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From December 14, 2022, to March 31, 2023, the Government of Canada consulted Canadians on how regulation affects ocean innovation, regulatory barriers to environmentally sustainable growth and ways to develop agile regulations to address concerns of future-oriented ocean industries. Targeted...

From March 27 to June 19, 2023, the Government of Canada invited stakeholders to share their views in the Annual Regulatory Modernization Bill (ARMB) public consultation aimed at enhancing regulatory processes. As regulators develop or update regulations to meet various objectives, such as...

The Multi-stakeholder Forum (MSF) on Open Government supports ongoing dialogue between government and Canadian civil society on open government. Its mandate is to provide input and advice on the Government of Canada’s commitments on open government, identify new areas of focus, and build the open...

From April 27, 2022 to June 27, 2022, the Government of Canada invited stakeholders to share their views on existing regulatory barriers impeding trade domestically and internationally through the Let’s Talk Federal Regulations consultation platform. Regulatory stakeholders were invited to...

The Open Government Guidebook was originally developed in 2018, through collaboration with working group members from over 25 Government of Canada (GC) departments. Through consultations with many of these departments from 2020 to 2021, this guide was updated to reflect the most recent...

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...

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...

In 2019, the Government of Canada invited Stakeholders to share their views on Regulatory Modernization. In particular, Canadians were invited to comment on the following issues: targeted Regulatory Reviews (round 2), review of the Red Tape Reduction Act, options to legislate changes to regulator...

This strategy provides an overview of the status of mainframe as a technology across other sectors of industry and then looks at their usage within the GC. It will present the risks associated with operating mainframes that the GC will need to continue manage. The most pernicious of those is a...

This document is the Project Charter for the Federated Data Search Pilot Project between the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and the Government of Alberta’s Open Government Program. It acts as both a guiding document in terms of the expectations and responsibilities for each member of the...