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Req # A-2020-00908
The ATIP Online Request Tool has posted a general notice of delay for institutions responding to requests to information. From among all of the access to information requests that the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada has received since 1 April 2020, how many (total number and percentage of all requests) were responded to beyond the initial 30-day time limit? From among these, for how many was the delay related to the COVID-19 pandemic? Again, from among these, in how many cases was notice of an extension provided to the applicant within the initial 30-day time limit? We are only interested in aggregated information and not in any details related to individual requests.Organization: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
1 page(s)
December 2020
December 2020
Req # A-2020-00913
Please provide a copy of Briefing Note Immigration and Refugee Board's 2020-21 Q1 Quarterly Financial Report 2020-08-25 Ref # CH-20-204Organization: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
8 page(s)
December 2020
December 2020
Req # A-2020-00938
RE: Doug Armstrong, a member of the Refugee Protection Division (RPD) of the IRB: 1. What is the date of his hiring by the IRB? 2. When was the first RPD case he presided over as a single Board Member? 3. How many RPD cases has he presided over? (a) Of this number, how many positive decision did he render? (b) Of this number, how many negative decisions did he render? 4. How many RPD cases has he presided over for nationals of China (PRC)? (a) Of this number, how many positive decisions did he render? (b) Of this number, how many negative decisions did he render? 5. How many RPD cases did he preside over between September 10, 2020 and November 17, 2020?Organization: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
1 page(s)
December 2020
December 2020
Req # A-2020-00166
Please provide all documents, including drafts, from October 21, 2019 to the present (July 26, 2020), respecting: (1) the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner’s Peschisolido Report, tabled in the House of Commons on February 5, 2020, and (2) Michael Barrett’s notices of motions in the House of Commons concerning the Report. Please exclude: (1) memoranda to Cabinet and aides-memoire for Cabinet consideration, (2) Treasury Board submissions, (3) speaking notes or decks for presentations to Cabinet or its committees, (4) briefing notes and covering memoranda concerning records in categories (1) to (3), (5) duplicate copies of e-mails, (6) publicly available versions of government documents (i.e., do not exclude drafts of those documents), (7) the French version of documents which are equally available in each official language, and (8) copies of draft legislative texts.Organization: Privy Council Office
14 page(s)
December 2020
December 2020
Req # A-2020-00357
Please provide all documents from May 24, 2020, to the present (November 2, 2020), respecting: (1) the House of Commons’ referral of a question of privilege concerning the premature disclosure of Bill C-7, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying), (2) the question of privilege, renewed in the House on September 25, 2020, on this matter, and (3) the Speaker’s ruling on the question of privilege. Please exclude (1) memoranda to Cabinet and aides-memoire for Cabinet consideration, (2) Treasury Board submissions, (3) speaking notes or decks for presentations to Cabinet or its committees, (4) briefing notes and covering memoranda concerning records in categories (1) to (3), (5) duplicate copies of e-mails (i.e., exclude earlier messages in a thread of e-mails if a later message contains the earlier message(s)), (6) publicly available versions of government documents (i.e., do not exclude drafts of those documents), (7) the French version of documents which are equally available in each official language, and (8) copies of draft legislative texts.Organization: Privy Council Office
4 page(s)
December 2020
December 2020
Req # A-2020-00397
The questions and results of the PCO’s “Weekly Public Opinion Research Surveys” for the week ending Nov. 22 and Nov. 29 , 2020. If no such surveys exist for either of those two weeks, please provide the PCO survey for the most recent week. Please provide raw tables.Organization: Privy Council Office
669 page(s)
December 2020
December 2020
Req # A-2020-00781
Census data, specifically acceptance and refusal statistics, and information notes from other federal institutions, particularly Public Safety Canada, concerning refugee protection claims filed between January 1, 2010, and January 1, 2020, by individuals who identify as Falun Gong (Falun Dafa) practitioners or as a Falun Gong (Falun Dafa) practitioner’s family members or loved ones.Organization: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
1 page(s)
November 2020
November 2020
Req # A-2020-00258
Provide the briefing note titled "Letter to Premiers on the Federal Provincial Territorial Safe Restart Framework and Associated Agreement".Organization: Privy Council Office
49 page(s)
November 2020
November 2020
Req # A-2020-00284
Provide a copy of the review undertaken of the program that allows former governors general to make expense claims to the government for the rest of their lives, referred to as the “review of the former governors general program” in this news report: https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/expense-program-for-former-governors-general-has-caused-concern-for-two-decades-trudeau-told-in-briefing-note. Exclude cabinet confidences. Remove French versions if English exists. Final version of document or last draft if final version is not available. Limit records to those generated between July. 29 2019 and September 16th 2020.Organization: Privy Council Office
17 page(s)
November 2020
November 2020
Req # A-2020-00650
Provide in spreadsheet form the total amount of expenses incurred between March 1st 2020 and September 16, 2020 detailing all expenses with the 2020/2021 object codes 1231, 1246, and 0533. Provide a breakdown of expenses incurred and for each expense, provide the name of the service provider/contractor, a description of the product or service rendered, the date, and the total amount of the expense. When this data does not exist in the aforementioned format, provide the entirety of records (including receipts, purchase orders, and service contracts) pertaining to the expense. Search through electronic records only, unless data is not available in that format. Exclude cabinet confidences. Remove French versions of records if English ones exist. Provide the final version of documents or last draft if the final version is not available.Organization: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
48 page(s)
October 2020
October 2020