Completed Access to Information Requests

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Search the summaries of completed Access to Information (ATI) requests to find information about ATI requests made to the Government of Canada after January 2020. If you find a summary of interest, you can request a copy of the records at no cost using the form below each summary. Requests made through this form are considered informal requests and are not subject to the same requirements as requests under the Access to Information Act (ATIA). For additional information, please see the “About Access to Information Requests” webpage.

If you don’t find what you are looking for you can request additional government records under an institution’s control by contacting the institution’s Access to Information and Privacy Coordinator or by submitting a formal access to information request.

*All information provided will incorporate the necessary exemptions and exclusions as per the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.

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Found 65 record(s)

Req # A-2022-000234

Briefing note in the Ministerial Executive Correspondence System (MECS) for the following file: 22-104462-258.

Organization: Public Health Agency of Canada

12 page(s)
September 2023

Req # A-2023-000026

Briefing note in the Ministerial Executive Correspondence System (MECS) for the following file: 23-101450-991.

Organization: Public Health Agency of Canada

37 page(s)
September 2023

Req # A-2023-000092

Briefing note in the Ministerial Executive Correspondence System (MECS) for the following file: 23-105509-681.

Organization: Public Health Agency of Canada

5 page(s)
September 2023

Req # A-2023-000100

Briefing note in the Ministerial Executive Correspondence System (MECS) for the following file: 22-101018-281.

Organization: Public Health Agency of Canada

7 page(s)
September 2023

Req # A-2020-000333

The emerging public health science on asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 that was available to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) as of April 14, 2020 or that has become available since then that may have been the basis for subsequent mandatory isolation orders or renewals of orders on the part of PHAC.

Organization: Public Health Agency of Canada

57 page(s)
September 2023

Req # A-2020-000506

Records concerning the safe use of key personal protective equipment items. Internal discussion on the classifications originally established or revised for these Personal Protective Equipement (PPE) items for safe use as either single use, reuse according to an end date or number of permitted repeat uses, and a summary of concerns about unsafe uses, and of recalls of unsafe and defective PPE equipment. The time range of record search is from Jan 1, 2019 to Feb 16, 2021.

Organization: Public Health Agency of Canada

683 page(s)
September 2023

Req # A-2021-000470

Document and email correspondence to Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) officials, experts which is dated May 6, 2021 on the issue of "Progressive neurological syndrome". All correspondence between PHAC and the government of New Brunswick that makes reference to β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA), blue-green algae and cyanobacteria in reference to the "neurological syndrome cluster" in New Brunswick between January 1 2021 and June 1 2021.

Organization: Public Health Agency of Canada

289 page(s)
September 2023

Req # A-2022-000041

Date range October 1, 2019 to April 18, 2022. Documented legal authority granted to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) granting PHAC employees/staff access to personal medical records and authorization granted them the obligation to give medical instructions especially upon every entry into Canada. Legal evidence of (proof for) the authority granted to PHAC to invade personal privacy via personal verbal questioning, subsequent telephone, the dispatching of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers to individuals’ homes and/or emails prior to, during and subsequent to times of quarantine/isolation imposition.

Organization: Public Health Agency of Canada

98 page(s)
September 2023

Req # A-2022-000331

All records from December 1, 2020, to February 13, 2023, that mentions adverse events including injuries and deaths reported to The Public Health Agency of Canada, and the Vaccine Injury Support Program, from any of the approved COVID-19 vaccines that are being administered in Canada.

Organization: Public Health Agency of Canada

541 page(s)
September 2023

Req # A-2022-000335

From “Canada Only” The body of the text and/or the subject line of messages sent through messaging applications and/or any other type of any written, typed material. - To and From: Dr. Theresa Tam, Chief Public Health Officer - Dr. Howard Njoo, Deputy Chief Public Health Officer - Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Health: Usage of the surgical, and/or home made masks, and/or cloth mask - scientific evidence and data on the effectiveness, risks or harms of wearing them. Timeframe: January 1, 2020 to July 12, 2020.

Organization: Public Health Agency of Canada

508 page(s)
September 2023
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