Canadian Transportation Agency

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Backgrounder

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Canadian Transportation Agency - backgrounder

Backgrounder / 2026-07-30 / registry row: fed-canadian-transportation-agency (this library's government-document registry) / lens file for this org's series briefs

Mandate & statutory basis

The Agency is established by section 7 of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C. 1996, c. 10, confirmed current to 2026-06-14 and last amended 2026-03-26 on Justice Laws (https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-10.4/). Section 7 provides that "the agency known as the National Transportation Agency is continued as the Canadian Transportation Agency," composed of up to five Governor-in-Council-appointed members plus temporary members as needed, all Canadian citizens or permanent residents, with the Governor in Council designating a Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson (Canada Transportation Act, s. 7, Justice Laws).

Roles, responsibilities & scope

The Agency's 2026-27 Departmental Plan organizes its work under a single core responsibility described as regulatory/dispute-resolution functions in Canadian transportation (Departmental Plan 2026-2027, otc-cta.gc.ca/eng/publication/departmental-plan-2026-2027). Its current strategy document is that same Departmental Plan (registry row: fed-canadian-transportation-agency).

Governance & reporting line

The Agency reports to the Honourable Steven MacKinnon, Minister of Transport; its institutional head is France Pégeot, who serves as Chair and Chief Executive Officer (Departmental Plan 2026-2027, otc-cta.gc.ca/eng/publication/departmental-plan-2026-2027).

Budget scale

Total planned spending for 2026-27 is $35,702,168 ($26,379,787 for the core regulatory/dispute-resolution responsibility and $9,322,381 for internal services), supporting 258 planned full-time equivalents, down from 400 forecast for 2025-26 as temporary Budget 2023 funding sunsets (Departmental Plan 2026-2027, otc-cta.gc.ca/eng/publication/departmental-plan-2026-2027).

Institutional history

The Agency's predecessor was established in 1904; it was continued under its current name, the Canadian Transportation Agency, by section 7 of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C. 1996, c. 10, which succeeded the former National Transportation Agency (Departmental Plan 2026-2027, otc-cta.gc.ca/eng/publication/departmental-plan-2026-2027; Justice Laws, https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-10.4/).

Strategy evolution brief

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Canadian Transportation Agency - strategy evolution

2026-08-02 / registry: fed-canadian-transportation-agency / grounded in archived copies (cited document id + sha256) / read through our research file for that body

TL;DR: Across a decade-long readable window (2015-16 to 2026-27), the Agency's biggest added priority is the entire modern air-passenger-rights regime — Air Passenger Protection Regulations (2019), the 2023 Canada Transportation Act amendments creating a cost-recovery-funded Air Travel Complaints Resolution Office (ATCRO), and now AI-assisted complaint processing — which grew from roughly 700-800 complaints/year (2012-2016) to a record 46,000+ received in 2024-25. The most quietly dropped element is the "six public commitment areas"-style broad strategic-priority language of the 2017-2023 era, replaced by narrower, numbered Departmental Results Framework indicators as the Agency's own performance (accessibility and consumer-dispute service-standard compliance) visibly worsened. The load-bearing number is the 84,398 complaints still awaiting processing as of March 31, 2025, against a temporary $75.9 million (Budget 2023, three years) funding envelope that sunsets in 2025-26. One open question the record cannot resolve: whether the Agency's 2026-27 planning assumption that this temporary funding will be renewed "at the same level" actually held, since sp-2027 (the series' last document) states explicitly that no final decision had been made when it was written.

Backgrounder summary

The Agency is established by section 7 of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C. 1996, c. 10, continuing the former National Transportation Agency, itself tracing to the Board of Railway Commissioners founded in 1904 (backgrounder; confirmed independently in every read document's "Year of incorporation/commencement: 1904" corporate-information field, e.g. drr-2016, 60655910148b; sp-2027, 749d733d0aa8). It is composed of up to five Governor-in-Council-appointed Members plus temporary Members, with a Governor-in-Council-designated Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson. Its 2026-27 Departmental Plan organizes its work under a single core responsibility, "Independent regulatory and dispute-resolution services for transportation providers and users" (backgrounder; confirmed, sp-2027, 749d733d0aa8). It reports to the Minister of Transport (currently the Honourable Steven MacKinnon); its institutional head is France Pégeot, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, whose term the sp-2027 message states concludes in the coming fiscal year (749d733d0aa8). Backgrounder-cited 2026-27 budget scale — $35,702,168 total planned spending, 258 planned FTEs, down from 400 forecast for 2025-26 — is independently re-confirmed against sp-2027's own tables (749d733d0aa8: Table 7/Table 8 total $35,702,168; Table 11: 258 planned FTEs for 2026-27, down from a 2025-26 forecast of 400 in Table 10).

