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Q-1357
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Tuesday, June 16, 2026 |
With regard to Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat policies governing the use, retention, and preservation of instant messaging communications on government-issued devices within the core public administration, as defined under the Financial Administration Act, since January 1, 2024: (a) what policy instrument, directive, or operational standard, including any update to the Information Management Protocol on Instant Messaging Using a Mobile Device, currently governs whether instant messages sent or received on government-issued devices using third-party applications, including Microsoft Teams chat, WhatsApp, Signal, and iMessage, must be retained as official records, and what are the title, date, and current status of that instrument; (b) under the applicable policy instrument identified in (a), what obligation, if any, does a public servant have to proactively capture and preserve in a government-controlled corporate repository an instant message that has business value, and what specific steps are required to fulfil that obligation; (c) does any Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat policy instrument, directive, security standard, or operational instruction prohibit or restrict the use of auto-delete, disappearing message, or message retention-limit settings on any third-party instant messaging application on government-issued devices, and, if so, what are the title and date of that instrument and which specific settings or platforms does it address, and, if not, why not; and (d) since January 1, 2024, what are the details of any audits, reviews, compliance checks, or investigations that the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat has conducted or commissioned concerning the preservation of official records created through instant messaging on government-issued devices, including any assessment of the Information Commissioner's 2013 recommendations on this topic, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) summary, (iii) findings, (iv) details, (v) title of the reports containing the results? |
Awaiting response |
Monday, September 21, 2026 |
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Q-1356
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Tuesday, June 16, 2026 |
With regard to Public Services and Procurement Canada's central oversight role under the Buy Canadian procurement policy framework, which took effect on December 16, 2025: (a) what are the details of any specific guidance documents, reporting templates, standardized data fields, or information management tools that Public Services and Procurement Canada issued to federal departments and agencies pursuant to its responsibility under section 7.1 of the framework to support consistent reporting and performance tracking across policy instruments, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) title, (iii) type of document, (iv) summary of its contents; (b) what specific performance indicators, baseline measurements, or targets have been established under each policy instrument issued pursuant to the framework (including the Policy on Prioritizing Canadian Suppliers and Canadian Content in Strategic Federal Procurements and the Policy on Prioritizing Canadian Materials in Federal Procurements), against which compliance and outcomes will be measured, and what are those indicators, baselines, and targets, and, if none have been established, why not; (c) what are the details of all aggregate reports, consolidated dashboards, or portfolio-level evaluations that Public Services and Procurement Canada has prepared since December 16, 2025, to assess compliance with or outcomes of the framework and its policy instruments across all departments and agencies, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) title, (iii) type of document, (iv) summary of its contents; and (d) with regard to the Small Business Procurement Program announced under section 6.5 of the Framework, (i) what is the planned launch date, (ii) what eligibility criteria will determine which businesses qualify as Canadian small businesses for the purposes of mandatory set-asides, (iii) what reporting or evaluation framework will measure the program's outcomes, (iv) how will program results be made publicly available? |
Awaiting response |
Monday, September 21, 2026 |
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Q-1355
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Tuesday, June 16, 2026 |
With regard to Health Canada's internal policy document entitled "Mental Illness and Mental Disorder", produced in October 2025 in the context of medical assistance in dying: (a) on what date was the document finalized, which branch or directorate prepared it, and for what purpose was it prepared; (b) to whom within Health Canada, the Department of Justice, or any other federal department or agency, was the document distributed, and on what date was each distribution made; (c) was the document shared with any provincial or territorial government, federal-provincial-territorial committee, external expert, federally funded third-party organization, or other non-federal entity, and, if so, with whom and on what date; (d) did the document contain any options, recommendations, or analyses regarding whether the term "mental illness" as used in subsection 241.2(2.1) of the Criminal Code should be defined, clarified, interpreted, or replaced, and, if so, what options, recommendations, or analyses were set out; and (e) what are the details of all briefing notes, memoranda, slide decks, meeting records, decision notes, or other documents prepared which reference that document after its finalization, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) title, (iii) sender, (iv) recipients, (v) summary of its contents, (vi) type of document? |
