Supplementary Information Tables – 2025–26 Departmental Results Report (DRR)

Details on transfer payment programs

Transfer payment program or funding agreement: Contributions Program of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

Timeframe of the transfer payment program

• Start date: April 1, 2025
• End date: March 31, 2030
• Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2024–25

Funding details

• Listing in the Public Accounts: The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act Contribution Program
• Name of program terms and conditions: Terms and Conditions of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s Contributions Program (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act)
• Type of transfer payment: Contribution
• Type of appropriation: Appropriated annually through Estimates

Purpose and objectives

• Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: This program exists under section 24 of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). This section states — among other things, that the Commissioner is authorized to take any action that is appropriate to promote Part I of the Act. In accordance with PIPEDA, the goals and objectives of the Program are to:
1. Capitalize on the existing capacity of not-for-profit organizations, such as academic institutions and civil society groups, to generate new knowledge and support the development of expertise in selected areas of privacy and data protection.
2. Increase awareness and understanding among individuals and organizations of their privacy rights and obligations.
• Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2025–26: Officials administering the program engage with applicants and recipients by proactively seeking out proposals from the stakeholder community; reviewing and assessing proposals; answering questions from potential applicants and recipients; liaising with recipients during the entire course of their projects; reviewing deliverables and providing feedback to recipients as required; inviting recipients to speak about their projects to OPC employees; working with recipients on public education material related to their completed projects.

Departmental Results Framework

Link to departmental result(s): Canadians are empowered to exercise their privacy rights, and Parliamentarians as well as public and private sector organizations are informed and guided to protect Canadians’ privacy rights.

Link to the department’s program inventory: Promotion Program

Evaluations and audits

Findings of audits completed in 2025–26: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2025–26: N/A

Financial Information

Financial information (dollars)

Financial information (dollars)

Type of transfer payment	2023-24 actual spending	2024-25 actual spending	2025-26 planned spending	2025-26 total authorities available for use	2025-26 actual spending (authorities used)	Variance (2025-26 actual minus 2025-26 planned)
Total grants	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total contributions	$496,464	$500,000	$500,000	$500,000	$489,400	$10,600
Total other types of transfer payments	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total program	$496,464	$500,000	$500,000	$500,000	$489,400	$10,600

Explanation of variances

Variance due to some recipients underspending on their projects.

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Gender-based Analysis Plus

Section 1: Institutional GBA Plus governance and capacity

Governance

To build and maintain a Gender-based analysis plus (GBA Plus) governance, the OPC has appointed a Champion and a co-champion to raise awareness and disseminate information across the organization. They engage in ongoing discussions on how to incorporate GBA Plus into both internal and external services across the Office and participate in government-wide working groups. The OPC has also developed a framework and an action plan that are currently being implemented.

Capacity

The OPC recognizes the importance of GBA Plus for understanding the impacts of its programs and services and for achieving better outcomes and supports its implementation throughout the Office. A working group composed of members from all directorates is in place and meets as needed. One of the goals of this working group is to promote GBA Plus as a community of practice. Women and Gender Equality Canada’s GBA Plus training is also part of the OPC’s recommended training in its employees’ learning roadmap.

Human resources (full-time equivalents or FTEs) dedicated to GBA Plus

During the 2025–26 fiscal year, approximately 0.30 FTE was dedicated to working on GBA Plus within the OPC. The calculation of FTEs is based on the efforts dedicated to this initiative across the organization to meet requirements associated with preparing the Departmental Plan, Departmental Results Report, and Submissions to Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. The efforts required to participate in the GBA Plus interdepartmental committee meetings are also considered in this calculation. Resources were also deployed in the past year by the business intelligence function to help the OPC progress in its implementation of GBA Plus across the Office.

Section 2: Gender and diversity impacts, by program

Core responsibility: Protection of privacy rights

The mission of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) is to protect and promote the privacy rights of individuals. In fulfilling its core responsibility, the OPC aims to ensure that the rights of all Canadians, including those from vulnerable populations who may be less able to protect themselves from risk of harm due to a number of factors, are recognized and protected. The philosophy behind GBA Plus is a natural complement to the work of the OPC in this regard. By strategically applying factors from the Government of Canada’s proposed GBA Plus framework in an intersectional manner, the OPC can better understand the range of experiences, barriers and inequalities that groups of people face, leading to a better diagnostic of the problem, strengthened solutions and nuanced strategies to reduce inequalities.

