C-55

Details

Full Title

An Act for granting to His Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024

First Reading

June 21, 2023, Parliament 44, Session 1

Type

House Government Bill

Full Content

https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/44-1/c-55

Summary

Appropriation Act No. 3, 2023-24 is a bill that was passed on June 22, 2023. It allows the government to spend up to $20,478,605,110 from the country's money for the fiscal year ending on March 31, 2024. This money is for covering costs and expenses of the federal public administration that haven't been covered already. The money will come from the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

The Act says that the money approved for each item can only be used for the specific purpose listed and according to any conditions attached to that item. Also, any changes to how money is moved between different spending areas, as detailed in the Estimates, are considered to have been approved from April 1, 2023.

Furthermore, adjustments can be made to the accounts of Canada after the end of the fiscal year, but before the Public Accounts are presented in Parliament. This is for changes that don't need actual payments from the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

The schedule lists specific amounts allocated to various government departments and agencies. These allocations cover a range of expenditures, including operating costs, grants, and contributions. The money will go towards things like salaries, programs, and different projects.

Issues

Economy

• Spending

  This bill allows the government to spend $20,478,605,110 on different departments and agencies. The money will be used for things like paying employees, running programs, giving grants, and making contributions.

Social Services

• Healthcare

  The Department of Health is allocated $2,630,500,000 for grants and contributions. The Department of Indigenous Services is allocated $1,349,597,800 in contributions and grants, some of which may go towards healthcare.

• Seniors and Pensions

  The Department of Employment and Social Development has authority to make recoverable expenditures in relation to the application of the Canada Pension Plan.

Environment

• Energy

  The Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs and the Department of Indigenous Services both have the authority to sell electric power to private consumers in remote locations when alternative local sources of supply are not available, in accordance with terms and conditions approved by the Governor in Council.

Social Justice

• Reconciliation

  The Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs is allocated $8,123,987,464. The Department of Indigenous Services is allocated $4,873,010,738. The money will go towards things like operating costs, capital spending, grants, and contributions. These departments have authority to provide capacity development for Indians and Inuit and the furnishing of materials and equipment, as well as to make expenditures on buildings, works, land and equipment that may be transferred to Indian bands, groups of Indians or individual Indians at the discretion of the Minister.

• Immigration and Integration

  The Department of Citizenship and Immigration is allocated $590,880,038. This money is for things like operating costs, grants, and contributions. They also have authority to spend revenues from International Experience Canada.