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Status and purpose

• Bill C-6 received royal assent on June 26, 2025.
• It authorizes up to $149.77 billion from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for federal public administration expenses for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026, that are not otherwise provided for.
• The amounts correspond to items in the 2025–26 Main Estimates not already appropriated by special warrants issued on April 1 and May 2, 2025. Each item may be used only for its stated purposes and conditions.

Who and what it funds

• The Act affects federal departments, agencies, Crown corporations, Parliament and other federal bodies, as well as people and organizations receiving their services, grants, contributions or other payments.
• Schedule 1 provides $144.23 billion. Examples of amounts appropriated by this Act include:
  • National Defence: $16.16 billion for operations and $6.20 billion for capital expenditures.
  • Indigenous Services: $12.25 billion for grants and contributions and $3.30 billion for operations.
  • Industry: $6.49 billion for grants and contributions.
  • Housing, Infrastructure and Communities: $5.30 billion for grants and contributions.
  • Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation: $4.78 billion for specified reimbursements.
• Schedule 2 provides $5.54 billion. Its itemized contents are not included in the supplied excerpt.

Authorities and changes

• The votes include authorities for specified bodies to spend certain revenues to offset their expenses, make recoverable expenditures or advances, and provide grants and contributions.
• National Defence may make total commitments of $86.76 billion, subject to Treasury Board allotment; the text estimates $52.95 billion will come due in future years.
• The Act raises Parc Downsview Park Inc.’s authorized borrowing limit from $100 million to $300 million and reduces the CORCAN revolving fund’s permitted excess of expenditures over revenues from $11 million to $5 million.
• It authorizes the write-off of 19,291 student and apprentice loan debts, totalling $197.25 million.

Timing

• Schedule items are deemed effective from April 1, 2025.
• Schedule 2 amounts may be paid through March 31, 2027; relevant appropriations must be charged in chronological order, with older amounts used first. Unused amounts lapse at the end of that second fiscal year, subject to specified adjustments.
• The Act permits certain non-cash accounting adjustments after the applicable fiscal year, before its Public Accounts are tabled in Parliament.

The supplied text is truncated partway through Schedule 1, so this summary cannot describe every vote or the individual Schedule 2 items.