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Government of Canada – DTPR AI Register

AI-Assisted Search and Analysis of Federal Regulations

Planning & Decision-making · Enforcement

What it collects

Operational data
Anonymized data
  • Canadian federal Acts and Regulations, curated and structured as a data set searchable and filterable by department and industry sector. This is publicly available legal text — no personal information is involved.
Run by
Transport Canada (TC)
Where
No fixed location
Kept
Retained not specified in register
Shared with
Accountable organization
Your copy
You cannot see the data it holds about you. What you can do

What it is for

Planning & Decision-makingEnforcement

This web application helps Government of Canada employees search, filter, and analyze federal Acts and Regulations across departments and industry sectors. It uses intelligent automation to generate structured information and comparative metrics on regulatory burden. The system is not used for decisions about individual citizens — it serves internal policy analysts and regulators managing Canada's regulatory framework. No personal information is collected or processed.

What it collects and what happens to it

Data taken in

Operational data
Anonymized data
  • Canadian federal Acts and Regulations, curated and structured as a data set searchable and filterable by department and industry sector. This is publicly available legal text — no personal information is involved.

Processing

Classification & Prediction
  • The platform classifies and categorizes Acts and Regulations by department, industry sector, and regulatory burden metrics using intelligent automation applied to the curated regulatory data set.
Search & Retrieval
  • Users can search and filter Acts and Regulations by department and industry. The system retrieves and surfaces relevant regulatory content from the curated federal regulatory data set in response to user queries.

What it does

Deciding (Analytical AI)
Human decides
  • The platform scores, ranks, and computes comparative metrics on regulatory burden across regulations, departments, and industry sectors. GC analysts and regulators interpret the results and make policy decisions.
Understanding (Semantic AI)
Human decides
  • The platform uses intelligent automation to structure and surface regulatory text, allowing users to search and filter Acts and Regulations by department and industry through semantic understanding of content.

Outputs

About a measurement
Anonymized data
  • Comparative metrics on the distribution of regulatory burden — across individual regulations, departments, government-wide, or by industry sector. Outputs are aggregate analytical measures, not decisions about individuals.
A recommendation or prediction
Anonymized data
  • Structured search and filter results presenting relevant Acts and Regulations to GC policy analysts for further human review and policy action. The system advises; humans decide.

Run by

Transport Canada (TC)
  • Transport Canada is the federal department responsible for deploying and operating the Regulatory Platform to support GC regulators and policy analysts in managing Canada's regulatory stock.

Government of Canada AI Register — Regulatory Platform

Built by

Government of Canada
  • The Government of Canada developed the Regulatory Platform internally as an in-house solution to address capability gaps for federal regulators and policy analysts.

Government of Canada AI Register — Regulatory Platform

Kept for

Retained not specified in register
  • The platform is a curated data set of federal Acts and Regulations. The retention period for platform outputs and any query logs is not specified in the register entry. No personal information is retained, as the system explicitly does not involve personal data.
  • Duration: not specified in register

Shared with

Available to the accountable organization
  • Outputs are accessible to GC employees — specifically federal regulators and policy analysts across government departments — as the designated primary users of the platform.
Not available to me
  • The platform is restricted to GC employees. Members of the public and individual citizens do not have access to the platform's outputs or underlying data processing functions, though the underlying Acts and Regulations are publicly available through other government channels.

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 TransparencyGC employees using this platform can consult the Government of Canada's AI Register entry (ID: 2526-TC-008) for information about how the system works, its capabilities, and its data sources. The register is publicly accessible at open.canada.ca.
  • Right to Purpose LimitationThe Regulatory Platform is designed exclusively to support GC regulators and policy analysts in assessing, managing, aligning, and reporting on Canada's regulatory stock. It is not authorized for use in decisions about individual citizens or for purposes outside regulatory analysis.

Risks and safeguards

No risks or safeguards have been published for this system yet.