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Spending program

Legal Services

Department of the Environment · Environment, energy and natural resources

In fiscal year 2024–25, Department of the Environment spent $8.7 million on Legal Services, down from $8.8 million in 2023–24. That is $0.29 per tax filer.

Headline figures

Fiscal year 2024–25

$8.7M

0.1% of Environment, energy and natural resources spending in 2024–25.

Down $87K from $8.8M in 2023–24.

$0.29per tax filer$0.21per 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.

Legal Services, by fiscal year. Latest year highlighted.
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Legal Services, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearSpending
2018–19$9.0M
2019–20$10.2M
2020–21$9.4M
2021–22$8.4M
2022–23$9.1M
2023–24$8.8M
2024–25$8.7M

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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