For fiscal 2007, the Department of Finance will seek Parliament’s approval to spend $73.7–billion. (p455).
Here are the big ticket items in that request:
- Interest and service costs related to the public debt plus funding for Canada Investment and Savings will be $34.4–billion.*
- Health Canada transfer costs $20.1–billion
- Fiscal Equalization costs $11.3–billion.
- Canada Social Transfer – $8.5–billion
The actual operating costs of the department will likely come in somewhere around $93–million.
[This is a note from a briefing book]