Public Safety Canada's 2023 to 2024 Departmental results report:
At a glance
A departmental results report provides an account of actual accomplishments against plans, priorities and expected results set out in the associated Departmental Plan.
- Vision, mission, raison d'être and operating context
- Minister of Public Safety's mandate letter
- President of the King's Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Emergency Preparedness Mandate Letter
Read the full Departmental Results Report
Key priorities
Public Safety Canada's top priorities for 2023 to 2024 were as follows:
- Protecting Canadians, Canada's critical infrastructure and the Canadian economy from national, cyber and other emerging threats;
- Preventing and addressing criminal threats, including gun violence, to Canadian communities, especially those most-at-risk; promoting reform; and enhancing the oversight and accountability of Canada's law enforcement agencies;
- Strengthening Canada's ability to respond to an evolving border environment;
- Strengthening emergency preparedness measures, government response and community resilience to natural disasters and all-hazard emergencies in collaboration with federal, provincial, territorial and Indigenous partners;
- Promoting an ethical and values-based departmental culture supported by practices focused on respect, diversity and inclusion, mental health and workplace wellness; and
- Enabling a connected workforce as well as transparent and effective management practices within the Department using proactive modern approaches, in collaboration with Portfolio agencies and other partners.
Highlights
In 2023 to 2024, the total actual spending (including internal services) for Public Safety Canada was $1,484,124,375 and total full-time equivalent staff (including internal services) was 1,618. For complete information on Public Safety Canada's total spending and human resources, read the Spending and human resources section of the full report.
Infographic 1 - Snapshot: 2023 to 2024 Actual Expenditures per Core Responsibility and Internal Services
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This graphic describes Public Safety Actual Expenditures for 2023 to 2024, broken down per Core Responsibility and Internal Services, for a total amount of $1,484.1 million. National Security accounts for 2% ($34.0 million) and is divided as follows: 19% for Critical Infrastructure, 18% for Cyber Security, and 63% for National Security Leadership. Community Safety accounts for 57% ($839.6 million) and is divided as follows: 2% for Corrections, 1% for Border Policy, 35% for Law Enforcement and Policing, 26% for Crime Prevention, 6% for Serious and Organized Crime, and 30% for Indigenous Policing. Emergency Management accounts for 35% ($523.1 million) and is divided as follows: 5% for Emergency Preparedness, 6% for Emergency Prevention / Mitigation, and 89% for Emergency Response / Recovery. Finally, Internal Services accounts for 6% ($87.4 million) and is divided as follows: 2% for Acquisition Management, 4% for Information Management, 4% for Legal Services, 8% for Financial Management, 14% for Human Resources Management, 12% for Communications, 7% for Real Property Management, 19% for Information Technology, and 30% for Management and Oversight.
Infographic 2 - Snapshot: 2023 to 2024 Actual Human Resources per Core Responsibility and Internal Services
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This graphic describes the Actual Public Safety Human Resources for 2023 to 2024 per Core Responsibility and Internal Services. There are a total of 1,618 Full Time Equivalent Employees (FTEs) who work for the Department. Of those, 200 FTEs (12%) work for National Security, 490 FTEs (30%) work for Community Safety, and 366 FTEs (23%) work for Emergency Management, along with 562 FTEs (35%) who work for Internal Services.
Infographic 3 - Snapshot: Public Safety Employee Demographics
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The graphic illustrates the Public Safety Canada employees divided by age categories:
- 17.9% are less than 30 years old
- 29.8% are between 30 and 39 years old
- 29.9% are between 40 and 49 years old
- 18% are between 50 and 59 years old
- 4.3% are older than 60 years old
- Median age is 39.6 years old
The graphic also illustrates Employment Equity groups representations within Public Safety Canada compared to the workforce availability:
- Indigenous peoples: 4.8%, 3.9% workforce availability
- Persons with disabilities: 10.4%, 9.0% workforce availability
- Visible minorities: 20.2%, 18.4% workforce availability
- Women: 61.3%, 62.1% workforce availability
- Percentage of Public Safety employees working in the National Capital Region: 89.3%
- Percentage of Public Safety employees working in the regions: 10.7%
- Percentage of Public Safety employees who meet language requirements for position: 98.9% (Note: This figure reflects the percentage of employees (active and leave with pay) that meet the language requirement of their bilingual, English essential, French essential, or English or French essential position. It includes employees that meet, but who may have expired results (in previous years, employees with expired results were deemed to not meet).
