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1 2018 19. E S T I M AT E S. Estimates Parts I and II. The Government expenditure Plan and Main Estimates Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the President of the Treasury Board, 2018. Published by Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat 90 Elgin, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0R5, Canada Catalogue Number: BT31-2E-PDF. ISBN or ISSN: 1702-5125. This document is available on the Government of Canada website, This document is available in alternative formats upon request. Aussi offert en fran ais sous le titre : Budget des d penses 2018-2019. Except as otherwise specifically noted, the information in this publication may be reproduced, in part or in whole and by any means, without charge or further permission from the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS), provided that due diligence is exercised in ensuring the accuracy of the information reproduced, that TBS is identified as the source institution, and that the reproduction is neither represented as an official version of the information reproduced nor as having been made in affiliation with, or with the endorsement of, TBS.

2 2018 19. Estimates Parts I and II. The Government expenditure Plan and Main Estimates 2018 19. Estimates . Part I Government expenditure Plan Introduction Federal departments, agencies and Crown corporations deliver programs and services for Canadians. In order for federal government organizations to operate, Parliament must grant these organizations authority to spend. While spending is often announced in a federal budget, spending authority is actually granted through legislation passed by Parliament. Roughly one third of federal government spending is approved by Parliament on an annual basis. These expenditures are authorized through an appropriation act and are called voted expenditures.

3 When authorized through other legislation, they are called statutory . expenditures. The Main Estimates set out the expenditure plans of government organizations for the upcoming year as approved by Treasury Board. In previous years, the House of Commons Standing Orders required that the Main Estimates be tabled on or before March 1. In practice, the Main Estimates were tabled in mid or late February. As a result, Main Estimates could not reflect the Budget commitments for the same year, as the Budget is usually tabled in February or March. This timing impeded the ability of Parliament to scrutinize the Government's spending plans in a coherent manner.

4 In June 2017, the House of Commons approved a motion to change Standing Order 81 which allows for the tabling of an Interim Estimates and delays the deadline for the tabling of Main Estimates to April 16. These changes address the government's commitment to provide more coherent information to Parliament and to align the federal budget and the Estimates . On February 12, 2018, the Government tabled an Interim Estimates to support Parliament's scrutiny of the first appropriation act of 2018 19, interim supply, which provides enough spending authorities for the first three months of the fiscal year. These Estimates These Main Estimates present financial requirements for the full 2018 19 fiscal year, including (not in addition to) amounts already shown in Interim Estimates .

5 Annex 1 to these Estimates is a chart listing new spending for 2018 19 as announced in table of the 2018 Federal Budget. Incremental funding shown in the chart will be provided through a centrally managed Budget Implementation vote. Through this vote, these Main Estimates will include 100% of Budget 2018 incremental spending measures, improving Budget- Estimates alignment and eliminating some of the time lag between announcement and implementation of programs. The funds will be held centrally until supporting policy and program approvals are in place. Allocations will be regularly posted online and reported in Estimates documents along with allocations from other Treasury Board managed central votes.

6 Part I of this document, the Government expenditure Plan, gives an overview of spending requirements for 2018 19 and comparisons to previous fiscal years. Part II of this document, the Main Estimates , provides information on estimated spending by each federal organization requesting authority to spend through a 2018 19 appropriation bill. Part III of the Estimates consists of Departmental Plans and Departmental Results Reports. It is anticipated that the Departmental Plans, which show an organization's priorities and expected results for the next three years, will be tabled on the same day as these Estimates . For this exercise, the President of the Treasury Board tables a document in Parliament that includes: A summary of the government's financial requirements.

7 An overview of major transfer payments;. A comparison of the Budget 2018 forecast to planned expenditures in the 2018 19 Estimates ;. I 1. 2018 19 Estimates Part I Government expenditure Plan Highlights of new authority requirements and structural changes;. Funding details by organization;. Annex on new spending in Budget 2018; and A proposed schedule to the appropriation bill to be approved by Parliament. In addition to the tabled document, the following supplemental information is also available online: Statutory forecasts;. Budgetary expenditures by standard objects;. Expenditures by program or purpose;. A graphical summary of financial highlights.

8 Allocations from the Budget Implementation vote; and Pilot project on a purpose-based vote structure. The following terminology is used throughout this document: 2016 17 Expenditures refer to the actual expenditures published in the 2017 Public Accounts (Volume II);. 2017 18 Estimates to date include the aggregate of the requirements reported in the Main Estimates and Supplementary Estimates A, B. and C of that fiscal year;. Budgetary expenditures include the cost of servicing the public debt; operating and capital expenditures; transfer payments to other levels of government, organizations or individuals; and payments to Crown corporations;. Non-budgetary expenditures or loans, investments and advances are outlays that represent changes in the composition of the Government's financial assets.

9 Negative figures indicate that recoveries exceed expenditures;. Supplementary Estimates present information on additional spending requirements which were either not sufficiently developed in time for inclusion in the Main Estimates , or have subsequently been refined to account for developments in particular programs and services;. Voted appropriations are those for which parliamentary authority is sought through an appropriation bill;. Statutory expenditures are those authorized by Parliament through legislation other than an appropriation act; forecasts are provided for Parliament's information. I 2. Part I Government expenditure Plan 2018 19 Estimates Summary of Estimates Voted Expenditures These Estimates support the government's request to Parliament for authority to expend through annual appropriations: $ billion for budgetary expenditures operating and capital expenditures; transfer payments to other levels of government, organizations or individuals; and payments to Crown corporations; and $ million for non-budgetary expenditures net outlays and receipts related to loans, investments and advances.

10 Significant changes in voted spending from 2017 18 include: The Budget Implementation vote to provide new funding for Budget 2018 initiatives;. The ramping up of spending for Budget 2017 priorities such as innovation, a national housing strategy, early learning and child care; and Funding related to spending announced after Budget 2017, such as the 2018 G7 Summit and support of Canada s new Defence Policy: Strong, Secure, Engaged. Statutory Expenditures Forecasts of statutory spending by departments are included in these Estimates to provide a more complete picture of their total estimated expenditures. Of these forecasts, $ billion is for budgetary expenditures including the cost of servicing the public debt.