Internal Services

Official Title: Performance Monitoring Report 2018-2019, Internal Services
From: Parole Board of Canada

Tables 177-179

As the Government of Canada is committed to the continuous examination of its expenditures to ensure responsible spending, the Board must ensure that its programs are managed effectively and efficiently.

PBC Reference Levels

Figure 42. PBC Reference Levels

• In 2018-19, the total PBC expenditures amounted to $49.8 million, or a $2.1 million increase compared to 2017-18.
• The Board has one strategic outcome which is “Conditional Release and Record Suspension Decisions and Decision Processes that Safeguard Canadian Communities”.  The Board applies its resources to four programs: Conditional Release Decisions, Conditional Release Openness and Accountability, Record Suspension Decisions and Clemency Recommendations and Internal Services. Conditional release decision‑making is the most resource intensive area, accounting for 82% of the Board’s expenditures in 2018-19.
• The expenditures for the Record Suspension Decisions and Clemency Recommendations program is net of revenue. The fee to process a record suspension application is $631. The respendable revenue for the PBC is $470 per application. In 2018-19, PBC received revenue of $6,662,729 for 10,668 record suspension applications. The PBC portion was $4,961,148.

Human Resources Management

• As of March 31, 2019, the Board staff consisted of 419 employees, women represented 81%. By regions, the proportion of female staff was: Atlantic (10:1), Quebec (4:1), Ontario (8:1), Prairie (4:1) and Pacific (10:1). The proportion was 3:1 at the National Office.
• For 60% of PBC employees, the first official language was English and for 40% of employees, it was French. Fifty-one percent (51%) of staff were bilingual.
• As of March 31, 2019, 7% of the Board’s staff were Indigenous and 15% were visible minorities. Employees with disabilities accounted for 6% of the Board’s staff.
• As of April 8, 2019, the Board had a total of 84 Board members (45 full-time and 39 part‑time). Women represented 54% of all Board members.
• Sixty-five percent (65%) of Board members were speaking English only, 11% were speaking French only and 24% of Board members were bilingual.

¹ Includes $1.1 million related to the hiring of temporary human resources to work on clearing the Pardons backlog which accumulated prior to the pardon reform.

² Includes $0.6 million related to the hiring of temporary human resources to work on clearing the Pardons backlog which accumulated prior to the pardon reform.

³ Includes $1.0 million related to the hiring of temporary human resources to work on clearing the Pardons backlog which accumulated prior to the application fee increase.