Graphical Summary for Supplementary Estimates (A) 2017–18
In these Estimates

Figure 1 - Text version
These Supplementary Estimates (A) include a total of $3.8 billion in new spending, primarily voted expenditures ($3.7 billion) that require Parliamentary approval. This represents a 1.5% increase over the Main Estimates ($257.9 billion) tabled in February, and 1.4% of the total Estimates to date in 2017-18. Voted appropriations increase by 3.6%.

Figure 2 - Text version
Nine departments account for $3.2 billion (85%) of the voted spending presented in these Estimates. Seven of these departments are also involved in the nine major voted items Return to footnote * listed in the Introduction.
- Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development: $718.9 million Footnote *
- Treasury Board Secretariat: $651.4 million Footnote *
- Department of Employment and Social Development: $584.6 million Footnote *
- Department of Fisheries and Oceans: $359.4 million Footnote *
- VIA Rail Canada Inc.: $235.4 million Footnote *
- Canada Border Services Agency: $204.4 million Footnote *
- Canadian Air Transport Security Authority: $150.8 million
- Department of Citizenship and Immigration: $140.1 million Footnote *
- Marine Atlantic Inc.: $134.9 million
- 24 other organizations in these Estimates: $542.5 million

Figure 3 - Text version
Nine major voted items represent $2.6 billion (69%) of these Estimates. Two of these are also horizontal initiatives.
- Paylist Requirements: $625.0 million – Treasury Board Secretariat
- Specific claims settlements: $446.5 million – Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
- Early learning and child care: $400.0 million (Budget 2016) – Department of Employment and Social Development
- Rail passenger transportation: $235.4 million (Budget 2017) – VIA Rail Canada Inc.
- Oceans Protection Plan: $209.1 million – horizontal initiative (4 organizations)
- 2017 Immigration Levels Plan: $185.0 million – horizontal initiative (3 organizations)
- Operation Return Home: $174.7 million – Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
- Mission-critical services: $166.7 million – Department of Fisheries and Oceans
- Integrity of border operations: $162.8 million – Canada Border Services Agency

Figure 4 - Text version
There are seven horizontal initiatives involving 19 organizations. These initiatives contribute $673 million (18%) to these Estimates.
- Oceans Protection Plan: $221.7 million – 4Return to footnote **, 13, 15, 19
- 2017 Immigration Levels Plan : $195.8 million – 1Footnote **, 2Footnote **, 16
- Youth Employment Strategy : $146.8 million (Budget 2017) – 3Footnote **, 5Footnote **, 6, 9, 10, 13, 17
- Indigenous early learning and child care: $99.8 million (Budget 2016) – 3Footnote **, 11, 18
- Critical food safety activities: $5.0 million (Budget 2017) – 7, 11
- Options for a public safety broadband network: $3.0 million (Budget 2015) – 12, 14
- National security review of foreign investment: $1.2 million (Budget 2017) – 8, 14
Among the top organizations in these Estimates Return to footnote **:
- Canada Border Services Agency
- Department of Citizenship and Immigration
- Department of Employment and Social Development
- Department of Fisheries and Oceans
- Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Among the other organizations in these Estimates:
- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Canadian Security Intelligence Service
- Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food
- Department of Canadian Heritage
- Department of Health
- Department of Industry
- Department of Natural Resources
- Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
- Department of the Environment
- Immigration and Refugee Board
- National Research Council of Canada
- Parks Canada Agency
- Public Health Agency of Canada
- Department of Transport

Figure 5 - Text version
Supplementary Estimates (A) includes $1 billion (39%) of the measures announced in Budget 2017. These Estimates also include $616 million in Budget 2016 measures and $2.1 billion from off-cycle funding decisions and prior Budgets.

Figure 6 - Text version
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, $261.7 billion are represented in the Estimates to date for 2017-18, including Supplementary Estimates (A).
Two other components are:
- $66.1 billion for Employment Insurance and Children’s Benefits, and other measures not included in Estimates; and
- $2.4 billion to account for differences in accounting basis, measures not yet approved by Treasury Board, assumed lapse of authorities and other adjustments.
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