- Percentage of Public Safety Canada employees who stayed with Public Safety Canada: 88.5%
- Turnover: 11.5% (Note: The percentage of employees who stayed or left the Department are impacted by the delays in transfers of pay files between departments. As such, it is anticipated that these percentage will change once pending these transfers in and out of the department for fiscal year 2023-24 are completed.)
- Average time in the Department: 4.6 years
- Average time in a position: 2.65 years
- Percentage of non-executive: 93.9%
- Percentage of executives: 6.1%
N.B.: due to rounding, combined percentages may not add to 100%.
The following provides a summary of the department's achievements in 2023 to 2024 according to its approved Departmental Results Framework. A Departmental Results Framework consists of a department's core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.
Core responsibility 1: National Security
Actual spending: $34,058,667
Actual human resources: 200
Departmental results achieved
The Department advanced a number of initiatives to ensure that national security threats are understood and reduced while maintaining public trust, such as:
- Established the Research Security Centre to provide guidance and advice to the Canadian research community on how to protect their research and intellectual property against threats to national security, and to bring together the Government of Canada's expertise on matters relating to cutting edge research and national security to ensure that Canada's world-leading research is protected from threat and misuse.
- Continued efforts to modernize Canada's approach to Critical Infrastructure security and resilience by developing proposals that complement and build on existing related areas of work, in a national, economic and cyber security context.
- Delivered the Exercise Cy-Phy to examine the interrelationship between the cyber and physical domains, with 150 critical infrastructure community organizations participating from across Canada.
- Continued the development of a suite of critical infrastructure exercise tools and templates to support critical infrastructure stakeholders.
- Chaired a round-table with industry partners to inform the development of the renewed National Cyber Security Strategy, which contributed to the development of advice to Government.
- Continued to support the passage through Parliament of Bill C-26, An Act Respecting Cyber Security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts, which was under consideration by the House of Commons as of the end of the fiscal year.
- Supported the passage through Parliament of Bill C-34, An Act to amend the Investment Canada Act, which received Royal Assent on March 22, 2024.
- Led the passage through Parliament of Bill C-70, An Act respecting countering foreign interference which completed first reading in early 2024.
More information about National Security can be found in the “Results – what we achieved” section of the full departmental results report.
Core responsibility 2: Community Safety
Actual spending: $839,595,906
Actual human resources: 490
Departmental results achieved
The Department advanced a number of initiatives to ensure that Canadian communities are safe, community safety practices are strengthened, and crime is prevented and addressed in populations and communities most at risk, such as:
- Developed Objectives and Guiding Principles to set the policy framework for a First Nations police services legislation. Informed by these Objectives and Guiding Principles, Public Safety worked with technical experts to draft proposed Elements to inform the policy intent of a legislation that would recognize First Nations police services as essential services. Partnering with the Indigenous Leadership Development Institute, First Nations, policing experts and provincial and territorial partners were engaged on the vision of the legislation as described in the Elements from February to March 2024.
- Engaged and undertook discussions with Inuit and Métis organizations to better understand the unique policing and community safety priorities of Inuit and Métis communities. Continued to work with Inuit and Métis in exploring, understanding and advancing shared priorities.
- Continued to stabilize and expand the First Nations and Inuit Policing Program.
- Led the passage of Bill C-21, an Act to Amend certain Acts and to make certain consequential amendments (firearms), as part of a comprehensive strategy to address gun violence and strengthen gun control in Canada. The Act received Royal Assent on December 15, 2023.
