Completed Access to Information Requests

Final records from January 1, 2023, to March 27, 2025, regarding the following:

Increased Funding to the ATIP Office:
- Internal documents detailing the allocation, use, and impact of surge capacity funding provided to Canada Boder Services Agency's (CBSA) Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) unit since 2021-22.
- Budget forecasts and expenditure reports related to ATIP funding from 2020-21 to 2025-26.
- Internal records discussing the stabilization of ATIP funding through A-base funding in 2024-25 and 2025-26.

Robotic Process Automation (RPA):
- Internal records on the implementation of RPA tools within CBSA's ATIP unit, including procurement documents, expected benefits, and operational impacts.
- Records estimating cost savings or efficiency improvements related to RPA tools replacing 15 full-time employees.
- Internal plans for additional RPAs in 2024-25 and 2025-26.

Updated Delegation Order:
- The updated delegation order issued in November 2023 under section 95 of the Act.
- Internal analysis, briefing notes, or communications discussing the rationale for expanding delegation authority.
- Internal evaluations or reports assessing the impact of the new delegation structure on ATIP response times.

CBSA's Internal Efforts to Improve Consistency in ATIP Processing:
- Internal records related to CBSA's role in reviewing procedures for handling immigration-related ATIP requests.
- Any CBSA-internal assessments or discussions on consistency in processing ATIP requests.

CBSA's Internal ATIP Unit Meetings and Collaboration Efforts:
- Meeting minutes, reports, or internal correspondence from CBSA-only ATIP unit discussions on processing strategies, trends, exemptions, and efficiency improvements.
- Documents outlining outcomes or action plans from CBSA's internal senior management discussions on ATIP processing.

Excludes Cabinet confidences.