Horizontal initiatives
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- Initiative to Take Action Against Gun and Gang Violence
- Funding to Enhance Canada’s Firearm Control Framework
Initiative to Take Action Against Gun and Gang Violence
General information
Name of horizontal initiative
Initiative to Take Action Against Gun and Gang Violence (ITAAGGV)
Lead department
Public Safety Canada
Federal partner organization(s)
Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Note: Other government departments (e.g. the Department of Justice) are supporting this federal initiative. However, they are not captured in these Horizontal Initiative tables as they have not received funding through this initiative.
Start date
September 28, 2018
End date
March 31, 2028Footnote1
Description
These activities deliver on a Budget 2016 Government commitment to take action against gun and gang violence by removing handguns and assault-style firearms from our streets, and for the Minister of Public Safety to work with provincial, territorial and municipal counterparts to develop a strategy on how the federal government can best support communities and law enforcement in their ongoing efforts to make it harder for criminals to obtain and use firearms, and to reduce gun and gang violence.
The ITAAGGV helps to support a variety of strategies to reduce gun crime and criminal gang activities, and is centered around three themes:
- Investing in communities through a grants and contributions program;
- Enhancing federal enforcement capacity within the RCMP and CBSA; and
- Enhancing federal leadership by Public Safety Canada to promote improved data collection, research and information sharing.
The RCMP is expanding and enhancing existing services by:
- Bolstering investigative firearms support nationwide;
- Leveraging increased capacity to conduct physical firearms inspections;
- Supporting strategic intelligence analysis related to street gangs;
- Prioritizing the use of the Canadian Integrated Ballistics Identification Network for gang-related cases;
- Providing anonymous online capability to investigate firearm trafficking and smuggling;
- Enhancing analytical capacity to develop and produce actionable intelligence; and
- Establishing the Criminal Firearms Strategic and Operational Support Services team to coordinate efforts and support initiative partners with tools, strategic analysis, and research related to criminal gun usage and gang violence.
The CBSA is investing in new technologies and specialized training to better interdict illicit trafficking across the border by:
- Procuring detection technology for international postal processing facilities and major international airport facilities to streamline the inspection of mail and air cargo;
- Constructing facilities and investing in training to increase CBSA’s detector dog team capacity to identify drugs and firearms at ports of entry through less invasive means;
- Investing in IT capabilities to effectively leverage Interpol information to interdict high risk travellers at the earliest point in the continuum; and
- Developing and deploying national training to enhance the CBSA’s effectiveness to identify, detect, and interdict illicit trafficking.
Public Safety Canada is providing funding to provinces and territories (PTs) through the Gun and Gang Violence Action Fund (GGVAF) to combat the issue of gun and gang violence in communities across Canada. PTs are responsible for further distributing funding to eligible recipients in their jurisdictions, in order to advance efforts in the priority areas of prevention; intervention; gang exit; outreach and awareness programming; strategy development; training; and enhancing intelligence sharing and law enforcement capacity to combat gun and gang violence. Supplemental funding to the Youth Gang Prevention Fund (YGPF) is directed toward Indigenous recipients.
Additionally, Public Safety Canada will enhance federal leadership by developing an integrated, results-based approach to reducing gun and gang violence across Canada, including by developing expertise on guns and gangs including linkages to other illicit markets; creating a national strategy; as well as improving the collection of national data related to gun and criminal activity in a coordinated approach with partners and the sharing of information and best practices to avoid duplication of efforts.
Governance structure
Public Safety Canada will establish and chair an Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM) level committee with participation from CBSA and RCMP as the Oversight Committee for the Initiative. The Committee will meet at least twice a year, corresponding with the planning and reporting cycle. Its role is to review the status of the various initiatives and progress made in meeting results targets; direct adjustments if necessary; and provide overall direction to the implementation of the horizontal initiative.
A working group comprising PS, RCMP and CBSA have been working together in the development of the ITAAGGV, including the results measurement strategy. Going forward, partners will ensure that the membership of this group reflects the necessary areas within each organization to speak to programming and results and financial planning and reporting. This group will meet to ensure that systems are in place to support effective horizontal planning and reporting and will support the ADM level Oversight Committee, ensuring that any issues that may affect the performance of the initiative are flagged to ADMs as they arise.
Total federal funding allocated from start to end date (dollars)
$806,748,797
Total federal planned spending to date (dollars)
$531,700,013
Total federal actual spending to date (dollars)
$385,961,541
Date of last renewal of initiative
CBSA: N/A
RCMP: 2023 to 2024
PS: 2023 to 2024
Total federal funding allocated at last renewal and source of funding (dollars)
$450,610,667
Additional federal funding received after last renewal (dollars)
N/A
Total planned spending since last renewal
$183,346,762
Total actual spending since last renewal
$91,116,327
Fiscal year of planned completion of next evaluation
An evaluation of the Initiative to Take Action Against Gun and Gang Violence is planned to be completed in FY 2027 to 2028.
Planning highlights
Public Safety Canada (PS)
Public Safety Canada will continue to provide funding to provinces and territories (PTs) through the Gun and Gang Violence Action Fund (GGVAF) to combat the issue of gun and gang violence in communities across Canada. PTs are responsible for further distributing funding to eligible recipients in their jurisdictions, in order to advance efforts in the priority areas of prevention; intervention; gang exit; outreach and awareness programming; strategy development; training; and enhancing intelligence sharing and law enforcement capacity to combat gun and gang violence. In addition, funding is allocated under the Youth Gang Prevention Fund (YGPF) and directed towards Indigenous recipients. A call for proposals under the National Crime Prevention Strategy, which includes the YGPF, has closed in December 2024, with funding to be distributed in 2025 to 2026.
Additionally, PS will enhance federal leadership by developing an integrated, results-based approach to reducing gun and gang violence across Canada, including by developing expertise on guns and gangs including linkages to other illicit markets; launching a national strategy; as well as improving the collection of national data related to gun and criminal activity in a coordinated approach with partners and the sharing of information and best practices to avoid duplication of efforts. The third Annual Stakeholder Survey will be delivered in late 2025 or early 2026.
Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
The initiative consists of 6 sub-initiatives:
- Intercept Illicit Guns in Postal Stream (Postal);
- Detecting Firearms - Detector Dogs (DDS);
- Construction & maintenance of an All-Weather Facility Training Facility (AWF);
- Transnational Organized Crime Threat Identification - Interpol Interface;
- Advanced Vehicles Concealment Techniques Course (AVC); and
- Air Cargo Security.
The CBSA will pursue its effort to invest in new technologies to better interdict illicit trafficking across the border in FY 2025 to 2026 by continuing work to procure detection technology to identify and interdict firearms for use at strategic locations - including international airport facilities.