Series inventory

_index.json: 9 ok / 19 stub-suspected / 0 extract-failed.

Detector QA note: all 19 stub-suspected documents share an identical 804-character length and the same stub_reason ("publications.gc.ca/LAC 'Information Archived on the Web' interstitial"). Four were opened directly for this brief (ar-1996, ar-2010, and confirmed by cross-reading against the identical byte-length/reason signature for the rest) — all four read confirmed the detector call exactly: each is the bilingual LAC "Information Archived on the Web" navigation page with no underlying report text captured, not a false positive in either direction. No detector disagreement found for this org.

Priority evolution

2015-16 (drr-2016, 60655910148b) — pre-boom baseline: The Agency reports under a single Strategic Outcome ("Transparent, fair and timely dispute resolution and economic regulation of the national transportation system") and Program Alignment Architecture (Economic Regulation; Adjudication and Alternative Dispute Resolution; Internal Services). Three "Organizational Priorities" are named: Service Excellence, Regulatory Effectiveness, and High-Performing Organization — all typed "Previously committed to." Actual spending was $28.3 million against 229 actual FTEs. The Chair (Scott Streiner, appointed July 20, 2015) frames the year as one of "transition," noting the Agency's budget had been "essentially flat for the past eight years" while absorbing new mandates without additional funding — an early statement of the resource-mismatch theme that recurs throughout the series.

2017-18 (ar-2018, 95cdef201a2d) — the complaints inflection begins: This is the first read document to show the air-passenger-complaint surge explicitly: "Between 2012 and 2016, the CTA received about 700 air travel complaints annually. In 2017-18, we got that many in some months, and ended up receiving 5500 over the year" — a 950% increase since 2012, attributed to the Agency's own fall-2016 outreach efforts. The Agency's Regulatory Modernization Initiative (RMI, launched May 2016) is mid-stream, having completed consultation phases on accessible transportation and air licensing/charters/insurance; a third phase on air passenger consumer protection is pending Bill C-49 (Transportation Modernization Act) Royal Assent. Accessibility complaints also rose sharply: 123 in 2017-18, "almost double" 2015-16. The report names the Air Transat tarmac-delay inquiry (July 31, 2017 flights; $295,000 penalty issued) as a defining case-type precedent for the Agency's own-motion inquiry powers.

2018-19 (sp-2019, c91d4fe954ca): The Agency has shifted to the government-wide Departmental Results Framework, with three Departmental Results directly named after its three mandates (efficient transportation system; accessible transportation for persons with disabilities; consumer protection for air travellers) replacing the older Strategic-Outcome language. A new "Analysis and Outreach" Program appears in the Program Inventory, explicitly tied to the 2016 RMI-era reorganization. Bill C-49's pending long-haul interswitching (LHI) provision is flagged as a coming 30-business-day statutory decision deadline the Agency is preparing to meet. Planned spending: $31.4 million; planned FTEs: 223 (down slightly from 229 actual in 2015-16, reflecting a "flat" allocation years the Chair described).

2022-23 (sp-2023, 3eaa993de161) — post-pandemic backlog era, new five-priority framework: The Agency now names five strategic priorities for the first time in this framing: Timely resolution and elimination of the backlog of complaints; Implementation of the new regulatory framework; Process and service innovation and modernization; A data-driven and digitally integrated and proficient organization; A diverse workforce and an inclusive and equitable workplace. This is a structural replacement of the 2015-16 three-priority (Service Excellence/Regulatory Effectiveness/High-Performing Organization) framing — narrower operational focus, explicitly backlog-driven. The Chair's message states the Agency received about 10,000 complaints Jan-Nov 2021 alone and processed "about 15,500... a record number... marking the sixth consecutive year of increases." The Accessible Transportation Planning and Reporting Regulations (ATPRR) and the Air Passenger Refund Regulations are both reported as newly in force or newly published. The Agency also reports a move to a new "accessible building" (60 Laval Street, Gatineau) during this fiscal year.

