Requests in the public interest

Access to Information request with fee waiver — the place of Mexico in the strategy of Canada toward the United States

Hello,

I make this request under section 6 of the Access to Information Act. I am a Canadian resident and I request access to the following records held by the Privy Council Office.

1. All briefing notes, memoranda and scenario notes prepared for the Prime Minister for the visit to Mexico on 18 September 2025, and for every meeting or call between the Prime Minister and the President of the United Mexican States, dated between 1 January 2025 and the date this request is processed.

2. All records that assess the position of the United Mexican States on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Canada, including on the statements of the President of the United States that Canada should become a state of the United States, in the same period.

3. All records that set out whether, and on what terms, the Government of Canada expects political, economic or military support from the United Mexican States in the case of coercion or armed attack by the United States against Canada, in the same period.

4. All records that set out the security and defence content of the Canada-Mexico Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and of the Canada-Mexico Action Plan 2025-2028, including the list of commitments under the security pillar and the institutions responsible for each, in the same period.

5. All records that assess the coordination of Canada and the United Mexican States on the tariffs of the United States and on the 2026 joint review of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, including every option in which Canada acts jointly with Mexico and every option in which Canada acts alone, in the same period.

Produce the records in electronic format.

Where a record contains a confidence of the King's Privy Council, the analyses of problems and the background explanations in it are not excluded once the decision to which they relate has been made public. I require their release under paragraph 69(3)(b) of the Act. Every record withheld under section 69 is to be listed with its date and its type.

Fees. I am without income and I am unable to pay the application fee. Waive the fee under subsection 11(6) of the Access to Information Act. The records concern the allies of Canada in the face of pressure from a foreign state, and the public benefit of their release is direct. If the waiver is refused, I require written notice of the refusal, the reason for it, and the method of payment.

I require registration of this request on the date of its receipt. Where the Office holds no record answering any numbered item above, I require a written statement to that effect for that item.

The name and title of an officer or employee of a government institution on a document prepared by that person in the course of employment is not personal information under paragraph 3(j) of the Privacy Act. I require that such names and titles be released and not severed.

A refusal to register this request until a fee is paid, an absence of a file number, or an absence of a decision on the waiver request will be placed before the Information Commissioner of Canada.

This exchange goes into the public record at https://dzyuban.com/legal/record/requests/

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Access to Information request with fee waiver — the strategy of Canada against the economic pressure of the United States

Hello,

I make this request under section 6 of the Access to Information Act. I am a Canadian resident and I request access to the following records held by the Privy Council Office.

1. All records that set out the strategy of the Government of Canada in response to the economic pressure of the United States, including the tariffs of the United States in force since 22 August 2026, prepared for or by the Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, dated between 1 January 2025 and the date this request is processed.

2. All records that identify the instruments available to Canada to answer the economic pressure of the United States, and that assess the effect of each instrument on the United States and on Canada, in the same period.

3. All records that analyse why the economy of Canada depends on the market of the United States, including the share of exports sold to the United States, the routes of oil and gas exports, and the ownership of Canadian firms, in the same period.

4. All records of the Advisory Committee on Canada-U.S. Economic Relations that set out recommendations to the Government of Canada, in the same period.

5. All records that set out the plan of the Government of Canada for the case that the tariffs of the United States remain in force beyond 31 December 2026, in the same period.

Produce the records in electronic format.

Where a record contains a confidence of the King's Privy Council, the analyses of problems and the background explanations in it are not excluded once the decision to which they relate has been made public. I require their release under paragraph 69(3)(b) of the Act. Every record withheld under section 69 is to be listed with its date and its type.

Fees. I am without income and I am unable to pay the application fee. Waive the fee under subsection 11(6) of the Access to Information Act. The records concern the answer of Canada to the economic pressure of a foreign state, and the public benefit of their release is direct. If the waiver is refused, I require written notice of the refusal, the reason for it, and the method of payment.

I require registration of this request on the date of its receipt. Where the Office holds no record answering any numbered item above, I require a written statement to that effect for that item.

The name and title of an officer or employee of a government institution on a document prepared by that person in the course of employment is not personal information under paragraph 3(j) of the Privacy Act. I require that such names and titles be released and not severed.

A refusal to register this request until a fee is paid, an absence of a file number, or an absence of a decision on the waiver request will be placed before the Information Commissioner of Canada.

This exchange goes into the public record at https://dzyuban.com/legal/record/requests/

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Access to Information request with fee waiver — counter-tariffs on United States goods: selection, effect, remission

Hello,

I make this request under section 6 of the Access to Information Act. I am a Canadian resident and I request access to the following records held by the Department of Finance.

1. All records that set out the analysis, criteria and options used to select the 629 tariff items on the list of products from the United States subject to counter-tariffs effective 8 September 2026, including memoranda to the Minister, options analyses and economic impact assessments, dated between 1 July 2026 and 8 September 2026.

2. All records that assess the expected or the actual effect of the counter-tariffs imposed by Canada on goods of the United States on the economy of the United States, including any target, metric or indicator used to measure that effect, dated between 1 March 2025 and the date this request is processed.

3. All records that set out the policy, the criteria and the decision process for the remission of surtaxes on goods of the United States, including instructions and guidance to officials who assess remission requests, in the same period.

4. A record, produced under subsection 4(3) of the Act from the electronic data the Department holds, that lists for each surtax remission granted on goods of the United States: the beneficiary, the tariff items covered, the value of surtax remitted and the date of the decision, in the same period.

5. All records of any decision to remove or to reduce counter-tariffs on goods of the United States, and the analysis that supported each decision, in the same period.

6. All records in which the Department considered, recommended or rejected countermeasures against the United States other than surtaxes on goods, including measures concerning services, government procurement, and audiovisual and digital services, in the same period.

Produce the records in electronic format.

Fees. I am without income and I am unable to pay the application fee. Waive the fee under subsection 11(6) of the Access to Information Act. The records concern public revenue of 9.7 billion dollars assessed on imports from the United States, of which 5.5 billion dollars was remitted, and the public benefit of their release is direct. If the waiver is refused, I require written notice of the refusal, the reason for it, and the method of payment.

I require registration of this request on the date of its receipt. Where the Department holds no record answering any numbered item above, I require a written statement to that effect for that item.

The name and title of an officer or employee of a government institution on a document prepared by that person in the course of employment is not personal information under paragraph 3(j) of the Privacy Act. I require that such names and titles be released and not severed.

A refusal to register this request until a fee is paid, an absence of a file number, or an absence of a decision on the waiver request will be placed before the Information Commissioner of Canada.

This exchange goes into the public record at https://dzyuban.com/legal/record/requests/

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Access to Information Act — what the Government of Canada asked of the King and the Royal Household after the calls of the United States for Canada to become its 51st state — with a request for a fee waiver under subsection 11(2)

Hello,

I make this request under section 6 of the Access to Information Act. I am a person present in Canada. Subsection 4(1) of the Act, as extended by the Access to Information Act Extension Order, No. 1, entitles me to make it.

CONTEXT.

Request under the Access to Information Act — the assessment of extreme tail risk described by the Prime Minister on 23 September 2026, and whether it covers nuclear attack on Canada — with a request for a fee waiver under subsection 11(2)

Hello,

I make this request under section 6 of the Access to Information Act. I am a person present in Canada. Subsection 4(1) of the Act, as extended by the Access to Information Act Extension Order, No. 1, entitles me to make it.

CONTEXT.

On 23 September 2026 the Prime Minister told the New York Times that he had prepared for the "extreme tail risk" that the United States might order military action against Canada. CBC News reported the interview on 25 September 2026. The Privy Council Office is the Prime Minister's department and houses the National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister.

RECORDS REQUESTED.

Period: 1 January 2025 to the date this request is received.

1. Records that assess the risk of military action against Canada by any state, including the assessment the Prime Minister described on 23 September 2026.

2. Records that assess the risk of nuclear attack on Canada, or that consider whether that risk has been identified by any minister under subsection 6(1) of the Emergency Management Act.

3. Records that assess the reliability of any assurance by an allied state to defend Canada against nuclear attack. This includes any record that considers that assurance in a scenario of the kind described in item 1.

4. Where no record exists for an item, a statement to that effect for that item, naming the officer who conducted the search. The duty to assist in subsection 4(2.1) of the Act requires it.

SUBSECTION 10(2).

The Prime Minister stated in public on 23 September 2026 that he had prepared for the risk in item 1. A refusal under subsection 10(2) to confirm or deny that records of that preparation exist would contradict the Prime Minister. Such a refusal goes to the Information Commissioner on the day it is received.

FEE.

Waive the application fee under subsection 11(2). The records concern whether the Government has assessed the defence of Canada against nuclear attack. Every record released will be published in full at https://dzyuban.com/legal/record/requests/. If the fee is not waived, give the decision under subsection 11(2) in writing, with reasons and the name and title of the officer who made it.

DELIVERY.

By email, to this address. Confirm receipt with the file number and the date of receipt under section 7.

