Parole Board of Canada’s 2025-26 Departmental Plan: At a Glance
From: Parole Board of Canada
A departmental plan describes a department’s priorities, plans and associated costs for the upcoming three fiscal years.
Key priorities
The Parole Board of Canada’s (PBC) corporate priorities for 2025-26 are as follows:
- Quality Decision-Making - Align resources and procedures to foster harmonized program support and consistently high-quality independent decision-making that abides by legislative requirements, relevant jurisprudence and responds to the risk and needs of specific populations;
- Organizational Culture - Promote an inclusive, diverse workplace culture that values individual contributions, fosters teamwork and supports the recruitment and retention of talent while navigating the changing nature of administrative tribunals; and
- Operational Stability - Adopt cost-effective approaches that preserve the effective delivery of public safety programs, capitalize on technological innovations and contribute to organizational sustainability.
Highlights
In 2025-26, total planned spending (including internal services) for the PBC is $71,652,458 and total planned full-time equivalent staff (including internal services) 528. For complete information on the PBC’s total planned spending and human resources, read the Planned spending and human resources section of the full plan.
The following provides a summary of the department’s planned achievements for 2025-26 according to its approved Departmental Results Framework. A Departmental Results Framework consists of a department’s core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve, and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.
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Core responsibility 1: Conditional Release Decisions
Planned spending: $42,454,148
Planned human resources: 317Departmental results:
- Conditional release decisions adhere to the law, the PBC’s policies, and the principles of fundamental justice.
- Conditional release decisions contribute to keeping Canadians safe.
The PBC will support Board member capacity through training, harmonization of its operations, and working with partners and stakeholders over the next year to support quality conditional release decisions. The PBC strives to ensure it is adaptable and responsive to meet the needs of specific populations such as women, Indigenous Peoples, Black and other racialized people.
More information about Conditional Release Decisions can be found in the full departmental plan.
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Core responsibility 2: Conditional Release Openness and Accountability
Planned spending: $5,204,173
Planned human resources: 51Departmental result:
- The timely exchange of relevant information with victims, offenders, observers, other components of the criminal justice system, and the general public.
The PBC will continue efforts on community outreach, as well as engagement with criminal justice and community partners and networks. This includes working with victims of crime, incarcerated individuals, and the public in a transparent and responsive manner.
More information about Conditional Release Openness and Accountability, can be found in the full departmental plan.
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Core responsibility 3: Record Suspension/Pardon and Expungement Decisions/ Clemency Recommendations
Planned spending: $10,444,610
Planned human resources: 83Departmental results:
- Clemency recommendations are made in a fair and transparent manner.
- Record suspension/pardon applications are processed in a timely manner.
- Record suspension/pardon decisions adhere to the law, the PBC’s policies, and the principles of fundamental justice.
- Record suspension/pardon decisions contribute to keeping Canadians safe.
Record suspensions will continue to help remove the stigma of a criminal record so that people with criminal records who have completed their sentences and are law-abiding citizens can access meaningful employment, housing, education, and volunteer opportunities. An expungement order will provide for the permanent destruction of a judicial record of conviction for eligible offences where the activity no longer constitutes an offence under an Act of Parliament, and if the criminalization of the activity is considered a historical injustice. The PBC will continue to process Clemency applications for individuals where no other remedy exists in law to reduce the severe negative effects of criminal sanctions.
More information about Record Suspension/Pardon and Expungement Decisions/Clemency Recommendations can be found in the full departmental plan.
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