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AI-Assisted Parliamentary Committee Monitoring for Public Servants

Inform

What it collects

About a place
Anonymized data
  • Publicly available text published on Parliamentary and Senate committee websites — committee meeting records, transcripts, agendas, and proceedings.

Government of Canada AI Register — entry 2526-HICC-LICC-004

Run by
Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC)
Where
No fixed location
Kept
Not stated by the Helpful Places.
Shared with
Accountable organization

What it is for

Inform

This system uses AI classification to automatically gather and organize information from Parliamentary and Senate committee meetings — including topics discussed, questions asked, and who spoke — into a dashboard for Government of Canada employees. It does not process personal information about members of the public. AI use is disclosed to users of the system.

What it collects and what happens to it

Data taken in

About a place
Anonymized data
  • Publicly available text published on Parliamentary and Senate committee websites — committee meeting records, transcripts, agendas, and proceedings.

Government of Canada AI Register — entry 2526-HICC-LICC-004

Processing

Classification & Prediction
  • AI classification techniques assign topic labels to committee content and categorize interventions; the register explicitly names this as the core technique.

Government of Canada AI Register — entry 2526-HICC-LICC-004

What it does

Sensing (Perceptive AI)
Autonomous
  • Scrapes and reads text from Parliamentary and Senate committee websites, extracting structured information (topics, speakers, interventions) without human review of each page.

Government of Canada AI Register — entry 2526-HICC-LICC-004

Deciding (Analytical AI)
Human decides
  • Classifies committee content by topic and categorizes interventions and speakers; the resulting classifications are advisory — GC employees decide how to act on the organized information.

Government of Canada AI Register — entry 2526-HICC-LICC-004

Outputs

A recommendation or prediction
Anonymized data
  • Classified and organized summaries of Parliamentary committee topics, questions, interventions, and speakers presented in a dashboard; no binding decisions are made — outputs are informational for GC staff.

Government of Canada AI Register — entry 2526-HICC-LICC-004

Run by

Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC)
  • The federal department that deploys and operates the Parliamentary Affairs Dashboard for its Government of Canada employees.

Government of Canada AI Register — entry 2526-HICC-LICC-004

Built by

Government of Canada
  • The system was developed internally by the Government of Canada, making the government both developer and deployer of this tool.

Government of Canada AI Register — entry 2526-HICC-LICC-004

Kept for

Not stated by the Helpful Places.

Shared with

Available to the accountable organization
  • Dashboard outputs are available to GC employees at Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada; the primary users are internal government staff.

Government of Canada AI Register — entry 2526-HICC-LICC-004

Stored

Not stated by the Helpful Places.

How to read the colours

Can it identify you?

Anonymized data
Data about people with the link to who is broken. Stripped of identifiers, blurred, aggregated, or noised so this system can’t reasonably tie a record back to an individual.
Pseudonymous data
Each person’s data is tied to a token (hash, ID, template) that lets this system recognise the same person across events, but the token itself doesn’t reveal a name. Reidentification is possible with extra information.
Identifiable data
The data either contains a direct identifier (name, address, account name, recognisable face or voice, plate number) or carries a token this system uses to look up legal identity during processing.

Who completes the loop?

Human decides
This mode suggests; a person decides what to do next. The AI is always advisory — a human is in the loop on every decision. Example: a triage tool ranks cases for a clinician who chooses which to see first.
Human executes
This mode decides; a person carries out the result. Example: an optimizer plans the day’s trash-collection routes, and drivers run them.
Autonomous
This mode decides and acts on its own. No person reviews each decision or carries out the resulting action.

Definitions from the DTPR standard. Amber is about your data, violet about who decides. The fuller the shape and the deeper the colour, the more identifying the data or the less a person is involved.

What you can do

Ask about this system

Questions go to the Helpful Places, not the vendor.

Your rights

  • Right to Algorithmic TransparencyAI use is disclosed to users of the system. GC employees are informed that the dashboard is produced using AI classification techniques. Further details about the system are publicly available through the Government of Canada's Automated Decision Register.

Risks and safeguards

  • Societal & cultural harmAI misclassification of Parliamentary proceedings could mislead GC staff about committee topics or misattribute statements to the wrong speakers, potentially influencing policy preparation.Safeguard: The system is advisory only — GC employees are the decision-makers and can verify against primary Parliamentary sources. AI use is disclosed to all users.