General support to provinces and territories
Equalization, Territorial Formula Financing, the Canada Social Transfer and related fiscal arrangements, including recoveries and offsets. The Canada Health Transfer is shown under Health.
Headline figures
Fiscal year 2024–25
$40.0B
8.4% of the $474.4B of federal program spending reported by theme, across 1 programs.
Cost per tax filer uses 29,965,100 tax filers (2023, the latest count published); per person uses a population of 41,162,593 (2024). It is an allocation of cost, not a tax bill.
Spending programs
Actual spending by program in 2024–25: operating costs, capital and payments to others, as reported by each department and reconciled to the Public Accounts. Select a program for its history and cost per taxpayer.
Grants and contributions
Payments to provinces, organizations and individuals in 2024–25, by transfer payment program, from the Public Accounts. These are a different cut of the same money as the programs above, so the two lists are not added together. Select one to see its largest recipients.
(S) Fiscal Equalization (Part I - Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act)
Department of Finance
$25.3B
63.1% of list$843per tax filer$613per person(S) Canada Social Transfer (Part V.1 - Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act)
Department of Finance
$16.9B
42.3% of list$564per tax filer$411per person(S) Territorial Financing (Part I.1 - Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act)
Department of Finance
$5.2B
12.9% of list$172per tax filer$125per person(S) Hibernia Dividend Backed Annuity Agreement Payment
Department of Finance
$185M
0.5% of list$6.17per tax filer$4.49per person(S) Statutory Subsidies (Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1982, and other statutory authorities)
Department of Finance
$44.9M
0.1% of list$1.50per tax filer$1.09per person(S) Payments of any amount that is required for the purpose of providing financial assistance, pursuant to section 8.3 of the Bretton Woods and Related Agreements Act
Department of Finance
$212K
0.0% of list<$0.01per tax filer<$0.01per person(S) Youth Allowances Recovery (Federal-Provincial Fiscal Revision Act, 1964)
Department of Finance
-$1.4B
0.0% of list-$45.34per tax filer-$33.00per person(S) Alternative Payments for Standing Programs (Part VI - Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act)
Department of Finance
-$6.2B
0.0% of list-$206per tax filer-$150per person
Sources and basis
- GC InfoBase - Open Datasets, retrieved 2026-11-03. Open Government Licence - Canada. Program spending is reconciled to Public Accounts expenditures by vote for every organization and year. It excludes Employment Insurance benefits, the Canada Child Benefit and other items that are not appropriated, so it differs from the budget tables.
- Detailed information on Transfer Payments, as per the Public Accounts of Canada, retrieved 2026-11-03. Open Government Licence - Canada.
- Themes group programs by purpose, not by department. Each program is assigned to one theme by a published, reviewable rule set.