Canadian Heritage
How Canadian Heritage spent its budget in fiscal year 2024-25, shown as net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II.
The Canadian Heritage portfolio supports arts, culture, broadcasting, heritage, sport, and official languages programming across Canada. It funds cultural institutions and creators, supports the production and distribution of Canadian media content, promotes the development of official-language communities, and administers programs related to national museums, libraries and archives, and amateur sport.
Canadian Heritage spent $4.74B in the 2024–25 fiscal year, representing 0.9% of total federal spending.
Spending is spread across the Department of Canadian Heritage and a number of affiliated cultural organizations, including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Canada Council for the Arts, Library and Archives of Canada, and Telefilm Canada, along with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the National Film Board, and the Canadian Museum of History. Its largest transfer payments support the development and enhancement of official-language communities, the Canada Media Fund, the Sport Support Program, and Indigenous languages and cultures programming.
Department Spending
In FY 2024-25,
$4.74B
was spent by Canadian Heritage
In FY 2024-25,
0.9%
of federal spending was by Canadian Heritage
On the consolidated accrual basis (Volume I), this portfolio’s expenses were $6.86B in FY 2024-25 — see the overview and methodology.
How did Canadian Heritage spend its budget in 2024-25?
Spending by entity, FY 2024-25
Department of Canadian Heritage
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canada Council for the Arts
Library and Archives of Canada
Telefilm Canada
Canadian Museum of History
National Film Board
National Arts Centre Corporation
National Gallery of Canada
National Museum of Science and Technology
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
The National Battlefields Commission
Canadian Race Relations Foundation
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
$2.14B
$1.43B
$364.3M
$212.4M
$158.3M
$83.2M
$82.5M
$59.5M
$50M
$38.4M
$36.4M
$28.6M
$21.3M
$18.9M
$12.1M
$10M
Canadian Heritage’s share of federal spending
Percentage of federal spending, 2014–2025
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.
| Category | Description | Amount ▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Contributions | Contributions in support of the Development of Official-Language Communities Program | $381,544,664 |
| Contributions | Contributions to support the Canada Media Fund | $229,352,323 |
| Contributions | Contributions in support of the Enhancement of Official Languages Program | $195,673,680 |
| Contributions | Contributions for the Sport Support Program | $193,574,975 |
| Contributions | Contributions to support the Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program | $169,491,496 |
| Grants | Grants to the Canada Periodical Fund | $83,798,872 |
| Contributions | Contributions to the Canada Cultural Spaces Fund | $69,469,625 |
| Contributions | Contributions for the Hosting Program | $67,764,356 |
| Contributions | Contributions to the Canada Music Fund | $41,489,231 |
| Grants | Grants to the Athlete Assistance Program | $39,494,423 |
| Grants | Grants to the Canada Book Fund | $29,315,414 |
| Contributions | Contributions to the Canada Arts Training Fund | $27,450,000 |
| Grants | Grants to the Canada Arts Presentation Fund | $25,631,382 |
| Contributions | Contributions to the Canada Arts Presentation Fund | $22,075,338 |
| Grants | Grants in support of the Development of Official-Language Communities Program | $22,008,602 |
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Canadian Heritage 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.
