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Req # 1A-2023-76455
Copy of briefing note/memo F-01290495 (SHP) Super Visa Ministerial Instructions.Please exclude cabinet confidences that would require consultation to confirm cabinet confidences.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
18 page(s)
April 2024
April 2024
Req # 1A-2023-76393
Copy of briefing note/memo F-01290495 (SHP) Super Visa Ministerial Instructions.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
18 page(s)
April 2024
April 2024
Req # 1A-2023-76397
Copy of briefing note/memo F-01249677 (SPPB) Amendments to Express Entry ministerial instructions and public policy to remove barriers to permanent residence for physiciansOrganization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
20 page(s)
April 2024
April 2024
Req # 1A-2023-29696
Copy of briefing note/memo F-01280403 (PAB) Budget implementation act 2023 briefing documents.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
22 page(s)
April 2024
April 2024
Req # 1A-2022-73998
Copy of briefing note/memo. Please include those requiring consultation with PCO & DOJ. F-01236581(AFG)Memo on a decision regarding the USOrganization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
22 page(s)
April 2024
April 2024
Req # 1A-2023-48668
Please provide all documents, memoranda, e-mails, correspondence, briefing notes, text messages, messages on Microsoft Teams or any other messaging platform, and any other records, including drafts, from August 1, 2021, respecting the use by Senator Marilou McPhedran of documents to facilitate travel from Afghanistan, including: (1) meetings of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration on the subject-matter, (2) appearances and scheduling of witnesses before those committees, (3) preparations for and debriefs following those witness appearances, (4) the motion considered by the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration on February 8, 2023 that concerned a study of this subject-matter and the scheduling and summonsing of witnesses, (5) the adoption of the motion on March 20, 2023, and (6) the notice of motion given to the Immigration Committee on April 26, 2023, inviting George Young to appear as a witness. 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) copies of draft legislative texts, (5) briefing notes and covering memoranda concerning records in exclusions (1) to (4), (6) 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)), (7) publicly available versions of government documents (i.e., do not exclude drafts of those documents), (8) the French version of documents which are equally available in each official language, (9) off-topic information in otherwise responsive documents (e.g., news stories on other issues in a media summary), and (10) unannotated transcripts of parliamentary debates and committee meetings. Amended July 31, 2023: However, with respect to the matter of draft records, if you wish to consider an alternative proposal, I would suggest that draft records could be collected but set aside with only final versions being processed as an interim response; from there, I could isolate which specific documents I would also like to have released in draft form. August 15, 2023 - With regard to the timeframe, I wish to have records from August 1, 2021July 14, 2023 (date of request submission). With regard to the interpretation of phrases, I am referring, generally, to matters which include those which have been the subject of reporting by The Globe and Mail and investigation by the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. With regard to the enumerated inclusions, those should be seen as elaborating upon the issue at hand, including particularly the matter that responsive records might also be found among those who handle communications, parliamentary affairs and issues management responsibilities. The exclusions are generally meant to facilitate and expedite the processing of responsive records.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
116 page(s)
April 2024
April 2024
Req # A-2022-35218
Seeking additional information on the processes of the audit and specifically to verify their findings through a re-analysis of the data. Seeking copies of the following documents pertaining to the Caregivers Pilot (the Home Child Care Provider and Home Support Worker pilots) 2019-2024: -PIPs, PDIs, internal SOPs relating to the management and oversight of the Caregivers Pilots - interviews as they pertain to the Caregiver Pilots - so any individuals/personnel who work in that department or who are responsible for oversight or management of the Caregiver Pilots. - exclude any interviews and/or documents that do not reference the Caregiver Pilots. clarification Seeking additional information on the processes of the audit and specifically to verify their findings through a re-analysis of the data. Seeking copies of the following documents pertaining to the Caregivers Pilot (the Home Child Care Provider and Home Support Worker pilots) 2019-2024: A- Methodology as listed in the summary 1- 27 Interviews with key personnel to solicit their views on the governance, risk management, and monitoring activities in place; program efficiencies; and lessons learned for the pilot programs selected for detailed examination. 2- Stakeholder interviews (representatives from IRCC senior management, program managers and program employees from 13 various branches, as well as external stakeholders from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the four Atlantic provinces (NL, NB, NS and PEI); 3- key supporting documentation such as presentations to senior management and governance committees, Performance Information Profiles (PIPs), evaluations, PDIs, internal Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), among others, to identify and confirm the existence of controls for development, management and oversight of the pilot programs; B-Presentations 1- In the case of the Caregivers Pilots, presentations were provided to EXCOM, MinDM, the Antifraud Working Group, and the Policy Committee at the end of the life cycle of the pilot programs in 2018, to assess the next steps, including considerations to transition the pilot into a new permanent program. original Please provide all internal documentation (interviews; key supporting documentation; governance, risk management, and monitoring activities; analysis) that formed the method and data for the published March 2022 Internal Audit of Immigration Pilot Programs. The summary describes the audit as carried out from June 2021 to Aug 2021. Only the data for the Caregivers Pilots is requested, though if all is intermixed, all three pilots information will be acceptable.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
311 page(s)
December 2023
December 2023
Req # A-2022-61809
Requesting 5 emails of DEPUTY PROGRAM MANAGER - NEW YORK that is contained in the To or From for the period March 1, 2022 to June 15, 2022,excluding records requiring consultation with PCO and DOJ.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
144 page(s)
December 2023
December 2023
Req # A-2022-54789
Obtain copies of all forms of scenarios and/or forecasts of passport application volumes in your department for each of 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 to date, January 16, 2023. There are documents regarding passport volume forecasts that are produced by your department and exchanged between Immigration Canada / Passport Canada and Global Affairs Canada and also ESDC managers; regarding these forecasts, I want all documents on passport volume forecasts for each of those years.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
167 page(s)
December 2023
December 2023
Req # A-2021-02542
Copy of briefing note/memo F-1194692 (SIP) Letter of Response to the Preliminary Investigation Report on Departmental Measures for Francophone Immigration Outside Quebec, exclude cabinet confidences that would require a consultation to confirm the cabinet confidenceOrganization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
12 page(s)
December 2023
December 2023