report to Parliament on the administration of the Access to Information Act.

Remissions

In 2024–25, the NFB was not subject to the requirements set out in section 7 of the Service Fees Act; however, it had the authority to issue remissions under its enabling legislation. These remissions may have been for reasons other than not meeting a service standard.

The authority to remit is delegated in the National Film Act paragraph 10 (1) (e) and is detailed in the NFB’s remission policy and procedures which can be found on the following web pagesFootnote 1 : Terms of sale of NFB products/ Satisfaction Guarantee, and McIntyre Media – Privacy Policy/returns.

Overall totals, by fee-setting mechanism

The following table presents the total revenue, cost and remissions for all fees that the NFB had the authority to charge in 2024–25, by fee-setting mechanism.

Overall totals for 2024–25, by fee-setting mechanism

Fees set by contract and fees set by act, regulation or fees notice
Fee-setting mechanism Revenue ($) Cost ($) Remissions ($)
Fees set by contract 2,622,301 5,224,470 Remissions do not apply to fees set by contract.
Fees set by act, regulation or fees notice 34,047 67,834 These fees were not subject to remissions.
Total 2,656,348 5,292,304

Totals, by fee grouping, for fees set by act, regulation or fees notice

A fee grouping is a set of fees relating to a single business line, directorate or program that a department had the authority to charge for those activities.

This section presents, for each fee grouping, the total revenue, cost and remissions for all fees that the NFB had the authority to charge in 2024–25 that are set by the following:

Service– Annual online subscriptions: totals for 2024–25

Revenue ($) Cost ($) Remissions ($)
3,995 7,960 These fees were not subject to remissions.

Product sales – Digital Store: totals for 2024–25

Revenue ($) Cost ($) Remissions ($)
11,280 22,474 These fees were not subject to remissions.

Product sales – DVD sales: totals for 2024–25

Revenue ($) Cost ($) Remissions ($)
18,772 37,400 These fees were not subject to remissions.

Details on each fee set by act, regulation or fees notice

The full list of the NFB’s fees set by contract with published amounts can be found on our web page: Service fees report table 2024-25.

 

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