Awaiting response |
Monday, September 21, 2026 |
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Q-1354
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Tuesday, June 16, 2026 |
With regard to federal contribution agreements or other funding arrangements between Health Canada and the Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers, since January 1, 2021, including any agreement related to the Canadian MAiD Curriculum project and any successor or currently active funding arrangement: (a) what are the details of each funding agreement, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) amount provided, (iii) summary of its terms; (b) for each agreement, what rights, if any, did the government retain under each agreement to access, review, approve, copy, archive, audit, or otherwise obtain curriculum materials, training modules, facilitator guides, case studies, slide decks, workshop materials, or other knowledge products, developed in whole or in part with federal funds; (c) for each federally funded deliverable, who retains the intellectual property rights and what are the terms governing the government's use and access rights; (d) what reporting, performance measurement, evaluation, audit, transparency, or public accessibility requirements were included in each agreement; (e) did any agreement require that federally funded curriculum materials or other knowledge products be made publicly available, be made available to health practitioners at no or low cost, or remain accessible after the end of the funding period, and, if so, what were those requirements; and (f) what are the details of all final reports, progress reports, performance assessments, or compliance reviews that Health Canada received from the Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers under each agreement, including the (i) dates, (ii) titles, (iii) conclusion or findings? |
Awaiting response |
Monday, September 21, 2026 |
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Q-1097
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Tuesday, April 21, 2026 |
With regard to the government's approach on medical assistance in dying and the term "mental illness" as used in subsection 241.2(2.1) of the Criminal Code, introduced through Bill C-7 in 2021, which forms the basis of the current temporary exclusion from medical assistance in dying for persons whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness, and which is scheduled to lift on March 17, 2027: (a) what is the definition of "mental illness" as used in subsection 241.2(2.1), and in which statute, regulation, guidance document, legal instrument, or other authority is that definition established; (b) if "mental illness" is not defined in the Criminal Code or any other federal law or instrument, what clinical, diagnostic, legal, or policy authority does the government rely upon to determine the scope of that term for the purposes of subsection 241.2(2.1); (c) has the government, since the May 2022 final report of the Expert Panel on Medical Assistance in Dying and Mental Illness, adopted, endorsed, or relied upon any formal definition or interpretation of "mental illness" for the purposes of subsection 241.2(2.1), and, if so, what is that definition or interpretation, by what authority was it adopted, and on what date; (d) what specific clinical conditions does the government consider to fall within the meaning of "mental illness" for the purposes of subsection 241.2(2.1), and what clinical or legal source does the government rely upon for each; (e) what specific clinical conditions does the government consider to fall outside the meaning of "mental illness" for the purposes of subsection 241.2(2.1), such that a person whose sole underlying medical condition is one of those conditions would not be subject to the exclusion, and what clinical or legal source does the government rely upon for each; (f) has the Department of Justice, the Department of Health, or any other federal department or agency produced any legal analysis, policy analysis, or formal opinion on the scope of the term "mental illness" in subsection 241.2(2.1), including which conditions are captured and which are not, and, if so, what are the dates and titles of those documents; and (g) before the exclusion is scheduled to lift on March 17, 2027, by what specific mechanism, including whether legislative definition, regulatory guidance, clinical practice standards, or judicial interpretation, will the boundaries of the term "mental illness" be established, and what steps has the government taken, or does it plan to take, to ensure consistent interpretation and application of that term across all provinces and territories? |
Answered |
Monday, June 8, 2026 |
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Q-1096
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Tuesday, April 21, 2026 |