Respectfully,
Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Access to Information Act — decisions of the Treasury Board under subsection 11(4) of the RCMP Superannuation Act, 2000 to 2026 — with a request for a fee waiver under subsection 11(2)

Hello,

I make this request under section 6 of the Access to Information Act. I am a person present in Canada and entitled to make this request under subsection 4(1) of the Act as extended by the Access to Information Act Extension Order, No. 1.

CONTEXT.

Subsection 11(4) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act entitles a contributor compulsorily retired from the Force by reason of misconduct to a return of contributions, and to any further benefit only in the discretion of the Treasury Board. Subsection 11(10) does the same for members not holding a rank. On 23 September 2026 the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat wrote to me that "neither the Treasury Board nor the President of the Treasury Board has authority under the PSSA to reduce or withhold a public servant's pension benefit because the person was dismissed for misconduct." This request is separate from file A-2026-00378, which asks for the records behind the repeal of 1999. The records below concern how the RCMP rule has been applied and assessed.

RECORDS REQUESTED.

Period: 1 January 2000 to the date this request is received, unless an item says otherwise.

1. Every decision of the Treasury Board under paragraph 11(4)(b) or 11(10)(b) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act, with the submission it decided, personal information severed under section 19.

2. Records that show, by fiscal year, the number of such decisions and the outcome of each: the whole benefit, a part of it, or none.

3. Briefing notes, memoranda and analyses prepared on or after 1 January 2000 for the President of the Treasury Board, the Secretary of the Treasury Board or the Chief Human Resources Officer on subsection 11(4) or 11(10) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act. The same for any paper on extending a comparable rule to the Public Service Superannuation Act.

4. The records that identify, by name and title, the author of the message sent to me on 23 September 2026 from the Pension Policy and Programs mailbox ([email protected]), and every draft of that message.

5. For each item above for which no responsive record exists, a statement to that effect, item by item, naming the officer who conducted the search, in accordance with the duty to assist in subsection 4(2.1) of the Act.

FEE.

I ask that the application fee be waived under subsection 11(2). The records concern the public interest in the accountability of federal officeholders, and my income is social assistance. If the fee is not waived, give the decision under subsection 11(2) in writing, with reasons and the name and title of the officer who made it.

DELIVERY.

By email, to this address. Confirm receipt with the file number and the date of receipt under section 7.

Respectfully,
Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Access to Information Act — pension consequences of termination for cause of Governor in Council appointees, 2000 to 2026 — with a request for a fee waiver under subsection 11(2)

Hello,

I make this request under section 6 of the Access to Information Act. I am a person present in Canada and entitled to make this request under subsection 4(1) of the Act as extended by the Access to Information Act Extension Order, No. 1.

CONTEXT.

Subsection 11(4) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act entitles a contributor compulsorily retired from the Force by reason of misconduct to a return of contributions, and to any further benefit only in the discretion of the Treasury Board. Subsection 11(10) does the same for members not holding a rank. On 23 September 2026 the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat wrote to me that "neither the Treasury Board nor the President of the Treasury Board has authority under the PSSA to reduce or withhold a public servant's pension benefit because the person was dismissed for misconduct." Deputy ministers are appointed by the Governor in Council on the advice of the Prime Minister, whose department is the Privy Council Office. The records below concern how the RCMP rule has been applied and assessed.

RECORDS REQUESTED.

Period: 1 January 2000 to the date this request is received, unless an item says otherwise.

1. Records that set out the consequences for entitlements under the Public Service Superannuation Act of the termination for cause of a Governor in Council appointee, including a deputy minister.

2. Guidance, policies and instructions of the Privy Council Office or of the Clerk of the Privy Council on the termination for cause of a deputy minister and its effect on pension entitlements.

3. Any record in which the Privy Council Office considered a rule withholding the employer-funded share of a pension from a Governor in Council appointee dismissed for misconduct. This includes any record on the repeal of the definition of misconduct in the Public Service Superannuation Act by 1999, c. 34, s. 53.

4. For each item above for which no responsive record exists, a statement to that effect, item by item, naming the officer who conducted the search, in accordance with the duty to assist in subsection 4(2.1) of the Act.

FEE.

I ask that the application fee be waived under subsection 11(2). The records concern the public interest in the accountability of federal officeholders, and my income is social assistance. If the fee is not waived, give the decision under subsection 11(2) in writing, with reasons and the name and title of the officer who made it.

DELIVERY.

By email, to this address. Confirm receipt with the file number and the date of receipt under section 7.

Respectfully,
Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Access to Information Act — strategic environmental assessment of the gene-editing guidance decisions of 18 May 2022, 3 May 2023 and 3 May 2024

Hello,

I make this request under section 6 of the Access to Information Act. I am a Canadian resident and I request access to the following records held by the Privy Council Office.

1. All records concerning whether a strategic environmental assessment was required under the Cabinet Directive on the Environmental Assessment of Policy, Plan and Program Proposals for the Health Canada guidance on the novelty interpretation of products of plant breeding issued on 18 May 2022.

2. All records concerning whether such an assessment was required for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency guidance for Part V of the Seeds Regulations approved by the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food on 3 May 2023.

3. All records concerning whether an assessment was required under the Cabinet Directive on Strategic Environmental and Economic Assessment for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency guidance on novel feeds published on 3 May 2024.

4. All correspondence between the Privy Council Office and Health Canada, or the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, or Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, concerning the application of either Directive to gene-edited plants, dated between 1 January 2021 and the date this request is processed.

5. All records held by the Privy Council Office on compliance with either Directive by Health Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, from 1 January 2021 to the date this request is processed, including any compliance tally, tracking record or reporting document.

6. All guidance issued by the Privy Council Office to departments on the transition from the Cabinet Directive on the Environmental Assessment of Policy, Plan and Program Proposals to the Cabinet Directive on Strategic Environmental and Economic Assessment on 1 April 2024.

I request the records in electronic format.

Where the Privy Council Office holds no record answering any numbered item above, I require a written statement to that effect for that item. That statement is the object of this request as much as any record.

Fees. I am without income and I am unable to pay the application fee. I request a waiver of the fee under subsection 11(6) of the Access to Information Act. The records sought concern the environmental assessment of decisions that govern food and seed entering the supply of every resident of Canada, and the public benefit of their release is direct. If the waiver is refused, I ask to be advised in writing of the refusal, the reason for it, and the method of payment, and I will pay the 5.00 dollar fee.

I require registration of this request on the date of its receipt, and the file number. A refusal to register this request until a fee is paid, an absence of a file number, or an absence of a decision on the waiver request will be placed before the Information Commissioner of Canada.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Access to Information request with fee waiver — federal response to the fertility rate, programmes and indicators

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act, together with a request for a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(2).

Employment and Social Development Canada is processing the same request text as A-2026-00370, and its Access to Information and Privacy Operations directorate identified the Privy Council Office as an institution likely to hold records within the scope set out below.

Statistics Canada reported that the total fertility rate of Canada fell to 1.25 children per woman in 2024, the lowest rate on record, placing Canada in the group of countries classified as having ultra-low fertility. The Immigration Levels Plan for 2026 to 2028 sets admissions of 380,000 permanent residents in each of those years. The records requested concern what the federal government does about the first of those facts.

DESCRIPTION OF RECORDS REQUESTED.

1. Every federal programme in which the number of births, the total fertility rate, or the completed family size is named as a performance indicator in a Performance Information Profile prepared under the Treasury Board Policy on Results. If no such programme exists, provide the record confirming that fact

2. Every policy analysis, briefing note, memorandum to Ministers, or Cabinet-level document prepared from 1 January 2019 to the date of this request addressing the decline in the total fertility rate and the options available to the federal government in response

3. Every record in which immigration is identified as the federal response to the decline in the total fertility rate or to population ageing, including any record comparing that response against measures directed at the fertility rate itself

4. Every cost-benefit analysis, fiscal projection, or departmental assessment comparing the cost of increased immigration against the cost of direct support to families and to childbearing

5. Every record prepared for Cabinet or its committees from 1 January 2019 to the date of this request in which the total fertility rate or population ageing is addressed, and every strategic environmental and economic assessment carried out about the Immigration Levels Plan

6. Every record setting out the total federal expenditure directed at supporting families with children, by programme and fiscal year, from 2019-2020 to the date of this request, and the measured effect of each programme on the number of births

7. Every record of correspondence with Employment and Social Development Canada, the Department of Finance Canada, Health Canada or Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada concerning the demographic consequences of the fertility rate and the Immigration Levels Plan

FEE WAIVER.

A waiver of the application fee is requested under subsection 11(2) of the Access to Information Act, which empowers the head of a government institution to waive or refund the fee. Employment and Social Development Canada waived the fee on the same request text on 8 September 2026.

The requester is an applicant for social assistance. The Social Benefits Tribunal issued an interim assistance order on 21 August 2026 in file 2608-06747 directing payment from 1 August 2026. The Director has not complied with that order and no payment has been made. The requester is without means to pay the fee.

A decision on this waiver request is required in writing. A refusal will be referred to the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada as a barrier to access.

FORMAT.

Electronic copies are requested.

NEXT STEP.