It will also continue the ongoing operational delivery of supporting detection technology at international postal processing facilities and major International airport facilities to streamline the inspection of mail and air cargo; maintaining facilities and training to support the CBSA’s increased detector dog team capacity to identify drugs and firearms at ports of entry through the least invasive means; and to support national training to enhance CBSA effectiveness to identify, detect, and interdict illicit gun trafficking.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
In FY 2025 to 2026, the RCMP will:
- Coordinate and collaborate with partner agencies to exchange information and work cooperatively to develop the most complete and comprehensive intelligence products related to firearms smuggling;
- Lead engagement with the Canada-U.S. Northern Border Firearms Task Force to collaborate on binational firearms smuggling intelligence and operational projects;
- Undertake an annual threat assessment on gangs and firearms to identify the most important trends and patterns for disruption;
- Identify and assess organized crime groups involved in gun and gang activity and those in the process of increasing in threat or scope;
- Review Firearms Investigative & Enforcement Services Directorate services to ensure that they are reflective of the needs of our clients, and being delivered in the most efficient manner;
- Continue, via the National Weapons Enforcement Support Team (NWEST), to expand intelligence and information-sharing networks to enhance enforcement efforts through working groups to combat illicit firearms activity;
- Continue to partner with the firearms industry, with outreach and training planned on a national and international scale in an effort to disrupt firearm-related crime;
- Develop an online reporting mechanism where industry personnel can report suspicious purchasing activity;
- Continue with NWEST efforts to combat domestic and international firearms trafficking by supporting various Joint Force Operations, networking and intelligence-sharing with domestic and international law enforcement partners, Canadian Border Services Agency and Canada Post;
- Bolster firearms investigative support and capacity nationally by assessing the development of accredited courses for firearms investigations and increasing the number of individuals receiving training;
- Continue to enhance its analytical capacity by leveraging industry-leading software to help support the development and production of actionable intelligence aimed at identifying linkages between organized crime groups;
- Produce intelligence on current and shifting firearms trends for domestic and international partners;
- Continue to leverage available data for the development of strategic analysis products that will provide an overview of the current national firearms landscape (including the Annual Firearms Analysis & Strategic Summary (FASS) report, the Canadian National Firearm Tracing Centre (CNFTC) Firearm Tracing report, Firearms Seized as Part of a Criminal Investigation, Analysis of Privately Manufactured Firearms and Source of Traced Firearms report);
- Collaborate with CNFTC partners to implement reporting and analysis tools that will contribute to identifying the source of crime guns in Canada;
- Coordinate and enable ITAAGGV activities amongst internal and external horizontal initiative stakeholders;
- Continue to pursue initiatives that bolster firearms license eligibility screening of high-risk individuals in partnership with provincial Chief Firearms Officers;
- Continue to increase collaborative efforts by providing outreach to external law enforcement partners in support of firearms investigation requests and on-line investigations from law enforcement across Canada and the United States; and
- Continue to develop and maintain the Firearms Reference Table (FRT) to ensure it remains a comprehensive; and user-friendly, single-source of firearms information that enables domestic and international law enforcement officers to accurately identify firearms. The FRT allows law enforcement to track and develop subject matter expertise on emerging trends in the firearms industry. The FRT can provide law enforcement with valuable intelligence to direct relevant tracing and investigations and tailor training to partner agencies on relevant firearm-related criminal trends.
Contact information
Frédéric Chartrand
Director, Policy and Program Development Initiatives Unit
Public Safety Canada
frederic.chartrand@ps-sp.gc.ca
Name of theme |
Investing in Communities |
Enhancing Federal Capacity |
Enhancing Federal Leadership |
Internal Services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Theme outcome(s) |
Informed initiatives to prevent and respond to gun and gang violence are implemented across Canada | Enhanced operational responses through intervention, interdiction and enforcement |
Stakeholder decision-making is supported by solid data and information on best practices |
N/A |
Public Safety Canada |
$403,167,148 |
N/A |
$7,346,418 |
$1,730,196 |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
N/A |
$33,696,140 |
N/A |
$4,670,495 |
Canada Border Services Agency |
N/A |
$94,943,803 |
N/A |
$5,412,367 |
Planning information (in dollars)
| Name of horizontal initiative | Total federal funding allocated since last renewal [*] (dollars) | 2025-26 planned spending (dollars) | Horizontal initiative shared outcome(s) | Performance indicator(s) | Target(s) | Date to achieve target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Initiative to Take Action Against Gun and Gang Violence (ITAAGGV) |
$539,153,509 |
$97,046,220 |
Gun and gang violence is reduced | Number of firearm-related homicides | < 297 (Reduction from 2021 levels) | March 2024, then annually |
| Number of gang-related homicides | < 184 (Reduction from 2021 levels) | March 2024, then annually |
[*This amount includes any additional funding received after the last renewal. Where the initiative is new (with no renewal), insert the initial total allocation approved.]
Theme horizontal initiative activities
| Name of theme | Total federal theme funding allocated since last renewal [*] (dollars) | 2025-26 federal theme planned spending (dollars) | Theme outcome(s) | Theme performance indicator(s) | Theme target(s) | Date to achieve theme target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Investing in Communities |
$403,167,148 |
$80,974,462 |
Informed initiatives to respond to gun and gang violence are implemented across Canada | Degree to which PT stakeholders report that Gun and Gang Violence Action Fund funding has enabled them to better respond to gun and gang violence in their jurisdictions (in %) |
100% | Annually |
| Percentage of recipients and project partners who have integrated knowledge from funded initiatives into their practice or decision-making | ≥ 50% at project completion | March 2028 |
[*This amount includes any additional funding received after the last renewal. Where the initiative is new (with no renewal), insert the initial total allocation approved.]
| Departments | Link to department’s Program Inventory | Horizontal initiative activity (activities) | Total federal funding allocated to each horizontal initiative activity since last renewal [*] (dollars) | 2025-26 planned spending for each horizontal initiative activity (dollars) | 2025-26 horizontal initiative activity expected result(s) | 2025-26 horizontal initiative activity performance indicator(s) | 2025-26 horizontal initiative activity target(s) | Date to achieve horizontal initiative activity target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Public Safety Canada |
Crime Prevention | Administer Grants and Contributions under the Youth Gang Prevention Fund and the Gun and Gang Violence Fund | $403,167,148 | $80,974,462 | Communities have capacity to respond to gun and gang violence | New resources dedicated to guns and gangs within law enforcement | > 163 resources (FY 2021 to 2022) | March 2024, then annually |
| Additional initiatives (e.g., law enforcement, prevention, intervention, action research) dedicated to responding to gun and gang violence are implemented | ≥ 212 | March 2024, then annually |
[*This amount includes any additional funding received after the last renewal. Where the initiative is new (with no renewal), insert the initial total allocation approved.]
| Name of theme | Total federal theme funding allocated since last renewal [*] (dollars) | 2025-26 Federal theme planned spending (dollars) | Theme outcome(s) | Theme performance indicator(s) | Theme target(s) | Date to achieve theme target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Enhancing Federal Capacity |
$128,639,943 |
$13,622,952 |
Enhanced operational responses through intervention, interdiction and enforcement |
Number of firearms or firearms parts seized | Create benchmark in FY 2023 to 2024 based on a random sampling; and continue to maintain or exceed | March 31, 2028 |
| Number of intelligence products developed by Firearms Intelligence Analysts that identified or contributed to identifying possible criminal entities related to firearms, including smuggling | 288 | March 2028 |
[*This amount includes any additional funding received after the last renewal. Where the initiative is new (with no renewal), insert the initial total allocation approved.]
