Polar Knowledge Canada's 2023-24 Departmental results report: At a glance

A departmental results report provides an account of actual accomplishments against plans, priorities and expected results set out in the associated Departmental Plan.

• Vision, mission, raison d’être and operating context
• Minister’s mandate letter

Read the full Departmental results report

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Key priorities

Polar Knowledge Canada’s top priorities for 2023-24 were as follows:

• leveraging the Canadian High Arctic Research Station to advance innovation, knowledge creation and mobilization;
• supporting interdisciplinary science and technology development to create and disseminate new solutions to address the impacts of rapid environmental change in the North and Arctic;
• finalizing the transfer of the administration of the Canadian High Arctic Research Station to Polar Knowledge Canada from Crown Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada and transitioning to a fully operational state in support of the agency's mandate; and
• fulfilling our obligations under Article 23 of the Nunavut Agreement to support the development and retention of Inuit employees, with the support of the Inuit Advisory Council.

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Highlights

In 2023-24, total actual spending (including internal services) for Polar Knowledge Canada was $32,475,427 and total full-time equivalent staff (including internal services) was 103.2. For complete information on Polar Knowledge Canada’s total spending and human resources, read the Spending and human resources section of the full report.

The following provides a summary of the department’s achievements in 2023-24 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: Polar Science and Knowledge

Actual spending: $15,836,430

Actual human resources: 47.7

Departmental results achieved

• Canada’s polar science and technology research is publicly available and being applied
• Canada’s arctic science includes Indigenous local knowledge
• Canada fosters domestic and international knowledge exchange and partnerships in polar science
• The next generation of Canadian polar researchers is developed

More information about Polar Science and Knowledge can be found in the ‘Results – what we achieved” section of the full departmental results report.