Department of Finance Canada: Fiscal projections, the total fertility rate, the cost of families against the cost of immigrationRefused by silence
4 Sept 2026 · Access to Information Act
No acknowledgement, no file number, no decision on the waiver. 5 Oct, the due date, passed without an answer.
Access to Information request with fee waiver — fiscal projections, the total fertility rate and the cost of families against the cost of immigration
Hello,
This is a request under the Access to Information Act, together with an application for a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(2).
Period for the record search: 1 January 2019 to the date this request is processed.
I request the following records.
1. Every long-term economic and fiscal projection prepared by the department, and the total fertility rate assumption used in each, together with the record showing when that assumption was last revised and why.
2. Every analysis of the fiscal consequences of a falling birth rate, including any assessment of the effect on the tax base, on programme spending, and on the long-term financing of Old Age Security and the Canada Pension Plan.
3. Every cost-benefit analysis, fiscal projection, or departmental assessment comparing the cost of increased immigration against the cost of direct financial support to families and to childbearing.
4. Every measurement or estimate of the effect of the Canada Child Benefit on the number of births in Canada, and any record stating that no such measurement has been made.
5. Every record setting out a tax measure or transfer considered by the department to support family formation or to raise the number of births, including any measure that was assessed and not adopted.
6. Every record of correspondence with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, the Privy Council Office, or Employment and Social Development Canada concerning the demographic consequences of the fertility rate and the Immigration Levels Plan.
Limit the search to briefing notes, memoranda to the Minister, decks, analyses, projections, costings and internal correspondence. Exclude media monitoring, news clippings and material already published on your website.
If no records answer a numbered item, say so expressly, item by item.
Fee waiver. I receive social assistance under the Ontario Works Act and have no discretionary income. The fee is a real barrier to me and is none to the institution. The records concern whether the department that costs every federal decision has ever costed the birth rate, and the public interest in that does not shrink because I cannot pay for it. Waive the application fee under subsection 11(2) and give the decision in writing. If the waiver is refused, give the reasons in writing with the name of the official who decided and the criteria applied.
Respectfully,
Danilo Dzyuban