Access to Information Modernization Action Plan Tracker

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Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) published the Access to Information Modernization Action Plan in May 2024. The three-year plan (fiscal year 2023-24 to 2025-26) sets out actions to improve the operations and administration of the access to information regime. This tracker enables interested members of the public to follow progress in implementing the actions set out in the action plan.

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Action: Provide information sessions, training, and professional development to access to information (ATI) professionals, including training on specific issues such as the duty to assist and declining to act.

Organization: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Category: Improving Services to Canadians
Subcategory: Actions to strengthen the access to information workforce
Target Date: Ongoing
Status: Ongoing

Action: Lead external recruitment processes to hire new access to information (ATI) professionals.

Organization: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Category: Improving Services to Canadians
Subcategory: Actions to strengthen the access to information workforce
Target Date: Ongoing
Status: Ongoing

Action: Ensure requirements related to open data are clear, including targeting information and data of public interest.

Organization: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Category: Enhancing Trust and Transparency
Subcategory: Actions to enhance open and transparent government
Target Date: Ongoing
Status: Ongoing

Action: Support Indigenous Data Sovereignty by working with other departments to advance Indigenous control of federal information, and Indigenous-led information and data strategies, per Action Plan Measure Shared Priority #30 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act Action Plan.

Organization: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Category: Advancing Indigenous Reconcilation
Subcategory: Actions to advance Indigenous Reconciliation
Target Date: Ongoing
Status: Ongoing

Action: Work with Crown and Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) and Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) to accelerate the transfer of records relevant to Indigenous Peoples to Library and Archives Canada (LAC), as recommended by Indigenous partners.

Organization: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Category: Advancing Indigenous Reconcilation
Subcategory: Actions to advance Indigenous Reconciliation
Target Date: Ongoing
Status: Ongoing

Action: Increase cultural competency training for access to information and privacy (ATIP) professionals.

Organization: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Category: Advancing Indigenous Reconcilation
Subcategory: Actions to advance Indigenous Reconciliation
Target Date: Ongoing
Status: Ongoing

Action: Support the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act in the context of access to information (ATI) services.

Organization: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Category: Advancing Indigenous Reconcilation
Subcategory: Actions to advance Indigenous Reconciliation
Target Date: Ongoing
Status: Ongoing