Explanation of COVID-19-related expenditures-to-date for the Public Safety Portfolio

Date: March 23rd, 2021
Classification: Unclassified
Fully releasable (ATIP)? Yes
Branch /Agency: CMB/Public Safety

Proposed Response:

On a Portfolio-wide basis, total expenditures related to the COVID-19 Response from March 31st, 2020 to January 31st 2021 are $311M.
This amount includes $52M in Contribution payments to the Canadian Red Cross in support of long-term health care centers in Ontario and Québec.
Expenditures also include $87M in salary and $28M in overtime. In addition, there was $115M in operations which includes expenses such as the procurement of Personal Protective Equipment and contracts for enhanced cleaning and sterilization.

PS reported COVID-19 expenditures of $66.8M on items and activities including:

$51.9M in Grants and Contributions expenditures related to the COVID-19 response;
$10.3M in Salary (100% of Salary for employees working >50% of their time on COVID in a period); and
$1.0M in Overtime (100% of Salary for employees working >50% of their time on COVID in a period).

CBSA reported COVID-19 expenditures of $92.1M on items and activities including:

CSC reported COVID-19 expenditures of $112M on items and activities including:

PBC reported COVID-19 expenditures of $0.46M on items and activities including:

OCI reported COVID-19 expenditures of $34.1K on items and activities including:

The RCMP reported COVID-19 expenditures of $39.8M on items and activities including:

Totals throughout may not add up due to rounding.