Failure to respond within 30 days will be referred to the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada. The absence of any federal programme carrying a fertility indicator will be placed before the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and before the Office of the Auditor General.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Access to Information request with fee waiver — federal response to the fertility rate, programmes and indicators

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act, together with a request for a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(2).

Employment and Social Development Canada is processing the same request text as A-2026-00370, and its Access to Information and Privacy Operations directorate identified Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada as an institution likely to hold records within the scope set out below.

Statistics Canada reported that the total fertility rate of Canada fell to 1.25 children per woman in 2024, the lowest rate on record, placing Canada in the group of countries classified as having ultra-low fertility. The Immigration Levels Plan for 2026 to 2028 sets admissions of 380,000 permanent residents in each of those years. The records requested concern what the federal government does about the first of those facts.

DESCRIPTION OF RECORDS REQUESTED

1. Every federal programme in which the number of births, the total fertility rate, or the completed family size is named as a performance indicator in a Performance Information Profile prepared under the Treasury Board Policy on Results. If no such programme exists, provide the record confirming that fact.

2. Every policy analysis, briefing note, memorandum to Ministers, or Cabinet-level document prepared from 1 January 2019 to the date of this request addressing the decline in the total fertility rate and the options available to the federal government in response.

3. Every record in which immigration is identified as the federal response to the decline in the total fertility rate or to population ageing, including any record comparing that response against measures directed at the fertility rate itself.

4. Every cost-benefit analysis, fiscal projection, or departmental assessment comparing the cost of increased immigration against the cost of direct support to families and to childbearing.

5. Every record setting out the barriers reported by Canadians to having the number of children they intend to have, including any analysis of the gap between intended and achieved family size.

6. Every record setting out the total federal expenditure directed at supporting families with children, by programme and fiscal year, from 2019-2020 to the date of this request, and the measured effect of each programme on the number of births.

7. Every record of correspondence with Employment and Social Development Canada, the Department of Finance Canada, the Privy Council Office or Health Canada concerning the demographic consequences of the fertility rate and the Immigration Levels Plan.

FEE WAIVER

A waiver of the application fee is requested under subsection 11(2) of the Access to Information Act, which empowers the head of a government institution to waive or refund the fee. Employment and Social Development Canada waived the fee on the same request text on 8 September 2026.

The requester is an applicant for social assistance. The Social Benefits Tribunal issued an interim assistance order on 21 August 2026 in file 2608-06747 directing payment from 1 August 2026. The Director has not complied with that order and no payment has been made. The requester is without means to pay the fee.

A decision on this waiver request is required in writing. A refusal will be referred to the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada as a barrier to access.

FORMAT

Electronic copies are requested.

NEXT STEP

Failure to respond within 30 days will be referred to the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada. The absence of any federal programme carrying a fertility indicator will be placed before the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and before the Office of the Auditor General.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Access to Information request with fee waiver — federal response to the fertility rate, programmes and indicators

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act, together with a request for a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(2).

Employment and Social Development Canada is processing the same request text as A-2026-00370, and its Access to Information and Privacy Operations directorate identified Health Canada as an institution likely to hold records within the scope set out below.

Statistics Canada reported that the total fertility rate of Canada fell to 1.25 children per woman in 2024, the lowest rate on record, placing Canada in the group of countries classified as having ultra-low fertility. The Immigration Levels Plan for 2026 to 2028 sets admissions of 380,000 permanent residents in each of those years. The records requested concern what the federal government does about the first of those facts.

DESCRIPTION OF RECORDS REQUESTED

1. Every federal programme in which the number of births, the total fertility rate, or the completed family size is named as a performance indicator in a Performance Information Profile prepared under the Treasury Board Policy on Results. If no such programme exists, provide the record confirming that fact.

2. Every policy analysis, briefing note, memorandum to Ministers, or Cabinet-level document prepared from 1 January 2019 to the date of this request addressing the decline in the total fertility rate and the options available to the federal government in response.

3. Every record in which immigration is identified as the federal response to the decline in the total fertility rate or to population ageing, including any record comparing that response against measures directed at the fertility rate itself.

4. Every cost-benefit analysis, fiscal projection, or departmental assessment comparing the cost of increased immigration against the cost of direct support to families and to childbearing.

5. Every record setting out the barriers reported by Canadians to having the number of children they intend to have, including any analysis of the gap between intended and achieved family size, and any record concerning access to fertility treatment and its effect on the number of births.

6. Every record setting out the total federal expenditure directed at supporting families with children, by programme and fiscal year, from 2019-2020 to the date of this request, and the measured effect of each programme on the number of births.

7. Every record of correspondence with Employment and Social Development Canada, the Department of Finance Canada, the Privy Council Office or Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada concerning the demographic consequences of the fertility rate and the Immigration Levels Plan.

FEE WAIVER

A waiver of the application fee is requested under subsection 11(2) of the Access to Information Act, which empowers the head of a government institution to waive or refund the fee. Employment and Social Development Canada waived the fee on the same request text on 8 September 2026.

The requester is an applicant for social assistance. The Social Benefits Tribunal issued an interim assistance order on 21 August 2026 in file 2608-06747 directing payment from 1 August 2026. The Director has not complied with that order and no payment has been made. The requester is without means to pay the fee.

A decision on this waiver request is required in writing. A refusal will be referred to the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada as a barrier to access.

FORMAT

Electronic copies are requested.

NEXT STEP

Failure to respond within 30 days will be referred to the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada. The absence of any federal programme carrying a fertility indicator will be placed before the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and before the Office of the Auditor General.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Access to Information request with fee waiver — federal response to the fertility rate, programmes and indicators

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act, together with a request for a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(2).

Employment and Social Development Canada is processing the same request text as A-2026-00370, and its Access to Information and Privacy Operations directorate identified the Department of Finance Canada as an institution likely to hold records within the scope set out below.

Statistics Canada reported that the total fertility rate of Canada fell to 1.25 children per woman in 2024, the lowest rate on record, placing Canada in the group of countries classified as having ultra-low fertility. The Immigration Levels Plan for 2026 to 2028 sets admissions of 380,000 permanent residents in each of those years. The records requested concern what the federal government does about the first of those facts.

DESCRIPTION OF RECORDS REQUESTED

1. Every federal programme in which the number of births, the total fertility rate, or the completed family size is named as a performance indicator in a Performance Information Profile prepared under the Treasury Board Policy on Results. If no such programme exists, provide the record confirming that fact.

2. Every policy analysis, briefing note, memorandum to Ministers, or Cabinet-level document prepared from 1 January 2019 to the date of this request addressing the decline in the total fertility rate and the options available to the federal government in response.

3. Every record in which immigration is identified as the federal response to the decline in the total fertility rate or to population ageing, including any record comparing that response against measures directed at the fertility rate itself.

4. Every cost-benefit analysis, fiscal projection, or departmental assessment comparing the cost of increased immigration against the cost of direct support to families and to childbearing.

5. Every fiscal projection prepared from 1 January 2019 to the date of this request in which the total fertility rate, the dependency ratio or population ageing is an input, including the long-term fiscal sustainability analyses.

6. Every record setting out the total federal expenditure directed at supporting families with children, by programme and fiscal year, from 2019-2020 to the date of this request, and the measured effect of each programme on the number of births.

7. Every record of correspondence with Employment and Social Development Canada, the Privy Council Office, Health Canada or Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada concerning the demographic consequences of the fertility rate and the Immigration Levels Plan.

FEE WAIVER

A waiver of the application fee is requested under subsection 11(2) of the Access to Information Act, which empowers the head of a government institution to waive or refund the fee. Employment and Social Development Canada waived the fee on the same request text on 8 September 2026.

The requester is an applicant for social assistance. The Social Benefits Tribunal issued an interim assistance order on 21 August 2026 in file 2608-06747 directing payment from 1 August 2026. The Director has not complied with that order and no payment has been made. The requester is without means to pay the fee.

A decision on this waiver request is required in writing. A refusal will be referred to the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada as a barrier to access.

FORMAT

Electronic copies are requested.

NEXT STEP

Failure to respond within 30 days will be referred to the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada. The absence of any federal programme carrying a fertility indicator will be placed before the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and before the Office of the Auditor General.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Access to Information request with fee waiver — the fertility rate at the centre of government

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act, together with an application for a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(2).

Period for the record search: 1 January 2019 to the date this request is processed.

I request the following records.

1. Every briefing note or analysis prepared for the Prime Minister or for the Clerk of the Privy Council addressing the decline in the total fertility rate, population ageing, or the size of future birth cohorts.

2. Every record in which immigration is identified as the federal response to the decline in the total fertility rate or to population ageing, including any record weighing that response against measures directed at the number of births.

3. Every record of a Deputy Minister committee, a policy committee, or an interdepartmental working group at which the fertility rate or population ageing was on the agenda, including agendas, decks and records of decision.

4. Every record concerning the coordination between Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada, the Department of Finance Canada and Statistics Canada on the demographic consequences of the fertility rate.

5. Every record identifying the official or unit responsible within the federal government for the fertility rate as a policy question. If no official or unit holds that responsibility, provide the record confirming that.

