Supporting Documentation: Contractual Obligations (information from Transfer Payment Agreements, Capital Assets, Purchases and Operating Leases), as reported in the Public Accounts of Canada
General Notes
Amounts are rounded to the nearest million, matching how the values are represented in the associated table within the Public Accounts of Canada. As of the PAC 2025 release of this data, a new field Amount-units_Montant-unite has been added to the CSV file to clearly indicate this for all rows.
As of the 2025 release, the following columns where renamed to improve readability and bilingualism:
FSCL_YR was renamed to Fscl-yr_Ex-fin
MINE was renamed to Min-portfolio_Portefeuille-min_eng
MINF was renamed to Min-portfolio_Portefeuille-min_fra
DEPT_EN_DESC was renamed to Dept-name_Nom-min_eng
DEPT_FR_DESC was renamed to Dept-name_Nom-min_fra
CNTRCTL_TYP_EN_NM was renamed to Cntrl-oblig_Oblig-contl_eng
CNTRCTL_TYP_FR_NM was renamed to Cntrl-oblig_Oblig-contl_fra
CNTRCT_EN_DESC was renamed to Contr-desc_Desc-entrp_eng
CNTRCT_FR_DESC was renamed to Contr-desc_Desc-entrp_fra
CNTRCTR_EN_NM was renamed to Contr-name_Nom-entrp_eng
CNTRCTR_FR_NM was renamed to Contr-name_Nom-entrp_fra
ESTMTD_CST_TOT_AMT was renamed to Total-est-cost_Cout-est-total
CNTRCT_AMT was renamed to Contract-amt_Mnt-contrat
XPND_AMT was renamed to Cumltv-pymts_Paimts-cumltv
C_OS_OBLGN_AMT was renamed to Amt-remaining_Mnt-non-execute
PYMT_DUE_FY_1_AMT was renamed to FY1-oblg_EF1-oblg
PYMT_DUE_FY_2_AMT was renamed to FY2-oblg_EF2-oblg
PYMT_DUE_FY_3_AMT was renamed to FY3-oblg_EF3-oblg
PYMT_DUE_FY_4_AMT was renamed to FY4-oblg_EF4-oblg
PYMT_DUE_FY_5_AMT was renamed to FY5-oblg_EF5-oblg
PYMT_DUE_FY_6S_AMT was renamed to FYs-oblg_EFs-oblg
For the “New bridge for the St. Lawrence corridor Project” contract, under the Capital assets category for Infrastructure and Communities, Office of Infrastructure Canada, the amount disbursed relates to the reduction of contractual obligations for assets under construction through a public-private partnership arrangement.
Note: As of fiscal year 2021/2022, the Indigenous Services Canada contract related to the support to First Nations for reliable access to safe drinking water on reserves pertains to future expenditures that the Government has committed to as part of a legal settlement.
