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Req # AF-2023-00007
I seek all records held by the CMHC on the topic of the decision to amend the ban on foreign home buyers (The Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act) which was announced on March 27, 2023. Include any records related to the impact of these amendments on Canada's real estate market, home prices, home sales and housing development/housing starts. Include emails. Exclude records in French. Exclude third-party consultations. Include any records prepared for the Housing Minister. Limit the search from March 13 to March 29, 2023. Exclude media monitoring.Organization: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
September 2023
Req # AF-2023-00014
I am seeking electronic copies of all briefing notes, memos, reports, audits, reviews, and/or presentations (i.e. PowerPoint slides) that discuss challenges faced by Indigenous people and/or communities in accessing the "Indigenous Shelter and Transitional Housing Initiative" or that otherwise discuss the presence of barriers to accessing this aforementioned funding. For context, this is how CMHC describes its component of this funding: “CMHC will allocate $420 million over 5 years to support the construction of new shelters and transitional housing.” Here is a link: https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/professionals/project-funding-and-mortgage-financing/funding-programs/all-funding-programs/shelter-and-transitional-housing-initiative-for-indigenous Please search CMHC records from November 30, 2020 – May 23, 2023.Organization: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
September 2023
Req # AF-2023-00028
Copy of June 23, 2023, briefing note BM238426.Organization: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
September 2023
Req # AF-2023-00033
Please provide all records of discussions (WhatsApp messages, emails, Microsoft Teams Messages, text messages, meeting minutes) between employees of the CMHC and Paul Kershaw (or other representatives of Generation Squeeze). Limit time frame from March 1st, 2023 to date of receipt of request (August 26, 2023). Remove duplicate email chains.Organization: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
September 2023
Req # AF-2023-00034
Please provide all records of discussions (WhatsApp messages, emails, Microsoft Teams Messages, text messages, meeting minutes) or any equivalent records regarding a home equity tax proposal or study (also could be called an annual surtax on homes over a certain threshold). Search through electronic documents only, unless relevant documents do not exist in that format. Include documents in which cabinet material can be severed, however exclude documents marked cabinet confidences in their entirety. Remove French version English exists. Final version of documents or last draft if final version is not available. Limit time frame from January 1st, 2023 to date of receipt of request (August 26, 2023).Organization: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
September 2023
Req # A-2023-00004
Provide 2022 and 2023 records about Elections Canada examining procedures on how to review concerns/complaints about political parties’ privacy policies and intrusions when they collect personal information. Include any summary incidents received and reported; review of the issues concerning policing federal political parties’ privacy practices before the courts in BC brought to a head by the BC Information and Privacy Commission; EC’s discussions and agreement with federal authorities on EC reviewing concerns/complaints; and EC’s own internal preparation to act as an arbitrator/review in concerns/complaints about federal political parties’ privacy policies and intrusions (in effect by default in Budget 2023 and Bill C-47, EC becomes an arbitrator under the Canada Elections Act of political parties self-regulated privacy collection, use and disposal practices/policies).Organization: Elections Canada
September 2023
Req # A-2023-00008
Subject to planning for the next election, including party and candidate practices, cyber and third-party threats and influences and foreign intrusions. Provide from January 1, 2022, to present: briefings, meeting minutes, reports and memos sent or developed by working groups to include those on fake news, election financing, disinformation and social media. Provide from January 1, 2022, to present: briefings and reports from CSIS on potential election interference, as well as those from CSEC on cyber threats or other threats to the election process and how best to deal with them. This includes the use of electronic pooling registration and voting in the future. Provide from January 1, 2022, to present: briefings, meeting minutes and reports from the Cyber Security Panel (a federal-provincial/territorial election officials' subcommittee). Provide from January 1, 2022, to present: briefings, plans and reports on encouraging political parties to have and follow privacy protection. Include Elections Canada’s monitoring of those plans; as well as exchanges with political parties on their privacy protection plans and practices.Organization: Elections Canada
September 2023
Req # A-2023-00019
Copy of all email submissions from the public between September 26 and November 1, including to the 2022 Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Alberta.Organization: Elections Canada
September 2023
Req # A-2023-00023
A copy of the following departmental memos/notes: 2023-104990, 2023-105016, 2023-104858.Organization: Elections Canada
September 2023
Req # A-2023-00025
I would like a copy of the following memos/notes: 2023-105272.Organization: Elections Canada
September 2023