Limit the search to briefing notes, analyses, decks, agendas, records of decision and internal correspondence. Exclude media monitoring, news clippings and material already published on your website.

If no records answer a numbered item, say so expressly, item by item.

Section 69. Where a record is withheld as a confidence of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, identify each record withheld by date, type and originating institution, and state the paragraph of subsection 69(1) relied on. Where a record falls within subsection 69(3), release it.

Fee waiver. I receive social assistance under the Ontario Works Act and have no discretionary income. The fee is a real barrier to me and is none to the institution. The records concern whether the centre of the federal government has ever decided anything about the birth rate, and the public interest in that does not shrink because I cannot pay for it. Waive the application fee under subsection 11(2) and give the decision in writing. If the waiver is refused, give the reasons in writing with the name of the official who decided and the criteria applied.

Respectfully,
Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act - records concerning the age of majority in Ontario

Attention: Freedom of Information and Privacy Coordinator, Ministry of the Attorney General, McMurtry-Scott Building, 5th Floor, 720 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario.

Hello.

I make this request under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. I am a resident of Ontario. Please route this request to the Ministry of the Attorney General.

The subject is the age of majority set at 18 years by section 1 of the Age of Majority and Accountability Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. A.7.

1. All records held by the Ministry that set out the evidence, research or advice relied on in setting or maintaining the age of majority in Ontario at 18 years.

2. All records analysing an age of majority in Ontario other than 18, including 19, and all records stating the reason any other age was not adopted. British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut set the age of majority at 19.

3. All records considering whether the age of majority in Ontario should align with the age of sexual consent in the Criminal Code of Canada, or with the age of majority in other provinces and territories.

4. All records of correspondence between the Ministry and the Government of Canada, or between the Ministry and any other province or territory, concerning the age of majority or the age of sexual consent, dated between 1 January 2006 and the date this request is processed.

5. All briefing notes to the Attorney General concerning the age of majority in Ontario.

6. Any record showing that the Ministry holds no analysis of the age of majority, if that is the case.

Where the Ministry has no record answering a numbered item above, I ask for a written statement to that effect for that item, identifying the offices searched.

Time period. Items 1, 2, 3 and 5 are not limited by date unless a limit is necessary to process the request. If a date limit is required, please apply 1 January 2000 to the date of processing and tell me that you have done so.

Fees. I am without income. I request a waiver of the fee under subsection 57(4) of the Act on the ground of financial hardship, and on the further ground that dissemination of the records will benefit public health or safety, since the records concern the legal capacity of young people and the protection of children from sexual exploitation. If the waiver is refused, please tell me in writing before any chargeable work begins.

I ask for confirmation of receipt and a file number.

A refusal to process this request, or a failure to issue a decision within the time required by the Act, will be appealed to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Access to Information request with fee waiver — immigration levels, the total fertility rate and population ageing

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act, together with an application for a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(2).

Period for the record search: 1 January 2019 to the date this request is processed.

I request the following records.

1. Every record in which the decline in the total fertility rate, population ageing, or the ratio of workers to retirees is given as a reason for the immigration levels set in an Immigration Levels Plan.

2. The demographic analysis and population projections on which each Immigration Levels Plan tabled since 1 January 2019 was built, including the total fertility rate assumption used in each.

3. Every analysis of whether immigration offsets a declining birth rate over the long run, including any assessment of the effect of immigration on the age structure of the population, on the old-age dependency ratio, or on the fertility rate itself.

4. Every record comparing immigration against measures directed at the number of births in Canada, including any assessment of which of the two the department considers the more effective response to population ageing.

5. Every record of correspondence with the Department of Finance Canada, the Privy Council Office, Employment and Social Development Canada, or Statistics Canada concerning the demographic consequences of the fertility rate and the Immigration Levels Plan.

6. Every Performance Information Profile prepared under the Treasury Board Policy on Results for a programme related to immigration levels, and the record showing whether the number of births, the total fertility rate, or the age structure of the population is named as an indicator in any of them. If none is, provide the record confirming that.

Limit the search to briefing notes, memoranda to the Minister, decks, analyses, projections, Performance Information Profiles and internal correspondence. Exclude media monitoring, news clippings and material already published on your website.

If no records answer a numbered item, say so expressly, item by item.

Fee waiver. I receive social assistance under the Ontario Works Act and have no discretionary income. The fee is a real barrier to me and is none to the institution. The records concern whether the Government of Canada treats immigration as its answer to a falling birth rate, and the public interest in that question does not shrink because I cannot pay for it. Waive the application fee under subsection 11(2) and give the decision in writing. If the waiver is refused, give the reasons in writing with the name of the official who decided and the criteria applied.

Respectfully,
Danilo Dzyuban

Access to Information request with fee waiver — infertility, the total fertility rate and federal health records

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act, together with an application for a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(2).

Period for the record search: 1 January 2019 to the date this request is processed.

I request the following records.

1. Every analysis of infertility in Canada as a population health question, including its prevalence, its trend, and its contribution to the gap between the number of children Canadians intend to have and the number they have.

2. Every record concerning federal support for the treatment of infertility and for assisted human reproduction, including the cost of treatment to patients, the coverage available, and any assessment of access.

3. Every analysis of the effect of the rising age of first birth on health outcomes and on the number of children a person is able to have.

4. Every briefing note, memorandum to the Minister, or departmental analysis addressing the decline in the total fertility rate and the options available to Health Canada in response.

5. Every Performance Information Profile prepared under the Treasury Board Policy on Results in which the number of births, the total fertility rate, or completed family size is named as an indicator. If no such profile exists, provide the record confirming that.

6. Every record of correspondence with Employment and Social Development Canada, the Department of Finance Canada, the Privy Council Office, or Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada concerning the fertility rate and the demographic consequences of its decline.

Limit the search to briefing notes, memoranda to the Minister, analyses, assessments, Performance Information Profiles and internal correspondence. Exclude media monitoring, news clippings and material already published on your website.

If no records answer a numbered item, say so expressly, item by item.

Fee waiver. I receive social assistance under the Ontario Works Act and have no discretionary income. The fee is a real barrier to me and is none to the institution. The records concern whether the federal health portfolio treats a falling birth rate as a health question at all, and the public interest in that does not shrink because I cannot pay for it. Waive the application fee under subsection 11(2) and give the decision in writing. If the waiver is refused, give the reasons in writing with the name of the official who decided and the criteria applied.

Respectfully,
Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Access to Information Act - records underlying the age of protection, S.C. 2008, c. 6

Attention: Laura Riggs, Director, Access to Information and Privacy, Department of Justice Canada, 275 Sparks Street, 9th Floor - Building SAT, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H8.

Hello.

I make this request under section 6 of the Access to Information Act. I am a resident of Canada and I request access to the following records held by the Department of Justice.

The subject is the age of protection enacted by sections 13 and 54 of the Tackling Violent Crime Act, S.C. 2008, c. 6, which came into force on 1 May 2008 by SI/2008-34, and the close-in-age exceptions in subsections 150.1(2) and 150.1(2.1) of the Criminal Code.

1. All records held by the Department that set out the evidence, research, statistics or expert advice relied on in selecting 16 years as the age of protection, dated between 1 January 2006 and 28 February 2008. This includes briefing notes to the Minister, policy options papers, decks, and departmental research reports

2. All records analysing any age of protection other than 16 years, including 17, 18, 19, 21, 23 and 25, dated between 1 January 2006 and the date this request is processed, and all records stating the reason any such age was not adopted

3. All records that set out the evidence or reasoning relied on in selecting the close-in-age intervals of 2 years in subsection 150.1(2) and 5 years in subsection 150.1(2.1), including any analysis of other intervals

4. All Charter statements, Charter risk assessments, and legal analyses under sections 7 and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms held by the Department that address the age of protection or the close-in-age exceptions, dated between 1 January 2006 and the date this request is processed

5. All post-implementation evaluations, reviews, or effectiveness assessments of the 2008 age of protection, including any measurement of its effect on reported sexual offences against persons aged 14 to 17, and any record showing that no such evaluation was conducted

6. All records held by the Department analysing sexual offending against complainants aged 16 and 17, and against complainants aged 18 to 24, including any analysis of the adequacy of section 153 of the Criminal Code for those age groups, dated between 1 January 2008 and the date this request is processed

7. All records concerning the repeal of section 159 of the Criminal Code by S.C. 2019, c. 25, that address the constitutionality of an age of protection set above the general age

I request the records in electronic format.

Fees. I am without income and I am unable to pay the application fee. I request a waiver of the fee under subsection 11(6) of the Access to Information Act. The records sought concern the protection of minors from sexual exploitation under the Criminal Code, and the public benefit of their release is direct.

I require registration of this request on the date of its receipt, and a file number in writing. Where the Department holds no record answering any numbered item above, I require a written statement to that effect for that item, identifying the offices searched.

A refusal to register this request until a fee is paid, an absence of a file number, or an absence of a decision on the waiver request will be placed before the Information Commissioner of Canada under section 30 of the Act.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Access to Information request with fee waiver — fiscal projections, the total fertility rate and the cost of families against the cost of immigration

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act, together with an application for a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(2).

