Spending program
Specific Claims
Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs · Indigenous services and reconciliation
In fiscal year 2024–25, Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs spent $8.4 billion on Specific Claims, up from $2.8 billion in 2023–24. That is $279 per tax filer.
Headline figures
Fiscal year 2024–25
$8.4B
20.2% of Indigenous services and reconciliation spending in 2024–25.
Up $5.5B from $2.8B in 2023–24.
$279per tax filer$203per 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.
Show these figures as a table
| Fiscal year | Spending |
|---|---|
| 2018–19 | $655M |
| 2019–20 | $826M |
| 2020–21 | $1.8B |
| 2021–22 | $417M |
| 2022–23 | $3.6B |
| 2023–24 | $2.8B |
| 2024–25 | $8.4B |
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.
← All indigenous services and reconciliation spendingHow the figures are calculated