Spending program
Legal Services
Correctional Service of Canada · Public safety, policing and justice
In fiscal year 2024–25, Correctional Service of Canada spent $28.0 million on Legal Services, down from $29.4 million in 2023–24. That is $0.93 per tax filer.
Headline figures
Fiscal year 2024–25
$28.0M
0.2% of Public safety, policing and justice spending in 2024–25.
Down $1.5M from $29.4M in 2023–24.
$0.93per tax filer$0.68per 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 | $16.5M |
| 2019–20 | $18.4M |
| 2020–21 | $22.2M |
| 2021–22 | $23.6M |
| 2022–23 | $24.6M |
| 2023–24 | $29.4M |
| 2024–25 | $28.0M |
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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