Graphical Summary for Supplementary Estimates (B) 2017-18

In these Estimates

Figure 1: The 2017-18 Estimates so far
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These Supplementary Estimates (B) include a total of $4.9 billion in new spending, primarily voted expenditures ($4.5 billion) that require Parliamentary approval. This represents a 1.9% increase over the previously approved Estimates to date for Main Estimates and Supplementary Estimates (A) ($261.7 billion) and 1.8% of the total Estimates to date in 2017-18. Voted appropriations increase by 4.2%.

Figure 2: Top Organizations
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Ten departments account for $3.7 billion (83%) of the voted budgetary appropriations presented in these Estimates.

Five of these departments are also involved in the eight major voted items See Footnote 1 listed in the Introduction.

  • Department of National Defence: $1,003.2 million See Footnote 1
  • Treasury Board Secretariat: $938.4 million See Footnote 1
  • Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development: $442.7 million See Footnote 1
  • Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development: $434.7 million See Footnote 1
  • Department of Health: $265.7 million
  • Department of Industry: $187.2 million
  • Office of Infrastructure Canada: $132.0 million See Footnote 1
  • Department of Employment and Social Development: $125.0 million
  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police: $111.5 million
  • Department of Citizenship and Immigration: $90.8 million
  • 61 other organizations in these Estimates: $755.4 million
Figure 3: Major Items
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Eight major voted items represent $2.3 billion (51%) of these Estimates.

  • Compensation adjustments: $654.6 million – Treasury Board Secretariat
  • Previously approved and funded capital projects: $335.6 million – Department of National Defence
  • Canadian Forces pay increase: $333.1 million – Department of National Defence
  • Crisis Pool Quick Release Mechanism: $264.9 million – Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development
  • Public Service Insurance: $252.9 million – Treasury Board Secretariat
  • Final settlement payment to the Crees of Eeyou Istchee: $200.0 million – Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
  • Fixed Wing Search and Rescue Aircraft Replacement project: $161.6 million – Department of National Defence
  • Champlain Bridge Corridor Project: $100.7 million – Office of Infrastructure of Canada
Figure 4: Horizontal Initiatives
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There are fifteen horizontal initiatives involving 25 organizations. These initiatives contribute $410.3 million (9%) to these Estimates.

Among the top organizations in these Estimates See Footnote 2:

  1. Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
  2. Department of Health
  3. Department of Employment and Social Development
  4. Department of Citizenship and Immigration
  5. Royal Canadian Mounted Police
  6. Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development
  7. Department of Industry

Among the other organizations in these Estimates:

  1. Correctional Service of Canada
  2. Canada Border Services Agency
  3. Department of Canadian Heritage
  4. Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
  5. Department of the Environment
  6. Public Health Agency of Canada
  7. Department of Fisheries and Oceans
  8. Parks Canada Agency
  9. Canadian Institutes of Health Research
  10. Department of Natural Resources
  11. Department of Transport
  12. Department of Veterans Affairs
  13. National Energy Board
  14. Canada Revenue Agency
  15. National Capital Commission
  16. Canadian Museum of History
  17. Department of Finance
  18. Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
Figure 5: Linkage to Budgets
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Supplementary Estimates (B) includes $1 billion (39%) of the measures announced in Budget 2017. These Estimates also include $60 million in Budget 2016 measures and $3.4 billion from off-cycle funding decisions and prior Budgets.

Figure 6: Comparing the Budget and Estimates
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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, $267.3 billion are represented in the Estimates to date for 2017-18, including Supplementary Estimates (B).

Two other components are:

  • $66.1 billion for Employment Insurance and Children’s Benefits, and other measures not included in Estimates; and
  • $3.2 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.

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