Parole Board of Canada 2024-25 Departmental Results Report: At a Glance
This departmental results report details the PBC’s actual accomplishments against the plans, priorities and expected results outlined in its 2024-25 Departmental Plan.
Key priorities
The PBC identified the following key priorities for 2024-25:
- Enhance Board member, staff, organizational capacity, and strengthen the learning framework to support the consistent application of legislative requirements and relevant jurisprudence.
- Cultivate a people management and training approach that fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, recognizes the benefits of flexible work arrangements, and promotes a healthy, respectful, productive, and safe work environment.
- Enhance Information Management (IM)/Information Technology (IT) tools to improve program delivery and client services.
- Strengthen responsiveness to the needs of specific populations such as women, Indigenous Peoples, Black and other racialized people.
- Ensure and optimize the effective delivery of outreach through engagement activities to inform community partners, victims, applicants, offenders, and Canadians on the scope of the work of the PBC as an independent administrative tribunal.
Highlights for the PBC in 2024-25
- Total actual spending (including internal services): $76,929,830
- Total full-time equivalent staff (including internal services): 563
For complete information on PBC’s total spending and human resources, read the Spending and human resources section of its full departmental results report.
Summary of results
The following provides a summary of the results the department achieved in 2024-25 under its main areas of activity, called “core responsibilities”.
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Core responsibility 1: Conditional Release Decisions
Actual spending: $45,270,212
Actual full-time equivalent staff: 344
The quality of conditional release decisions is reflected in conditional release outcomes. Over the last five fiscal years, 98% of parole supervision periods were completed without an offence, and 99% were completed without a violent offence. Similarly, 99% of offenders who completed their sentences on full parole have not been re-admitted after release because of a violent conviction (five-year post-warrant expiry).
For more information on PBC’s Conditional Release Decisions read the ‘Results – what we achieved” section of its departmental results report.
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Core responsibility 2: Conditional Release Openness and Accountability
Actual spending: $5,459,411
Actual full-time equivalent staff: 53
The PBC delivered a total of 450 outreach activities across Canada in 2024-25. This is in line with the total number of activities delivered in 2023-24 (470). Of these, 231 were outreach and 219 were in-reach activities. Outreach outcomes reflect the Board’s ongoing emphasis on reaching diverse audiences, including specific priority groups, such as women offenders as well as Indigenous and Black/marginalized offenders. Outreach and in-reach targeted to women comprised a total of 50 activities, a 20% increase over 2023-24. Of these, 28 activities were held with the incarcerated women population, a 12% increase over last year. The PBC participated in approximately 59 Indigenous-related outreach activities with community and government partners. Of these, 48 were in-reach activities with incarcerated Indigenous individuals (12 of which were with Indigenous women). Additionally, 10 in-reach activities were delivered to Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) staff on issues such as Indigenous initiatives and Culturally Responsive Hearings (CRHs).
The PBC participated in 37 outreach activities focused on marginalized offenders, communities and organizations. Of these, eight (8) were outreach activities with community and criminal justice partners, and 29 were in-reach activities with the incarcerated population.
In 2024-25, PBC staff supported the participation of more than 4,700 individuals in observing hearings, including victims and their support persons, members of the public, students, media representatives, and officials from other government departments. During the same period, the Board released over 8,600 decisions through its Registry of Decisions, representing an 11% increase compared to the previous fiscal year.
For more information on PBC’s Conditional Release Openness and Accountability read the ‘Results – what we achieved” section of its departmental results report.
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Core responsibility 3: Record Suspension/Pardon and Expungement Decisions/Clemency Recommendations
Actual spending: $11,396,735
Actual full-time equivalent staff: 83
In 2024-25, the PBC rendered 2,401 record suspension decisions, 9,163 pardon decisions and ordered 83 cannabis record suspensions. The PBC also assessed 30 requests for clemency (Royal Prerogative of Mercy).
For more information on PBC’s Record Suspension/Pardon and Expungement Decisions/Clemency Recommendations read the ‘Results – what we achieved” section of its departmental results report.