2024–25 Departmental Plan at a glance

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

• See the TSB’s raison d'être, mandate and role, and operating context.
• Read the full departmental plan.

Key priorities

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada’s (TSB) sole objective is to advance air, marine, pipeline, and rail transportation safety. This mandate is fulfilled by

• conducting independent investigations into selected transportation occurrences to identify the causes and contributing factors and the safety deficiencies evidenced by these occurrences;
• making recommendations to reduce or eliminate any such safety deficiencies and reporting publicly on its investigations; and
• following up with stakeholders to ensure that safety actions are taken to reduce risks and improve safety.

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 TSB is planning the following spending reductions.

• 2024-25: $277,000
• 2025-26: $889,033
• 2026-27 and after: $889,033

The TSB will achieve these reductions by doing the following:

• Travel reductions
• Not filling certain staff vacancies

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.

Core responsibility: Independent safety investigations and communication of risks in the transportation system

Departmental results

• The transportation system is safer.
• Regulators and the transportation industry respond to identified safety deficiencies.
• Occurrence investigations are efficient.

Planned spending: $32,495,478

Planned human resources: 197

The TSB's departmental results are measured through several departmental results indicators. The targets for these indicators set for 2024–25 are established based on different baselines and differing challenges from one transportation sector to another. Regardless of the transportation sector, the departmental results to achieve remain the same. In 2024–25, the TSB will continue to focus on using a range of communications products to share its results, including investigation reports, Board recommendations and concerns, safety information and advisory letters, and the TSB Watchlist. It will continue to work to present compelling and data-driven facts to convince change agents to take actions in response to identified safety deficiencies. The TSB will also utilize new funding received in Budget 2023 to increase investigative capacity with the aim of improving occurrence investigation efficiency.

Note that planned spending and human resources figures reflect only the TSB’s core responsibility of independent safety investigations and communication of risks in the transportation system. It does not include resources dedicated to the TSB’s internal services functions.

More information about independent safety investigations and communication of risks in the transportation system can be found in the full departmental plan.