Supporting Documentation: Ex-Gratia Payments as per the Public Accounts of Canada

General Notes

• This dataset contains rows that appear as duplicate. They are intentional and should not be considered as errors.
• The following abbreviation in the dataset is defined as follows:

  ADR

  Alternate Dispute Resolution

As of the 2025 release:

• All previous years' data files were combined together into one file
• The Min-code values of the "2023/2024" data were found to be incorrect and were corrected
• The 2015 French data file originally contained two errors, which were corrected:
  • 2014/2015,03,"Agence du revenu du Canada",130,"Agence du revenu du Canada","Allocations pour frais de chauffage",,"Dagenais L", was originally published with a Amount_Montant value of "3". This was corrected to a value of "250", as verified on page 8.28 of the PDF version of the Public Accounts of Canada 2015;
  • 2014/2015,04,"Patrimoine canadien",135,"Patrimoine canadien","C.P. 2014-1157, 30 octobre 2014, Son Excellence le Gouverneur général en conseil autorise à verser un paiement unique au nom de Leurs Altesses Royales le Prince de Galles et la Duchesse de Cornouaille",,"La Société géographique royale du Canada", was originally published with a Amount_Montant value of "7000". This was corrected to a value of "75000", as verified on page 8.28 of the PDF version of the Public Accounts of Canada 2015;
• The following columns were renamed to improve readability and bilingualism:
  • FSCL_YR was renamed to Fscl-yr_Ex-fin
  • MINC was renamed to Min-code
  • MINE was renamed to Min-portfolio_Portefeuille-min_eng
  • MINF was renamed to Min-portfolio_Portefeuille-min_fra
  • DepartmentNumber-Numéro-de-Ministère was renamed to Dept-nbr_No-min
  • DEPT_EN_DESC was renamed to Dept-name_Nom-min_eng
  • DEPT_FR_DESC was renamed to Dept-name_Nom-min_fra
  • PYMNT_TYP_ENG_TXT was renamed to Claim-type_Type-reclamation_eng
  • PYMNT_TYP_FR_TXT was renamed to Claim-type_Type-reclamation_fra
  • HLDR_TRST_ENG_NM was renamed to Holder-in-trust_Detenteur-en-fiducie_eng
  • HLDR_TRST_FR_NM was renamed to Holder-in-trust_Detenteur-en-fiducie_fra
  • PAYEE_ENG_NM was renamed to Payee_Beneficiaire_eng
  • PAYEE_FR_NM was renamed to Payee_Beneficiaire_fra
  • Amount-Montant was renamed to Amount_Montant

Related Links

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