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User Fees Reporting

User Fees


User Fee: Fees charged for processing access to information requests filed under the Access to Information Act (ATIA)

Fee Type: Other products and services (O)

Fee-setting Authority: ATIA

Date Last Modified: 2005

Performance Standards: Response provided within 30 days following receipt of request; the response time may be extended pursuant to section 9 of the ATIA. Notice of extension is to be sent within 30 days after receipt of request.

Performance Results: Statutory deadlines were met 98 per cent of the time.


($ thousands)
200910 Planning Years
Forecast Revenue Actual Revenue Full Cost Fiscal Year Forecast Revenue Estimated Full Cost
$2.2 $0.935 $582.0 2010–11  $1.5 $600.0
2011–12  $1.7 $720.0
2012–13  $1.9  $1,036.0

Other Information:

It is the Secretariat's practice to waive fees where the total owing per request amounts to less than $25.00, or when the request has not been answered within the legislated time frames and additional costs would apply, or where there is a public interest in the disclosure. The number of times fees were waived in 2009–10 was due to the informal processing of requests. In order to reduce costs and increase efficiency, documents are also released occasionally on CD-ROM, which means that no reproduction fees are charged to the applicant.

External Fees


External Fee Service Standard Performance Results Stakeholder Consultation
Fees charged for the processing of access to information requests under the Access to Information Act (ATIA). Response provided within 30 days following receipt of request; the response time may be extended pursuant to section 9 of the ATIA. Notice of extension is to be sent within 30 days after receipt of the request. Statutory deadlines met 98% of the time. The service standard is established by the ATIA and related Regulations. Consultations with stakeholders were undertaken for amendments in 1986, 1992 and 2005.

Other Information:

There was one new complaint dealing with fees filed with the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada for 2009–10; the complaint was found to be not substantiated.