Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
The third file, held with the sentence written for the second
Answer 24 Sept In writing.
The answer in full
A request filed on 24 September 2026 for the decisions of the Treasury Board under subsection 11(4) of the RCMP Superannuation Act since 2000, the analyses behind them, and the authorship of the Secretariat’s letter of 23 September. It asked for the fee to be waived and, failing that, for the decision in writing with reasons and a name. Eight hours later the Intake Unit answered:
Please be advised that the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) has reviewed the circumstances of your request and has determined that we respectfully require that the $5 application fee be paid in order to continue processing your request. […] Further to our recent correspondence, your request will remain on hold pending receipt of the application fee.
Intake Unit, Access to Information and Privacy, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, 24 September 2026
The message is the one the same unit sent on 9 September 2026 on file A-2026-00378, to the word: one hundred and eight words from “Please be advised” to “application fee”. “Further to our recent correspondence” was written for that file; on this request there had been none. No file number, no date of receipt, no reason, no name, and no decision on the waiver: the word does not appear. File A-2026-00329 is before the Information Commissioner on the same practice, and file A-2026-00378 went to the Commissioner on 23 September. This is the third. The day before, the Secretariat had written, on pension law, that authority “cannot be inferred where the legislation does not provide it”.