Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s 2025-26 Departmental plan: At a glance

A departmental plan describes a department’s priorities, plans, and associated costs for the upcoming three fiscal years.

Vision, mission, raison d’être and operating context

Read the full Departmental plan

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Key priorities

In 2025-26, the OPC will continue to fulfill its core responsibility and work to achieve its departmental results, guided by its three strategic priorities as outlined in its multi-year strategic plan:

• Protecting and promoting privacy with maximum impact by optimizing its resources and making sure that it maintains an agile structure and processes that are responsive to the needs of Canadians, using business intelligence to identify trends that need attention, producing focused guidance and outreach, leveraging strategic partnerships, and preparing for the implementation of potential new privacy legislation;
• Addressing and advocating for privacy in this time of technological change with a focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI, the proliferation of which brings both potential benefits, and increased risks to privacy; and,
• Championing children’s privacy rights to ensure that their unique privacy needs are met, and that they can exercise their rights.

Highlights

In 2025-26, total planned spending (including internal services) for the OPC is $ 38,435,783 and total planned full-time equivalent staff (including internal services) is 237.

For complete information on the OPC’s total planned spending and human resources, read the Planned spending and human resources section of the full plan.

The following provides a summary of the department’s planned achievements for 2025-26 according to its approved Departmental Results Framework. A Departmental Results Framework consists of a department’s core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve, and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.

Core responsibility 1: Protection of Privacy Rights

Planned spending: $ 28,224,714

Planned human resources: 180

Departmental results:

• Privacy rights are respected and obligations are met.
• Canadians are empowered to exercise their privacy rights.
• Parliamentarians, and public and private sector organizations are informed and guided to protect Canadians’ privacy rights.

More information about the Protection of Privacy Rights can be found in the full plan.