Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada: 2024-25 Departmental Plan at a glance
A departmental plan describes a department's priorities, plans and associated costs for the upcoming 3 fiscal years.
Table of contents
Key priorities
- Acknowledge and redress past harms
- Affirm and respect Indigenous rights, and support self-determination
- Lead the Government of Canada's work in the North and Arctic
Refocusing Government Spending
In Budget 2023, the government committed to reducing spending by $14.1 billion over the next five years, starting in 2023–24, and by $4.1 billion annually after that.
As part of meeting this commitment, CIRNAC is planning the following spending reductions.
- 2024–25: $15,745,357
- 2025–26: $23,230,234
- 2026–27 and after: $33,672,245
CIRNAC will achieve these reductions by doing the following:
- Internal Services and Operational Efficiencies
- Travel Efficiencies aligning with Shared Partner Priorities
- Streamlining Professional Services towards Resolving Claims and Agreements
- Reducing Grants and Contributions following discussions with partners, by targeting areas that will minimize impacts on communities and/or in areas where the funding has not been fully utilized
Highlights
A Departmental Results Framework consists of an organization's core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve, and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.
Crown-Indigenous Relations
Departmental results:
- Past injustices are recognized and resolved
- Indigenous Peoples advance their institutional structures and governance
- Indigenous Peoples determine their political, economic, social and cultural development
- Indigenous Peoples strengthen their socio-economic conditions and well-being
Planned spending: $9,655,111,553
Planned human resources: 961
To support results under Crown-Indigenous Relations, CIRNAC will:
- accelerate specific claims resolution, as well as the resolution of litigation and the negotiation of settlement agreements;
- support the timely processing of additions to reserve requests and keep working on redesigning the Additions to Reserve Policy;
- advance and implement the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action that are under CIRNAC's responsibility, and support the coordination of Calls to Action across the federal government;
- continue collaborating with First Nations partners to develop a modern solution for land registration;
- support the development of the First Nations Land Governance Registry;
- enhance the First Nations Fiscal Management Act regime;
- ensure the regime continues to meet the needs of First Nations governments in collaboration with the 4 First Nations fiscal institutions;
- offer funding to support Indigenous groups that participate in recognition of rights and self-determination discussion tables, and long-term planning and investment cycles;
- collaborate with Indigenous partners through the permanent bilateral mechanisms;
- collaborate with Indigenous women's and 2SLGBTQI+ organizations, and support initiatives included in the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People National Action Plan;
- support the Department of Justice in implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act Action Plan;
- support family members and survivors of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two-spirit, and gender-diverse people in their healing journey;
- increase the number of Treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements that realize self-determination and advance reconciliation, as well as support their management and implementation;
- continue to develop the commitments outlined in Canada's Collaborative Modern Treaty Implementation Policy, including holding an Intergovernmental Leaders' Forum;
- implement the requirements of the Cabinet Directive on the Federal Approach to Modern Treaty Implementation;
- work with Indigenous partners to address pressing housing needs and improve the quality of housing within Modern Treaty, self-governing, Inuit and Métis communities;
- work with self-governing Indigenous governments to implement their education sectoral agreements, and continue to advance collaborative work to define the gap in other critical areas, such as infrastructure, land and resources, and Indigenous languages programming;
- continue to work with Indigenous Peoples towards reducing socio-economic inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations.
More information about Crown-Indigenous Relations can be found in the full departmental plan.
Northern Affairs
Departmental results:
- Northerners and Indigenous Peoples advance their political, economic and social governance development
- Northern and Indigenous communities are resilient to changing environmental conditions
- Northern lands, waters, and natural resources are sustainably managed
Planned spending: $1,096,144,956
Planned human resources: 406
To support results under Northern Affairs, CIRNAC will:
- continue discussions with partners to define an additional regional governance approaches for Canada's Arctic and Northern Policy Framework (ANPF);
- assess and advance solutions to respond to Canada's critical housing needs in the North;
- advance the Nunavut lands and resources devolution;
- continue to invest in northern post-secondary education;
- support food security in isolated and northern communities;
- advance the development of an Indigenous Climate Leadership Agenda;
- help northern and Indigenous communities transition from diesel to clean, renewable and reliable energy;
- support climate change adaptation projects and climate monitoring projects;
- continue to engage Northerners and scientists in research and monitoring related to long-range contaminants in the North;
- continue to manage its portfolio of 165 northern contaminated sites;
- promote the northern and Arctic resources economy while protecting the environment through impact assessment, land use planning and conservation initiatives;
- advance the northern regulatory processes of the Canadian Critical Minerals Strategy;
- work with partners to conduct marine research, harvest studies, and environmental monitoring.
More information about Northern Affairs can be found in the full departmental plan.