Question Period Note: Comprehensive Expenditure Review

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• Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs (CIRNAC) like all federal departments, is reviewing its expenditures to ensure our spending is responsible, cost-effective and delivers results for Canadians.
• Throughout this process, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs (CIRNAC) remains committed to finding a pathway that balances the need to reduce government spending while also supporting reconciliation and advancing self-determination and self-government for Indigenous Peoples.
• Details of these savings will be included in the Department’s 2026-2027 Main Estimates.

The government launched the Comprehensive Expenditure Review in July, requesting departments bring forward savings proposals to spend less on the day-to-day running of government by targeting programs and activities that are underperforming, not core to the federal mandate, duplicative, or misaligned with government priorities.
The original request asked departments to identify proposals for incremental savings starting in 2026-27, using 7.5% of our 2025-26 Main Estimates budget, and increasing to 15% by 2028-29.
In November, Budget 2025 announced that the target savings for Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs was reduced to 2% of the 2025-26 Main Estimates, starting in 2026-27 and on-going.

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