Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security (SECU) Supps C - March 24, 2026

Key messages

• CSIS will receive $980.1M in the 2025-26 Main Estimates including $72.2M for Statutory expenditures related to employee benefits.
  • Budget 2024 provided CSIS with $655.7 million over eight years, starting in 2024-25, with $191.1 million in remaining amortization, and $114.7 million ongoing to enhance its intelligence capabilities, and investments in capital projects to modernize our infrastructure in the regions.
• This year’s Main Estimates represent a 39.5% or $277.5M increase over the previous year.
• Approximately 70% ($190M) of this new funding is targeted investments in capital projects to modernize CSIS infrastructure in regions, as well as salary adjustments.
• Specifically, the above increase of $277.5M is primarily attributable to
  1. Investments in capital projects to modernize our infrastructure in the region ($131M)
     • These funds are necessary to ensure that CSIS is properly equipped with appropriate and secure facilities.
  2. Salary changes for existing personnel ($62M)
     • Economic increases ensure that CSIS can offer competitive salaries comparative to the rest of the Public Service, who renegotiated their salaries through PSAC in 2023.
  3. Enhancing Intelligence Capabilities ($56.7)
     • Funding will help to ensure that select and targeted CSIS tools and capabilities remain ready to support the Government’s priorities, collect intelligence, and keep Canada and Canadians safe from threats to national security.
  4. Funding to Support Ukraine ($9.9M)
     • Funding will help to mitigate threats to the security of Canada posed by Russia, in direct support of our Ukrainian partners.
     • CSIS activities related to supporting Ukraine specifically focus on working directly with the Ukrainian Intelligence Services, including via intelligence collection operations and providing material support.

Supplementary Estimates C

• Supplementary Estimates (C) increases CSIS’s spending authorities by $9.16M for 2025-2026.
• With this, the total spending authority for CSIS changes from $1.013B to $1.022B.
  • Voted Appropriations increased by $7.3M
  • Statutory Appropriations increased by $1.8M
• Detailed breakdowns of CSIS expenditures are classified.
• Funding will equip CSIS with tools to combat emerging global threats and keep pace with technological developments through investments in intelligence capabilities and infrastructure.
• Canada faces an evolving geopolitical context and wide array of growing and increasingly complex threats and challenges: rising economic competition, foreign interference, violent extremism, and malicious cyber activity are aggravated by technological developments.
• The evolving global threat environment has made the demand for timely intelligence from senior political leaders higher than ever before. This crucial funding will ensure CSIS can continue to keep Canadians safe from threats, such as violent extremism and foreign interference, among others.
• CSIS delivers a unique mandate and capabilities that cannot be replicated. Canadians depend on CSIS to maintain Canada’s strategic advantage in an increasingly dangerous world, and they expect that CSIS be resourced accordingly.
• CSIS’s people, tools, and capabilities stand ready to support the Government’s priorities and to collect intelligence, advance Canada’s interests and security, and grow its influence around the world.
• The Government’s investments in CSIS recognize the crucial role CSIS plays to advance Canada’s interests and protect Canadians.
  • This funding will help to ensure that CSIS can continue its core mandated functions: to investigate, assess, advise on, and reduce threats to Canada’s national security.
• We are working in partnership with Canadians and their institutions, businesses, and communities in defence of our collective national security.
• CSIS constantly prioritizes the most urgent and serious threats facing Canadians based on the funding it receives, regularly reallocating according to changes in the threat environment.