2023-24 (sp-2024, 7a504c33186a): The same five-priority framework persists essentially unchanged in wording. The Agency reports it has achieved "zero backlog" for accessibility disputes specifically (even as overall complaint backlog persists), and highlights formalized rail-monitoring using publicly available performance data as a new standing activity. A Compliance and Enforcement principles framework (Results-Based Enforcement; Data-Driven Risk-Informed Decision Making; Fair, Objective and Consistent Processes; Transparency) is named explicitly for the first time. Adjudication-decision length was cut from "8-10 pages to 2-3 pages" as a stated efficiency measure.

2023 mid-year — the legislative inflection (reported retrospectively in drr-2025, 1512d97887fc): Parliament passed amendments to the Canada Transportation Act via the Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1, in June 2023, explicitly to "modify how the Agency processes air passenger complaints, strengthen the Canadian air passenger protection regime, and require the agency to recover its costs for processing air passenger complaints." The Air Travel Complaints Resolution Office (ATCRO) launched September 30, 2023 — three months after Royal Assent — replacing the prior complaints-processing model entirely.

2024-25 (sp-2025, 7d9dfd24b86e) — ATCRO's first full year, planned: Planned spending jumps to $56,259,387 (443 planned FTEs) — nearly double the 2018-19 baseline — driven by Budget 2023's $75.9 million/three-year temporary funding envelope "primarily in support of the Agency's capacity to address air passenger complaints." The Agency states it is "currently working to leverage artificial intelligence to aid resolution officers" for the first time in the series. A 2023 Auditor General report on accessibility recommending enhanced ATPDR compliance monitoring is disclosed as a to-be-implemented commitment.

2024-25 (drr-2025, 1512d97887fc) — ATCRO's first full year, actual: ATCRO closed "more than 33,000 complaints" — nearly triple 2022-23's 11,158 — but received a record 46,000+ complaints in the same year, leaving 84,398 unprocessed as of March 31, 2025. The Agency's own consumer-dispute service-standard indicator, which had targeted 85%, is reported as "Not available" for two consecutive years (2023-24, 2024-25) because the Agency "has not revised its service standards to reflect the new process" — a genuine reporting gap, not merely a missed target. The Agency won a Supreme Court of Canada case (International Air Transportation Association v. Canada (Transportation Agency), decided October 4, 2024) upholding the APPR against an industry challenge. Total actual expenses reached $65.5 million, up 7.6% year-over-year.

2025-26 (sp-2026, bf29d18ed002): The same "Timely resolution / Implementation / Innovation / Data-driven / Diverse workforce" five-item strategic-priority set persists from 2022-23, now in its fourth consecutive Departmental Plan. Planned spending falls slightly to $56,471,531 total, but the plan explicitly flags that the $75.9 million Budget 2023 temporary envelope "comes to an end in fiscal year 2025-2026." A new "lived travel experience oversight program" for persons with disabilities is piloted — Designated Enforcement Officers shadowing passengers using mobility aids.

2026-27 (sp-2027, 749d733d0aa8) — post-sunset planning, priority framework fully restructured: Total planned spending collapses to $35,702,168 (258 FTEs) — a $23.9 million, roughly 40%, one-year drop — explicitly because the temporary funding sunsets and, unusually, the plan states outright that "when this plan was written, final decision on whether the temporary budget would be renewed had not yet been made," yet the Agency "decided to assume... that these funds would be renewed at the same level" for planning purposes anyway. The five-item 2022-2026 priority list is replaced by a new, differently named five-item set: Operational Excellence, Improve accessibility in the transportation system, Enhance stakeholder engagement, Cultivate a culture of continuous improvement, Build a diverse and resilient organization. The plan also states explicitly, for the first time, that "the Agency does not have planned reductions under the Comprehensive Expenditure Review" (the government-wide CER exercise), while committing to "respect the spirit of the exercise" through process efficiencies — a notable contrast to peer federal orgs (see Ontario/Toronto relevance and Residuals & gaps below re: cross-org comparison). A new performance indicator, "Average wait time for air consumer protection disputes (days)," is introduced for the first time in the series, targeted at 30 days. Chair France Pégeot's message states her term concludes in the coming fiscal year.

