Question Period Note: Supplementary Estimates (B) 2025-26 (TBS-Specific)

What is included in the Supplementary Estimates (B) 2025-26 for TBS?

• The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat is seeking Parliament’s approval for $926.8 million to support key public service priorities.
• This funding mainly reflects projected cost increases of public service benefit plans and programs.
• It also provides funding to cover recently approved collective agreements and updated terms and conditions of employment across various departments, the Canadian Armed Forces, the RCMP and Crown corporations.
• Investments are also being made in digital financial systems, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and climate-related projects to modernize government operations.

Investments for TBS in the 2025-26 Supplementary Estimates (B)
The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat will be seeking parliamentary approval to increase its authorities in the 2025–26 Supplementary Estimates (B) by $926.8 million, to reflect the following:
Vote 20, Public Service Insurance
Vote 20 represents the employer’s share of pensioner and employee insurance and benefits plans, and provincial and federal legislated taxes.
TBS will be seeking parliamentary approval to increase its Vote 20, Public Service Insurance authorities in 2025-26 by $595.9 million to address forecasted cost increases for the Employer under the public service benefit plans and programs.
Vote 15, Compensation Adjustments

Vote 15 represents funding for adjustments made to terms and conditions of service or employment of the federal public administration as a result of collective bargaining.

TBS will be seeking parliamentary approval to increase its Vote 15 – Compensation Adjustments by $315.0 million. This increase will provide:

• Funding to Core Public Administration departments, separate agencies, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canadian Armed Forces, and Crown corporations for compensation adjustments resulting from recently concluded collective agreements and updated terms and conditions of employment.
• 2% economic increase, effective April 1, 2025, for senior leaders of the public service.
• Funding to departments and separate agencies for the $2,500 one-time lump sum payment based on pay system data received from Public Services and Procurement Canada. This is based on payments disbursed by the pay system to eligible employees up to August 31, 2025.

Vote 10, Government-wide Initiatives

Vote 10 represents appropriations to support the implementation of strategic management initiatives across the federal public service. TBS will be seeking parliamentary approval to increase its Vote 10 – Government-wide Initiatives by $7.0 million. This increase will provide:

• Funding related to a Phoenix damages case which includes lump sum payments to class members who experienced pay issues as the result of the implementation of the Phoenix Pay System.

Vote 1, Program expenditures
Vote 1 is used for the departmental expenditures for TBS itself, including personnel and operating expenditures.
A) TBS will be seeking parliamentary approval to decrease its Vote 1, Program expenditures authorities in 2025-26 by $0.2 million which includes $8.8 million of voted appropriations, and a decrease of $9.0 million for various transfers.

B) Voted Appropriations ($8.8 million):

• $2.8 million for Phoenix-related settlements.
• $2.8 million for the White Class Action Settlement Agreement. The White class action settlement agreement allows discharged members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to be reimbursed because their long-term disability benefits were reduced by the disability benefits received under the Pension Act. Of the total funding, $94.6 million has been advanced to the insurer of the RCMP long-term disability plan to settle eligible claims with the remaining funding of $2.8 million reprofiled from 2024-25 to 2025-26 for the payment of any potential future claims.
• $1.8 million for the Digital Comptrollership Program to support the development of common financial management systems including development of standardized GC business processes, testing and documentation.

• $1.4 million for the Communications Community Office to provide advice and ongoing support in the areas of learning, recruitment and retention, new and emerging technology, research and best practices within the communications community.

C) Transfers from/to Other Organizations (-$9.0 million):

$2.2 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Department of National Defence and Statistics Canada to the Treasury Board Secretariat for the Digital Community Management initiative.

$0.7 million from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development and Shared Services Canada to the Treasury Board Secretariat for the Government of Canada Enterprise Portfolio Management project.

$0.6 million from the Department of Finance and the Privy Council Office to the Treasury Board Secretariat for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Anti-Racism (IDEA) Secretariat.

$0.4 million from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to the Treasury Board Secretariat to support the Digital Comptrollership Program.

$0.3 million from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development to the Treasury Board Secretariat to strengthen Canada's sanctions capacity and leadership.

$0.2 million from the National Research Council of Canada to the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat for the Implementation of a Buy Clean Secretariat for Federal Procurement.

$0.1 million from Statistics Canada to the Treasury Board Secretariat for the GC Collaboration Tools.

$0.1 million from the Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities and the National Research Council Canada to the Treasury Board Secretariat to support projects which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions in federal government operations and in the Canadian Buildings sector.

-$0.01 million from TBS and other various organizations to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for law enforcement record checks.

-$0.8 million from Treasury Board Secretariat to various organizations for Regulatory Experimentation Projects

-$1.7 million from the Treasury Board Secretariat to the Canada School of Public Service for the Leadership Development Programs in support of Black Leaders:

-$11.2 million from the Treasury Board Secretariat to various organizations to support projects which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions in federal government operations

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