Graphical Summary for Supplementary Estimates (C), 2017–18

These Supplementary Estimates (C) include a total of $3.7 billion in new spending, primarily voted expenditures ($4.0 billion) that require Parliamentary approval. This represents a 1.4% increase over the previously approved Estimates to date ($266.6 billion) and 1.4% of the total Estimates to date in 2017–18. Voted appropriations increase by 3.6%.

Eleven departments account for $3.7 billion (94%) of the voted budgetary appropriations presented in these Estimates.

Seven of these departments are also involved in the ten major voted items ^{Footnote 1} listed in the Introduction.

Seven of these departments are also involved in the twelve horizontal items ^{Footnote 2} listed in the Introduction.

• Treasury Board Secretariat: $919.5 million ^{Footnote 1Footnote 2}
• Department of National Defence: $775.1 million ^{Footnote 1Footnote 2}
• Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development: $422.7 million ^{Footnote 1Footnote 2}
• Department of Indigenous Services Canada: $291.2 million
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police: $251.7 million ^{Footnote 1Footnote 2}
• Department of Employment and Social Development: $228.5 million ^{Footnote 1}
• Department of the Environment: $197.1 million ^{Footnote 2}
• Department of Public Works and Government Services Canada: $188.7 million ^{Footnote 1Footnote 2}
• Department of Veterans Affairs: $177.2 million ^{Footnote 1}
• Department of Citizenship and Immigration: $137.2 million ^{Footnote 2}
• Correctional Service of Canada: $105.9 million
• 37 other organizations in these Estimates: $321.3 million

Ten major voted items represent $2.7 billion (68%) of these Estimates.

• Service Income Security Insurance Plan: $622.9 million – Treasury Board Secretariat
• Canada’s Defence Policy: Strong, Secure, Engaged: $435.4 million - Department of National Defence
• National Defence Military Operations: $277.6 million – Department of National Defence
• Paylist requirements: $250.0 million – Treasury Board Secretariat
• 2018 G7 Summit in Charlevoix, Quebec: $218.7 million – Horizontal Initiative (11 organizations)
• Write off debts owed to the Crown for unrecoverable Canada Student Loans: $203.5 million – Department of Employment and Social Development
• International assistance priorities: $202.5 million – Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development
• Demand-driven programs and services which provide support to eligible Veterans and their families: $177.2 million – Department of Veterans Affairs
• Stabilization of the Government of Canada’s pay system: $172.5 million – Horizontal Initiative (2 organizations)
• Help developing countries to address the impact of climate change: $169.7 million – Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

There are twelve horizontal initiatives involving twenty six organizations. These initiatives contribute $566.7 million (14%) to these Estimates.

• 2018 G7 Summit in Charlevoix, Québec: $218.7 million – 1^{Footnote 1}, 2^{Footnote 1}, 4^{Footnote 1}, 5^{Footnote 1}, 10, 11, 14, 19, 20, 24, 26
• Stabilization of the Government of Canada’s Pay System: $172.5 million – 1^{Footnote 1}, 6^{Footnote 1}
• Federation of Canadian Municipalities – Green Municipal Fund: $125 million (Budget 2016) – 3^{Footnote 1}, 8
• Preservation and revitalization of Indigenous languages and cultures: $26.6 million (Budget 2017) –  9, 17, 18
• 8 other horizontal initiatives in these Estimates: $24.0 million – 1^{Footnote 1}, 2^{Footnote 1}, 5^{Footnote 1}, 7^{Footnote 1}, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25

Among the top organizations in these Estimates ^{Footnote 1}:

1. Department of Public Works and Government Services
2. Royal Canadian Mounted Police
3. Department of the Environment
4. Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development
5. Department of National Defence
6. Treasury Board Secretariat
7. Department of Citizenship and Immigration

Among the other organizations in these Estimates:

8. Department of Natural Resources
9. Department of Canadian Heritage
10. Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
11. Shared Services Canada
12. Canadian Institutes of Health Research
13. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
14. Department of Health
15. Office of the Co-ordinator, Status of Women
16. Department of Industry
17. Library and Archives of Canada
18. National Research Council of Canada
19. Department of Finance
20. Public Health Agency of Canada
21. Privy Council Office
22. Department of Fisheries and Oceans
23. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
24. Department of Transport
25. Parks Canada Agency
26. Canada Border Services Agency

The Supplementary Estimates (C) include eight major themes of spending:

• Wages and Benefits - $1,019.2 million
• Defence Spending - $746.4 million
• Climate change and the Environment - $438.9 million
• Indigenous Programming - $337.6 million
• G7 Summit - $218.7 million
• International Assistance - $202.5 million
• Demand-driven services for Veterans - $177.2 million
• Pay Administration - $173.8 million

Supplementary Estimates (C) includes $148.4 million (5.5%) of the measures announced in Budget 2017. These Estimates also include $242.0 million in Budget 2016 measures and $3.6 billion from off-cycle funding decisions and prior Budgets.

Funding announced in this year’s federal budget is compared with that requested through the Estimates. Budget 2017 presents a total spending framework of $330.2 billion. Of that amount, $270.3 billion are represented in the Estimates to date for 2017–18, including Supplementary Estimates (C).

Two other components are:

• $66.1 billion for Employment Insurance and Children’s Benefits, and other measures not included in Estimates; and
• $6.2 billion to account for differences in accounting basis, measures not yet approved by Treasury Board, assumed lapse of authorities, new funding approvals since Budget 2017 and other adjustments.