- Established a federal governance framework and developed a plan to implement Bill C-21 and the commitment to launch a Red Flag Awareness Campaign, with steps taken to support the effective implementation of measures.
- Administered contribution agreements with more than 84 municipalities and Indigenous communities across the country, and the Province of Quebec, to bolster gang-prevention programing to counter the social conditions that lead to criminality through the Building Safer Communities Fund.
- Continued to implement initiatives under the National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking 2019-2024, including advancing efforts for the appointment of a Chief Advisor to Combat Human Trafficking and guidelines for front-line community workers; supporting survivors of forced labour and sexual exploitation; delivering the “It's not what it seems” human trafficking awareness campaign; and providing $2.5 million in funding to support the Canadian Human Trafficking Hotline.
- Finalized and published the Federal Framework to Reduce Recidivism Implementation Plan, working with a diverse array of stakeholders.
- Convened over 1,300 experts across the anti-money laundering field to participate in the third annual “Spin Cycle Conference.”
- Led 35 engagement sessions with 171 partners, including provinces, territories, municipalities, Indigenous partners and other stakeholders, to gather feedback on the Contract Policing program.
- Held cross-country engagement with a range of stakeholders to ensure input, awareness, and support of design and delivery considerations in anticipation of the launch of the Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program (ASFCP; formerly the Firearms Buyback Program).
- Provided advice on policies, regulations and programs, in collaboration with portfolio agencies, related to various immigration and border law enforcement files, such as the Immigration Levels Plan.
- Resolved travel delays experienced in the past years within the Preclearance program by working with federal, U.S. and Industry partners to ensure Preclearance operations are adequately staffed to meet cross-border travel demand.
- Provided funding to support community crime prevention projects across Canada through National Crime Prevention Strategy.
- Additional achievements beyond the 2023 to 2024 Departmental Plan commitments were also noted (i.e., Government of Canada Responses to the Public Order Emergency Commission Recommendations and the Final Report of the Mass Casualty Commission and Establishment of the Progress Monitoring Committee and the National Summit on Combatting Auto Theft) to respond to emerging priorities and threats.
More information about Community Safety can be found in the “Results – what we achieved” section of the full departmental results report.
Core responsibility 3: Emergency Management
Actual spending: $523,075,930
Actual human resources: 366
Departmental results achieved
The Department advanced a number of initiatives to ensure that Canadians are well-equipped to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from all-hazards events, such as:
- Published the first public report of the National Risk Profile on May 11, 2023 and continued to conduct assessments on a wide range of hazards to create a forward-looking and national picture of disaster risks and emergency management capabilities.
- Advanced the renewal of the EM Strategy for Canada in collaboration with other federal partners, which culminated in the revised Areas for Action report (formerly the EM Action Plan).
- Participated in in-person negotiations in December 2023 to renew the International COSPAS-SARSAT Programme Agreement (ICSPA). This engagement resulted in positive progress on 11 of the 24 proposed articles for the renewed ICSPA, with commitment from the Parties to continue negotiations in 2024 to 2025.
- Signed a revised contribution agreement with the Canadian Institute of Public Safety Research and Treatment (CIPSRT) for $16.7 million over five years (until 2028) to enable it to continue its work to provide support to Canada's public safety personnel.
- Re-constituted the Task Force on Flood Insurance on March 28, 2024 to engage across society on the development and implementation of a potential low-cost flood insurance program, for which details on the findings will be made available via a public-facing document.
- Advanced the creation of a public-facing Flood Risk Portal to help Canadians have better access to flood risk information, and to bolster emergency preparedness and awareness.
- Released the final National Adaptation Strategy (NAS) and Government of Canada Adaptation Action Plan (GOCAAP) on June 27, 2023.
- Applied lessons learned from past events and exercises, in combination with cyclical event preparedness activities focused on risk assessments and routine stakeholder engagement, to establish common priorities and steer federal response through the historic 2023 wildfire season and other events in the national interest.
More information about Emergency Management can be found in the “Results – what we achieved” section of the full departmental results report.
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