Completed Access to Information Requests
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Search the summaries of completed Access to Information (ATI) requests to find information about ATI requests made to the Government of Canada after January 2020. If you find a summary of interest, you can request a copy of the records at no cost using the form below each summary. Requests made through this form are considered informal requests and are not subject to the same requirements as requests under the Access to Information Act (ATIA). For additional information, please see the “About Access to Information Requests” webpage.
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Request a copy of any internal audits conducted by the Department of Veterans Affairs published between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2019.
For the fiscal years ending from 2002-2019, request to know the total Pension Act benefits (dollar amount) paid and administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs Canada.
For the fiscal years ending from 2002 to 2019, we request to know the number of persons (including survivors) that receive Pension Act benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs Canada.
Date Range: June 10, 2017 – October 29, 2019
All correspondence / Information (sent and received) held by VAC, including, but not limited to:
- briefing notes
- emails
- memos
- personal notes
- Power Point presentations
- interoffice ministerial communication
- strategic planning documents
- legal opinions
- MOU’s
- budgetary items
between VAC and or any other GOC Departments including TBS, HRSDC and RCMP on the modification, conversion, revocation, moving or replacement of the present RCMP Disability Pension program which is now administered by VAC under the Pension Act. Please include communications related to the RCMP leaving …
- All information and records, including notes, memoranda, communication, reports, etc. relating to Mefloquine.
- All communication with Health Canada relating to Mefloquine, including in relation to VAC's request for a review of Mefloquine by Health Canada
Requesting all briefing material and memos prepared for the Deputy Minister and/ or the Minister and his or her exempt staff dealing with Pension for Life. Limit to records created between April 1, 2018 to February 25, 2019.
All documents (e.g. emails, letters, faxes, post-it notes, minutes of external and internal review committee
deliberations, any other correspondence) related to the applications made by the Ukrainian Canadian Civil
Liberties Foundation for grants from the Community War Memorial Program and the Commemorative
Partnership Program of Veterans Affairs in support of UCCLF's "Heroes of their Day" project, specifically
documents detailing the bases upon which internal and external review committees decided not to extend any
support for this project.
Request all information held by VAC regarding the development of the “Discussion Paper on Hearing Loss”
prepared by John Rutka MD FRCSC. Information to include all documents, notes, emails both hard copy and
electronic in preparation of this report. The report is dated June 2010, Updated December 2011. The interest is
in all material used in the development of this report prior to 2010, information held after the report’s
development, to include the update of this report in December 2011, as well as all material since 2011
addressing any further update. Included in this request are all materials held by …
Any and all records related to funding awarded to the Multifaith Housing Initiative to provide housing for homeless veterans to be built in Ottawa. Any and all records that detail the estimated number of homeless
veterans in Ottawa and in across Canada. Requesting any documents submitted by the Multifaith Housing Initiative, how the competition for funding was adjudicated and how the department decided to award the
funding. I’m specifically looking for the number of veterans who were estimated to be homeless in Ottawa and nationally at the time of the proposal – so in 2019 – and total numbers for …
All records and communications in all formats associated with STIFF and the Veterans Affairs Canada
Outreach and Engagement Outline including but not limited to its formulation as an idea, its creation, editing,
distribution, implementation, etc. Please provide contracts and costing associated with this.