Help Develop Canada’s 2025–2029 National Action Plan on Open Government

data policy development evaluation of the effectiveness of programs

Income equity, wealth redistribution; universalism and the social safety net; poverty reduction - design and implementation of income...

supports (CRA-based benefits and cash-transfers, CDB, eg); electoral reform.

Pipeline construction

Service delivery priorities, approaches and investments. These have the most direct impact on peoples' lives and they should include the...

people they impact from the ideation through the implementation and review phases.

Anything that more directly affects "local" or daily life such as where housing or commercial buildings...

will be constructed/neighbourhoods will be designed (eg. in regards to walkability, etc.), road maintenance, traffic, construction timelines, public transit, local programs + events, resources + programs offered by recreation centres, school curriculum, tuition costs, etc. I am also interested in more "federal" concerns such as climate change, our healthcare system, or cost of living but these are large issues that become difficult for me to navigate

Economic disparity is the biggest threat. Mis/disinformation only works because of it. Corporate greed and lack of accountability allow...

profits to override human rights. Marketing is basically corporate-driven misinformation.

Depends on the nature of the threat..... Promoting open dialogue is a good start.

3. Promote transparency

Not suppression, but inoculation: highlight disinformation campaigns, their origins and their impacts, including "telltale signs".

Disinformation campaigns are successful because they tell people what they want to hear. But nobody wants to be seen by others as a fool. Disinformation campaigns can usually be debunked when facts and consequences become apparent. A publicly maintained resource for that, like Snopes.com, is an extension of librarianism, a facility that the public can consult to review and discredit sources of disinformation. But to be diplomatic, it must be non partisan, and highlight successful, as well as unsuccessful disinformation campaigns, and it MUST name perpetrators / originators (including organized foreign state and non-state actors, intended targets, and the presumed and actual objectives of each campaign, as well as consequences, if any.

Do not use governing party's powers to suppress alternate views or actions.

have you looked at our Telephone plans lately? everything is owned by the big three companies. Have you looked at our cable/internet...

services lately? It's insanely segregated. Power supply is exactly the same. there is little doubt that there is corruption in the ranks.

My biggest concerns are that our government is more concerned with their big money players rather than the concerns of the working and...

middle classes. We all know from economic history that the lower classes have had pretty much stagnant wages over the last 40 years. Nothing any government has done has dramatically changed that. The rich continue to get richer. Beyond that though I find that our corporations are too conservative. They tend to get locked into cycles that lack innovation and get into a "we've always done it this way" mindset. I think there should be incentives for companies to have large R&D budgets.

Make legislative changes, which are long overdue. Stop relying on facile arguments about protecting businesses: openness promotes...

competition, which is sorely lacking in most major industries in Canada.

Its can't because its not willing to divorce itself from itself to allow Canadians to believe in a national mission. Just because a...

political party is elected as the 'government', doesn't mean the government, or aka the public service, which is what this survey is really about, has the leadership and vision to create an authentic relationship with Canadians. Trust? What does this look, feel and mean for Indigenous peoples? What does authenticity look like for the taxpayer?

To begin, acknowledge that our input means something. As I noted above, I occasionally write to my federal representative (Kayabaga).

Yet I have never received even an acknowledgement. So, I how do I know she is even listening? I am also extremely frustrated when I hear about government wasting money -on poorly designed programs, giving away millions (CERB) to people that really weren't qualified, or handing millions over to contractors, as it did with the ArriveCAN app, for something that could have been designed for thousands. It makes the government seem incompetent. And in those cases, at least, whoever was involved, certain was. BTW - the pandemic is no excuse for that.

Make them work

Social workers, who provide assistance for those in need to access services and programs they could benefit from, are overworked and...

underpaid. And they are dofficult to access in a timely manner. Therefore the main barrier I and my family have faced is the lack of available social workers. Once a worker was assigned, they barely followed up at all.m other than to provide phone nimbers to charities and agencies and these phone numbers were largnely outdated or no longer in service. It is a really disheartening experience to work hard to get a social worker only tonfind that they are basically overworked to the point of being useless to you when you need help the most.

Disability tax credit. Once a person is on WSIB they should automatically be enrolled into disability tax credit for the time they’re on...

WSIB. Asking a person who had a mental breakdown to fill out these forms with their doctors, when most doctors struggle with & are unable to fill out these forms properly creates barriers for those entitled to it but unable to file properly for it. Being an immigrant who has to rely on draws for family reunification it’s much harder for immigrants separated from their families

very little

Key barriers are economic: are parliamentarians and civil servants cognizant of the costs faced by clients of social programs? Are...

benefits actively modeled and tested for feasibility under real-world conditions, particularly at the interfaces of programs like EI, and resumption of employment? How do various programs offered by different levels of government combine and interact? How are the jolly words of politicians living well above the poverty line actually play out for those living at or below it? These programs need to be tested by the experiences of staffers living under those conditions, and improved by the results of that testing and simulation, and NOT just as a public relations exercise when rolling out a new program at election time; there should be some publicly reported objective scoring (50% of testers of this funding program ran out of funds 5 days before their next infusion of funds. The most frequentLy occurring cases were in the following postal codes...)

Canada should have a framework to make petitions into ballot initiatives that would be automatically voted on, if a petition gets a...

certain amount of signatures. The federal budget needs to be consulted on before delivered.

2. Transportation - Public transit is embarrassingly poor and becomes a running joke between Canadians...

I live just outside a city that has the most developed transit system in the area and the system often has delays or large portions of it are shutdown during the day. Some methods are so slow that it's faster to walk. The transit in the city I live in rarely comes and is one of the reasons why my city is entirely car-centric. This also leads into the dreadful issue of traffic. In my last municipal election, every single candidate promised to address the issue of traffic and yet I've seen no improvement since then (Transit or otherwise). I have seen some efforts in improving transit over trivial matters but the larger problems continue and I have not heard of any plans or progress made to change that.

2) Quality Gender data, particularly intersections with Indigenous populations - currently data in Territories and remote contexts is of...

really poor quality

Privacy and protection of personal info

All new registries (such as the beneficial ownership registry) should default to being open - open data, open standards, open APIs.