Parole Board of Canada’s 2024-25 Departmental Plan at a Glance
From: Parole Board of Canada
A departmental plan describes a department’s priorities, plans and associated costs for the upcoming three fiscal years.
Key priorities
The Parole Board of Canada’s (PBC) key priorities in 2024-25 are the following:
- Enhance Board member, staff, organizational capacity, and strengthen the learning framework to support the consistent application of legislative requirements and relevant jurisprudence.
- Cultivate a people management and training approach that fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, recognizes the benefits of flexible work arrangements, and promotes a healthy, respectful, productive, and safe work environment.
- Enhance IM/IT tools to improve program delivery and client services.
- Strengthen responsiveness to the needs of specific populations such as women, Indigenous Peoples, Black and other racialized people.
- Ensure and optimize the effective delivery of outreach through engagement activities to inform community partners, victims, applicants, offenders, and Canadians on the scope of the work of the PBC as an independent administrative tribunal.
Refocusing Government Spending
In Budget 2023, the government committed to reducing spending by $14.1 billion over the next five years, starting in 2023–24, and by $4.1 billion annually after that.
As part of meeting this commitment, the PBC is planning the following spending reductions.
- 2024-25: $1,190,000
- 2025-26: $1,794,000
- 2026-27 and after: $2,621,000
The PBC will achieve these reductions by doing the following:
- Returning A-Base funding associated with the Canadian Drugs and Substance Strategy (CDSS) initiative.
- Finding efficiencies and/or design or administration cost-saving service delivery approaches while maintaining core program delivery with minimal operational impacts and residual risks.
The figures in this departmental plan reflect these reductions.
Highlights
A Departmental Results Framework consists of an organization’s core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve, and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.
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Conditional Release Decisions
Departmental results:
- Conditional release decisions that adhere to the law, the PBC’s policies, and the principles of fundamental justice.
- Conditional release decisions that contribute to keeping Canadians safe.
Planned spending: $46,247,091
Planned human resources: 322
The PBC will support Board member capacity through training, harmonization, and working with various stakeholders over the next year to support quality conditional release decisions. The PBC plans to make parole hearings more adaptive to the needs of the incarcerated population which includes but is not limited to conducting culturally responsive hearings, when requested.
More information about Conditional Release Decisions, can be found in the full departmental plan.
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Conditional Release Openness and Accountability
Departmental result:
- Timely exchange of relevant information with victims, offenders, observers, other components of the criminal justice system, and the general public.
Planned spending: $5,232,835
Planned human resources: 51
The PBC will continue to focus significant resources and efforts on community outreach, as well as engagement with criminal justice and community partners and networks. This includes working with victims of crime, incarcerated individuals, and the public in a transparent and responsive manner.
More information about Conditional Release Openness and Accountability, can be found in the full departmental plan.
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Record Suspension/Pardon and Expungement Decisions/Clemency Recommendations
Departmental results:
- Clemency recommendations are made in a fair and transparent manner.
- Record suspension/pardon applications are processed in a timely manner.
- Record suspension/pardon decisions adhere to the law, the PBC’s policies, and the principles of fundamental justice.
- Record suspension/pardon decisions contribute to keeping Canadians safe.
Planned spending: $13,251,955
Planned human resources: 83
Record suspensions will continue to help remove the stigma of a criminal record so that people with criminal records who have completed their sentences and are law-abiding citizens can access meaningful employment, housing, education, and volunteer opportunities. An expungement order will provide for the permanent destruction of a judicial record of conviction for eligible offences where the activity no longer constitutes an offence under an Act of Parliament, and if the criminalization of the activity is considered a historical injustice. The PBC will continue to process Clemency applications for individuals where no other remedy exists in law to reduce the severe negative effects of criminal sanctions.
More information about Record Suspension/Pardon and Expungement Decisions/Clemency Recommendations, can be found in the full departmental plan.
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Internal Services
Planned spending: $13,851,811
Planned human resources: 77
Internal Services at the PBC will ensure that communication services, human resources management services, financial management and information management/information technology services are delivered.
More information about Internal Services, can be found in the full departmental plan.
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