Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada: Immigration levels, the total fertility rate and population ageingNot registered
4 Sept 2026 · Access to Information Act
11 Sept: the Department answered that every request must go through the Treasury Board portal. No file number.
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