Federal spending by National Defence

1,110 records totalling $2,527,129,435.07 CAD, from official Government of Canada open data.

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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 $34,711,513,470 $33,924,795,250 97.7%
2023-2024 $34,945,077,835 $33,469,476,787 95.8%
2022-2023 $28,501,032,979 $26,930,160,095 94.5%
2021-2022 $26,635,209,189 $24,126,144,961 90.6%
2020-2021 $28,053,562,425 $26,827,037,837 95.6%
2019-2020 $23,776,955,012 $22,839,438,337 96.1%
2018-2019 $22,105,709,253 $21,615,941,912 97.8%
2017-2018 $23,577,936,795 $22,877,086,721 97.0%
2016-2017 $19,470,364,449 $18,606,153,529 95.6%
2015-2016 $19,997,410,380 $18,666,073,243 93.3%

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.

81

of 214 targets met

89

targets not met

44

not yet measurable or unavailable

See missed targets
  • % deviation of average daily meal cost from the standard allowance

    Target: — · Actual: 15.3

  • % of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction relative to a 2005 baseline

    Target: — · Actual: 39.1

  • % of Canadian Armed Forces families who feel they meet the challenges of military life

    Target: — · Actual: 81.7

  • % of goods and services contracts that are awarded within established performance targets

    Target: — · Actual: 93.9

  • % of the target Canadian youth population that participates in Cadets and Junior Canadian Rangers

    Target: — · Actual: 1.89

National Defence | Défense nationale
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS)
FY 2022-2023
Canada

Funding will support project that will hold a workshop in Calgary, bringing together experts and officials to discuss the role and impact of news media on defence policy issues and attempting to map t...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Indigenous Reconcilation Program
FY 2024-2025
Canada

To support the Review of Cold Lake First Nations’ Access Agreements to the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range.

National Defence | Défense nationale
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS)
FY 2021-2022
Canada

Funding will support a series of dialogues to develop new insight into the role of masculinity in military culture and how a revised understanding of masculinity in a military context can foster cultu...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS)
FY 2023-2024
Canada

Funding will support a project to investigate current and future sources of insecurity in outer space from a feminist lens and draw attention to hidden violence and different and disproportionate huma...

Kim Nossal $31,750.00
National Defence | Défense nationale
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS) - Targeted Engagement Grant Program
FY 2019-2020
Canada

The applicant is requesting funding to develop position papers, hold a conference in Ottawa in February 2020 and publish a green paper, relating to the security environment in the Asia-Pacific and its...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS)
FY 2020-2021
Canada

Funding will support the creation of an online recruitment and referral portal which will showcase Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) careers, as well as develop community influencer campaigns and online gam...

Casey Babb $31,417.00
National Defence | Défense nationale
Targeted Engagement Grant Program
FY 2019-2020
Canada

Funding will support research on how China, Russia, North Korea and Iran are integrating their space and cyberspace efforts militarily. Whether patterns of past cyber-attacks could be indicative of wh...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS)
FY 2021-2022
Canada

Funding will support a study to determine whether the establishment of the Arctic continental shelf and the overlapping claims of Russia, Canada, and Denmark could lead to conflict between these count...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS)
FY 2023-2024
Canada

Funding will support a graduate conference to discuss emerging technology hosted at Queen's University. This event will bring together graduate students and early career scholars working on better un...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS)
FY 2024-2025
Canada

The project will consist of a one-day workshop to discuss how emerging technologies, including autonomous systems, can be leveraged by the Defence Team through procurement and training.

National Defence | Défense nationale
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS)
FY 2024-2025
Canada

The project will consist of a one-day workshop to explore the renewal and expansion of Canada's submarine fleet, with a focus on procurement practices and requirements for the Canadian Patrol Submarin...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS)
FY 2021-2022
Canada

Funding will support research on how cyberspace is used to carry out information campaigns (notably by Russia and Canada) in the Arctic, and how Canada can navigate them in the future.

National Defence | Défense nationale
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS) - Targeted Engagement Grant Program
FY 2019-2020
Canada

A two day workshop at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA) in Riga, in March 2020. The purpose of the workshop is to discuss NATO Enhanced Forward Presence deployments in the Baltics,...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS)
FY 2022-2023
Canada

Funding will support a two-part webinar and report series to facilitate a discussion on the status and future of Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy and the Canadian Surface Combatant Programme, a...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Targeted Engagement Grant Program
FY 2019-2020
Canada

Funding will support a workshop on how to best recruit, develop, support, and retain CAF members. It will focus on the ability of the CAF to meet its personnel requirements based on the establishment...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Indigenous Reconcilation Program
FY 2024-2025
Canada

To support the Review of Cold Lake First Nations’ Access Agreements to the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range.

National Defence | Défense nationale
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS)
FY 2024-2025
Canada

The project will consist of a research workshop and a public conference focusing on the dependence of governments on technologies offered by private companies for security and defense services.

National Defence | Défense nationale
Targeted Engagement Grant Program
FY 2018-2019
United Kingdom

SecurityWomen is a prominent advocate for an enhanced role for women in security, and a champion of UNSCR 1325. They have secured a partnership with the City of London Corporation to conduct a high pr...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Canadian Coast Guard Marine Operations and Response Transfer Payment Program
FY 2025-2026
Canada

The purpose of this program is to support enhancements in marine safety and marine environmental protection in Canadian waters, while embracing the concepts of codevelopment and sustainable economic d...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS)
FY 2023-2024
Canada

The funding will support an analysis of how politicians, foreign policy, defence, and media organizations in Canada, France, and Germany responded to risk of to use nuclear weapons. This research will...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS)
FY 2022-2023
Canada

Funding will support a project to analyze the Central Arctic Ocean and how the potential issues and threats that could arise are being shaped by the changing power landscape following the start of the...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Defence Engagement Program
FY 2018-2019
Canada

This grant supports an international conference in the fall 2018, which will bring together leading world experts currently conducting research on the Donbas and/or Russian geostrategic policies in ar...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS)
FY 2023-2024
Canada

Funding will support three conferences relating to NATO and Canada-Icelandic Arctic Security Cooperation, with a particular focus on student involvement and enhancing knowledge on security and defence...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Targeted Engagement Grant Program
FY 2019-2020
Canada

Funding will support a workshop on how geopolitical changes (i.e., concerns about multilateralism, rise of China and Russia) affect strategic, on-the-ground considerations of United Nations peace oper...

Peter Kikkert $27,400.00
National Defence | Défense nationale
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS) - Targeted Engagement Grant Program
FY 2019-2020
Canada

The applicant proposes to analyze the lessons learned from Operation Nanook and Operation Arctic Shield related to SAR and emergency response capabilities. The applicant proposes to host a two-day wor...