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Finance

How Finance spent its budget in fiscal year 2021-22, shown as net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II.

Department Spending

In FY 2021-22,

$106.82B

was spent by Finance

In FY 2021-22,

21.2%

of federal spending was by Finance

How did Finance spend its budget in 2021-22?

Spending by entity, FY 2021-22

Department of Finance

Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions

Office of the Auditor General

Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada

Financial Consumer Agency of Canada

$106.39B

$207.6M

$111.4M

$77M

$38.7M

Finance’s share of federal spending

Percentage of federal spending, 1995–2025

Line items

Every transfer-payment (grant and contribution) program, in dollars. These are the named programs behind the transfer-payments object in the chart above. Search, sort, and download the full table.

Transfer payments
CategoryDescriptionAmount
Other transfer paymentsCanada Health Transfer (Part V.1—Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act)$43,132,954,822
Other transfer paymentsFiscal Equalization (Part I—Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act)$20,910,789,000
Other transfer paymentsCanada Social Transfer (Part V.1—Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act)$15,473,939,000
Other transfer paymentsTerritorial Financing (Part I.1 - Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act)$4,379,878,578
Other transfer paymentsPayments related to Canada health transfer (Section 24.72 - Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act)$4,000,000,000
Other transfer paymentsPayments to the provinces and territories in respect of Canada's COVID-19 immunization plan (Subsection 197(2) - Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1)$1,000,000,000
Other transfer paymentsPayments to International Development Association (Bretton Woods and Related Agreements Act)$423,240,000
Other transfer paymentsAdditional Fiscal Equalization Offset Payment to Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador Additional Fiscal Equalization Offshore Payments Act)$130,063,000
Other transfer paymentsHibernia Dividend Backed Annuity Agreement Payment$100,555,856
Other transfer paymentsDebt payments on behalf of poor countries to International Organizations pursuant to subsection 18(1) of the Economic Recovery Act$53,132,349
Other transfer paymentsPayment to the International Monetary Fund for the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (Bretton Woods and Related Agreements Act)$50,000,000
Other transfer paymentsStatutory Subsidies (Constitution Acts, 1867–1982, and other statutory authorities)$42,639,342
ContributionsIndigenous Participant Funding Program$4,251,348
ContributionsResearch and Policy Initiatives Assistance$0
GrantItems not required for the current year$0
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Finance figures are net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II, and will not match the Volume I consolidated headline totals. See the methodology for details.