Spending program
Legal Services
Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness · Public safety, policing and justice
In fiscal year 2024–25, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness spent $4.2 million on Legal Services, up from $3.7 million in 2023–24. That is $0.14 per tax filer.
Headline figures
Fiscal year 2024–25
$4.2M
0.0% of Public safety, policing and justice spending in 2024–25.
Up $507K from $3.7M in 2023–24.
$0.14per tax filer$0.10per 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 | $3.6M |
| 2019–20 | $4.0M |
| 2020–21 | $4.8M |
| 2021–22 | $1.5M |
| 2022–23 | $4.0M |
| 2023–24 | $3.7M |
| 2024–25 | $4.2M |
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 public safety, policing and justice spendingHow the figures are calculated