Period for the record search: 1 January 2019 to the date this request is processed.

I request the following records.

1. Every long-term economic and fiscal projection prepared by the department, and the total fertility rate assumption used in each, together with the record showing when that assumption was last revised and why.

2. Every analysis of the fiscal consequences of a falling birth rate, including any assessment of the effect on the tax base, on programme spending, and on the long-term financing of Old Age Security and the Canada Pension Plan.

3. Every cost-benefit analysis, fiscal projection, or departmental assessment comparing the cost of increased immigration against the cost of direct financial support to families and to childbearing.

4. Every measurement or estimate of the effect of the Canada Child Benefit on the number of births in Canada, and any record stating that no such measurement has been made.

5. Every record setting out a tax measure or transfer considered by the department to support family formation or to raise the number of births, including any measure that was assessed and not adopted.

6. Every record of correspondence with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, the Privy Council Office, or Employment and Social Development Canada concerning the demographic consequences of the fertility rate and the Immigration Levels Plan.

Limit the search to briefing notes, memoranda to the Minister, decks, analyses, projections, costings and internal correspondence. Exclude media monitoring, news clippings and material already published on your website.

If no records answer a numbered item, say so expressly, item by item.

Fee waiver. I receive social assistance under the Ontario Works Act and have no discretionary income. The fee is a real barrier to me and is none to the institution. The records concern whether the department that costs every federal decision has ever costed the birth rate, and the public interest in that does not shrink because I cannot pay for it. Waive the application fee under subsection 11(2) and give the decision in writing. If the waiver is refused, give the reasons in writing with the name of the official who decided and the criteria applied.

Respectfully,
Danilo Dzyuban

Access to Information request with fee waiver — Performance Information Profiles and measured results

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act, together with a request for a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(2).

The records requested concern performance measurement of the Department programmes, as required by the Treasury Board Policy on Results.

DESCRIPTION OF RECORDS REQUESTED

1. The Performance Information Profile for every programme in the Department Programme Inventory, in force at any time from 1 April 2022 to the date of this request, including the Federal 2SLGBTQI+ Action Plan and every programme funded under it.

2. For each Performance Information Profile identified in item 1, the performance indicators, the target set for each indicator, the date set for achieving each target, and the measured result reported against each indicator for each fiscal year.

3. Where no Performance Information Profile exists for a programme in the Programme Inventory, every record explaining the absence and every record of approval to proceed without one.

4. Total expenditure under the Federal 2SLGBTQI+ Action Plan by fiscal year from 2022-2023 to the date of this request, broken down by recipient organisation, amount, and stated purpose.

5. Every evaluation, audit, or third-party assessment of the programmes identified in item 1, including any finding that outcomes were not measured or could not be measured.

6. Every record setting out the outcome the Department attributes to the expenditures identified in item 4, expressed as a measured change in a named indicator.

7. All correspondence with the Treasury Board Secretariat concerning compliance with the Policy on Results in respect of the programmes identified in item 1, including any record of non-compliance.

FEE WAIVER

A waiver of the application fee is requested under subsection 11(2) of the Access to Information Act, which empowers the head of a government institution to waive or refund the fee.

The requester is an applicant for social assistance. The Social Benefits Tribunal issued an interim assistance order on 21 August 2026 in file 2608-06747 directing payment from 1 August 2026. The Director has not complied with that order and no payment has been made. The requester is without means to pay the fee.

The records concern compliance with a mandatory Treasury Board policy governing the expenditure of public funds.

A decision on this waiver request is required in writing. A refusal will be referred to the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada as a barrier to access.

FORMAT

Electronic copies are requested.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Access to Information Act — repeal of the definition of misconduct in the Public Service Superannuation Act by 1999, c. 34, s. 53

Hello,

I make this request under section 6 of the Access to Information Act. I am a person present in Canada and entitled to make this request under subsection 4 (1) of the Act as extended by the Access to Information Act Extension Order, No. 1.

The Public Service Superannuation Act, RSC 1985, c P-36, carries in its definitions the entry "misconduct [Repealed, 1999, c. 34, s. 53]". I am asking for the records behind that repeal and for what replaced it.

I request the following records held by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.

1. The text of the definition of "misconduct" in the Public Service Superannuation Act as it read immediately before its repeal by 1999, c. 34, s. 53, and the text of every provision of that Act that used the term at that time.

2. Records setting out the reason for the repeal, including analysis, briefing notes, memoranda to Ministers, and legislative drafting instructions prepared between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 2000 in respect of that repeal.

3. Records showing the number of occasions on which the provisions referred to in item 1 were applied in the 10 years before the repeal, and the outcome in each case.

4. Every policy, directive, guideline or instrument in force on the date of this request that governs the forfeiture, reduction, suspension or withholding of a benefit under the Public Service Superannuation Act where the contributor has been convicted of an offence arising out of the conduct of the contributor's office or employment.

5. If no record responsive to item 4 exists, a statement to that effect naming the officer who conducted the search, in accordance with the duty to assist in subsection 4 (2.1) of the Act.

I ask that the 5 dollar application fee be waived under paragraph 11 (6) (b). My income is social assistance and the subject matter concerns the public interest in the accountability of federal officeholders. If the fee is not waived, please tell me the payment method available to a person without a credit card.

I ask to receive the records electronically at this address.

Respectfully,
Danilo Dzyuban

Access to Information request with fee waiver — sex at birth variable, comparability of time series

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act, together with a request for a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(2).

The records requested concern the change of the sex variable in the Census of Population and in the statistical programmes of the Agency, and the effect of that change on the comparability of time series.

DESCRIPTION OF RECORDS REQUESTED

1. Every record identifying the authority under which the sex variable was modified and a gender variable introduced for the 2021 Census of Population, including any Order in Council made under the Statistics Act, any ministerial approval, and any decision of the Agency.

2. Every methodological assessment prepared by the Agency of the effect of the change identified in item 1 on the historical comparability of the sex variable, including any record quantifying the break in series and any record on the treatment of the change in population projections.

3. Every record setting out the standard in force for the collection of sex at birth across the statistical programmes of the Agency, including the list of programmes in which sex at birth is collected, the list in which it is not, and the date on which each programme ceased to collect it.

4. Every record setting out how the Agency produces vital statistics, life tables, fertility rates and mortality rates where the underlying administrative source records gender rather than sex at birth, and every assessment of the effect on those outputs.

5. All correspondence between the Agency and the provincial vital statistics registrars concerning the recording of sex at birth in birth registration and in death registration, from 1 January 2018 to the date of this request.

6. Every record setting out the cost of the change identified in item 1, including consultation, testing, system changes, and dissemination.

7. Every record setting out performance indicators, targets and measured results for the change identified in item 1, including any Performance Information Profile prepared under the Treasury Board Policy on Results.

8. Every record of a user, researcher, department or agency reporting a loss of comparability, a data quality concern, or an inability to analyse by sex as a result of the change identified in item 1.

FEE WAIVER

A waiver of the application fee is requested under subsection 11(2) of the Access to Information Act, which empowers the head of a government institution to waive or refund the fee.

The requester is an applicant for social assistance. The Social Benefits Tribunal issued an interim assistance order on 21 August 2026 in file 2608-06747 directing payment from 1 August 2026. The Director has not complied with that order and no payment has been made. The requester is without means to pay the fee.

The records concern the integrity of the national statistical record.

A decision on this waiver request is required in writing. A refusal will be referred to the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada as a barrier to access.

FORMAT

Electronic copies are requested, with any datasets in machine-readable form.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Access to Information Act — records concerning the guidance of 18 May 2022 on products of plant breeding

Hello,

I make this request under section 6 of the Access to Information Act. I am a Canadian resident and I request access to the following records held by Health Canada.

1. All correspondence between Health Canada and CropLife Canada, Seeds Canada, the Canada Grains Council, or any other industry association, concerning the novelty interpretation of products of plant breeding, dated between 1 January 2021 and 18 May 2022.

2. All records of meetings, including agendas, minutes, presentation decks and attendance lists, held between Health Canada officials and those associations on the same subject and in the same period.

3. All legal opinions, legal risk assessments, and internal analyses held by Health Canada that address the authority of the department to alter the application of Division 28 of Part B of the Food and Drug Regulations by guidance, dated between 1 January 2021 and the date this request is processed.

4. All records showing the number of submissions received under the Transparency Initiative for gene-edited foods since 18 May 2022, including any internal tally, tracking sheet or reporting document.

5. All records assessing the effect of voluntary labelling on consumers who follow religious or medical dietary restrictions, dated between 1 January 2021 and the date this request is processed.

I request the records in electronic format.

Fees. I am without income and I am unable to pay the application fee. I request a waiver of the fee under subsection 11(6) of the Access to Information Act. The records sought concern the safety and labelling of food sold to every resident of Canada, and the public benefit of their release is direct. If the waiver is refused, I ask to be advised in writing of the refusal, the reason for it, and the method of payment, and I will pay the 5.00 dollar fee.

