Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

CIRNAC fees are mainly collected by the Northern Affairs Organization, which collects over 99% of the departmental fees from issuance of exploration, discovery, and production licenses for the development of natural resources on federal lands in the North.

The Department completed 584 privacy requests, totaling 14,382 pages processed, ensuring Canadians have the right of access to their personal information.

In 2019-2020, the Department completed 244 access to information requests, with a total of 18,436 pages processed, demonstrating its commitment to openness and transparency.

The 2019 Northern Oil and Gas Annual Report presents information associated with the administration of oil and gas resources on Crown lands north of the 60th parallel in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and the Northern offshore.

In 2019–20, CIRNAC, Indigenous peoples and Northerners continued to work together to achieve progress in the following three priority areas: accelerating the renewal of the relationship with Indigenous peoples, modernizing institutional structures and governance to support self-determination, and...

The briefing materials prepared for the Minister of Northern Affairs for the Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic and Committees of the Whole related to the pandemic included Question Period notes that were published December 13, 2019, and May 26, 2020. These materials were subsequently...