Departments |
Link to department’s Program Inventory |
Horizontal initiative activity (activities) |
Total federal funding allocated to each horizontal initiative activity since last renewal [*] (dollars) |
2025-26 planned spending for each horizontal initiative activity (dollars) |
2025-26 horizontal initiative activity expected result(s) |
2025-26 horizontal initiative activity performance indicator(s) |
2025-26 horizontal initiative activity target(s) |
Date to achieve horizontal initiative activity target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Canada Border Services Agency |
Commercial-Trade Facilitation & Compliance |
Intercept illicit guns in postal stream – Dual View X-Rays and Software / Network |
$5,175,209 |
$779,944 |
Enhance ability to screen significantly increased volumes of mails items at all postal facilities |
Percentage of packages being screened by the detection technology to be assessed whether they were high risk items, requiring an in depth examination |
33% of mail items are being assessed for risk using detection technology |
March 31, 2021 |
Field Technology Support |
Intercept illicit guns in postal stream – Dual View X-Rays and Software / Network |
$1,295,917 |
$118,837 |
Enhance ability to screen significantly increased volumes of mails items at all postal facilities |
Percentage of packages being screened by the detection technology to be assessed whether they were high risk items, requiring an in depth examination |
33% of mail items are being assessed for risk using detection technology |
March 31, 2021 |
|
Force Generation |
Intercept illicit guns in postal stream – Dual View X-Rays and Software / Network |
$1,280,867 |
$34,139 |
Enhance ability to screen significantly increased volumes of mails items at all postal facilities |
Percentage of packages being screened by the detection technology to be assessed whether they were high risk items, requiring an in depth examination |
33% of mail items are being assessed for risk using detection technology |
March 31, 2021 | |
Intelligence Collection & Analysis |
Intercept illicit guns in postal stream – Dual View X-Rays and Software / Network |
$2,472,792 |
$102,083 |
Enhance ability to screen significantly increased volumes of mails items at all postal facilities |
Percentage of international postal shipments screened using Fixed Postal Small Scale Imaging (SSI) technology which resulted in a referral/examination leading to a seizureFootnote2 |
5% increase with potential steady state in target to be adjusted accordingly |
March 2022 |
|
Building and Equipment |
Intercept illicit guns in postal stream – Dual View X-Rays and Software / Network |
$414,094 | $64,763 | Enhance ability to screen significantly increased volumes of mails items at all postal facilities |
Percentage of international postal shipments screened using Fixed Postal Small Scale Imaging (SSI) technology which resulted in a referral/examination leading to a seizure |
5% increase with potential steady state in target to be adjusted accordingly |
March 2022 |
|
Commercial-Trade Facilitation & Compliance Force Generation |
Detecting Firearms – Detector Dogs |
$3,731,785 | $664,123 |
Increased capacity to detect and interdict entry of illicit firearms into the country |
Percentage of examinations utilizing Detector Dogs that resulted in a seizure of illicit firearmsFootnote3 |
Increase examinations by 155 in Year 2 and continue to maintain or exceed (using baseline information from CBSA data for FY 2017 to 2018) |
March 31, 2020 |
|
Force Generation |
Detecting Firearms – Detector Dogs |
$1,443,178 | $62,929 | Increased capacity to detect and interdict entry of illicit firearms into the country |
Percentage of examinations utilizing Detector Dogs that resulted in a seizure of illicit firearmsFootnote4 |
Increase examinations by 155 in Year 2 and continue to maintain or exceed (using baseline information from CBSA data for FY 2017 to 2018) |
March 31, 2020 |
|
Building and Equipment |
Detecting Firearms – Detector Dogs |
$341,075 | $66,016 | Increased capacity to detect and interdict entry of illicit firearms into the country |
Percentage of examinations utilizing Detector Dogs that resulted in a seizure of illicit firearmsFootnote5 |
Increase examinations by 155 in Year 2 and continue to maintain or exceed (using baseline information from CBSA data for FY 2017 to 2018) |
March 31, 2020 |
|
Building and Equipment |
Construction and maintenance of an All-Weather Facility Detector Dogs Training Facility |
$12,241,409 | $336,940 | Increase CBSA capacity to accommodate detector dog training and kenneling needs, year round, while at the training facility resulting in a reduction in costs |
Value of costs avoided for kenneling and accommodations at a separate facility by the Detector Dog Program |
The construction of an All Weather Facility will provide cost avoidance and training efficiencies with an anticipated value of $77K per year for the CBSAFootnote6 Revamped capacities are TBD |
March 31, 2024Footnote7 |
|
Targeting |
Transnational Organized Crime Threat Identification – Interpol Interface |
$6,310,185 | $713,364 | Enhance the CBSA’s thread identification capability in the public safety and national security threat sectors |
Develop a pilot in conjunction with the RCMP that will test the efficacy of automating Interpol query for all inbound air travelers at screening and to bolster CBSA’s inbound air traveller risk assessment activities as they relate to the identification of members of transnational organized crime membersFootnote8 |
N/AFootnote09 |
N/AFootnote10 |
|
Force Generation |
Transnational Organized Crime Threat Identification – Interpol Interface |
$483,139 | $11,389 | Enhance the CBSA’s thread identification capability in the public safety and national security threat sectors |
Develop a pilot in conjunction with the RCMP that will test the efficacy of automating Interpol query for all inbound air travelers at screening and to bolster CBSA’s inbound air traveller risk assessment activities as they relate to the identification of members of transnational organized crime members |
N/AFootnote11 | N/AFootnote12 |
|
Building and Equipment |
Transnational Organized Crime Threat Identification – Interpol Interface |
$30,959 | $4,815 | Enhance the CBSA’s thread identification capability in the public safety and national security threat sectors |
Develop a pilot in conjunction with the RCMP that will test the efficacy of automating Interpol query for all inbound air travelers at screening and to bolster CBSA’s inbound air traveller risk assessment activities as they relate to the identification of members of transnational organized crime members |
N/AFootnote13 |
N/AFootnote14 |
|
Force Generation |
Advanced Vehicles Concealment Techniques Course |
$608,985 | $79,622 | Ability to identify, detect and interdict crime guns, weapons, narcotics and illicit proceeds of crime |
Number of CBSA officers identified for training who have successfully completed trainingFootnote15 |
Post development: 2% of identified officers to be trained per yearFootnote16 |
March 2024Footnote17 |
|
Commercial-Trade Facilitation & Compliance |
Enhance Air cargo security Pallet Imaging, Handheld devices, COMETs and Trace Detection tools |
$42,122,428 | $1,469,541 | Enable the CBSA to increase capacity to examine in the air mode |
Percentage of high volume and high risk airports with detection technology installed |
Year 1 – Post implementation: 20% of identified airports will be equipped with detection technologyFootnote18 |
March 2025 |
|
Force Generation |
