Federal spending by Health Canada

2,300 records totalling $103,530,599,540.09 CAD, from official Government of Canada open data.

Embed this chart

Where the money flows

Planned vs. actual spending

What Parliament authorised this organization to spend versus what it actually spent, across all its votes. Source: Public Accounts of Canada (via GC InfoBase). This covers the organization's entire budget, not just the grants and contracts listed below.

Fiscal year Authorised Spent Used
2024-2025 $9,559,576,173 $8,749,465,180 91.5%
2023-2024 $7,537,514,084 $6,842,293,218 90.8%
2022-2023 $5,616,743,295 $4,322,308,189 77.0%
2021-2022 $9,448,845,846 $6,044,784,701 64.0%
2020-2021 $3,735,326,837 $3,116,652,943 83.4%
2019-2020 $2,736,768,468 $2,675,389,069 97.8%
2018-2019 $2,425,447,582 $2,369,749,252 97.7%
2017-2018 $3,725,634,067 $3,491,052,712 93.7%
2016-2017 $4,268,411,137 $4,153,217,124 97.3%
2015-2016 $3,931,578,293 $3,881,132,152 98.7%

Did it deliver? (2024-2025 results report)

Every department sets measurable performance targets and reports against them. Source: Departmental Results Reports via GC InfoBase — the department's own self-reported scorecard.

34

of 64 targets met

7

targets not met

23

not yet measurable or unavailable

See missed targets

  • Percentage of youth (grades 10-12) who report frequent (daily to weekly) cannabis use in the past 30 days

    Target: — · Actual: 10.5

  • Percentage of domestic consumer product recalls communicated to Canadians in a timely manner

    Target: — · Actual: 87.0

  • Percentage of pre-market pesticide submission reviews that are completed within service standards

    Target: — · Actual: 88.0

  • Percentage of pharmacies inspected that are deemed to be compliant with the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and its Regulations

    Target: — · Actual: 69.0

  • Percentage of people in Canada surveyed who are knowledgeable about radon

    Target: — · Actual: 66.0

City of Prince Albert $3,683,883.00
Health Canada | Santé Canada
Substance Use and Addictions Program - Emergency Treatment Fund
FY 2025-2026
Canada

The project aims to provide comprehensive support to individuals at high risk of overdose due to substance abuse, mental health, and homelessness. By retrofitting an existing city building, the projec...

Providence Health Care Research Institute Trust $3,645,000.00
Health Canada | Santé Canada
Substance Use and Addictions Program
FY 2020-2021
Canada

Established a prescribed alternatives (safer supply) program in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver for people at risk of overdose and death due to the increasingly toxic illegal drug supply during the...

Maamwesying North Shore Community Health Services $3,626,257.00
Health Canada | Santé Canada
Substance Use and Addictions Program - Emergency Treatment Fund
FY 2025-2026
Canada

The goal of this project is to address the fatal risks associated with opioid use disorder (OUD) while decreasing barriers to care for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Communities in Urban Sault Ste. M...

The University of Manitoba $3,592,000.00
Health Canada | Santé Canada
Oral Health Access Fund
FY 2025-2026
Canada

To improve access to oral health care in Canada.

K-W Working Centre for the Unemployed $3,565,332.00
Health Canada | Santé Canada
Substance Use and Addictions Program
FY 2020-2021
Canada

This low-barrier, harm reduction-focused initiative improved both individual and community health and safety by providing prescribed alternatives (safer supply) to people who use drugs as an alternati...

The Corporation of the City of Sault Ste. Marie $3,557,503.00
Health Canada | Santé Canada
Substance Use and Addictions Program - Emergency Treatment Fund
FY 2025-2026
Canada

This project will address the mental health, addictions, and overdose crisis by creating a dedicated 24/7 community outreach and wellness response team in the Sault Ste. Marie Ontario district. The te...

Operation Springboard $3,504,135.00
Health Canada | Santé Canada
Substance Use and Addictions Program
FY 2018-2019
Canada

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Corporation of the City of Belleville $3,498,129.00
Health Canada | Santé Canada
Substance Use and Addictions Program - Emergency Treatment Fund
FY 2024-2025
Canada

This project aims to retrofit a building in Belleville into an integrated care hub, "The Bridge," for individuals at risk of opioid-related drug poisoning and homelessness. The hub will provide improv...

MySafe Society $3,488,068.00
Health Canada | Santé Canada
Substance Use and Addictions Program
FY 2020-2021
Canada

Offered a new way to provide prescribed alternatives (safer supply) medication to people living with opioid use disorder as an alternative to the toxic illegal drug supply and to help prevent overdose...

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health $3,447,567.00
Health Canada | Santé Canada
Substance Use and Addictions Program
FY 2024-2025
Canada

To strengthen responses to drug and substance use issues in Canada.

La Cité francophone universitaire, Université de Regina $3,447,445.00
Health Canada | Santé Canada
Official Languages Health Program
FY 2022-2023
Canada

To enhance health services access for French and English linguistic minority communities in Canada and improve the accessibility, quality, sustainability and accountability of Canada’s health care sys...

Urban Indigenous Health and Healing Cooperative $3,404,403.00
Health Canada | Santé Canada
Substance Use and Addictions Program
FY 2020-2021
Canada

Expanded existing services at the Urban Indigenous Health and Healing Cooperative health centre in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to include prescribed alternatives (safer supply) and Indigenous Elder-...

City of Toronto $3,375,000.00
Health Canada | Santé Canada
Substance Use and Addictions Program - Emergency Treatment Fund
FY 2025-2026
Canada

To strengthen responses to drug and substance use issues in Canada.

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada $3,341,573.00
Health Canada | Santé Canada
Health Care Policy and Strategies Program
FY 2023-2024
Canada

To support the federal government’s commitment to maintain a strong and effective publicly funded health care system through investments in emerging and demonstrated innovations in priority areas, suc...

University of Alberta $3,301,600.00
Health Canada | Santé Canada
Canadian Health Systems and Programs
FY 2018-2019
Canada

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

University of Alberta $3,301,600.00
Health Canada | Santé Canada
Official Languages Health Program
FY 2022-2023
Canada

To enhance health services access for French and English linguistic minority communities in Canada and improve the accessibility, quality, sustainability and accountability of Canada’s health care sys...

University of Victoria $3,282,356.00
Health Canada | Santé Canada
Substance Use and Addictions Program
FY 2021-2022
Canada

To strengthen responses to drug and substance use issues in Canada.