I require registration of this request on the date of its receipt. Where the department holds no record answering any numbered item above, I require a written statement to that effect for that item.

A refusal to register this request until a fee is paid, an absence of a file number, or an absence of a decision on the waiver request will be placed before the Information Commissioner of Canada.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Access to Information Act — notifications under subsection 106(1) of CEPA for gene-edited plants, and records on the application of paragraph 106(6)(a)

Hello,

I make this request under section 6 of the Access to Information Act. I am a Canadian resident and I request access to the following records held by Environment and Climate Change Canada.

1. All notifications provided to the Minister under subsection 106(1) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 and the New Substances Notification Regulations (Organisms) in respect of gene-edited plants, from 18 May 2022 to the date this request is processed, showing the notifier and the date of each notification.

2. All correspondence between Environment and Climate Change Canada and Health Canada, or the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, or Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, concerning the application of paragraph 106(6)(a) of that Act to gene-edited plants determined to be non-novel, dated between 1 January 2021 and the date this request is processed.

3. All legal opinions, legal risk assessments and internal analyses held by the department addressing whether subsection 106(1) applies to a gene-edited plant that falls outside Part V of the Seeds Regulations under the guidance approved on 3 May 2023.

4. All records concerning any review of Schedule 4 of that Act after 3 May 2023, including any assessment of whether the Seeds Regulations continue to satisfy the condition in paragraph 106(6)(a) following the change in guidance.

5. All records showing the number of applications for investigation received under section 17 of that Act since 1 January 2023 that concern products of biotechnology, and the disposition of each.

I request the records in electronic format.

Where the department holds no record answering item 1, I require a written statement to that effect. That statement is the object of this request as much as any record.

Fees. I am without income and I am unable to pay the application fee. I request a waiver of the fee under subsection 11(6) of the Access to Information Act. The records sought concern living organisms released into the Canadian environment, and the public benefit of their release is direct. If the waiver is refused, I ask to be advised in writing of the refusal, the reason for it, and the method of payment, and I will pay the 5.00 dollar fee.

I require registration of this request on the date of its receipt. A refusal to register this request until a fee is paid, an absence of a file number, or an absence of a decision on the waiver request will be placed before the Information Commissioner of Canada.

I note for the record that I filed an application for investigation under section 17 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 with the Minister on 2 September 2026 on a related matter.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Access to Information request with fee waiver — federal response to the fertility rate, programmes and indicators

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act, together with a request for a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(2).

Statistics Canada reported that the total fertility rate of Canada fell to 1.25 children per woman in 2024, the lowest rate on record, placing Canada in the group of countries classified as having ultra-low fertility. The Immigration Levels Plan for 2026 to 2028 sets admissions of 380,000 permanent residents in each of those years. The records requested concern what the federal government does about the first of those facts.

DESCRIPTION OF RECORDS REQUESTED

1. Every federal programme in which the number of births, the total fertility rate, or the completed family size is named as a performance indicator in a Performance Information Profile prepared under the Treasury Board Policy on Results. If no such programme exists, provide the record confirming that fact.

2. Every policy analysis, briefing note, memorandum to Ministers, or Cabinet-level document prepared from 1 January 2019 to the date of this request addressing the decline in the total fertility rate and the options available to the federal government in response.

3. Every record in which immigration is identified as the federal response to the decline in the total fertility rate or to population ageing, including any record comparing that response against measures directed at the fertility rate itself.

4. Every cost-benefit analysis, fiscal projection, or departmental assessment comparing the cost of increased immigration against the cost of direct support to families and to childbearing.

5. Every record setting out the barriers reported by Canadians to having the number of children they intend to have, including the results of the Survey on Family Transitions and any analysis of the gap between intended and achieved family size.

6. Every record setting out the total federal expenditure directed at supporting families with children, by programme and fiscal year, from 2019-2020 to the date of this request, and the measured effect of each programme on the number of births.

7. Every record of correspondence with the Department of Finance Canada or the Privy Council Office concerning the demographic consequences of the fertility rate and the Immigration Levels Plan.

FEE WAIVER

A waiver of the application fee is requested under subsection 11(2) of the Access to Information Act, which empowers the head of a government institution to waive or refund the fee.

The requester is an applicant for social assistance. The Social Benefits Tribunal issued an interim assistance order on 21 August 2026 in file 2608-06747 directing payment from 1 August 2026. The Director has not complied with that order and no payment has been made. The requester is without means to pay the fee.

The records concern the demographic basis of federal policy.

A decision on this waiver request is required in writing. A refusal will be referred to the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada as a barrier to access.

FORMAT

Electronic copies are requested.

NEXT STEP

Failure to respond within 30 days will be referred to the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada. The absence of any federal programme carrying a fertility indicator will be placed before the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and before the Office of the Auditor General.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Access to Information Act — records concerning the Charter Statement for Bill C-22 (Lawful Access Act, 2026)

Hello,

I make this request under section 6 of the Access to Information Act. I am a Canadian resident and I request access to the following records held by the Department of Justice.

1. All records created in the course of the examination of Bill C-22 under section 4.1 of the Department of Justice Act and in the preparation of the Charter Statement tabled on 24 April 2026, including drafts, analyses, legal risk assessments, comments and approvals, dated between 1 September 2025 and 24 April 2026.

2. All records that address the application of R. v. Spencer, 2014 SCC 43, to any provision of Bill C-22, including the provision that became subsection 487.0195(3) of the Criminal Code and the confirmation of service demand under section 487.0121, dated between 1 September 2025 and the date this request is processed.

3. All records that address the application of R. v. Bykovets, 2024 SCC 6, to any provision of Bill C-22, in the same period.

4. All records that explain, direct or approve the content of the Charter Statement for Bill C-22, including any decision or instruction concerning which judicial decisions were to be cited or omitted, in the same period.

5. All records that address the compatibility with section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms of the receipt by a peace officer or public officer of information provided by a service provider because that provider is required to provide it by the law of a foreign state, in the same period.

6. All records that identify the safeguards said to be maintained in respect of the new section 22.07 of the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, including any analysis of dual criminality, of grounds of refusal, and of the human rights record of a requesting state, in the same period.

7. All records showing the reason for the interval of 43 days between the introduction of Bill C-22 on 12 March 2026 and the tabling of its Charter Statement on 24 April 2026, including any record of a request to expedite or to delay the tabling.

I request the records in electronic format.

Fees. I am without income and I am unable to pay the application fee. I request a waiver of the fee under subsection 11(6) of the Access to Information Act. The records concern the constitutional analysis of a bill that regulates the disclosure of information about every resident of Canada, and the public benefit of their release is direct. If the waiver is refused, I ask to be advised in writing of the refusal, the reason for it, and the method of payment, and I will pay the 5.00 dollar fee.

I require registration of this request on the date of its receipt. Where the Department holds no record answering any numbered item above, I require a written statement to that effect for that item.

The name and title of an officer or employee of a government institution on a document prepared by that person in the course of employment is not personal information under paragraph 3(j) of the Privacy Act. I require that such names and titles be released and not severed.

A refusal to register this request until a fee is paid, an absence of a file number, or an absence of a decision on the waiver request will be placed before the Information Commissioner of Canada.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Access to Information request with fee waiver — Sport Canada funding conditions, female category eligibility

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act, together with a request for a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(2).

The records requested concern the conditions attached to federal funding of national sport organisations in respect of eligibility for the female category.

DESCRIPTION OF RECORDS REQUESTED

1. Every funding condition, policy requirement, or contribution agreement clause imposed by Sport Canada on a national sport organisation concerning eligibility for participation in the female category, in force at any time from 1 January 2020 to the date of this request.

2. Every record identifying the legal authority for the conditions identified in item 1, including any statute, regulation, Order in Council, or ministerial direction.

3. All correspondence between Sport Canada and any national sport organisation concerning eligibility for the female category, from 1 January 2020 to the date of this request.

4. Every record setting out the effect on funding where a national sport organisation adopts eligibility rules for the female category based on sex at birth, including any assessment of whether such rules place funding at risk.

5. Every record of correspondence between Canadian Heritage and the Government of Alberta concerning the Fairness and Safety in Sport Act, and every internal analysis of that Act prepared by the Department.

6. Every record of correspondence with World Athletics, World Aquatics, or the International Olympic Committee concerning eligibility for the female category, from 1 January 2022 to the date of this request.

7. Every record setting out performance indicators, targets, and measured results for federal programmes concerning gender in sport, including any Performance Information Profile prepared under the Treasury Board Policy on Results, and the measured results reported against each indicator.

8. Every record setting out the number of complaints, appeals or safe-sport files received concerning eligibility for the female category, from 1 January 2020 to the date of this request, in aggregate form.

FEE WAIVER

A waiver of the application fee is requested under subsection 11(2) of the Access to Information Act, which empowers the head of a government institution to waive or refund the fee.

The requester is an applicant for social assistance. The Social Benefits Tribunal issued an interim assistance order on 21 August 2026 in file 2608-06747 directing payment from 1 August 2026. The Director has not complied with that order and no payment has been made. The requester is without means to pay the fee.

