Departmental Plan 2025-26: At a glance
A departmental plan describes a department’s priorities, plans, and associated costs for the upcoming three fiscal years.
Read the full departmental plan
Key priorities
The Leaders’ Debates Commission’s top priorities for 2025-26 are as follows:
- organizing two leaders’ debates in the next federal general election, one in each official language
- promoting awareness of and access to the leaders' debates
- preparing a final report to Parliament, following the debates, outlining findings, lessons learned, and recommendations.
Highlights
In 2025-26, total planned spending for the Leaders’ Debates Commission is $3,522,889 and total planned full-time equivalent staff is 4. For complete information on the Leaders’ Debates Commission’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 department’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: Organize Leaders’ Debates for federal general elections
Planned spending: $3,522,889
Planned human resources: 4 full-time equivalents
Departmental results:
Canadians are aware of and have access to debates organized by the Leaders' Debates Commission
- Number of Canadians who have access to the debates organized by the Leaders' Debates Commission
- Number of Canadians who view the debates organized by the Leaders' Debates Commission
More information about organizing leaders’ debates for federal general elections can be found in the full plan.
