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The 2022–24 National Action Plan includes commitments and milestones to make the Government of Canada more open, transparent and accountable to those it serves. The government used feedback from the public to make sure that the plan reflects what matters most to the people of Canada. This plan...

Canada’s fourth plan includes 10 new commitments that continue to promote openness, transparency, and accountability in the Government of Canada. It was developed in consultation with more than 10,000 Canadians from coast to coast to coast who provided their ideas and suggestions through online...

Canada releases a National Action Plan on Open Government every two years. Following standards set by the international Open Government Partnership, we develop and report on plans that formalize Canada’s commitment to open, accountable, and transparent government. This resource contains the...

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...

Canada’s third plan consists of 22 commitments, many of which focus on building the culture and capacity for Open Government. Canada’s approach in this Plan is structured within four priority areas: open by default; fiscal transparency; innovation, prosperity, and sustainable development; and...

The Canada.ca theme and topic tree is a controlled vocabulary and information architecture scheme designed to provide access to the top tasks, government wide through Canada.ca.

This document describes our department’s plan to complete activities and deliverables aligned to the requirements of the Directive on Open Government, in order to achieve full compliance by the October 2019 implementation deadline.

This guide has been designed to help countries that are part of the Open Government Partnership apply Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA+) to all open government commitments and to ensure that their commitments and their co-creation process are inclusive.

Parliamentary Committee Appearance Binder for Jean-Yves Duclos, President of the Treasury Board, for the Committee of the Whole on March 24, 2020 - Special sitting of the House of Commons COVID-19: Government Response

Parliamentary Committee Appearance Binder for Jean-Yves Duclos, President of the Treasury Board, for the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates on the Supplementary Estimates (B) 2019-2020 and Main Estimates 2020-2021

Parliamentary Committee Appearance Binder for Jean-Yves Duclos, President of the Treasury Board, at the Committee of the Whole on the Supplementary Estimates (A) 2019-2020.

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...

This document contains a draft end-of-term self-assessment on Canada’s performance on its commitments in the Third Biennial Plan to the Open Government Partnership 2016-2018. The Government of Canada is seeking your feedback on this report between September 18, 2018 and October 1, 2018. Please...

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...

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...

This report provides common criteria to help identify high value datasets and provide examples of common types of high value datasets. It was based on jurisdictional scans of high value dataset criteria, recent surveys, and international standards