Program name: Compliance Program^{Footnote 1}

Program goals: Through its Compliance Program, the OPC contributes to the protection of privacy rights through the enforcement of federal privacy obligations by federal government institutions and private-sector organizations. This program investigates privacy-related complaints, reviews privacy breaches and assesses how well organizations are complying with requirements set out in the two federal privacy laws. These compliance activities are supported by specialized legal and technological expertise.

Target population: The Compliance Program is designed to benefit all Canadians. It directly impacts their ability to exercise control over their personal information and enables them to exercise their privacy rights. However, it is recognized that privacy issues impact individuals in unique ways and certain groups stand to particularly benefit from the OPC’s programs and services: lived experiences with privacy are influenced by intersecting factors such as gender, sexual orientation, race, age, socio-economic status and abilities.

Specific demographic group(s) to be monitored

The OPC is committed to reviewing and assessing the differential impacts of privacy challenges on diverse groups of people through strategic application of GBA Plus analysis to relevant aspects of its work. Children and young people are particularly vulnerable to privacy risks and issues in the digital age. Recognizing the need to ensure that young people can benefit from technology without compromising their privacy and well-being, the OPC has made championing children’s privacy one of its strategic priorities in its 2024–27 Strategic Plan.

Key program impacts* on gender and diversity

Other key program impacts

Several initiatives were undertaken in 2025–26 to further the OPC’s strategic priority of protecting children’s privacy within its Compliance Program. Throughout the year, the OPC applied a children’s privacy lens to enforcement activities and leveraged investigative findings – such as the joint investigation into TikTok to inform organizations and to incentivize them to develop products and services with stronger privacy protections for children.

In 2025–26, the OPC emphasized the promotion and use of data, including for GBA Plus analysis. The OPC started its work to capture demographic data within its compliance work, to gain a better understanding of the public that it serves, and to support the analysis and assessment of how diverse groups of people may experience the OPC’s programs and services differently.

Program name: Promotion Program

Program goals: The OPC’s Promotion Program contributes to the protection of privacy rights through its proactive efforts to increase awareness and understanding of rights and obligations and to promote compliance with federal privacy legislation. To that end, the Program provides information, guidance and advice to support organizations in meeting their federal privacy responsibilities and to support Canadians in exercising their privacy rights. This program also provides advice to Parliament on the potential privacy implications of proposed legislation and government programs.

Target population: The Promotion Program is designed to benefit all Canadians. It directly impacts their ability to exercise control over their personal information and enables them to exercise their privacy rights. However, it is recognized that privacy issues impact individuals in unique ways: lived experiences with privacy are influenced by intersecting factors such as gender, sexual orientation, race, age, socio-economic status and abilities.

Specific demographic group(s) to be monitored

The OPC is committed to reviewing and assessing the differential impacts of privacy challenges on diverse groups of people through strategic application of GBA Plus analysis to relevant aspects of its work. Children and young people are particularly vulnerable to privacy risks and issues in the digital age. Recognizing the need to ensure that young people can benefit from technology without compromising their privacy and well-being, the OPC has made championing children’s privacy one of its strategic priorities in its 2024–27 Strategic Plan.

Key program impacts* on gender and diversity

Other key program impacts

Several promotion initiatives were undertaken in 2025–26 to further the OPC’s strategic priority of protecting children’s privacy.

To deepen its understanding of children’s privacy, the OPC engaged directly with youth to better understand young Canadians’ online experiences related to data privacy and to assess their knowledge of privacy rights, protections, and available resources by establishing a Youth Council. The OPC also hosted an international symposium on youth privacy and conducted research through focus groups, as well as an event with children in partnership with academic researchers.

The OPC made use of its Contributions Program to fund privacy-related research into the privacy perspectives of young users and women, including a study that evaluated PIPEDA’s fitness to govern the use of emotion AI with children. As part of the OPC’s call for proposals, all applicants were encouraged to incorporate an intersectional analysis into their project and to include strategies that could help reduce inequalities between people.

The OPC also leveraged data and insights gained through consultations and engagement activities to inform its work aimed at promoting and protecting children’s privacy. This included leading an exploratory consultation on the development of a children’s privacy code, running a consultation on age assurance, participating in a global privacy sweep, and issuing a joint resolution on educational technology in schools.