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Departmental Plan (2024 to 2025):
Spending and corporate information
Planned spending and human resources
This section provides an overview of the CBSA’s planned spending and human resources for the next three fiscal years, and compares planned spending for 2024 to 2025 with actual spending from previous years.
Spending
The following table shows information on spending for the CBSA’s core responsibilities and internal services for the previous three fiscal years. Amounts for the current fiscal year are forecasted based on spending to date.
| Core responsibilities and internal services | 2021 to 2022 actual expenditures | 2022 to 2023 actual expenditures | 2023 to 2024 forecast spending |
|---|---|---|---|
| Border Management | 1,665,443,159 | 1,693,523,022 | 1,814,034,827 |
| Border Enforcement | 303,098,988 | 356,671,921 | 410,300,356 |
| Subtotal | 1,968,542,147 | 2,050,194,944 | 2,224,335,183 |
| Internal Services | 510,175,844 | 544,347,508 | 511,856,131 |
| Total | 2,478,717,991 | 2,594,542,452 | 2,736,191,314 |
In 2023 to 2024, the Agency has an increase of $141.7 million in funding over the forecast spending in 2022 to 2023 due to new and sunsetting funding. New funding includes:
- funding for modernizing travel and trade at Canadian borders (Budget 2021)
- funding for supporting the resettlement of Afghan refugees (Budget 2022)
- funding for advancing the Security Screening Automation Project
- funding for implementing immigration activities, resettlement measures, temporary accommodations, and income support for Ukrainian refugees
- funding for automating cross-border currency reporting
- funding for improving processing times and reducing inventory backlogs for Temporary Resident applications (Budget 2022)
- funding for supporting the 2022 to 2024 Immigration Levels Plan (Budget 2022)
- funding for contracting of security guards to provide care and control for detainees within the Agencyʼs immigration holding centres
- funding for supporting the stability and integrity of Canada’s asylum system (Budget 2022)
- funding for supporting the federal framework for the legalization and regulation of cannabis
- funding for addressing irregular migration
- funding for supporting the response to African swine fever.
The following table shows information on spending for the CBSA’s core responsibilities and internal services for the upcoming three fiscal years.
| Core responsibilities and internal services | 2024 to 2025 budgetary spending (as indicated in Main Estimates) | 2024 to 2025 planned spending | 2025 to 2026 planned spending | 2026 to 2027 planned spending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Border Management | 1,776,503,392 | 1,776,503,392 | 1,616,255,435 | 1,533,683,362 |
| Border Enforcement | 365,361,907 | 365,361,907 | 349,985,596 | 342,257,787 |
| Subtotal | 2,141,865,299 | 2,141,865,299 | 1,966,241,031 | 1,875,941,149 |
| Internal Services | 507,741,063 | 507,741,063 | 499,026,382 | 455,544,281 |
| Total | 2,649,606,362 | 2,649,606,362 | 2,465,267,413 | 2,331,485,430 |
As previously mentioned, the Agency has increased funding in 2023 to 2024 and subsequent years through the following initiatives:
- Funding for modernizing travel and trade at Canadian borders (Budget 2021).
- Funding for supporting the resettlement of Afghan refugees (Budget 2022).
- Funding for advancing the Security Screening Automation Project.
- Funding for implementing immigration activities, resettlement measures, temporary accommodations, and income support for Ukrainian refugees.
- Funding for automating cross-border currency reporting.
- Funding for improving processing times and reducing inventory backlogs for Temporary Resident applications (Budget 2022).
- Funding for supporting the 2022 to 2024 Immigration Levels Plan (Budget 2022).
- Funding for contracting of security guards to provide care and control for detainees within the Agencyʼs immigration holding centres.
- Funding for supporting the stability and integrity of Canada’s asylum system (Budget 2022).
- Funding for supporting the federal framework for the legalization and regulation of cannabis.
- Funding for addressing irregular migration.
- Funding for supporting the response to African swine fever.
As part of the 2024 to 2025 Main Estimates Budget exercise, the Agency has been funded for the following initiatives:
- Implementing Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy.
- Stabilizing resources available for Temporary Resident processing.
- Strengthening Canada’s Trade Remedy and Revenue System.
- Supporting the 2023 to 2025 Immigration Levels Plan.
- Strengthening frontline capacity.