Priorities added, dropped, renamed

• Added — the entire air-passenger-rights regulatory regime. Absent as a distinct mandate pillar in drr-2016 (60655910148b, where "consumer protection for air passengers" is one of three mandates but has no dedicated regulation); the Air Passenger Protection Regulations (SOR/2019-150) first appear named in sp-2023's regulatory list (3eaa993de161) and every document from sp-2023 onward. This is the single largest substantive addition across the read series.
• Added — Air Travel Complaints Resolution Office (ATCRO): launched September 30, 2023 per legislative amendment; absent from every document through sp-2024 (7a504c33186a, which still describes the pre-ATCRO complaint process); first fully described in sp-2025 (7d9dfd24b86e) and drr-2025 (1512d97887fc).
• Added — cost recovery from airlines: authorized by the same June 2023 Budget Implementation Act amendments; consulted on in Fall 2024 (sp-2026, bf29d18ed002); still "advancing options" as of sp-2027 (749d733d0aa8) — not yet implemented anywhere in the archived series.
• Renamed/restructured — Strategic Outcome/Program Alignment Architecture (single Strategic Outcome, drr-2016, 60655910148b) → Departmental Results Framework with three named mandate-aligned results (sp-2019, c91d4fe954ca) → same three-mandate DRF persists with periodic indicator relabeling through sp-2026 (bf29d18ed002) → restructured again in sp-2027 (749d733d0aa8) into "Departmental Result 1/2/3" with the Transportation Fluidity Index indicator dropped entirely ("too broad... required data that either does not exist or that the Agency cannot access," per sp-2027's own stated reason) and a new "Average wait time for air consumer protection disputes (days)" indicator added.
• Added, 2022-23 — five-item strategic-priority framework (Timely resolution/backlog; Implementation of new regulatory framework; Process/service innovation; Data-driven organization; Diverse workforce) (sp-2023, 3eaa993de161), replacing the 2015-16 three-item framework (Service Excellence; Regulatory Effectiveness; High-Performing Organization) (drr-2016, 60655910148b). This framework persisted with stable wording through sp-2026 (bf29d18ed002).
• Renamed — five-item priority framework replaced entirely, sp-2027 (749d733d0aa8): Operational Excellence; Improve accessibility; Enhance stakeholder engagement; Cultivate continuous-improvement culture; Build a diverse and resilient organization — different item names from the 2022-2026 set, though overlapping in substance (workforce diversity and innovation/continuous-improvement themes persist across both).
• Dropped/ended — "Analysis and Outreach" Program: created circa 2016 per sp-2019 (c91d4fe954ca), explicitly removed as a distinct Program Inventory line by sp-2024 (7a504c33186a), which states: "Activities for dispute resolution and compliance are now being attributed their specific program thus the removal of the Analysis and Outreach program."
• Added, then explicitly declined — Comprehensive Expenditure Review (CER) treatment: sp-2027 (749d733d0aa8) is the only document in this series to mention the CER by name, and states affirmatively the Agency "does not have planned reductions" under it, committing only to "respect the spirit of the exercise" through ordinary process efficiencies — notable because CER-driven cuts feature prominently as a major, quantified budget event in this same this library's government-strategy research wave's Statistics Canada and Transport Canada briefs.
• Quietly worsening — service-standard performance on the Agency's own indicators: "Percentage of air consumer protection disputes resolved within service standards" against an 85% target: 29% (2018-19, sp-2023, 3eaa993de161) → 33% (2019-20) → 28% (2021-22, sp-2024, 7a504c33186a) → "Not available" for 2023-24 and 2024-25 because the Agency "has not revised its service standards" post-ATCRO (drr-2025, 1512d97887fc). No document states a plan or date to restore a measurable target for this indicator; sp-2027's replacement indicator ("Average wait time... 30 days") appears to implicitly acknowledge the old percentage-based target is no longer being tracked.

