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Req # AF-2020-00019
Provide all memos, briefing documents, slide decks, policy briefs, and other records that discuss or make mention of any of the following in the context of residential mortgage-backed securities or private mortgage securitization: Creating a loan-level database for mortgage loans; Counting private mortgage-backed securities as High-Quality Liquid Assets under OSFl's Liquidity Adequacy Requirements (LAR) Guideline; Converting private mortgage-backed securities into bonds (or bond-like structures) through the use of Canada Housing Trust or other ancillary facilities. Time frame: January 1, 2019 and June 1, 2020.Organization: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
13 page(s)
July 2020
July 2020
Req # AF-2020-00021
Provide the most recent copies, records, and documents related to CMHC's full Forward Regulatory Plans related to: (a) transactional mortgage insurance (including underwriting standards/criteria); (b) portfolio mortgage insurance (including underwriting standards/criteria and lender allocation); (c) mortgage securitization (including the NHA MBS, CMB, and IMPP programs); (d) the first time home buyer incentive.Organization: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
0 page(s)
July 2020
July 2020
Req # A-2020-00005
Temporary Help Services (THS) Supply Arrangement (SA) and Standing Offer (SO) callups issued in the National Capital Region for the months, October 2019, November 2019, December 2019, January 2020, February 2020 & March 2020.Organization: Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada
13 page(s)
June 2020
June 2020
Req # A-2020-00006
Task & Solutions Professional Services (TSPS) and Task Based Informatics Professional Services (TBIPS) Supply Arrangement (SA) contracts and Standing Offer (SO) callups issued in the National Capital Region for the months of October 2019, November 2019, December 2019, January 2020, February 2020 & March 2020.Organization: Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada
0 page(s)
June 2020
June 2020
Req # A-2020-00007
ProServices contracts issued in the National Capital Region for the months, October 2019, November 2019, December 2019, January 2020, February 2020 & March 2020.Organization: Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada
95 page(s)
June 2020
June 2020
Req # A-2020-00013
Drafts of briefing notes, memos, and slide decks, that discuss, reference, or make mention to liquidity or funding vulnerabilities within Canada's domestic systemically important banks (D-SIBS) as a result, or coinciding with, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the corresponding impact on economic activity. Exclude emails. Include records received or originating from Finance Canada or Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Include any records that make policy suggestions to support the stability of D-SIBS (including any recommendations related to the Insured Mortgage Purchase Program, expanding liquidity facilities for lenders through the government or central bank, or a relaxation of the Liquidity Adequacy Requirements (LAR) Guideline) between March 1 to June 11, 2020.Organization: Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada
25 page(s)
June 2020
June 2020
Req # A-2020-00047
Calculations done by the Office of the Chief Actuary concerning the escalation calculations for the 2010 rate year referenced in a September 2020 Report of the Office of the Comptroller General titled "Internal Auditt of the Escalation Process for Veterans Affairs Canada's Disability Pension." These calculations would have been reported to the Department of Veterans Affairs Canada between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2011.Organization: Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada
8 page(s)
June 2020
June 2020
Req # AF-2019-00044
Provide all internal email communications, briefing notes, memos, meeting minutes and other relevant records relating to the directive in the Minister of Finance's 2019 mandate letter to consider revisions to the B20 guideline \ mortgage stress test. Include records sent to CMHC originating at Department of Finance (include Ministerial Office) or OSFI. The OPI should include, but not limit, in the request for records email sent\received by the President's office and his Chief of Staff, parliamentary affairs, briefings, as well as all CMHC Board members. All CMHC staff in policy\risk management staff should also be tasked to provide records.Organization: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
103 page(s)
May 2020
May 2020
Req # AF-2019-00045
Final versions of the following documents mentioned in ATIP release package AF-2019- 00011/ML (the "Release Package"), released to me on DVD via regular mail on 19 Aug 2019. Timeframe – establishment of program to present; a) The presentation to Cabinet in 1996 mentioned on page 41 of the Release Package, including but not limited to internal CMHC policy and discussion documents related to the presentation; b) Any final reports arising from the investigation by the "special team of MBS, Treasury, Legal and Strategy representatives" mentioned at the bottom of page 56 of the release package; c) All final versions of documents related to the "concerns by OSFI and CDIC" regarding the issue of collateral in the CMB program, mentioned on page 203 of the Release Package; d) All documents containing the final opinions or other results relating to consultations with Arthur Anderson regarding the CMB program mentioned on page 205 of the Release Package; e) All documents containing the final opinions or other results relating to consultations with Borden Ladner Gervais regarding the CMB program mentioned on page 205 of the Release Package; f) All documents containing the final opinions or other results relating to consultations with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy regarding the CMB program mentioned on page 205 of the Release Package; g) Ministry of Finance approval in principle of mortgage securitization in December 1999 as part of the approval of the 2000 to 2004 borrowing plan of the CMHC as mentioned on page 207 of the Release Package, along with any documents explaining, justifying, or soliciting this approval; h) The "exchange of correspondence between Ministers Gagliano and Martin" referenced on page 207 of the Release Package, including all attachments; i) Record of Decision 00-052, referenced on page 75 of the Release Package; j) All documents containing the final opinions, advice or other results from the Investment Advisors to CMHC recommending using NHA MBS as basis for CMB program, referenced on page 75 of the Release Package; k) September 2000 Management Committee submission discussing the difference in risk between MBS program and the CMB program, referenced on page 76 of the Release Package; l) Letter of Assignment dated 21 Dec 2000 to K.B.L. Kohli, assessor of capital requirements for the CHB program, referenced on page 110 of the Release Package. m) Memo dated 14 Dec 2000 from John J Tobin describing the CMB program, referenced on page 110 of the Release Package. n) Memo dated 22 Nov 2000 from Kevin Fettig to David Dmyrtk analyzing expected loss in case of bank failure, referenced on page 11 of the Release Package. o) Memo dated 2 June 2007 entitled “Adequacy of Guarantee Fee for CMB Program” by Andrew Kalotay Associates, INC, referenced on page 233, footnote 3 of the Release Package. p) Study entitled “NHA MBS Guarantee Fee Analysis” undertaken by “Securitization,” referenced on page 239 of the Release Package. q) Any final report relating to “Financial analysis project conducted in parallel with the evaluation” of the CMB program which addressed “additional questions related to controls and risk management issues” referenced on page 5 of the Release Package.Organization: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
115 page(s)
May 2020
May 2020
Req # AF-2019-00048
Please provide all correspondence, not excluding electronic correspondence or data, generated between January 1, 2015 and January 29th 2020 regarding a ten-unit house building project called "Section 95" or "SWEETGRESS F.N. Phase S. 95" funded by CMHC on Sweetgrass First Nation, submitted by Sweetgrass First Nation in 2015 at a total budget of $1,784,019 and a budgeted per-house cost of $178,402, between Kim Aasen, Specialist, Indigenous Housing out of the Saskatoon Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation office and Sweetgrass First Nation's band administration.Organization: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
126 page(s)
May 2020
May 2020