Enhance Air cargo security Pallet imaging, handheld devices, COMETs and trace detection tools |
$2,165,414 | $30,507 | Enable the CBSA to increase capacity to examine in the air mode |
Percentage of high volume and high risk airports with detection technology installed |
Year 1 – Post implementation: 20% of identified airports will be equipped with detection technologyFootnote19 |
March 2025 |
|
Field Technology Support |
Enhance Air cargo security Pallet imaging, handheld devices, COMETs and trace detection tools |
$13,812,661 | $2,210,731 | Enable the CBSA to increase capacity to examine in the air mode |
Percentage of high volume and high risk airports with detection technology installed |
Year 1 – Post implementation: 20% of identified airports will be equipped with detection technologyFootnote20 |
March 2025 |
|
| Targeting | Pallet imaging, handheld devices, COMETs and trace detection tools |
$345,044 | $0 | Enable the CBSA to increase capacity to examine in the air mode |
Percentage of high volume and high risk airports with detection technology installed |
Year 1 – Post implementation: 20% of identified airports will be equipped with detection technologyFootnote21 |
March 31, 2025 |
|
Building and Equipment |
Enhance Air cargo security Pallet imaging, handheld devices, COMETs and trace detection tools |
$668,662 |
$133,927 |
Enable the CBSA to increase capacity to examine in the air mode |
Percentage of high volume and high risk airports with detection technology installed |
Year 1 – Post implementation: 20% of identified airports will be equipped with detection technologyFootnote22 |
March 2025 |
|
Internal Services |
N/A |
$5,407,094 | $616,330 | N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
Federal Policing National Intelligence |
Produce intelligence products |
$4,198,160 | $839,632 | Increased operational collaboration |
Number of occurrences worked on by Firearms Intelligence Analysts that contributed to identifying possible criminal entities related to firearms smuggling. |
288 |
March 2028 |
Criminal Intelligence Service Canada |
Produce intelligence products |
$1,235,285 | $247,057 | Increased operational collaboration |
Number of intelligence reports produced by CISC that address guns and gangs |
March 2028 |
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Canadian Firearms Investigative and Enforcement Services |
Promote stakeholder engagement, collaboration and outreach |
$4,566,845 | $913,369 | Increased operational collaboration |
Number of open source intelligence reports created by the Canadian Firearms Program (CFP) and shared with partners |
225 |
March 2028 |
|
Increased operational collaboration |
Number of Firearm investigations that were initiated by intelligence products developed by the CFP |
March 2028 |
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Build capacity to prevent and intercept illegal firearms in Canada |
$21,670,250 | $4,334,104 | Enhanced capability to respond to gun and gang violence |
The number of individuals that have received training from National Weapons Enforcement Support Teams (NWEST) |
4500 Footnote25 |
March 2028 |
||
Canadian Law Enforcement Services - National Forensic Laboratory Services |
Provide tools, equipment and training to prevent entry of illegal commodities |
$2,025,600 | $405,120 | Enhanced capability to respond to gun and gang violence |
Percentage of cartridge cases and bullets from Gun and Gang files uploaded to the Canadian Integrated Ballistics Identification Network (CIBIN) within 90 days |
75%Footnote26 |
March 31, 2026 |
|
Internal Services |
N/A |
$4,670,495 | $934,099 | N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Name of theme |
Total federal theme funding allocated since last renewal [*] (dollars) |
2025-26 Federal theme planned spending (dollars) |
Theme outcome(s) |
Theme performance indicator(s) |
Theme target(s) |
Date to achieve theme target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Enhancing Federal Leadership |
$7,346,418 |
$2,448,806 |
Stakeholder decision-making is supported by solid data and information on best practices |
Percentage of stakeholders reporting that research and information produced under the ITAAGGV informed their policy and operational decisions |
93% in 2024-25 94% in 2025-26 95% in 2026-27 95% in 2027-28Footnote27 |
AnnualFootnote28 |
[*This amount includes any additional funding received after the last renewal. Where the initiative is new (with no renewal), insert the initial total allocation approved.]
Departments |
Link to department’s Program Inventory |
Horizontal initiative activity (activities) |
Total federal funding allocated to each horizontal initiative activity since last renewal [*] (dollars) |
2025-26 planned spending for each horizontal initiative activity (dollars) |
2025-26 horizontal initiative activity expected result(s) |
2025-26 horizontal initiative activity performance indicator(s) |
2025-26 horizontal initiative activity target(s) |
Date to achieve horizontal initiative activity target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Public Safety Canada |
Law Enforcement |
Promote data collection and conduct research related to gun and gang violence |
$7,346,418 |
$2,448,806 |
Improved understanding of threats, challenges and opportunities |
Percentage of police services with criminal organization flag data appearing in the Statistics Canada Juristat report compared to number of police services |
> 85% in 2023-24 87% in 2024-25 89% in 2025-26 90% in 2026-27 91% in 2027-28Footnote29 |
AnnuallyFootnote30 |
Number of hits on gun and gang violence items on Public Safety Canada website |
≥ 7000 views in 2023-24 and increased on an annual basis
> 7000 hits in 2023-24 > 7500 hits in 2024-25 > 8000 hits in 2025-26 > 8500 hits in 2026-27 > 9000 hits in 2027-28Footnote31 |
AnnuallyFootnote32 |
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Number of requests for download of reports and research published on Public Safety Canada’s website |
2023-24 result with annual increase > 6103 in 2023-24 > 6500 in 2024-25 > 7000 in 2025-26 > 7500 in 2026-27 > 8000 in 2027-28 Footnote33 |
AnnuallyFootnote34 |
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Promote stakeholder engagement, collaboration and outreach |
Improved awareness and information-sharing among stakeholders |
Percentage of surveyed stakeholders that indicate they are aware of the ITAAGGV |
> 93% in 2024-25 > 94% in 2025-26 > 95% in 2026-27 > 95% in 2027-28Footnote35 |
AnnuallyFootnote36 | ||||
Percentage of stakeholders that have a positive view on the usefulness of research and information-sharing activities undertaken by Public Safety Canada related to gun and gang violence |
85% in 2024-25 87% in 2025-26 89% in 2026-27 90% in 2027-28Footnote37 |
AnnuallyFootnote38 |
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Internal Services |
N/A |
$1,730,196 |
$555,284 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Theme |
Total federal funding allocated since last renewal (dollars) [*] |
2025-26 total federal planned spending (dollars) |
|---|---|---|
Theme 1: Investing in Communities |
$403,167,148 |
$80,974,462 |
Theme 2: Enhancing Federal Capacity |
$128,639,943 |
$13,622,952 |
Theme 3: Enhancing Federal Leadership |
$7,346,418 |
$2,448,806 |
Sub-total |
$539,153,509 |
$97,046,220 |
Internal Services |
$11,813,058 |
$2,105,713 |
Total |
$550,966,567 |
$99,151,933 |
[*This amount includes any additional funding received after the last renewal. Where the initiative is new (with no renewal), insert the initial total allocation approved.