A decision on this waiver request is required in writing. A refusal will be referred to the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada as a barrier to access.

FORMAT

Electronic copies are requested.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Access to Information Act — records placed before the Minister before the approval of 3 May 2023

Hello,

I make this request under section 6 of the Access to Information Act. I am a Canadian resident and I request access to the following records held by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

1. All briefing notes, memoranda to the Minister, decision notes and annexes placed before the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food concerning the approval of Canadian Food Inspection Agency guidance for Part V of the Seeds Regulations, dated between 1 January 2022 and 3 May 2023.

2. All correspondence between the office of the Minister and CropLife Canada, Seeds Canada, or any other industry association, on that approval, in the same period.

3. All correspondence between the office of the Minister and organic sector organizations or farmer organizations on that approval, in the same period.

4. All records held by the department assessing the effect of that approval on the organic sector, including any estimate of contamination risk or of loss of certification.

5. All records concerning compensation available to a producer who loses organic certification through contamination by a gene-edited plant variety.

I request the records in electronic format.

Fees. I am without income and I am unable to pay the application fee. I request a waiver of the fee under subsection 11(6) of the Access to Information Act. The records sought concern a ministerial decision that removed government oversight from seed entering the Canadian food supply, and the public benefit of their release is direct. If the waiver is refused, I ask to be advised in writing of the refusal, the reason for it, and the method of payment, and I will pay the 5.00 dollar fee.

I require registration of this request on the date of its receipt. Where the department holds no record answering any numbered item above, I require a written statement to that effect for that item.

A refusal to register this request until a fee is paid, an absence of a file number, or an absence of a decision on the waiver request will be placed before the Information Commissioner of Canada.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Access to Information Act — why armed conflict and nuclear attack are absent from the National Risk Profile

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act.

I am a person present in Canada and entitled to make this request under subsection 4(1) of the Act as extended by the Access to Information Act Extension Order, No. 1.

Period covered: 1 January 2020 to the date this request is processed.

This request concerns the National Risk Profile. Its first public report, published in May 2023, assesses earthquakes, wildland fires and floods. The published material identifies nuclear and radiological attack only as a hazard that may be selected for a future round. It states that the selection of hazards for future rounds is contingent on resource allocation.

I request the following records.

1. Any record explaining why three hazards were not assessed in the first or second round of the National Risk Profile. Armed conflict. Armed attack on Canada. Nuclear attack on Canada

2. Any record of the decision on which hazards to include in each round, including the criteria applied and the officials who made that decision

3. Any assessment held by the Department of the risk of nuclear attack on Canada, or of armed conflict affecting Canada

4. Any record concerning the policies, programs and measures established under section 6(1) of the Emergency Management Act, so far as they require ministers to address the case of war or other armed conflict under paragraph 6(2)(d)

5. Any record identifying which minister is responsible for identifying the risk of nuclear attack on Canada under section 6(1) of that Act

Please exclude media monitoring and news clippings.

If no records responsive to any numbered item exist, I request that your response state that expressly, item by item.

I request a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(6) of the Act. I receive social assistance under the Ontario Works Act and have no discretionary income. If the waiver is refused, tell me how to pay and I will pay the fee. If it is refused, I request the reasons in writing together with the criteria applied.

I prefer to receive records electronically.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Access to Information Act — Cabinet-level records on allied assurances and on statements about the annexation of Canada

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act.

I am a person present in Canada and entitled to make this request under subsection 4(1) of the Act as extended by the Access to Information Act Extension Order, No. 1.

Period covered: 1 January 2024 to the date this request is processed.

I request the following records.

1. Any memorandum to Cabinet, briefing note to the Prime Minister, or record of Cabinet committee consideration concerning the reliability of allied assurances to defend Canada against nuclear attack

2. Any record concerning statements made publicly by officials of the United States on three subjects. The annexation of Canada. The accession of Canada as a state of the United States. An alteration of the international boundary. This item includes any assessment of whether those statements affect the defence relationship between the two countries

3. Any record concerning contingency planning for a reduction, conditioning or withdrawal of United States participation in the defence of North America

4. Any record concerning an independent Canadian nuclear deterrent, Canadian nuclear latency, or a recessed deterrent capability

Please exclude media monitoring and news clippings.

If no records responsive to any numbered item exist, I request that your response state that expressly, item by item.

I request a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(6) of the Act. I receive social assistance under the Ontario Works Act and have no discretionary income. If the waiver is refused, tell me how to pay and I will pay the fee. If it is refused, I request the reasons in writing together with the criteria applied.

I prefer to receive records electronically.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Access to Information Act — the emergency management plan required by section 6 of the Emergency Management Act

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act.

I am a person present in Canada and entitled to make this request under subsection 4(1) of the Act as extended by the Access to Information Act Extension Order, No. 1.

Period covered: 1 January 2020 to the date this request is processed.

Section 6(1)(a) of the Emergency Management Act requires each minister accountable to Parliament for a government institution to identify the risks within or related to their area of responsibility and to prepare emergency management plans in respect of those risks. Section 6(2)(d) requires that such a plan include, in the case of war or other armed conflict, measures that mitigate the effects of foreign armed conflict on Canada.

I request the following records.

1. Any emergency management plan prepared under section 6(1)(a) of the Emergency Management Act in respect of nuclear attack on Canada

2. Any emergency management plan prepared under that section in respect of war or other armed conflict affecting Canada

3. Any list, register or inventory of the risks the Minister has identified under section 6(1). This item covers risks within the area of the Department and risks related to it

4. Any record of a test, exercise or training activity conducted under section 6(1)(c) about a plan described in item 1 or item 2

5. Any record concerning whether nuclear attack on Canada has been identified as a risk under section 6(1) and, if it has not, any record explaining why

Please exclude media monitoring and news clippings.

If no records responsive to any numbered item exist, I request that your response state that expressly, item by item.

I request a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(6) of the Act. I receive social assistance under the Ontario Works Act and have no discretionary income. If the waiver is refused, tell me how to pay and I will pay the fee. If it is refused, I request the reasons in writing together with the criteria applied.

I prefer to receive records electronically.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Access to Information Act — what instrument obliges anyone to defend Canada, and what happens if it ends

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act.

I am a person present in Canada and entitled to make this request under subsection 4(1) of the Act as extended by the Access to Information Act Extension Order, No. 1.

Period covered: 1 January 2024 to the date this request is processed.

I request the following records.

1. Any record identifying the instrument in which an obligation of any state to defend Canada against nuclear attack is recorded, or stating that no such instrument exists

2. Any record concerning the consequences for the defence of Canada of two events. The termination of the Agreement on the North American Aerospace Defense Command of 28 April 2006 under its 12-month notice provision. The denunciation of the North Atlantic Treaty by any Party under Article 13 of that Treaty

3. Any record concerning contingency planning for a reduction, conditioning or withdrawal of United States participation in the defence of North America

4. Any record assessing statements made publicly by officials of the United States on three subjects. The annexation of Canada. The accession of Canada as a state of the United States. An alteration of the international boundary

5. Any record concerning whether Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty obliges any Party to respond to a nuclear attack on Canada with nuclear weapons

Please limit the search to briefing notes, memoranda to the Minister, option papers, assessments, analyses and contingency plans. Please exclude media monitoring and news clippings.

If no records responsive to any numbered item exist, I request that your response state that expressly, item by item.

I request a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(6) of the Act. I receive social assistance under the Ontario Works Act and have no discretionary income. If the waiver is refused, tell me how to pay and I will pay the fee. If it is refused, I request the reasons in writing together with the criteria applied.

I prefer to receive records electronically.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Access to Information Act — the legal meaning of Article 5 and the termination clauses Canada relies upon

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act.

I am a person present in Canada and entitled to make this request under subsection 4(1) of the Act as extended by the Access to Information Act Extension Order, No. 1.

Period covered: 1 January 2024 to the date this request is processed.

I request the following records.

1. Any legal opinion or analysis concerning the meaning of the words "such action as it deems necessary" in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, and whether those words impose an obligation to use force

2. Any legal opinion or analysis concerning Article 13 of the North Atlantic Treaty and the consequences for Canada of a denunciation by any Party

3. Any legal opinion or analysis concerning the 12-month termination provision of the Agreement on the North American Aerospace Defense Command of 28 April 2006

4. Any record assessing statements made publicly by officials of the United States on three subjects. The annexation of Canada. The accession of Canada as a state of the United States. An alteration of the international boundary. This item includes any record of the response of Canada to such statements

5. Any record identifying which state or states Canada relies upon for deterrence against nuclear attack, and the instrument in which that reliance is recorded

Please exclude media monitoring and news clippings.

If no records responsive to any numbered item exist, I request that your response state that expressly, item by item.

I request a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(6) of the Act. I receive social assistance under the Ontario Works Act and have no discretionary income. If the waiver is refused, tell me how to pay and I will pay the fee. If it is refused, I request the reasons in writing together with the criteria applied.

I prefer to receive records electronically.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Access to Information Act — sex-disaggregated custody rates, Table 35-10-0030-01

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act.

