Parks Canada’s 2025 to 2026 Departmental Plan: At a glance
A departmental plan describes a department’s priorities, plans and associated costs for the upcoming three fiscal years.
Key priorities
Parks Canada’s top priorities for 2025 to 2026 are as follows:
- effectively managing and expanding protection of natural environments
- safeguarding cultural heritage in Parks Canada’s care and promoting the history of Canada
- providing meaningful, inclusive experiences
- honouring and supporting Indigenous peoples’ stewardship
- pursuing long-term financial and asset sustainability
- building and fostering a capable and inclusive Parks Canada team
Highlights
In fiscal year 2025 to 2026, total planned spending (including internal services) for Parks Canada is $1,267,895,970 and total planned full-time equivalent staff (including internal services) is 6,030. For complete information on Parks Canada’s total planned spending and human resources, read the Planned spending and human resources section of the full plan.
The following provides a summary of the department’s planned achievements for fiscal year 2025 to 2026 according to its approved Departmental Results Framework. A Departmental Results Framework consists of a department’s core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve, and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.
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Core responsibility: Protecting and Presenting Canada’s Natural and Cultural Heritage
- Planned spending: $1,112,091,542
- Planned human resources: 4,897
- Departmental results:
- Departmental result 1: Canada’s natural heritage is protected for present and future generations
- Departmental result 2: Canada’s cultural heritage is protected for present and future generations
- Departmental result 3: People connect to and experience Canada’s natural and cultural heritage in ways that are meaningful to them
Key highlights from Parks Canada’s planned activities in fiscal year 2025 to 2026 include:
- ongoing work to establish new national parks and national park reserves, national marine conservation areas, and national urban parks across the country, contributing to the Government of Canada’s commitment to protect 30% of Canada’s land and oceans by 2030
- advancement of ecological corridors on-the-ground within 23 national priority areas in collaboration with a diverse range of partners, experts, and stakeholders
- implementation of the new Indigenous Stewardship Policy, which lays the foundation, through a distinction-based approach, for equitable, effective, and collaborative stewardship now and into the future with Indigenous communities
- improving and innovating services to Canadians in its experiences and outreach programs, removing barriers, fostering participation, and embracing diversity and inclusion
- preparing national heritage places across the country to welcome more than 20 million visitors from Canada and around the world
- working with partners to recover and rebuild in Jasper National Park
- prioritizing asset investments to strengthen regulatory compliance and address health and safety issues in its built assets portfolio, while exploring options to advance their sustainability
- improving its Departmental Results Framework, upon which its departmental plan and departmental results reports are based, to better reflect the breadth of the work it undertakes
More information about Protecting and presenting Canada’s natural and cultural heritage can be found in the full plan.
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