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Spending program

Admissibility and Detention Decisions

Immigration and Refugee Board · Immigration, refugees and citizenship

In fiscal year 2024–25, Immigration and Refugee Board spent $21.5 million on Admissibility and Detention Decisions, up from $20.1 million in 2023–24. That is $0.72 per tax filer.

Headline figures

Fiscal year 2024–25

$21.5M

0.3% of Immigration, refugees and citizenship spending in 2024–25.

Up $1.4M from $20.1M in 2023–24.

$0.72per tax filer$0.52per 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.

Admissibility and Detention Decisions, by fiscal year. Latest year highlighted.
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Admissibility and Detention Decisions, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearSpending
2018–19$11.7M
2019–20$12.1M
2020–21$12.2M
2021–22$14.0M
2022–23$16.8M
2023–24$20.1M
2024–25$21.5M

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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