2025–26 Departmental Plan: At a glance

A departmental plan describes a department’s priorities, plans and associated costs for the upcoming three fiscal years.


Key priorities

The top priorities of the Office of the Public Sector Integrity commissioner of Canada (the Office) for 2025–26 are as follows:

  • Timeliness and effectiveness
    • Optimize internal procedures and resources, as well as promote new operational strategies to better manage the ever-growing influx of new submissions.
    • Review and update the current intake analysis process in order to increase efficiency.
  • Awareness and access to information
    • Participate strategically in events targeted to public servants and stakeholders.
    • Continue a redesign comprehensive of the Office’s website.

Highlights

In 2025–26, total planned spending (including internal services) for the Office is $7,928,224 and total planned full-time equivalent staff (including internal services) is 43. For complete information on the Office’s total planned spending and human resources, read the Planned spending and human resources section of the full plan.

The following provides a summary of the Office’s planned achievements for 2025–26 according to its approved Departmental Results Framework. A Departmental Results Framework consists of a department’s core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve, and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.

Core responsibility: Public sector disclosures of wrongdoing and complaints of reprisal

Planned spending: $5,464,249

Planned human resources: 34

Departmental results:

  • Public sector disclosures of wrongdoing and complaints of reprisal are dealt with in a timely and effective manner.
  • Public servants and members of the public are aware of the Office and have access to information to make an informed decision about disclosures of wrongdoing and/or complaints of reprisal.

In 2025–26, to ensure that disclosure of wrongdoing and complaints of reprisal are dealt with in a timely and effective manner, and to deal with an ever-growing influx of new submissions and investigations launched, the Office will improve its operational capacity and support the retention of staff.

Furthermore, the Office will build awareness and improve comprehension of the federal whistleblowing regime by participating in events targeted to public servants and stakeholders and by launching a redesign of the Office’s website.

More information about the Office’s core responsibility, Public sector disclosures of wrongdoing and complaints of reprisal, can be found in the full plan.