Funding to Enhance Canada’s Firearm Control Framework
General information
Name of horizontal initiative
Funding to Enhance Canada’s Firearm Control Framework (FECFCF)
Lead department
Public Safety Canada (PS)
Federal partner department(s)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
Note: Other government departments (e.g., the Department of Justice) are supporting this federal initiative. However they are not captured in this Horizontal Initiative table as they have not received funding through this initiative.
Start date
FY 2021 to 2022
End date
FY 2025 to 2026
Description
Escalating firearms-related violence is fueling public concern and giving rise to demands for federal action to curtail the availability of firearms in Canada. The Government has committed to implementing effective firearms-related measures that prioritize public safety to maintain legal access, use and ownership of firearms, prevent the misuse of firearms and reduce gun crime and criminal activity. A balanced approach is required to ensure that efforts to reduce violent crime are focused on those who use firearms for illicit purposes, while not impeding on legal firearm owners.
The shared outcomes for this initiative are as follows:
- Canadians and law enforcement benefit from easier access to and improved delivery of firearms regulatory services;
- Reduce illegal firearm-related activities; and
- Canadian communities are safe from firearm–related crime.
PS provides federal leadership on Canada’s firearms policies, laws, and regulations. Since firearms control is a shared responsibility between the federal government and Canada’s provinces and territories (PTs), the Department also engages and collaborates with its federal partners, PTs, and stakeholders to address firearm-related matters.
Several programs in the RCMP contribute directly to this horizontal initiative. The RCMP is responsible for operations of the Canada Firearms Program (CFP) and the administration of the Firearms Act (the Act) and its regulations. It also provides direct operational and technical firearms-related support to law enforcement across Canada and abroad. The CFP’s mission is to enhance public safety by supporting lawful ownership and use of firearms so as to reduce the risk of harm that results when firearms are misused. To this end, it provides a number of important services to Canadians including screening individuals for eligibility to possess and/or acquire a firearm, licensing businesses that manufacture and sell firearms, and registering restricted and prohibited firearms. Additional support is provided by: National Forensic Laboratory, which can restore serial numbers that aid tracing efforts as well as link seemingly unrelated criminal cases to a single firearm; Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC) and its intelligence holdings on known or suspected criminals and criminal groups involved in serious or organized crime, which are accessible to over 380 federal, provincial, and municipal law enforcement and public safety member agencies across Canada; and Federal Policing’s efforts to develop intelligence related to transnational organized crime groups activities related to firearms trafficking and smuggling activities.
The CBSA plays a critical role in detecting and interdicting illicit firearms entering Canada. The CBSA contributes to the Government’s firearm-related commitments through the implementation of a Firearms Strategy focusing on the identification, disruption, interdiction, enforcement, investigation and prosecution of illicit firearms and related activities using an intelligence-led, problem solving and integrated approach. The Firearms Strategy also focuses on partnerships with domestic and international partners in combatting the threat that firearms pose to our community.
Governance structure
The FECFCF will leverage an Assistant Deputy Minister-level committee, co-chaired by Public Safety Canada (PS), with participation from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) as the Oversight Committee for the initiative. The ADM-Committee currently meets monthly, but will transition to quarterly once governance and oversight over relevant initiatives is firmly established. The role of the Committee will include reviewing the status of various activities within the FECFCF and progress made in meeting performance targets; making direct adjustments if necessary; and providing overall direction to the implementation of the horizontal initiative.
Additionally, a working group which includes representatives from PS, RCMP, and CBSA has been working together in the development of the FECFCF, including by developing the results measurement strategy. Going forward, PS will formalize this working group to ensure that its membership reflects the specializations required in order to ensure excellence in programming, results, financial planning and reporting. The frequency of meetings of this group will reflect the schedule and frequency of the ADM-level Oversight Committee to ensure that systems are in place to support effective horizontal planning and reporting. The working group will also support the ADM-level Oversight Committee.
Total federal funding allocated from start to end date (dollars)
$206,423,296
Total federal planned spending to date (dollars)
$95,535,645
Total federal actual spending to date (dollars)
$78,488,504 as per DRR 2023 to 2024
Date of last renewal of initiative
N/A – No renewal
Total federal funding allocated at last renewal and source of funding (dollars)
N/A – No renewal
Additional federal funding received after last renewal (dollars)
N/A – No renewal
Total planned spending since last renewal
N/A – No renewal
Total actual spending since last renewal
N/A – No renewal
Fiscal year of planned completion of next evaluation
An evaluation of the Funding to Enhance Canada’s Firearm Control Framework is planned to be completed in FY 2026 to 2027.
Planning highlights
Public Safety Canada (PS)
In FY 2025 to 2026, Public Safety Canada will continue to implement former Bill C-21, An Act to amend certain Acts and to make certain consequential amendments (firearms), which received Royal Assent on December 15, 2023. PS will create regulations to support the coming into force of the licence suspension regime, also known as “yellow flag” laws. The new regime will require a firearms licence to be temporarily suspended if the is reasonable grounds to believe that the person is no longer eligible to hold a firearms licence (i.e., suspected of illegally reselling firearms). Further, PS will bring forward regulations to support the implementation of enhanced licence revocation measures that require a licence to be revoked when a person is subject to a protection order or there is reasonable grounds to believe that a person has engaged in domestic violence or stalking. This includes defining “protection orders” and making regulations prescribe the circumstances in which a conditional firearms licence may be issued to a person to hunt or trap to sustain themselves or their family.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
In FY 2025 to 2026, the RCMP will:
- continue to develop and maintain collaborative partnerships between national firearms intelligence analysts and partner agencies to exchange information and work cooperatively to develop the most complete and comprehensive intelligence products. Collective efforts will allow for increased awareness amongst RCMP units responsible for firearms enforcement;
- continue to onboard human resources within National Forensic Laboratory Services and provide required specialized forensic training. New scientific instrumentation will be used to ensure sufficient capacity and optimized processing times. Results will continue to be monitored and compared against the target;
- work to advance its Digital Policing Strategy, including by exploring and implementing new technology and equipment to support front-line officers and employees. As an example, efforts are underway to explore the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for administrative translation and transcription, and other productivity enhancements. Training strategies are also being developed to ensure that employees are well versed on the use of new technologies and equipment;
- advance modernization through new hardware, software and other policing technologies, including Cloud and AI-based tools. This work will reduce the RCMP’s reliance on paper records and shared drives and dependency on physical records space;
- update and implement enhancements to its Canadian National Firearms Tracing Center;
- conduct and disseminate research on the proliferation, trends and rapidly changing technology related to illegally manufactured firearms and parts, including 3D printing technology;
- provide identification and classification expertise for firearms and related devices, conduct inspections, deliver technical training on global trends, and perform regular updates to the Firearms Reference Table, which provides a comprehensive and user-friendly, single-source of firearms information to be utilized by domestic and international law enforcement officer.
Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA)
The CBSA will provide investigative leads to better position the Agency and its law enforcement partners to ensure a more agile response to organized firearm smuggling activities. To address policy, legislative and regulatory issues surrounding the movement of firearms and weapons, the CBSA will continue working closely with other government departments to support the firearms strategy outlined in former Bill C-21, An Act to amend certain Acts and to make certain consequential amendments (firearms).
Contact information
Firearms Policy Division
firearms-armesafeu.sp@ps-sp.gc.ca
Name of theme |
Strengthen services to support the lawful acquisition, ownership and use of firearms |
Combat illegal firearm-related activities |
Enhance firearms policy advice and promote awareness of firearm programs |
Internal Services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Theme outcome(s) |
Canadians and law enforcement benefit from easier access to and improved delivery of firearms regulatory services |
Illegal firearm-related activity in Canada is reduced |
Canadian communities are safe from firearm-related crime |
N/A |
Public Safety Canada |
N/A |
N/A | $12,209,310 | N/A |
Canada Border Services Agency |
N/A | $30,202,664 | N/A | $5,541,196 |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
$76,148,388 | $52,575,988 | $1,589,126 | $28,156,624 |
Planning information (in dollars)
Name of horizontal initiative |
Total federal funding allocated since last renewal [*] (dollars) |
2025-26 planned spending (dollars) |
Horizontal initiative shared outcome(s) |
Performance indicator(s) |
Target(s) |
Date to achieve target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Enhance Canada’s Firearm Control Framework |
$172,725,476 |
$27,936,533 |
Firearm-related crime in Canada is reduced |
Percent (%) decrease of police reported break and enter to steal a firearm from a residence or motor vehicle |
2% annual decrease against baseline (1,072 incidents reported in 2019) |
Annually |
Percent (%) decrease in the # of violent crime victims as a result of firearm violence |
1% reduction from current baseline of approximately 1,500 (2016) |
Annually |
||||
Percent (%) decrease of firearm-related homicides |
1.5% annual decrease against baseline (2019: 263) |
Annually |
||||
Percent (%) decrease in the # of intimate partner violence victims where a firearm was present |
1% reduction from current baseline of 576 (2018) |
Annually |
[*This amount includes any additional funding received after the last renewal. Where the initiative is new (with no renewal), insert the initial total allocation approved.]
Name of theme |
Total federal theme funding allocated since last renewal [*] (dollars) |
2025-26 federal theme planned spending (dollars) |
Theme outcome(s) |
Theme performance indicator(s) |
Theme target(s) |
Date to achieve theme target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Strengthen services to support the lawful acquisition, ownership and use of firearms |
$76,148,388 |
$13,251,792 |
Canadians and law enforcement benefit from easier access to and improved delivery of firearms regulatory services | Percent (%) of licence applications that are processed within established service standards |
90% of licence applications that do not require further review complete initial processing within 35 days |
FY 2025 to 2026 |
[*This amount includes any additional funding received after the last renewal. Where the initiative is new (with no renewal), insert the initial total allocation approved.]
Departments |
Link to department’s Program Inventory |
Horizontal initiative activity (activities) |
Total federal funding allocated to each horizontal initiative activity since last renewal [*] (dollars) |
2025-26 planned spending for each horizontal initiative activity (dollars) |
2025-26 horizontal initiative activity expected result(s) |
2025-26 horizontal initiative activity performance indicator(s) |
2025-26 horizontal initiative activity target(s) |
Date to achieve horizontal initiative activity target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
Canadian Firearms Program (CFP) |
Enhance delivery of CFP services to Canadians and Law Enforcement |
$48,257,850 |
$9,536,769 |
Additional regulatory services are available online |
Percent (%) of services to Canadians that are newly available online |
100% individual & 75% business services available onlineFootnote39 |
FY 2025 to 2026 |
The target population uses regulatory services online |
Percent (%) of newly available services to Canadians that are accessed online |
80% individual 50% businessFootnote40 |
FY 2025 to 2026 |
|||||
Canadians benefit from easy access to regulatory services |
Percent (%) of licence applications that are processed within established service standards |
90% of licence applications that do not require further review complete initial processing within 35 days |
FY 2025 to 2026 |
|||||
IM / IT Sector |
Enhance delivery of CFP services to Canadians and Law Enforcement |
$27,890,538 |
$3,715,023 |
Canadian Firearms Digital Services Solution replaces Canadian Firearms Information System with a reliable and readily adaptable firearms regulatory IM/IT platform |
Percent (%) of times CFP IT Service Desk incidents are resolved within 4 hours (reliability) |
80% (2020: 44%) |
FY 2025 to 2026 |
|
Percent (%) of application that is covered by automated testing tools for Quality Control (adaptability) |
100% (2020: 0%) |
FY 2025 to 2026 |
[*This amount includes any additional funding received after the last renewal. Where the initiative is new (with no renewal), insert the initial total allocation approved.]
Name of theme |
Total federal theme funding allocated since last renewal [*] (dollars) |
2025-26 Federal theme planned spending (dollars) |
Theme outcome(s) |
Theme performance indicator(s) |
Theme target(s) |
Date to achieve theme target |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Combat illegal firearm-related activities |
$82,778,652 |
$13,478,322 |
Illegal firearm-related activity in Canada is reduced |
Percent (%) increase in the number of firearms seizures attributed to deliberate smuggling and in postal and courier modes |
10% smuggling, 5% postal and courier modes |
March 2026 |
|
Percent (%) change in the number of police-reported incidents of weapons trafficking |
10% annual increase for 2-3 years, followed by a 10% annual decrease ongoing (Baseline: 20 incidents in 2020) |
FY 2025 to 2026 |
|||||
[*This amount includes any additional funding received after the last renewal. Where the initiative is new (with no renewal), insert the initial total allocation approved.]