With regard to federal expenditures related to medical assistance in dying, palliative care, and disability supports: (a) beyond the budget 2021 allocation previously disclosed for medical assistance in dying related training, resources, and tools, what federal expenditures have been incurred specifically in connection with medical assistance in dying, including the administration and operation of the federal medical assistance in dying monitoring regime, regulatory administration, secretariat support for the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Assistant Deputy Minister Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, legal costs related to medical assistance in dying legislation or litigation, and any other departmental expenditures attributable to medical assistance in dying, broken down by expenditure category and fiscal year; (b) of the funding previously cited by the government under the budget 2017 home and community care allocation and the Aging With Dignity bilateral agreements, what portion was directed exclusively to palliative care, as distinct from home care, long-term care, and other continuing care priorities, broken down by fiscal year and province or territory; (c) what total federal expenditure has been directed through Health Canada's Health Care Policy and Strategies Program specifically to palliative care access, hospice infrastructure, and palliative care training since fiscal year 2021-22, broken down by initiative or recipient and by fiscal year, and, separately, what total has been directed specifically to medical assistance in dying related activities through the same program over the same period; (d) what total federal expenditure has been directed specifically toward community-based disability supports and independent living programs since fiscal year 2021-22, broken down by responsible department, program or initiative, and fiscal year; and (e) has the government conducted any comparative analysis of federal investment in medical assistance in dying related infrastructure, palliative care access, and community-based disability supports since 2016, and, if so, what are the dates and titles of those analyses? |
Answered |
Monday, June 8, 2026 |
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Q-1095
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Tuesday, April 21, 2026 |
With regard to Track 2 medical assistance in dying provisions under section 241.2(3) of the Criminal Code since the passage of Bill C-7 on March 17, 2021: (a) how many Track 2 medical assistance in dying provisions occurred in each calendar year from 2021 to 2024, broken down by province and territory; (b) what categories of underlying medical condition are recorded in the federal medical assistance in dying monitoring data for Track 2 provisions; (c) for each category identified in (b), how many Track 2 medical assistance in dying provisions occurred from 2021 to 2024, broken down by year and by province or territory; (d) of the Track 2 medical assistance in dying recipients from 2021 to 2024 who self-identified as having a disability, how many were women, broken down by year and by province or territory; (e) for each year from 2021 to 2024, how many Track 2 medical assistance in dying requests were assessed as ineligible, broken down by province or territory and by reason for ineligibility, including, if tracked, cases in which the irremediability criterion was found not to have been met; and (f) has the government, or any federally-funded body, conducted any audit, review, evaluation, or other assessment of whether the irremediability criterion is being applied consistently in Track 2 cases, including whether treatment and support options have been adequately considered before a finding of irremediability is made, and, if so, what are the dates and titles of those documents and what were the findings or conclusions of those documents? |
Answered |
Monday, June 8, 2026 |
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Q-1094
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Tuesday, April 21, 2026 |
With regard to the government's response to the Concluding Observations on Canada adopted by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on March 18, 2025, and the recommendation for the Government of Canada to repeal the 2027 expansion of medical assistance in dying to persons whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness, and with respect to any equality rights analysis of Track 2 medical assistance in dying provisions under section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: (a) has the government prepared a formal written response to the Committee's medical assistance in dying related recommendations, and, if so, what is the date of that response or its expected release date, and, if not, why not; (b) what interdepartmental or intergovernmental meetings have occurred since March 18, 2025, to consider the medical assistance in dying related recommendations in the Concluding Observations, and, for each meeting, what was the date, which departments or agencies participated, and what decisions, action items, or next steps were recorded; (c) has the Department of Justice conducted or commissioned any legal analysis of the consistency of Track 2 medical assistance in dying with Articles 10 and 15 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities since March 18, 2025, and, if so, what are the dates, titles, and findings of each; (d) has the Department of Justice conducted or commissioned any section 15 Charter analysis of the Track 2 medical assistance in dying provisions since the passage of Bill C-7 in 2021, and, if so, what are the dates, titles, and findings of each, and, if not, why not; (e) has the Department of Justice or any other federal department or agency produced any internal report, memorandum, briefing note, or evaluation regarding the implications of the decision in Truchon v. Attorney General of Canada for the equality rights of persons with disabilities nationally, and, if so, what are the dates and titles of each of those documents; and (f) since March 18, 2025, what consultations, meetings, or correspondence has the government had with disability organizations specifically regarding the medical assistance in dying related recommendations in the Concluding Observations, and, for each, what was the date, which organizations participated, and what follow-up action, if any, was taken? |
Answered |
Monday, June 8, 2026 |
