Bill C-7
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First Session, Forty-fifth Parliament, 3 Charles III, 2025 |
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HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
An Act for granting to His Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026
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AS PASSED
BY THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
June 17, 2025
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SUMMARY
This enactment grants the sum of $8,580,271,678 towards defraying charges and expenses of the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026 that are not otherwise provided for.
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Available on the House of Commons website at the following address:
www.ourcommons.ca
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1st Session, 45th Parliament, 3 Charles III, 2025 |
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HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
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BILL C-7 |
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An Act for granting to His Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026 |
MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,
Whereas it appears by message from Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada, and the Estimates accompanying that message, that the sums mentioned below are required to defray certain expenses of the federal public administration, not otherwise provided for, for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026, and for other purposes connected with the federal public administration;
May it therefore please Your Majesty, that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, that:
Short title
1 This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act No. 2, 2025–26.
$8,580,271,678 granted for 2025–26
2 There may be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund a sum not exceeding in the aggregate $8,580,271,678 towards defraying the various charges and expenses of the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026, not otherwise provided for, which is the total of the amounts of the items set out in the Supplementary Estimates (A) for that fiscal year as set out in the schedule.
Purpose of each item
3 (1) The amount authorized by this Act to be paid in respect of an item may be paid only for the purposes, and subject to any terms and conditions, specified in the item.
Effective date
(2) The provisions of each item set out in the schedule are deemed to have effect as of April 1, 2025.
Adjustments in accounts of Canada
4 An appropriation that is granted by this Act or any other Act and referred to in the schedule may be charged after the end of the fiscal year for which the appropriation is granted at any time before the day on which the Public Accounts for that fiscal year are tabled in Parliament, for the purpose of making adjustments in the accounts of Canada for that fiscal year that do not require payments out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund.
Based on the Supplementary Estimates (A), 2025–26, the amount granted is $8,580,271,678, which is the total of the amounts of the items set out in this schedule.
Sums granted to His Majesty by this Act for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026 and the purposes for which they are granted.
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Vote No.
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Items
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Amount ($)
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Total ($)
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COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications |
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1a
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– Program expenditures
– Authority, as referred to in paragraph 29.1(2)(a) of the Financial Administration Act, to expend in the fiscal year — in order to offset expenditures that it incurs in that fiscal year — revenues that it receives in that fiscal year from its operations, including the provision of internal support services under section 29.2 of that Act
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370,060,088
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370,060,088
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DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE Ministère de la Défense nationale |
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1a
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– Operating expenditures
– Authority for total commitments, subject to allotment by the Treasury Board, of $86,760,127,023 for the purposes of Votes 1, 5 and 10 of the Department regardless of the year in which the payment of those commitments comes due (of which it is estimated that $52,954,717,761 will come due for payment in future years)
– Authority, subject to the direction of the Treasury Board, to make recoverable expenditures or advances in respect of materials supplied to, or services performed on behalf of, individuals, corporations, outside agencies, other federal departments and agencies and other governments
– Payments
(a) in respect of pension, insurance and social security programs or other arrangements for employees locally engaged outside of Canada; and
(b) in respect of the administration of such programs or arrangements, including premiums, contributions, benefit payments, fees and other expenditures made in respect of such employees and for any other persons that the Treasury Board determines
– Authority, as referred to in paragraph 29.1(2)(a) of the Financial Administration Act, to expend in the fiscal year — in order to offset related expenditures that it incurs in that fiscal year — revenues that it receives in that fiscal year, including from the provision of internal support services under section 29.2 of that Act
– The payment to each member of the King’s Privy Council for Canada who is a minister without portfolio, or a minister of State who does not preside over a ministry of State, of a salary — paid annually or pro rata for any period less than a year — that does not exceed the salary paid under the Salaries Act, rounded down to the nearest hundred dollars under section 67 of the Parliament of Canada Act, to ministers of State who preside over ministries of State
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3,966,131,556
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5a
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– Capital expenditures
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804,619,191
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10a
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– The grants listed in any of the Estimates for the fiscal year and contributions, which grants and contributions may include
(a) monetary payments or, in lieu of payment made to a recipient,
(i) the provision of goods or services, or
(ii) the provision of the use of facilities; and
(b) the contributions that may be approved by the Governor in Council in accordance with section 3 of The Defence Appropriation Act, 1950
(i) for the provision or transfer of defence equipment,
(ii) for the provision of services for defence purposes, or
(iii) for the provision or transfer of supplies or facilities for defence purposes
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3,439,460,843
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8,210,211,590
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8,580,271,678
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Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons
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