Health Canada: Infertility, the total fertility rate and federal health recordsRefused by silence
4 Sept 2026 · Access to Information Act · HC-A-26-0691
9 Sept: file opened; fee not charged. 9 Oct, the due date the Department set, passed without an answer.
Access to Information request with fee waiver — infertility, the total fertility rate and federal health records
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 analysis of infertility in Canada as a population health question, including its prevalence, its trend, and its contribution to the gap between the number of children Canadians intend to have and the number they have.
2. Every record concerning federal support for the treatment of infertility and for assisted human reproduction, including the cost of treatment to patients, the coverage available, and any assessment of access.
3. Every analysis of the effect of the rising age of first birth on health outcomes and on the number of children a person is able to have.
4. Every briefing note, memorandum to the Minister, or departmental analysis addressing the decline in the total fertility rate and the options available to Health Canada in response.
5. Every Performance Information Profile prepared under the Treasury Board Policy on Results in which the number of births, the total fertility rate, or completed family size is named as an indicator. If no such profile exists, provide the record confirming that.
6. Every record of correspondence with Employment and Social Development Canada, the Department of Finance Canada, the Privy Council Office, or Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada concerning the fertility rate and the demographic consequences of its decline.
Limit the search to briefing notes, memoranda to the Minister, analyses, assessments, Performance Information Profiles 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 federal health portfolio treats a falling birth rate as a health question at all, 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