Public Service Commission of Canada’s 2025-2026 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 Public Service Commission of Canada (PSC)’s key priorities for 2025-26 are as follows:
- supporting government-wide staffing-related activities based on emerging needs and priorities
- supporting the Government of Canada in preserving political impartiality and non-partisanship
Highlights
In 2025-26, total planned spending (including internal services) for the Public Service Commission of Canada is $103,213,573 and total planned full-time equivalent staff (including internal services) is 820. For complete information on the Public Service Commission of Canada’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 PSC’s planned achievements for 2025-26 according to our 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.
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Core responsibility: Public Service Hiring and Non-Partisanship
- Planned spending: $ 77,173,567
- Planned human resources: 583
- Departmental results:
- Departmental result 1: The public service efficiently hires the workforce of the future that is capable and ready to deliver results for Canadians
- Departmental result 2: The public service reflects Canada’s diversity
- Departmental result 3: Canadians are served by a politically impartial public service
The PSC will support public service-wide staffing activities by addressing emerging needs and priorities while upholding its mandate to protect impartiality and non-partisanship. Our efforts will focus on providing departments and agencies with staffing guidance, tools and programs that enable fair and merit-based staffing processes. By integrating innovative recruitment and assessment strategies, we aim to strengthen a non-partisan public service that effectively responds to evolving priorities and maintains public trust.
More information about Public Service Hiring and Non-Partisanship can be found in the full plan.