Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat: Privacy Impact Assessments received from IRCC on disclosure to the provincesHeld for five dollars
13 Aug 2026 · Access to Information Act · A-2026-00329
18 Aug: “Missing fee”; the waiver under s. 11(6) never decided. Complaint to the Information Commissioner, file 5826-03516; investigation under s. 30(1)(b) opened 4 Sept.
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