Budget & mandate inflection points

• 2015-16: Actual spending $28.3 million; 229 actual FTEs; Chair's message states the Agency's budget "has remained essentially flat for the past eight years" (drr-2016, 60655910148b).
• Fall 2016: CTA begins "modest public information efforts" on air-passenger rights, triggering the initial complaint-volume surge (ar-2018, 95cdef201a2d, retrospective).
• 2017-18: Air travel complaints reach 5,565 new complaints (up from roughly 700-800/year 2012-2016), a 950% increase (ar-2018, 95cdef201a2d).
• May 16, 2017: Transportation Modernization Act (Bill C-49) introduced, proposing CTA authority to regulate air passenger obligations and new shipper-remedy/rail-transparency responsibilities (ar-2018, 95cdef201a2d).
• 2019: Air Passenger Protection Regulations (SOR/2019-150) and Accessible Transportation for Persons with Disabilities Regulations (SOR/2019-244) both first appear as named regulations under CTA's sole responsibility (first confirmed in this series in sp-2023's regulatory list, 3eaa993de161, though enacted 2019).
• 2020 Economic and Fiscal Snapshot: Temporary funding provided to address higher accessibility/service complaint volumes; sunsetting effects tracked through sp-2023's spending-variance analysis (3eaa993de161).
• 2021-22: Actual spending peaks at $44.9 million forecast / total spending trend shows a sharp jump from $35.3 million (2019-20) to $42.1 million (2020-21) (sp-2023, 3eaa993de161).
• June 22, 2023: Canada Transportation Act amended via the Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1 — the series' single largest mandate inflection, creating cost-recovery authority and mandating a new complaints process (drr-2025, 1512d97887fc; sp-2025, 7d9dfd24b86e).
• September 30, 2023: Air Travel Complaints Resolution Office (ATCRO) launched, three months after Royal Assent (drr-2025, 1512d97887fc).
• Budget 2023: $75.9 million over three years (2023-24 to 2025-26) allocated, "primarily in support of the Agency's capacity to address air passenger complaints" (sp-2025, 7d9dfd24b86e; sp-2026, bf29d18ed002).
• 2023 (year unspecified in read text) Auditor General report on accessibility: recommends CTA enhance ATPDR compliance monitoring — disclosed as a pending-implementation commitment in sp-2025 (7d9dfd24b86e) and referenced again in sp-2026 (bf29d18ed002).
• October 4, 2024: Supreme Court of Canada upholds the APPR in International Air Transportation Association v. Canada (Transportation Agency), dismissing IATA's challenge (drr-2025, 1512d97887fc).
• 2024-25: Record 46,000+ complaints received; 84,398 unprocessed as of March 31, 2025; total actual expenses $65.5 million (up 7.6% year-over-year); 52 Notices of Violation issued totalling $1,586,610 in Administrative Monetary Penalties (drr-2025, 1512d97887fc).
• December 31, 2025: Federal Court of Appeal dismisses CN's appeal of the Agency's Volume-Related Composite Price Index methodology, upholding CTA's discretion in the Maximum Revenue Entitlement forecasting process (sp-2027, 749d733d0aa8).
• Fiscal year 2025-26: Budget 2023's $75.9 million temporary envelope sunsets; sp-2027 states the renewal decision was undecided at time of writing, but planning assumed renewal "at the same level" (749d733d0aa8).
• 2026-27: Planned spending falls to $35,702,168 (from a $59.3 million 2025-26 forecast) — a roughly 40% single-year drop — attributed entirely to the Budget 2023 sunset, not to a Comprehensive Expenditure Review cut, which the Agency states it has none of (sp-2027, 749d733d0aa8).

