Access to Information Modernization Action Plan Tracker

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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:
(C01) Improving Services to Canadians
Subcategory:
(C01.1) Actions to strengthen the access to information workforce
Status:
Ongoing
Action Number:
C01.1.1
Target Date:
Ongoing
Benefits:

Through standardized and centralized training ATI professionals better understand key provisions of the Access to Information Act (ATIA) and can apply it consistently.

Canadians obtain more consistent and higher quality responses to ATI requests.

Results:

Since 2022, the Access to Information and Privacy Communities Development Office (APCDO) has been offering onboarding sessions to new access to information and privacy (ATIP) professionals and training sessions on specific sections of the ATIA.

In fiscal year 2023-24, onboarding sessions were delivered to over 750 ATIP professionals who have worked in the field for six months or less.

In addition, training sessions were delivered to over 1,700 participants on topics such as exemptions (information obtained in confidence, personal information, and investigations), exclusions (Cabinet Confidences), and proactive publication.

APCDO also provided information sessions to over 1,550 ATIP professionals on topics of interest such as investigations and complaints, advancing Indigenous reconciliation, the new Directive on Proactive Publication under the Access to Information Act, declassification, and annual reporting requirements.