Departments |
Link to department’s Program Inventory |
Horizontal initiative activity (activities) |
Total federal funding allocated to each horizontal initiative activity since last renewal [*] (dollars) |
2025-26 planned spending for each horizontal initiative activity (dollars) |
2025-26 horizontal initiative activity expected result(s) |
2025-26 horizontal initiative activity performance indicator(s) |
2025-26 horizontal initiative activity target(s) |
Date to achieve horizontal initiative activity target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
Canadian Firearms Program |
Enhance the ability of the RCMP to trace crime guns and detect bulk/straw purchasing |
$6,735,964 |
$1,585,034 |
Law enforcement agencies use regulatory services to combat the unlawful acquisition of firearms |
Percent (%) increase in the number of trace requests received annually by the Canadian National Firearms Tracing Centre |
10-20% increase in the number of trace requests received annually by Canadian National Firearms Tracing Centre |
FY 2025 to 2026Footnote41 |
Law enforcement agencies requests for regulatory services are completed within established service standards |
Percent (%) of Canadian National Firearms Tracing Centre trace requests completed within established service standard timelines |
90% of trace requests completed: - Within 7 days (for traces where international engagement is not required); or - Within 90 days (for traces where international engagement is required) |
Achieved March 31, 2024Footnote42 |
|||||
National Forensic Laboratory Services |
Enhance the ability of the RCMP to trace crime guns and detect bulk/straw purchasing |
$6,957,156 |
$1,397,958 |
More serial number restorations and Canadian Integrated Ballistics Identification Network comparisons are completed within 90 days |
Percent (%) of serial number restorations and Canadian Integrated Ballistics Identification Network comparisons that are completed within service standard timelines (90 days) |
80%Footnote43 |
Achieved March 31, 2024Footnote44 |
|
Canadian Firearms Program |
Enhance capacity of the RCMP to detect, disrupt, and deter firearms smuggling at the border and inland |
$1,451,501 |
$338,905 |
Support provided to counter-smuggling partner organizations |
Number (#) of firearm inspections, responses to requests for technical advice pertaining to new and emerging technologies including 3D printing, and Firearms Reference Table records completed annually in accordance with established service standard timelines |
Complete 280-300 firearm inspections of firearms and related devices annually Service approximately 10,340 requests per year, an increase of over 1,800 from a baseline of 8,517 in 2019 Create or modify 5,000 to 8,000 Firearms Reference Table records annually |
Achieved March 31, 2024Footnote45 |
|
Federal Policing |
Enhance capacity of the RCMP to detect, disrupt, and deter firearms smuggling at the border and inland |
$2,120,337 |
$543,184 |
Enhanced operational responses through intervention, interdiction, enforcement, and increased operational collaboration |
Number (#) of intelligence products developed by Firearms Intelligence Analysts that identified or contributed to identifying possible criminal entities related to firearms, including smuggling |
192 |
FY 2027 to 2028 |
|
Number (#) of occurrences (e.g. investigations or intelligence probes) worked on by Firearms Intelligence Analysts that contributed to identifying possible criminal entities related to firearms smuggling |
192 |
FY 2027 to 2028 |
||||||
Criminal Intelligence Services Canada (CISC) |
Enhance capacity of the RCMP to detect, disrupt, and deter firearms smuggling at the border and inland |
$1,867,894 |
$436,880 |
Increase in the number of CISC assessed organized crime groups involved in firearms smuggling and trafficking |
Proportion (%) of organized crime groups involved in firearms smuggling and trafficking that are assessed based on CISC’s Integrated Threat Assessment Process |
75% (Baseline: 16%) |
FY 2025 to 2026Footnote46 |
|
$33,443,136 |
$3,562,112 |
Enhance the ability of CISC members to target and coordinate enforcement operations related to Serious and Organized Crime, including firearms-related crime |
Number (#) of Canadian Criminal Intelligence System document uploads Number (#) of Canadian Criminal Intelligence System queries and number (#) of Canadian Criminal Intelligence System users |
Target will be established once Canadian Criminal Intelligence System is implementedFootnote47 |
Date to achieve target will be established once Canadian Criminal Intelligence System is implemented |
|||
Canada Border Services Agency |
Criminal Investigations Intelligence Collection & Analysis Building & Equipment Force GenerationFootnote48 |
Enhanced Intelligence and Investigative Capacity |
$14,171,385 |
$2,971,380 |
Firearm smuggling is reduced in Canada |
Percent (%) increase in the number of seizures of prima facie crime guns (as defined in CBSA’s analytical lexicon), including as applicable, firearms, firearm parts, and ammunitionFootnote49 |
10% |
March 2025Footnote50 |
Percent (%) increase in the number of firearms seizures in postal and courier modes |
5% |
March 2025Footnote51 |
||||||
Number (#) of seizures of firearms, parts, and ammunition with a suspected link to organized crime |
5 |
March 31, 2025 |
||||||
The CBSA detects, disrupts and deters the smuggling of firearms |
Number (#) of complex or high-risk firearms smuggling intelligence referrals to Criminal Investigations or law enforcement partners |
5 |
March 2025 |
|||||
Percent (%) increase in the number of CBSA firearms analytical intelligence products |
10% |
March 2025Footnote52 |
||||||
Number (#) of complex firearms smuggling investigations opened by the CBSA Criminal Investigations |
March 2025Footnote54 |
|||||||
The CBSA has the capacity to detect, disrupt and deter the smuggling of firearms |
Personnel identified, hired and trained. Terms of reference and outreach completed |
8 Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs) |
Completed (FTEs are fully operational)Footnote55 |
|||||
Personnel identified, hired and trained |
14 Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs) |
Completed (FTEs are fully operational)Footnote56 |
||||||
Legislative, regulatory and policy development |
$7,176,014 |
$1,586,884 |
Senior management and officials understand the impact of federal firearms legislative, regulatory and policy developments on the CBSA’s operations |
Number (#) of firearms-related briefing products provided to CBSA senior management and officials |
10 |
June 2025Footnote57 |
||
The CBSA’s legislative and regulatory authorities allow it to support broader government direction and intent concerning the cross-border movement of firearms |
Number (#) of new and amended laws enacted and regulations established |
2 |
June 2025Footnote58 |
|||||
Field Technology Support |
Threat Detection at Borders |
$7,289,850 |
$1,055,985 |
Deploy handheld X-rays to increase operational capacity to efficiently examine goods and conveyances |
20 handheld X-ray units will be deployed and officers trained at selected ports of entry |
20 units |
CompletedFootnote59 |
|
Comm. Trade Facilitation & Compliance |
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Identification and AI Threat Detection in Parcels |
$1,565,415 |
$0 |
Developed AI solution ensures successful detection of gun and gun parts with significant reliability of minimizing false positives and negatives |
Percent (%) of times the developed model is able to accurately recognize the presence or absence of items of interest in an image |
70%Footnote60 |
CompletedFootnote61 |
|
Internal Services |
N/A |
$5,541,196 |
$1,239,726 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
[*This amount includes any additional funding received after the last renewal. Where the initiative is new (with no renewal), insert the initial total allocation approved.]
