A Directory of Canadian Federal Agencies

This CSV file is the complete dataset used in the book:

Accessing the Machinery of State: A Directory of Canadian Federal Agencies

A guide to 150 departments, agencies, and Crown corporations that drive the nation’s governance, economy, and public services.

How to use the data

The 2023-24 spending and 2025-26 estimates columns were chosen to give you a quick sense of how an agency's spending has either been increasing or decreasing in recent years. Some figures here will seem strange, like Canada Post Corporation's spending jumping from $22 million dollars in 2023-24 to more than a billion dollars in 2025-26. Or like Canada Water Agency going from zero in 2023-34 to $126 million (spending and transfers) in 2025-26. Those numbers are accurate, although they're sometimes the result of bookkeeping anomalies.

The government calculates funds spent as transfers separately from regular expenditures, so transfers - where relevant - are listed on their own.

Since the results of a single agency's spending are described individually for multiple core responsibilities, the 2023-24 Spending Results column is a computer-generated summary of all relevant reports. Reports from 2023-24 were chosen to allow enough historical hindsight to make the results meaningful. For the curious, "computer-generated" here refers to traditional data manipulation tools rather than generative AI.

The information contained in most of the remaining sections of each chapter should be self-explanatory. I will note that the links to each of the websites, organizational contacts, and corporate reports were confirmed to be active at the time of writing. However such addresses are frequently changed, and often without accompanying redirects. So the links may not all work for you.

This project was published through TheAudit.ca - a journal of data-driven government policy analysis.