Directive on Automated Decision-Making
Assessment outcome
total 6/6 (actionability 2 + authority 2 + currency 2)
Authorship & scope
Issued by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.
Level 2: Official government directive issued pursuant to established administrative policy authority.
Issuers, who it governs, legal force and content are on the full record.
Eligibility gates
HTTP 200, 3725 words of full text extracted
The source focuses entirely on automated decision systems and artificial intelligence.
The directive establishes rules, risk management, and oversight for automated decision systems.
Issued by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.
No notice of supersession or withdrawal; current version.
Scored criteria
Actionability
2/2Level 2: Names a specific obligation and binding step someone must follow regarding algorithmic impact assessments.
Completing, approving and publishing the final results of an algorithmic impact assessment in an accessible format on the Open Government Portal prior to the production of any automated decision system.
Authority
2/2Level 2: Official government directive issued pursuant to established administrative policy authority.
This directive is issued pursuant to the same authority indicated in section 2 of the Policy on Service and Digital.
Currency
2/2computed: newest date 2025-06-24 (via meta), ~1.1y old; within the 36-month standards_frameworks window for perspective 'Regulatory/legal' → 2