Parks Canada
How Parks Canada spent its budget in fiscal year 2024-25, shown as net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II.
Parks Canada Agency protects and presents representative examples of Canada's natural and cultural heritage and fosters public understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of these places. The agency manages the country's system of national parks, national marine conservation areas, national historic sites, and historic canals. Its work spans conservation science and ecosystem monitoring, the maintenance of visitor facilities and heritage structures, public safety and fire management in protected places, and the delivery of visitor programming and services. The agency also works with Indigenous partners in the stewardship of protected areas and administers funding programs for communities and organizations undertaking projects connected to the places it manages.
Parks Canada spent $1.37B in the 2024–25 fiscal year, representing 0.3% of total federal spending. These figures are net expenditures by standard object as reported in Volume II of the Public Accounts of Canada. All of this spending was recorded under a single organization, the Parks Canada Agency.
Transfer payments account for a small share of the agency's total spending. The largest transfer program supported activities and projects related to national parks, national marine conservation areas, national historic sites, and historic canals, delivered mainly through contributions, with a parallel and smaller stream of grants for the same purposes. Other transfer payments included grants for the implementation of rights and reconciliation agreements in Atlantic Canada, contributions for work placements through the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy, and funding for the Tallurutiup Imanga Inuit Stewardship Program Seed Fund, which supports Inuit stewardship of the national marine conservation area in the High Arctic. Taken together, these programs channel federal money to partners outside the agency, while the balance of its budget covers the agency's own activities across the sites it administers.
Department Spending
In FY 2024-25,
$1.37B
was spent by Parks Canada
In FY 2024-25,
0.3%
of federal spending was by Parks Canada
On the consolidated accrual basis (Volume I), this portfolio’s expenses were $931M in FY 2024-25 — see the overview and methodology.
How did Parks Canada spend its budget in 2024-25?
Spending by entity, FY 2024-25
Parks Canada Agency
$1.37B
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 activities or projects related to national parks, national marine conservation areas, national historic sites and historic canals | $86,630,720 |
| Grants | Grants for the Implementation of Rights and Reconciliation Agreements in Atlantic Canada | $7,275,004 |
| Contributions | Work placements through the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy | $3,758,864 |
| Grants | Grants in support of activities or projects related to national parks, national marine conservation areas, national historic sites and historic canals | $2,471,562 |
| Grants | Tallurutiup Imanga Inuit Stewardship Program Seed Fund | $2,100,000 |
| Contributions | Contributions in support of the National Historic Sites Cost-Sharing Program | $1,358,792 |
| Grants | Grant to the International Peace Garden | $22,700 |
| Grants | Items not required for the current year | $0 |
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Parks Canada 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.
