Parliamentary Committee Notes: 2022 – 2023 Main Estimates for the Correctional Service of Canada

Date: February 28, 2022
Classification: Unclassified
Branch / Agency: CSC

Proposed Response:

The Government of Canada remains committed to transparency and accountability of its operations, and welcome the opportunity to further discuss the 2022 – 2023 Main Estimates.
The main increase in funds for these Estimates is the result of class action settlements pertaining to the previous Administrative Segregation regime, which ended in November 2019 and was replaced with Structured Intervention Units (SIUs).
These Estimates also include financial increases for the continued transformation of the correctional system and to ensure that SIUs are operating as intended by providing better support for offender rehabilitation.
Other financial increases are due to compensation for the funded portion of Collective Agreement increases as well as employee benefits, the re-profiling of funding for capital projects, and changes in prices and volume of goods and services being procured.

The total funding sought in the Main Estimates for 2022-23 is $3.1B, which represents an increase of $257M or 9.2% over the previous year.
The net increase represents a net increase of $219.5M in Operating Expenditures, an increase of $26.0M in Capital Expenditures and a net increase of $11.5M in Statutory Expenditures (EBP).

$14.1M for health services
$10.8M for incremental SIU operations, which will likely be returned to the centre given that CSC has not opened new SIU units