- Supporting the National Security Intelligence Review.
- Modernizing travel and trade at Canadian borders.
The following table reconciles gross planned spending with net planned spending for 2024 to 2025.
| Core responsibilities and internal services | 2024 to 2025 gross planned spending | 2024 to 2025 planned revenues netted against spending | 2024 to 2025 planned net spending |
|---|---|---|---|
| Border Management | 1,800,533,392 | (24,030,000) | 1,776,503,392 |
| Border Enforcement | 1,800,533,392 | (24,030,000) | 1,776,503,392 |
| Subtotal | 2,165,895,299 | (24,030,000) | 2,141,865,299 |
| Internal Services | 507,741,063 | 0 | 507,741,063 |
| Total | 2,673,636,362 | (24,030,000) | 2,649,606,362 |
The purpose of this table is to help present the full scope of the Agency’s operations that are materially funded through revenues or special purpose accounts.
Funding
The following graph presents the CBSA’s planned spending (voted and statutory expenditures) over time. Note that amounts may not exactly add up due to rounding.
Figure 1: Departmental spending 2021 to 2022 to 2026 to 2027
| to | to | to | to | to | to | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Postes législatifs | 227 $ | 241 $ | 251 $ | 215 $ | 207 $ | 203 $ |
| Crédits votés | 2,252 $ | 2,353 $ | 2,486 $ | 2,435 $ | 2,258 $ | 2,128 $ |
| Total | 2,479 $ | 2,594 $ | 2,736 $ | 2,650 $ | 2,465 $ | 2,331 $ |
Future-oriented condensed statement of operations
The future-oriented condensed statement of operations provides an overview of the CBSA’s operations for 2023 to 2024 to 2024 to 2025.
The forecast and planned amounts in this statement of operations were prepared on an accrual basis. The forecast and planned amounts presented in other sections of the Departmental Plan were prepared on an expenditure basis. Amounts may therefore differ.
A more detailed future-oriented statement of operations and associated notes, including a reconciliation of the net cost of operations with the requested authorities, are available on the CBSA’s website.
| Financial information | 2023 to 2024 forecast results | 2024 to 2025 planned results | Difference (2024 to 2025 planned results minus 2023 to 2024 forecast results) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total expenses | 2,916,579,000 | 2,752,821,000 | (163,758,000) |
| Total revenues | 27,030,000 | 24,030,000 | (3,000,000) |
| Net cost of operations before government funding and transfers | 2,889,549,000 | 2,728,791,000 | (160,758,000) |
The total expenses in 2024 to 2025 are projected to be $2,753 million, representing a decrease of $164 million compared to the $2,917 million forecasted in 2023 to 2024.
Human resources
The following table shows information on human resources, in full-time equivalents, for the CBSA’s core responsibilities and internal services for the previous three fiscal years. Human resources for the current fiscal year are forecasted based on year to date.
| Core responsibilities and internal services | 2021 to 2022 actual full time equivalents | 2022 to 2023 actual full time equivalents | 2023 to 2024 forecast full time equivalents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Border Management | 10,210 | 10,591 | 11,502 |
| Border Enforcement | 1,735 | 1,984 | 1,892 |
| Subtotal | 11,945 | 12,574 | 13,394 |
| Internal Services | 3,112 | 3,142 | 2,418 |
| Total | 15,057 | 15,717 | 15,812 |
Corporate information
Organizational profile
| Appropriate minister: | The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc |
|---|---|
| Institutional head: | Erin O’Gorman |
| Ministerial portfolio: | Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs |
| Enabling instruments: | Canada Border Services Agency Act Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Act |
| Year of incorporation/commencement: | 2003 |
Organizational contact information
The CBSA’s contact information is available on its website.
Supplementary information tables
The CBSA’s GBA Plus supplementary information table is available on its website.
The CBSA’s Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy is also available on its website.
Federal tax expenditures
The CBSA’s Departmental Plan does not include information on tax expenditures.
Tax expenditures are the responsibility of the Minister of Finance. The Department of Finance Canada publishes cost estimates and projections for government wide tax expenditures each year in the Report on Federal Tax Expenditures.
This report provides detailed information on tax expenditures, including objectives, historical background and references to related federal spending programs, as well as evaluations, research papers and gender-based analysis plus.
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