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Spending program

Law Enforcement and Policing

Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness · Public safety, policing and justice

Headline figures

Fiscal year 2024–25

$127M

0.7% of Public safety, policing and justice spending in 2024–25.

Down $164M from $292M in 2023–24.

$4.25per tax filer$3.09per 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.

Law Enforcement and Policing, by fiscal year

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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