Open Government Portal

From October 2017 to April 2018, the Government of Canada conducted public consultations to develop Canada’s 4th Plan on Open Government (2018-2020). These datasets contain the comments, questions and ideas received, as well as the coding added to conduct the qualitative analysis. Private personal identifiers have been removed from the data. There are three sets of data: one entitled “Compilation” which contains the bulk of the actual comments, the second entitled “Individual Feedback” contains feedback received from participants on the engagement process and the third “Event Table” provides details on the events used to collect the data.

This document contains the full set of draft commitments for Canada’s 2018-2020 National Action Plan on Open Government. For more information, please visit the Creating Canada’s Action Plan on Open Government 2016–18 page. Please comment on this page or email your feedback to open-ouvert@tbs-sct.gc.ca.

This is the preliminary draft of the Open Government consultation plan for the 2020-22 National Action Plan. This document provides an overview of the approach the Open Government team plans to take for their upcoming consultations and includes the objectives, context, challenges, and proposed collaborators. This plan will continue to evolve and will serve as the foundation for how Canada’s 2020-2022 National Action Plan will be developed.

From March 31 to July 15, 2016, the Government of Canada conducted public consultations in support of developing Canada’s Third Biennial Plan to the Open Government Partnership (2016-2018). The datasets contain the comments, questions and ideas received, as well as the coding added to conduct the qualitative analysis. Private personal identifiers have been removed from the data. There are two sets of data; one entitled Compilation and, the other Individual Comments, as well as a supporting document entitled release notes that describes the content in detail.

From April 24 to October 20, 2014, the Government of Canada conducted public consultations in support of developing Canada’s Action Plan on Open Government 2014-2016. The datasets contain the comments, questions and ideas received, as well as the coding added to conduct the qualitative analysis. Personal identifiers have been removed from the data. There are two sets of data; one entitled Compilation and, the other Individual Comments, as well as a supporting document entitled release notes that describes the content in detail.

In 2020, the federal Office of the Chief Science Advisor issued the Roadmap for Open Science, which outlined core principles and 10 recommendations to guide Open Science activities in Canada. The recommendations call for a phased and incremental adoption of Open Science approaches, which apply to all federally funded scientific and research outputs. Since a number of recommendations require direct action by federal science-based departments and agencies, science departments were asked to develop a responsive action plan articulating specific commitments and goals that respond to the Roadmap’s recommendations. This document outlines the NRC’s commitments and actions.

Canada’s first plan to the Open Government Partnership, after joining the OGP in 2011, set a direction for how Government manages and releases records and changed Canada’s open data portal, data.gc.ca, from a pilot into a permanent program. This Action Plan was structured along three streams of activity: open data, open information, and open dialogue.

Canada’s second Action Plan included the Directive on Open Government, which made it mandatory for federal government departments and agencies to maximize the release of data and information. This Plan also established commitments to collaborate with provinces, territories, and municipalities through Open Data Canada, with the private sector through the Open Data Exchange, and with the international community through Open Data for Development. 2014-16 also saw an expansion of Government of Canada work on open contracting and open financial data and information.

This dataset consolidates all the consultations submitted by departments and agencies in the Government of Canada.

Please note that consultations that were entered before January 2018 may be missing information such as description and subject(s). In spring of 2018, consultation information from Government of Canada departments and agencies was migrated to this dataset and new values and fields were added.

During January and early February 2020, the Government of Canada launched consultations on medical assistance in dying (MAID). The online consultation, which was a short questionnaire, was open to all members of the public from the morning of Monday, January 13th through to midnight on Monday, January 27th. Consultations with experts and stakeholders also took place via a series of ten roundtables held across the country between Monday, January 13th and Monday, February 3rd.

This What We Heard report summarizes the findings from these consultations.