Welcome to the Web site of the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec. General information and information for our international clientele will gradually become available on our Web site, in compliance with the Politique linguistique. The content of pages not available in English will appear in French.
New Privacy Obligations for Business
Running a business? Did you know that the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector has been amended in Quebec? Here is an overview of the main obligations which will come into force on September 22nd 2022. Will you be ready? The countdown has begun! Complete information here.
Forms
- Request for document access in Public Bodies
- Request for document access in Public Bodies
- Request for access to personal information in Public Bodies
- Request for access to personal information in Public Bodies
- Request for correction of personal information in Public Bodies
- Request for correction of personal information in Public Bodies
- Request for access to personal information in Private Enterprises
- Request for access to personal information in Private Enterprises
- Request for rectification to personal information in Private Enterprises
- Request for rectification to personal information in Private Enterprises
- Request for deletion of personal information from a nominative list in Private Enterprises
- Request for deletion of personal information from a nominative list in Private Enterprises
- Application for review or examination of a disagreement form
- Acces to research data :
- Research Data Access Point for data from RAMQ, MSSS or ISQ, contact ISQ at https://stat.gouv.qc.ca/research/#/accueil
- Acces to data from other organization, fill the form : Application for authorization to obtain nominative information for research, study or statistical purposes
- Confidentiality agreement : Undertaking to protect the privacy of personnal information
Lists
- List of concerned public bodies and persons in charge of An act respecting access
- List of personal information agents
Reports
- Technology and Privacy, in a Time of Societal Choices – 5th Quinquennial Report (summary)
- Reforming Access to Information: Choosing Transparency – 4th Quinquennial Report
- Ensuring a better protection for young people’s personal information in the digital age (Summary of the report)
Statutes and Regulations
- An Act respecting access to documents held by public bodies and the protection of personal information
- An Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector
- Extracts from the Civil Code of Québec, articles 35 to 41 (S.Q., 1991, c.64)
- Regulation respecting fees for the transcription, reproduction or transmission of documents or nominative information
- Regulation respecting public bodies that must refuse to release or to confirm the existence of certain information
- Rules of Proof and Procedure before the Commission d’accès à l’information
Leaflets and Bulletins
- What are your rights? How to make a request?
- Application for review, Application for examination of a disagreement, GUIDE, Procedure, Hearing
- The lease and protection of personal information : Principles and guidelines to observe
- Instructions Regarding Hearing Postponents
- Loss or theft of personal information : How shoulf you react? Checklist for citizens
- Electronic mail
- Access to information and the confidentiality of personal information on Internet
- Guide to the destruction of documents that contain personal information
- Consequences for Quebec of a European directive on the protection of personal information
- The management of claims under a group drug insurance plan
- Management of personal information in universities and cegeps
- Direct marketing
- Notice of recourse
Guides and Documents of Analysis
- Pandemic, privacy and protection of personal information
- Canada’s privacy guardians call for comprehensive changes to no-fly list program
- Rules for use of surveillance cameras with recording in public places by public bodies
- Summary of the Report on the public consultation: Use of surveillance cameras by public bodies in public places
- Public surveillance by cameras 10 years after the first inquiry of the Commission d’accès à l’information: an appraisal
- Information highway, caution school zone
- Study of the health information highway in Québec: technical, ethical and legal issues
- Minimum Requirements for the Security of Computerized Records of Health and Social Services Network Clients
- Bill 86, An Act to amend the Act respecting Access to documents held by public bodies and the Protection of personal information and other legislative provisions
Others
- Mediation Framework
- Procedure for Joining Meetings (Montréal)
- Procedure for Joining Meetings (Québec)
If you need more information, please contact us and we will be pleased to answer your questions.