Public Safety Canada: Why armed conflict and nuclear attack are absent from the National Risk ProfileExtended on the day it fell due
30 Aug 2026 · Access to Information Act · A-2026-00209
22 Sept: a question on scope, with the warning that the request would otherwise be “considered abandoned”; answered the same day. 1 Oct, its own due date: the Department extended its time by 120 days, to 1 Feb 2027.
Request under the Access to Information Act — why armed conflict and nuclear attack are absent from the National Risk Profile
Hello,
This is a request under the Access to Information Act.
I am a person present in Canada and entitled to make this request under subsection 4(1) of the Act as extended by the Access to Information Act Extension Order, No. 1.
Period covered: 1 January 2020 to the date this request is processed.
This request concerns the National Risk Profile. Its first public report, published in May 2023, assesses earthquakes, wildland fires and floods. The published material identifies nuclear and radiological attack only as a hazard that may be selected for a future round. It states that the selection of hazards for future rounds is contingent on resource allocation.
I request the following records.
1. Any record explaining why three hazards were not assessed in the first or second round of the National Risk Profile. Armed conflict. Armed attack on Canada. Nuclear attack on Canada
2. Any record of the decision on which hazards to include in each round, including the criteria applied and the officials who made that decision
3. Any assessment held by the Department of the risk of nuclear attack on Canada, or of armed conflict affecting Canada
4. Any record concerning the policies, programs and measures established under section 6(1) of the Emergency Management Act, so far as they require ministers to address the case of war or other armed conflict under paragraph 6(2)(d)
5. Any record identifying which minister is responsible for identifying the risk of nuclear attack on Canada under section 6(1) of that Act
Please exclude media monitoring and news clippings.
If no records responsive to any numbered item exist, I request that your response state that expressly, item by item.
I request a waiver of the application fee under subsection 11(6) of the Act. I receive social assistance under the Ontario Works Act and have no discretionary income. If the waiver is refused, tell me how to pay and I will pay the fee. If it is refused, I request the reasons in writing together with the criteria applied.
I prefer to receive records electronically.
Respectfully,
Danilo Dzyuban