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Q-937
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Monday, March 9, 2026 |
With regard to contracts, subscriptions, pilot projects, memoranda of understanding, task authorizations, statements of work, licences or other arrangements related to artificial intelligence technologies, including generative artificial intelligence, entered into by the government since January 1, 2023, and broken down by department, agency, Crown corporation or other government entity: (a) what are the details of each arrangement, including (i) the vendor or counterparty, (ii) the date of signature, (iii) the start and end date, (iv) the total current value, (v) the original value, (vi) the procurement method (competitively awarded, sole-sourced or entered into through a standing offer or supply arrangement), (vii) a description of the goods or services provided, (viii) the file or contract number, (ix) whether the arrangement remains active; (b) for each arrangement in (a), what specific artificial intelligence systems, models, applications or services were procured, licensed, tested or evaluated; (c) for each arrangement in (a), what was the intended use case, including whether it was for (i) client-facing service delivery, (ii) internal drafting or summarization, (iii) search or retrieval, (iv) fraud detection, (v) call centre or chatbot functions, (vi) classification, triage or decision support; (d) for each arrangement in (a), what privacy, security, legal or algorithmic impact assessments were completed before deployment or testing; and (e) for each arrangement in (a), was any government data input into a third-party model or system, and, if so, what classes of data were involved? |
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Friday, April 24, 2026 |
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Q-936
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Monday, March 9, 2026 |
With regard to the government's procurement and use of artificial intelligence systems, including large language models and generative artificial intelligence tools, since January 1, 2023: (a) what requirements, if any, has the government established regarding (i) Canadian data residency, (ii) Canadian ownership or control of cloud infrastructure, (iii) retention of prompts and outputs, (iv) secondary use of government data by vendors, (v) subcontracting to non-Canadian entities; (b) what are the details of each agreement or contract signed by government departments or agencies related to the use of artificial intelligence systems, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) vendor, (iii) value, (iv) description of the goods or services provided, (v) start and end dates of services, (vi) manner in which the contract was awarded (sole-sourced or competitive bid); (c) for each contract or arrangement in (b), did the government determine whether any government data, prompts, outputs or metadata could be stored, accessed or processed outside of Canada; (d) for each contract arrangement in (c) to which the answer is affirmative, what are the details, including, for each, the (i) summary of the situation, (ii) jurisdiction, (iii) type of data, (iv) mitigation measures; (e) what direction has Shared Services Canada issued concerning sovereign cloud hosting services for artificial intelligence workloads; and (f) what departments or agencies have received exemptions, waivers or special approvals to use non-sovereign artificial intelligence or cloud services, and what are the details of each? |
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Friday, April 24, 2026 |
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Q-935
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Monday, March 9, 2026 |
With regard to all agreements, including contracts, grants, contributions, memorandums of understandings and any other arrangement between the government and Cohere Inc., since January 1, 2024, and broken down by department or agency: (a) what are the details of each agreement, including the (i) date, (ii) value, (iii) summary of the terms, (iv) type of agreement, (v) duration, (vi) file number; (b) what departments or agencies have tested, evaluated or used any Cohere model, product, Application Programming Interface, platform or service, and what are the details of each instance, including whether the tool was used for (i) summarization, (ii) transcription, (iii) search, (iv) drafting, (v) chatbots, (vi) internal productivity; (c) for each arrangement in (a) or test in (b), what privacy, security, sovereignty, data residency, legal or conflict-of-interest reviews were completed; and (d) did any department or agency compare Cohere against alternative Canadian or non-Canadian vendors, and, if so, what were the results of those comparisons? |
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Friday, April 24, 2026 |
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Q-846
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Monday, February 9, 2026 |
With regard to record-keeping and retention policies across all federal departments, agencies, and Crown corporations: (a) what are the current policies governing the retention and deletion of government records, including emails, text messages, instant messages, electronic documents, and other official communications for all departments, agencies, and Crown corporations; (b) who is responsible for setting, approving, and enforcing these retention policies in each department, agency, or Crown corporation; (c) what are the required retention periods for each category of record; and (d) what oversight or compliance mechanisms are in place to ensure that records are retained in accordance with these policies? |
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Monday, April 13, 2026 |
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Q-499
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025 |
With regard to Statistics Canada's consumer price index: for the most recent month for which the consumer price index is published, and holding constant the official consumer price index methodology for that month while changing only the upper level expenditure weights, what are the 12-month percent changes for (i) the All Items consumer price index, (ii) the Food (total) component, (iii) the All Items consumer price index excluding Food and Energy, when the consumer price index is re-aggregated using the basket weights that were in effect immediately prior to the current basket, and the 2015 basket weights? |
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Monday, December 8, 2025 |
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Q-498
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025 |
With regard to recruitment by the Canada Border Services Agency and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police: (a) how many new officers were recruited by the (i) Canada Border Services Agency, (ii) Royal Canadian Mounted Police, broken down by each month since January 1, 2023; and (b) how many officers retired or left the (i) Canada Border Services Agency, (ii) Royal Canadian Mounted Police, broken down by each month since January 1, 2023? |
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Monday, December 8, 2025 |
