Office of the Auditor General of Canada 2024–25 Departmental Plan at a glance
A departmental plan describes a department’s priorities, plans, and associated costs for the upcoming 3 fiscal years.
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In the 2024–25 fiscal year, the Office of the Auditor General of Canada plans to have 770 full‑time-equivalent employees and is expecting $127.5 million in parliamentary authorities.
With these resources, we plan to complete the following:
- more than 90 financial audits of the federal government, territorial governments, and Crown corporations
- 25 performance audits of government activities and programs (22 federal and 3 territorial)
- 3 special examinations of Crown corporations
- our annual report on environmental petitions
- our annual commentary report on our financial audit work
- our ongoing web‑based dashboard of selected organizations’ performance in areas previously audited
Key priorities
- Transformation. During the 2024–25 fiscal year, we will continue our transformation initiative, which is divided into 3 streams—audit transformation, service transformation, and information technology modernization and cybersecurity:
- Our audit transformation stream is focused on increasing our relevance by bringing more value to clients and stakeholders. Ultimately, we always aim to deliver timely and efficient audits with impact.
- Our service transformation stream aims to modernize internal service delivery and technology and streamline business processes through effective and timely consultations.
- Our information technology modernization and cybersecurity stream is focused on improving our cybersecurity posture and supporting the other 2 transformation streams with digital solutions.
- Stakeholder engagement. Building strong collaborative relationships with our stakeholders is fundamental to delivering value and increasing our relevance. Our ongoing stakeholder engagement initiatives provide coordinated approaches to seek input from our key stakeholders. This approach supports our commitment to transparent, open practices and to using feedback from our stakeholders to inform the format, approaches, and topics of our work and products.
- Skilled, inclusive, and engaged workforce. Our ever-changing operating environment means that resilience and agility are significant assets for our workforce. Through the implementation of the Office of the Auditor General of Canada’sOAG’s people management and equity, diversity, and inclusion strategies, we are committed to sustaining a highly skilled, diverse, inclusive, and engaged workforce to deliver our mandate and meet the evolving needs of our stakeholders. In the 2024–25 fiscal year and beyond, we will continue to pursue various initiatives to attract and retain talent, leverage innovative tools, and maintain a healthy, safe, diverse, and inclusive workplace for our employees.
Refocusing government spending
In Budget 2023, the government committed to reducing spending by $14.1 billion over the next 5 years, starting in 2023–24, and by $4.1 billion annually after that.
While not officially part of this spending reduction exercise, the OAG will respect the spirit of this exercise through its transformation initiative, which is focused on delivering timely and efficient audits with impact, and through reducing travel expenditures.
The figures in this departmental plan reflect these reductions.
Highlights
A departmental results framework consists of an organization’s core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve, and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.
Legislative auditing
Departmental result:
- Government acts on recommendations to improve public sector programs, service delivery, and financial management and reporting.
Planned spending: $127.5 million
Planned human resources: 770
Plans to achieve results:
The OAG is the legislative audit office for the Government of Canada and the 3 northern territories. Through our audit reports, we provide assurance and recommendations to improve public sector programs, service delivery, and financial management and reporting. We plan to deliver 25 performance audits, 3 special examinations, and more than 90 financial audits during the 2024–25 fiscal year.
More information about legislative auditing can be found in the full departmental plan.