Question Period Note: Supplementary Estimates (B) 2025-26 (Government-wide)

What is included in the Supplementary Estimates (B) 2025-26 for the government as a whole?

• With Supplementary Estimates (B) 2025-26, the Government is seeking Parliament’s approval for $10.8 billion in additional funding to support Canadians through a wide range of priorities across 76 federal organizations.
• This funding supports the Canadian Dental Care Plan, which now offers coverage to more than 5.5 million lower income Canadians.
• Proposed funding rebuilds, rearms, and reinvests in the Canadian Armed Forces through major military procurement projects, including fighter jets, naval vessels, and air defence systems.
• It also supports emergency management on First Nations communities and education for Indigenous peoples.
• These investments deliver important services for Canadians and help build a stronger, more resilient Canada.

Three Estimates have been tabled in 2025–26: Main Estimates and Supplementary Estimates (A) and (B).
The total Estimates to date, including Supplementary Estimates (B) 2025-26, include $506.7B in total budgetary spending and $3.7B in total non-budgetary spending.
Supplementary Estimates (B) 2025-26
Supplementary Estimates (B) presents additional funding for a diverse range of priorities. If approved by Parliament, planned budgetary spending will increase to a total amount of $506.7 billion, reflecting $242.3 billion in voted funding and $264.3 billion in forecast statutory expenditures.
The Supplementary Estimates (B), 2025–26 present a total of $10.7 billion in incremental budgetary spending for 76 organizations, which reflects $10.8 billion in voted funding and a $112.9 million decrease in forecast statutory expenditures. This additional funding supports a wide range of priorities, including:
• benefits under the Canadian Dental Care Plan, which has expanded to offer coverage to eligible Canadians from all age groups;
• settlements addressing past grievances and historic harms committed against Indigenous peoples; and
• military procurement projects, including fighter aircraft, naval vessels and air defence and anti-drone capabilities.
Main Estimates and Supplementary Estimates (A) 2025-26
The 2025–26 Main Estimates present a total of $486.9 billion in budgetary spending for 130 organizations, which reflects $222.9 billion in voted funding and $264 billion in forecast statutory expenditures.
The majority of expenditures in the 2025–26 Main Estimates are transfer payments – payments made to other levels of government, other organizations and individuals. Transfer payments make up approximately 60.5% of expenditures or $294.8 billion. Operating and capital expenditures account for approximately 29.4% of expenditures or $143.1 billion, while public debt charges are approximately 10.1% of expenditures or $49.1 billion.
The 2025–26 Main Estimates reflected updated forecasts published in the 2024 Fall Economic Statement. Significant changes in statutory budgetary spending from the 2024–25 Main Estimates included:
• increases in major transfer payments, most notably elderly benefits, the Canada Health Transfer and fiscal equalization;
• an increase in interest on unmatured debt;
• the new Canada Disability Benefit;
• a decrease in the Canada Carbon Rebate for individuals and small businesses.
Voted expenditures cover an extraordinarily wide range of programs and activities, including the Canadian Forces, health services for First Nations, the Canada Dental Benefit, border services and immigration, veterans’ benefits, and support for housing.
With the Supplementary Estimates (A) investments in defence, planned budgetary spending increased to a total amount of $495.9 billion, reflecting $231.5 billion in voted funding and $264.5 billion in forecast statutory expenditures.
The Supplementary Estimates (A), 2025–26 presented a total of $9.0 billion in incremental budgetary spending, which reflects $8.6 billion in voted funding and a $467.0 million increase in forecast statutory expenditures. This additional funding is focused on defence, including Canadian Forces’ retention, recruitment and training, equipment and infrastructure. In Canada, the funding will also support research and development and expanding domestic defence production. Internationally, funding will be used to provide military aid to Ukraine.

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