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Section Title: News and Publications

Activities carried out in 2003–2004 under the Access to Information Act

Institution

Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Reporting period

April 1, 2003 – March 31, 2004

Source
Media 111
Academia 9
Business 5,835
Organization 94
Public 1,827

I   Requests under the Access to Information Act
Received during reporting period 7,876
Outstanding from previous period 1,087
TOTAL 8,963
Completed during reporting period 7,613
Carried forward 1,350

II   Dispositon of requests completed
1. All disclosed 3,039
2. Disclosed in part 3,529
3. Nothing disclosed (excluded) 7
4. Nothing disclosed (exempt) 7
5. Transferred 11
6. Unable to process 462
7. Abandoned by applicant 550
8. Treated informally 8
TOTAL 7,613

III   Exemptions invoked
Section 13(1) (a) 148
(b) 11
(c) 168
(d) 77
Section 14 27
Section 15(1) International rel. 9
Defence 0
Subversive activities 919
Section 16(1) (a) 53
(b) 44
(c) 586
(d) 1
Section 16(2) 115
Section 16(3) 0
Section 17 5
Section 18 (a) 4
(b) 0
(c) 0
(d) 1
Section 19(1) 2,989
Section 20(1) (a) 4
(b) 17
(c) 28
(d) 10
Section 21(1) (a) 69
(b) 81
(c) 17
(d) 16
Section 22 10
Section 23 85
Section 24 1
Section 26 2

IV   Exclusions cited
Section 68 (a) 28
(b) 1
(c) 1
Section 69(1) (a) 13
(b) 0
(c) 4
(d) 6
(e) 9
(f) 8
(g) 56

V   Completion time
30 days or under 5,518
31 to 60 days 1,386
61 to 120 days 366
121 days or over 343

VI   Extensions
  30 days or under 31 days or over
Searching 15 179
Consultation 1,276 28
Third party 2 5
TOTAL 1,293 212

VII   Translations
Translations requested 0
Translations prepared English to French 0
French to English 0

VIII   Method of access
Copies given 6,483
Examination 46
Copies and examination 39

IX   Fees
Net fees collected
Application fees $38,815.00 Preparation $148.00
Reproduction $24,032.30 Computer processing $205.00
Searching $260.00 TOTAL $63,460.30
Fees waived No. of times $
$25.00 or under 5,188 $ $21,644.72
Over $25.00 20 $ $1,483.25

X   Costs
Financial (all reasons)
Salary $ 1,296,540.00
Administration (O and M) $ 721,564.90
TOTAL $ 2,018,104.90
Person year utilization (all reasons)
Person year (decimal format) 22.36

TBS/SCT 350-62 (Rev. 1999/03)

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