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Session 5 – Budget Reforms and
the Economic crisis
Canada’s Experience:
Strengthening Expenditure Decision-
Making through Better Metrics
Presentation by:
Brian Pagan, Assistant Secretary
Expenditure Management Sector
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
36th Annual Meeting of OECD Senior Budget Officials
Rome, Italy
Friday, June 12, 2015
Purpose
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To provide an overview of Canada’s approach
for strengthening government management
through metrics and analytics on cost and
performance
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The Government has controlled
departmental spending …
Budget 2015 – Budget Plan, p. 338:
http://www.budget.gc.ca/2015/docs/plan/budget2015-eng.pdf
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And returned to budgetary balance …
Budget 2015 – Budget Plan, p. 339:
http://www.budget.gc.ca/2015/docs/plan/budget2015-eng.pdf
But more comprehensive tools are required
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$50
$100
$150
$200
$250
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2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14
Bill
ion
s
Supplementary Estimates (A, B and C)
Main Estimates
Statutory
$245.9B $238.5B $238.8B $239.1B $231.4B
Distribution of program spending by source of spending authority,
2009-2014
Scrutinized by TB
No direct TB scrutiny
No ongoing scrutiny by TB
Diagnostique of Current Status
• Despite major spending restraint efforts, total
operating expenses remain a pressure
• Need to progress towards more strategic perspective
on departmental performance in support of Budget
Office deliberations on resource allocation, re-
allocation and Government management
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The Vision: Reinforcing Sound Stewardship
through Relevant and Comparable
Information
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Leveraging and creating usable, comparable
information to support sound decision-making based
on benchmarks, advanced costing methods, and
performance metrics
Decision-makers will have access to cost and
performance benchmarks, and horizontal
information on similar programs
Step 1- Standardized Metrics
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Standardized metrics
Outcome
Efficiency Service Standards
Government Programs
Departmental programs, including:
Service-oriented
programs
Programs that administer grants and
contributions
Internal Services
Initial focus on Internal Services, Citizen Services, and programs that
administer financial grants and contributions
Assess metrics
standardization
Step 2- Metrics and Analytics for
Major Program Types
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Standardization
Compare the performance of like-programs or organizations by:
* Performance ‘heat maps’
* Cross-cutting analyses
* Clustering
* Benchmarking to best performers within government, and beyond government
Step 3- Systematic Use of Metrics
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Upfront Discipline: Inform
decisions on new
spending
Improve program design and
implementation
Periodically assess spending against priorities
Performance
Information
Budget Office supported by more robust information on
performance of departmental programs
Key messages
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• Expectations for efficient and effective government are
here to stay, it is not merely a short-term response to
the economic crisis
• Canada is building on work to date, driving
improvements in the quality, accessibility, and
usefulness of performance and costing data
information … for managers, for government-wide
oversight and restraint exercises, and for citizens
• We are keen to leverage best practices in other
jurisdictions
Annex: Treasury Board of Canada
Secretariat ‘InfoBase’
12 http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/ems-sgd/edb-bdd/index-eng.html#start
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