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Cadets and Junior Canadian Rangers (Youth Program)

Department of National Defence · Defence

In fiscal year 2024–25, Department of National Defence spent $230 million on Cadets and Junior Canadian Rangers (Youth Program), down from $237 million in 2023–24. That is $7.69 per tax filer.

Headline figures

Fiscal year 2024–25

$230M

0.7% of Defence spending in 2024–25.

Down $7.1M from $237M in 2023–24.

$7.69per tax filer$5.60per person

Per tax filer uses 29,965,100 tax filers (2023, the latest count published); per person uses a population of 41,162,593 (2024). An allocation of cost, not a tax bill.

Cadets and Junior Canadian Rangers (Youth Program), by fiscal year. Latest year highlighted.
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Cadets and Junior Canadian Rangers (Youth Program), by fiscal year
Fiscal yearSpending
2018–19$240M
2019–20$254M
2020–21$180M
2021–22$166M
2022–23$202M
2023–24$237M
2024–25$230M

Source and basis

  • GC InfoBase - Open Datasets, retrieved 2026-11-03. Open Government Licence - Canada.
  • Actual spending reported by the department for this program, reconciled to Public Accounts expenditures by vote. Includes operating costs, capital and payments to others.

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