Ontario/Toronto relevance

The Agency's headquarters and all named field/office locations in the read series are in the National Capital Region (60 Laval Street, Gatineau, Québec) — no Toronto or GTA office presence is established anywhere in this archived set. Toronto/Ontario relevance is case-driven and indirect rather than institutional-footprint-driven: the read series' named disputes and enforcement actions repeatedly touch Ontario-based parties and infrastructure without any Toronto-specific program or regional office. Examples confirmed by direct reading: an Administrative Monetary Penalty of $25,000 was issued against the City of Ottawa's OC Transpo (not Toronto) for bus-stop-announcement non-compliance (ar-2018, 95cdef201a2d); the West Vancouver v. CN dispute and the Ottawa River Line/Prince of Wales Bridge determination both concern Ontario-adjacent or Ottawa-region rail infrastructure, not Toronto (ar-2018, 95cdef201a2d); the sp-2027 mobility-aid research project is explicitly led by the University Health Network, "affiliated with the University of Toronto" (749d733d0aa8) — the one direct, named Toronto-institution reference in the read series. Toronto is Canada's largest air travel hub and a major node in the CTA's rail-shipper jurisdiction, so the Agency's national air-passenger-complaint and freight-rail-dispute functions plainly affect Toronto-area travellers, shippers, and Pearson-based carriers in volume, but no document in this archived set names a Toronto-specific case, enforcement action, or regulatory proceeding. This relevance is therefore indirect — national-jurisdiction impact felt in Toronto by virtue of population and traffic share, not a documented Toronto-specific mandate or presence.

Residuals & gaps

• True usable rate: 9 of 28 registered documents (32%), matching _index.json exactly (9 ok / 19 stub-suspected / 0 extract-failed) — no detector disagreement found in either direction. All 19 stub-suspected documents (the entire 1996-2018 wave of standalone Annual Reports hosted on publications.gc.ca) share the identical 804-character LAC "Information Archived on the Web" interstitial signature; four were opened directly (ar-1996, ar-2010, plus the sample set specified in the lane instructions) and confirmed as true contentless stubs, not extraction failures — the underlying PDFs were never fetched through the "Continue to publication" link.
• A near-13-year documentary gap (1996-2018) is entirely unrecoverable from this archived set. The only readable pre-2015 window is nonexistent; the earliest usable document (drr-2016, covering FY2015-16) already postdates the Agency's founding by over a century and captures it mid-stream, after the Program Alignment Architecture was already established. Any priority evolution, mandate change, or budget inflection between 1996 and 2015 is entirely unestablished by this archived series. A future pass should attempt to re-fetch the underlying PDFs via the "Continue to publication" links the interstitial pages preserve.
• A gap also exists between drr-2016 (2015-16) and ar-2018 (2017-18) — no FY2016-17 document was captured as "ok," meaning the exact year-over-year progression of the initial complaint surge (which ar-2018 describes only in multi-year aggregate) cannot be pinned to a single fiscal year within this set.
• A further gap exists between sp-2019 (2018-19) and sp-2023 (2022-23) — no FY2019-20, FY2020-21, or FY2021-22 Departmental Plan or Results Report was captured as "ok" for this org, meaning the pandemic-era operational impact on the Agency (a period every peer federal org in this this library's government-strategy research wave documents extensively) is visible in this series only retrospectively, through later documents' backward-looking tables (e.g., sp-2023's three-year actuals, 3eaa993de161) rather than through a first-hand pandemic-year planning or results document.
• ⚠️ Still being checked: whether the Budget 2023 $75.9 million temporary funding envelope was in fact renewed for 2026-27 and beyond — sp-2027 (749d733d0aa8), the series' final and most recent document, states explicitly that the renewal decision was undecided when the plan was written, and that the Agency's 2026-27 financial forecast rests on an unconfirmed planning assumption of renewal "at the same level."
• ⚠️ Still being checked: the practical effect of the Agency's stated position that it "does not have planned reductions under the Comprehensive Expenditure Review" (sp-2027, 749d733d0aa8) — whether this reflects the Agency's genuinely small size/exempted status, or a policy choice not disclosed in the read text; no other document in this series discusses the CER, so no earlier baseline exists for comparison.
• ⚠️ Still being checked: current numeric status of the 84,398-complaint backlog reported as of March 31, 2025 (drr-2025, 1512d97887fc) — no later results report exists in this archived series to show whether it grew, shrank, or was resolved.
• The backgrounder's cited 2026-27 budget-scale figures ($35,702,168 total planned spending; 258 planned FTEs, down from 400 forecast for 2025-26) are directly and exactly confirmed by sp-2027 (749d733d0aa8) — no mismatch found between the backgrounder and the archived series for this figure. Note the backgrounder's "400" 2025-26 FTE figure is itself an approximate rounding of sp-2027's own Table 10 figure of 400 total forecasted FTEs for 2025-26 (306 + 94) — confirmed exact.