Canadian Ministerial Travel Expenditures from Public Accounts

Travel expenditure details for Canadian ministers and parliamentary secretaries are published annually in the Public Accounts. The data covers domestic and international travel charged to departmental operational or program budgets. This dataset is sourced from Public Services and Procurement Canada and is not the official record.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in government travel spending based on annual fiscal reporting.
• Compare operational travel costs across different departments or agencies.
• Audit compliance with travel policies based on expenditure categorization.
• Visualize annual changes in ministerial travel budgets.

Strengths

• Data is published annually with a consistent reporting framework.
• Covers both domestic and international travel for a defined set of officials.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV and XML.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is noted as not the official record; users must verify against the Receiver General website.

Provenance

Source

Public Services and Procurement Canada

Collection Method

Extracted from the annual Public Accounts of Canada financial publications.

Time Range

Annual fiscal year data; specific range is not provided.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 16:34:31.037437; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada, covering domestic and international travel.