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AI Assistant for Federal Government Employees

Inform · Employment & Work

What it collects that can identify you

About behaviour
Pseudonymous data
  • User queries, chat prompts, and interactions entered by GC employees into the system constitute the primary behavioural input data processed at runtime.

Also collects operational data, which is anonymized data.

Run by
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
Where
No fixed location
Kept
Not stated by the Helpful Places.
Shared with
Accountable organization
Your copy
You cannot see the data it holds about you. What you can do

What it is for

InformEmployment & Work

myGCAssistant (Radia) is a bilingual AI chat platform deployed by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat to help federal public servants find information, draft documents, and answer routine questions more quickly. It uses large language models to generate responses grounded in authoritative sources. The system is currently in development and users are informed when they are interacting with AI.

What it collects and what happens to it

Data taken in

About behaviour
Pseudonymous data
  • User queries, chat prompts, and interactions entered by GC employees into the system constitute the primary behavioural input data processed at runtime.
Operational data
Anonymized data
  • Government of Canada knowledge bases, policy documents, authoritative sources, and internal administrative records are ingested as operational data to ground the system's responses.

Processing

Language Models
  • The system is built on large language models that power its chat, drafting, source-backed answering, and agentic workflow capabilities in both English and French.
Search & Retrieval
  • Source-Backed Answers capability relies on retrieval of authoritative government documents and knowledge bases to ground generated responses.

What it does

Creating (Generative AI)
Human decides
  • The system drafts text, answers, and documents in response to user prompts. A human employee reviews and decides whether to use any generated output.
Understanding (Semantic AI)
Human decides
  • The system retrieves and grounds its answers in authoritative sources, understanding user queries in natural language to surface relevant information.
Acting (Agentic AI)
Human decides
  • Agentic Process Assistants capability allows the system to carry out multi-step workflows on behalf of GC employees, with human review of actions.

Outputs

Generated content
Pseudonymous data
  • The system generates drafted text, answers to questions, and summaries in response to employee prompts. Outputs are tied to a user session but not published externally.
A recommendation or prediction
Pseudonymous data
  • The system produces source-backed recommendations and answers that employees may act upon; these are advisory in nature and do not bind any person to a decision.

Run by

Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
  • The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) is deploying and operating myGCAssistant (Radia) as an internal AI productivity platform for federal public servants.

Government of Canada AI Register — myGCAssistant (Radia)

Built by

Government of Canada
  • The system was developed by the Government of Canada, indicating an in-house build rather than a procurement from a commercial AI vendor.

Government of Canada AI Register — myGCAssistant (Radia)

Kept for

Not stated by the Helpful Places.

Shared with

Available to the accountable organization
  • Outputs and interaction data are available to the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat as the deploying organization for operational monitoring and improvement purposes.
Not available to me
  • The register entry does not describe mechanisms for individual GC employees to access, download, or review logs of their own interactions with the system.

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 Be Informed of AI UseAI use is disclosed to users. GC employees are informed when they are interacting with the AI system, as indicated by the register entry field 'AI use disclosed to users: Y'.
  • Right to Algorithmic TransparencyThe Government of Canada has published this AI system in the public AI Register, providing information about the system's purpose, capabilities, and accountable department to the public at large.

Risks and safeguards

  • Reputational harmThe system may generate inaccurate or misleading content that, if acted upon, could damage the credibility of GC employees or the institution.Safeguard: Responses are grounded in authoritative sources; users are informed of AI use; human review is required before acting on outputs.
  • Societal & cultural harmBilingual AI systems may perform unequally in English and French, potentially disadvantaging francophone users or eroding French-language public service capacity.Safeguard: The system is explicitly designed to be bilingual and accessible, with equal service in both official languages as a stated requirement.
  • Loss of autonomyEmployees may over-rely on AI-generated answers for complex policy or legal questions, reducing critical judgment.Safeguard: The system is framed as an assistant for everyday tasks; agentic capabilities are described as process assistants subject to human review, not autonomous decision-makers.