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Spending program

Electoral Integrity and Regulatory Oversight

Office of the Chief Electoral Officer · Government operations and internal services

In fiscal year 2021–22, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer spent $80.7 million on Electoral Integrity and Regulatory Oversight, up from $4.1 million in 2020–21. That is $2.87 per tax filer.

Headline figures

Fiscal year 2021–22

$80.7M

0.3% of Government operations and internal services spending in 2021–22.

Up $76.6M from $4.1M in 2020–21.

$2.87per tax filer$2.11per person

Per tax filer uses 28,104,130 tax filers (2021); per person uses a population of 38,239,864 (2021). An allocation of cost, not a tax bill.

Electoral Integrity and Regulatory Oversight, by fiscal year. Latest year highlighted.
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Electoral Integrity and Regulatory Oversight, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearSpending
2018–19$14.2M
2019–20$103M
2020–21$4.1M
2021–22$80.7M

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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