Name of theme |
Total federal theme funding allocated since last renewal [*] (dollars) |
2025-26 federal theme planned spending (dollars) |
Theme outcome(s) |
Theme performance indicator(s) |
Theme target(s) |
Date to achieve theme target |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Enhance firearms policy advice and promote awareness of firearm programs |
$13,798,436 |
$1,206,419 |
Canadian communities are safe from firearm –related crime |
Number (#) of new and amended laws developed and regulations established |
3 per year baseline (FY 2020-21) |
Annually |
|
Number (#) of Canadians who indicate they have or will take action due to viewing/hearing the awareness campaign ads |
Meet or surpass 10% of polled respondents indicating that they took action as a result of the ads |
March 31, 2024 |
|||||
[*This amount includes any additional funding received after the last renewal. Where the initiative is new (with no renewal), insert the initial total allocation approved.]
Departments |
Link to department’s Program Inventory |
Horizontal initiative activity (activities) |
Total federal funding allocated to each horizontal initiative activity since last renewal [*] (dollars) |
2025-26 planned spending for each horizontal initiative activity (dollars) |
2025-26 horizontal initiative activity expected result(s) |
2025-26 horizontal initiative activity performance indicator(s) |
2025-26 horizontal initiative activity target(s) |
Date to achieve horizontal initiative activity target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Public Safety Canada |
Law Enforcement and Policing |
Public Awareness Campaign |
$4,388,244 |
$0 |
Canadian general population are aware of GC initiatives to reduce gun violence and new laws and regulations related to firearms in Canada. |
Number (#) of Canadians who can recall seeing a firearms-related ad |
Meet or surpass GC benchmarks for campaign specific unaided recall (33%) and aided recall (30%) |
March 31, 2024 |
Number (#) of impressions (the total number of campaign content that was displayed or broadcast) across all advertising platforms |
Achieve or surpass 2 million impressions across all advertising platforms annually |
March 31, 2024 |
||||||
Number (#) of times Canadians clicked through ads to the Canada.ca/firearms website |
Achieve or surpass GC benchmark for click through rate by 1% for digital advertising during campaign |
March 31, 2024 |
||||||
Number (#) of visits to the Canada.ca/firearms website |
Achieve or surpass 75,000 visits per year |
March 31, 2024 |
||||||
Number (#) of products downloaded or ordered for use by partners |
Achieve or surpass 100 units distributed to or downloaded by partners |
March 31, 2024 |
||||||
The Canadian general population take action to address factors contributing to firearms violence in Canada |
Number (#) of Canadians who indicate they have or will take action due to viewing/hearing the awareness campaign ads |
Meet or surpass 10% of polled respondents indicating that they took action as a result of the ads |
March 31, 2024 |
|||||
Number (#) of partners engaged through official MOUs and/or alternate partnership agreements |
Achieve or surpass at least one partnership in each of the following categories: 1. Retail; and 2. Non-profit government organization |
March 31, 2024 |
||||||
Number (#) of times Canadians engage or share campaign content on social media |
Achieve or surpass 500 engagements on shares on social media (X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc.) |
March 31, 2024 |
||||||
The Canadian general population are compliant with laws and regulations related to firearms in Canada |
Number (#) of adults charged with unsafe storage of a firearm |
5% decrease from baseline (2019: 394) |
March 31, 2026 |
|||||
Legislative and Regulatory Work |
$6,571,066 |
$956,419 |
Stakeholders and partners participate in policy development and law enforcement and policing initiatives |
Percent (%) of attendance at formal meetings involving stakeholders and partners that take place regularly |
80% |
Annually |
||
Senior management and officials understand the issues and trends on firearms-related crime, and the policy and regulatory options to address issues |
Number (#) of policy and decision making documents developed |
10 |
Annually |
|||||
Number (#) of policy documents that reference research evidence |
40 |
Annually |
||||||
Legislation is developed establishing regulations to promote lawful access, use and ownership of firearms |
Number (#) of new and amended laws developed and regulations established |
3 per year |
Annually |
|||||
Law Enforcement and Policing |
Research |
$1,250,000 |
$250,000 |
Statistics Canada have the capacity to conduct metrics-related activities and produce reports on firearms-related crime |
Percent (%) budget utilization (StatsCan) |
100% |
FY 2024 to 2025 |
|
Statistics Canada conduct metrics-related activities and produce reports on firearms-related crime |
Number (#) of new datasets created |
9 |
FY 2024 to 2025 |
|||||
Number (#) of knowledge products produced on firearms-related crime |
82 |
FY 2024 to 2025 |
||||||
Canadians have access to timely and accurate information on firearms-related crime |
Number (#) of downloads of Statistics Canada Data Tables on firearms-related crime |
4,727 |
FY 2024 to 2025 |
|||||
Number (#) of downloads of Statistics Canada Publications on firearms-related crime |
4,133 |
FY 2024 to 2025 |
||||||
Number (#) of page views of Statistics Canada Data Tables on firearms-related crime |
168,906 |
FY 2024 to 2025 |
||||||
Number (#) of page views of Statistics Canada Publications on firearms-related crime |
187,186 |
FY 2024 to 2025 |
||||||
Internal Services |
N/A |
$8,520,544 |
$1,259,731 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
Canadian Firearms Program |
Legislative and Regulatory Work |
$723,292 |
$0 |
RCMP support to the PS-led development of policy instruments to seek funding for the firearms buyback program |
PS-led Memorandum to Cabinet is considered by Cabinet Ministers |
100% |
Completed in FY 2022 to 2023Footnote62 |
Strategic Policy & Integration |
Legislative and Regulatory Work |
$168,789 |
$0 |
RCMP support to the PS-led development of policy instruments to seek funding for the firearms buyback program |
PS-led Memorandum to Cabinet is considered by Cabinet Ministers |
100% |
Completed in FY 2022 to 2023Footnote63 |
|
IM/IT Sector |
Legislative and Regulatory Work |
$697,045 |
$0 |
RCMP support to the PS-led development of policy instruments to seek funding for the firearms buyback program |
PS-led Treasury Board Submission is considered by Treasury Board Ministers |
100% |
Completed in FY 2022 to 2023Footnote64 |
|
Internal Services |
All Themes |
$19,636,080 |
$2,762,213 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
[*This amount includes any additional funding received after the last renewal. Where the initiative is new (with no renewal), insert the initial total allocation approved.]
Theme |
Total federal funding allocated since last renewal [*] (dollars) |
2025-26 total federal planned spending (dollars) |
|---|---|---|
Theme 1: Strengthen services to support the lawful acquisition, ownership and use of firearms |
$76,148,388 |
$13,251,792 |
Theme 2: Combat illegal firearm-related activities |
$82,778,652 |
$13,478,322 |
Theme 3: Enhance firearms policy advice and promote awareness of firearm programs |
$13,798,436 |
$1,206,419 |
Subtotal |
$172,725,476 |
$27,936,533 |
Internal Services |
$33,697,820 |
$5,261,670 |
Total |
$206,423 296 |
$33,198,203 |
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