Corporate Information
Organizational Profile
Appropriate minister: Arif Virani, P.C., M.P.
Institutional head: Shalene Curtis-Micallef
Ministerial portfolio: Justice
Enabling instrument: Department of Justice Act
Year of incorporation / commencement: 1868
Raison D’être, Mandate and Role: Who We Are and What We Do
“Raison d’être, mandate and role: who we are and what we do” is available on Justice Canada’s website.
For more information on the Department’s organizational mandate letter commitments, see the Minister’s mandate letters.
Operating Context
Information on the operating context is available on Justice Canada’s website.
Reporting Framework
Justice Canada’s Departmental Results Framework and Program Inventory of record for 2022-23 are shown belowFootnote 42.
Reporting Framework
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Departmental Results Framework
Core Responsibility 1: Legal Services
Departmental Result: Departments and agencies receive high quality legal services.
Indicators
- Client satisfaction mean rating on the overall quality of legal services.
- Client satisfaction mean rating on the provision of legal services against the Service Standards.
- Percentage of litigation files resolved in a fiscal year that have a successful outcome (settled or adjudicated) from the Crown’s perspective.
Program Inventory
Programs
- Advisory Services
- Litigation Services
- Legislative Services
Core Responsibility 2: Justice System Support
Departmental Result: Justice Canada laws and policies abide by the rule of law and promote respect for rights and a fair, accessible and relevant legal framework in Canada.
Indicators
- Canada’s international ranking with respect to the rule of law.
- Percentage of Canadians who think that the criminal justice system is a) fair, and b) accessible.
- Number of constitutional challenges in the provincial and territorial courts of appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Departmental Result: The criminal justice system supports alternative ways of responding to the causes and consequences of offending.
Indicators
- Number and type of restorative justice programs/processes available.
- Number of people who have used the available restorative justice programs/processes.
- Number/percentage of court-imposed community-based sentences as compared to number/percentage of incarceration sentences.
- Percentage of individuals who were referred to an Indigenous Justice Program and participated in the Program.
- Percentage of youth court cases receiving a non-custodial (community-based) sentence as compared to previous reported years.
- Percentage of identified, eligible Intensive Rehabilitative Custody and Supervision cases receiving specialized treatment.
Departmental Result: Canadians in contact with the justice system have access to appropriate services enabling a fair, timely and accessible justice system.
Indicators
- Percentage of federal funds accessed by provinces, territories, non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders to deliver targeted services consistent with federal priorities.
- Percentage of Indigenous Courtwork Program clients indicating a level of satisfaction of “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with the usefulness of the information provided.
- Number of times duty counsel provide assistance in criminal matters.
- Number of full service criminal legal aid applications approved.
- Percentage of Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime client inquiries or complaints that are assessed and acted upon.
Program Inventory
Programs
- Legal Policies, Laws and Governance
- Legal Representation
- Drug Treatment Court Funding Program
- Contraventions Regime
- Victims of Crime
- Youth Justice
- Family Justice
- Indigenous Justice
- Justice System Partnerships
- Ombudsman for Victims of Crime
Internal Services
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