I am a person present in Canada and entitled to make this request under subsection 4(1) of the Act as extended by the Access to Information Act Extension Order, No. 1.

Period covered: 1 January 2015 to the date this request is processed.

I request the following records:

1. Any internal analysis computing the rate of custodial sentences by the sex of the accused while controlling for offence category, prior criminal record, or plea, drawn from the Integrated Criminal Court Survey or from Table 35-10-0030-01.

2. Any request received from another federal department, agency, or from a parliamentary body, for such an analysis, and the response given.

3. Any record explaining why published tables present sex of accused and offence category as separate dimensions without a published joint control for prior record and plea.

4. Any record of a decision not to publish an analysis of sex-based differences in sentencing outcomes.

Please exclude media monitoring and material already published on your website.

If no records responsive to any numbered item exist, I request that your response state that expressly, item by item.

I request a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(6) of the Act. I receive social assistance under the Ontario Works Act and have no discretionary income. If the waiver is refused, tell me how to pay and I will pay the fee. If it is refused, I request the reasons in writing together with the criteria applied.

I prefer to receive records electronically.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Access to Information Act — reliability of allied nuclear assurances and Canadian deterrent options

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act.

I am a person present in Canada and entitled to make this request under subsection 4(1) of the Act as extended by the Access to Information Act Extension Order, No. 1.

Period covered: 1 January 2020 to the date this request is processed.

I request the following records.

1. Any assessment of the reliability, legal enforceability, or durability of assurances given by any allied state to defend Canada against nuclear attack

2. Any analysis, cost estimate, feasibility study, or option paper concerning an independent Canadian nuclear deterrent, or concerning Canadian nuclear latency or a recessed deterrent capability

3. Any briefing note prepared for the Minister addressing Canada's options if extended nuclear deterrence provided by an allied state were withdrawn, conditioned, or reduced

4. Any record concerning the nuclear certification status of aircraft acquired or to be acquired by Canada

Please limit the search to briefing notes, memoranda to the Minister, option papers, assessments and analyses. Please exclude media monitoring and news clippings.

If no records responsive to any numbered item exist, I request that your response state that expressly, item by item.

I request a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(6) of the Act. I receive social assistance under the Ontario Works Act and have no discretionary income. If the waiver is refused, tell me how to pay and I will pay the fee. If it is refused, I request the reasons in writing together with the criteria applied.

I prefer to receive records electronically.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Access to Information Act — Article X of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and assurances to Canada

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act.

I am a person present in Canada and entitled to make this request under subsection 4(1) of the Act as extended by the Access to Information Act Extension Order, No. 1.

Period covered: 1 January 2020 to the date this request is processed.

I request the following records.

1. Any legal analysis of Article X of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as it applies to Canada, including any assessment of the procedure, consequences or timing of a withdrawal by Canada

2. Any assessment of the legal enforceability of assurances given to Canada by any allied state concerning the defence of Canada against nuclear attack, including any record identifying the instrument in which such an assurance is recorded

3. Any briefing note prepared for the Minister addressing the effect on Canadian security of a reduction, conditioning or withdrawal of extended nuclear deterrence

4. Any record concerning the position of Canada on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons since 1 January 2020

Please exclude media monitoring and news clippings.

If no records responsive to any numbered item exist, I request that your response state that expressly, item by item.

I request a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(6) of the Act. I receive social assistance under the Ontario Works Act and have no discretionary income. If the waiver is refused, tell me how to pay and I will pay the fee. If it is refused, I request the reasons in writing together with the criteria applied.

I prefer to receive records electronically.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

Request under the Access to Information Act — section 233 Criminal Code and sex-based sentencing differences

Hello,

This is a request under the Access to Information Act.

I am a person present in Canada and entitled to make this request under subsection 4(1) of the Act as extended by the Access to Information Act Extension Order, No. 1.

Period covered: 1 January 2015 to the date this request is processed.

I request the following records:

1. Any Charter Statement, legal risk assessment, or departmental legal analysis concerning section 233 of the Criminal Code (infanticide) and its consistency with section 15 or section 28 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

2. Any briefing note, memorandum to the Minister, deck, or departmental analysis addressing differences in sentencing outcomes between male offenders and female offenders in Canada.

3. Any correspondence between this department and Statistics Canada requesting, discussing or declining a disaggregation of sentencing data by the sex of the offender.

4. Any record identifying an official or unit responsible for monitoring sex-based differences in sentencing outcomes.

Please limit the search to briefing notes, memoranda, legal analyses, Charter Statements and internal correspondence. Please exclude media monitoring, news clippings and material already published on your website.

If no records responsive to any numbered item exist, I request that your response state that expressly, item by item.

I request a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(6) of the Act. I receive social assistance under the Ontario Works Act and have no discretionary income. If the waiver is refused, tell me how to pay and I will pay the fee. If it is refused, I request the reasons in writing together with the criteria applied.

I prefer to receive records electronically.

Respectfully,

Danilo Dzyuban

New access request under FIPPA — three named ministry records on Emergency Assistance for Ukrainian migrants — Danilo Dzyuban

Hello,

This is a new request under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. It is separate from my requests 49774597, 49777099, 49777100, 49777101 and from the fifth eRequest 20260731233001014, and it should not be merged with them.

RECORDS REQUESTED.

Every final version in force at any time between 1 January 2022 and the date this request is processed of each of the following ministry records, named by those titles in a municipal delivery agent's operating policy:

1. Ukrainian Migrants Q&A
2. Emergency Assistance for Ukrainian Migrants
3. 27-22 Emergency Assistance for Ukrainian Migrants, Revised

WHY THESE TITLES ARE STATED THIS WAY.

The City of Ottawa released records to me on 26 August 2026 under its file AGR-2026-00759. The City's operating document "Emergency Assistance", CSSD/ESS/OSU 03/2025, lists these 3 titles in its REFERENCES section. The City stated in the same release that the links to them "point to a Provincial internal only extranet site and is is not available to share publicly". The ministry is therefore the institution that holds them.

No personal information is sought.

SCOPE AND FEES.

If a fee estimate would exceed 25 dollars, please contact me before processing and I will narrow the request. I will pay the 5 dollar application fee by whichever method your office directs, and I ask that the request be opened on receipt of this message so that the timeline runs from today.

Respectfully,
Danilo Dzyuban

Access to Information Act request — completed PIAs and Privacy Checklists received from IRCC concerning disclosures to provincial social assistance authorities (ref: P-2026-0153)

Hello,

This is a request under section 4 of the Access to Information Act, addressed to the Secretariat's own holdings. Reference: my correspondence with the Privacy and Responsible Data Division under P-2026-0153, including that Division's reply of August 13, 2026.

Records requested, for the period January 1, 2018 to the date of this request:

1. All completed Privacy Impact Assessments received by the Secretariat from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada under section C.2.2.12.1 of the Directive on Privacy Practices that concern the disclosure of immigration status, refugee claim or removal information to provincial or territorial social assistance authorities, including the Ontario Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services; or an index of such PIAs.

2. All approved Privacy Checklists provided to the Secretariat under section C.2.2.8 covering any multi-institutional assessment of that activity.

3. Records showing the mechanism, if any, by which the Secretariat verified compliance with sections C.2.2.9 and C.2.2.12 in respect of disclosures of personal information by IRCC to another level of government for social assistance eligibility determinations.

4. If no records exist under items 1 to 3, records sufficient to show that fact.

Please register this request and advise the method for paying the $5.00 application fee; I confirm I will pay it. A public-interest fee waiver under section 11(6) is requested: the records concern the framework governing disclosures of personal information about a vulnerable category of applicants, and their existence or absence bears on questions now before the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (file PA-075049).

I am an individual present in Canada. I communicate in writing; please direct all correspondence to this email address.

Respectfully,
Danilo Dzyuban

Access to Information Act request — general records (NPower Canada funding terms, YESS)

Access to Information and Privacy Coordinator Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)

Request under the Access to Information Act — GENERAL RECORDS

This is a request for general records under the Access to Information Act. No personal information is sought.

Context: ESDC has publicly announced funding to NPower Canada under the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy (YESS) Program (news release, October 2024, "NPowering Underrepresented Youth to Overcome Barriers to Employment"). This request concerns the eligibility terms attached to that funding.

Records requested — for the period January 1, 2022 to the date this request is processed:

1. The funding or contribution agreement(s) between ESDC and NPower Canada under the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy (YESS) Program, including all schedules setting out participant eligibility requirements.

2. Any terms, conditions, or guidance in those agreements — or in the YESS Program terms and conditions generally — that address the immigration status or work-authorization of program participants, including any requirement that a participant hold a work permit valid for a minimum period.

3. Any records indicating whether the requirement that a participant's work permit be valid for at least 12 months from a program's start date originates from ESDC / YESS funding terms, or is set by the funded organization.

Form of access: Electronic copies to the email address above.

Fee waiver: I request a fee waiver on public-interest grounds; these records concern whether a publicly funded employment program excludes non-removable refugee claimants by their status. If any fee is expected, please provide a written estimate first.

Date: July 28, 2026
Danilo Dzyuban