Report on Fees 2017-18

The Honourable Ralph Goodale, P.C., M.P.
Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness

ISSN 2562-0754

Institutional Head's message
General fees information

General and financial information by fee category.
Financial totals for all fee categories
Fees under the department's authority

Endnotes

Institutional Head's message

On behalf of the RCMP External Review Committee^Footnote1 (ERC), I am pleased to present the 2017 to 2018 Report on Fees.

On June 22, 2017, the Service Fees Act^Footnote2 received royal assent, thereby repealing the User Fees Act^Footnote3.

The Service Fees Act introduces a modern legislative framework that enables cost-effective delivery of services and, through enhanced reporting to Parliament, improved transparency and oversight. The act provides for:

a streamlined approach to consultation and the approval of new or modified fees
a requirement for services to have service standards and reporting against these standards, along with a policy to remit fees to fee payers when standards are not met
an automatic annual fee adjustment by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to ensure that fees keep pace with inflation
annual detailed reporting to Parliament in order to increase transparency

This 2017 to 2018 Fees Report is the first report to be prepared under the Service Fees Act. Additional fee information will be included starting next fiscal year, once the RCMP External Review Committee fully transitions to the Service Fees Act regime.

I welcome the increased transparency and oversight that the Service Fees Act's reporting regime embodies, and I am fully committed to transitioning my department to this modern framework.

David Paradiso
Interim Chairperson

General fees information

The tables that follow provide information on each category of fees, including:

the name of the fee category
the date that the fee (or fee category) was introduced and last amended (if applicable)
service standards
performance results against these standards
financial information regarding total costs, total revenues and remissions

In addition to the information presented by fee category, there is a summary of the financial information for all fees as well as a listing of fees under the department's authority. This listing includes the existing fee dollar amounts and the adjusted dollar fee amount for a future year.

General and financial information by fee category

General Information
Fee category	Fees for processing requests filed under the Access to Information Act
Fee-setting authority	Access to Information Act
Year introduced	1988
Year last amended	1992
Service standard	A response is provided within 30 days following receipt of a request; the response time may be extended under section 9 of the Access to Information Act.
Performance results	The ERC responded within 30 days in 100 per cent of cases.*
Other information	Under the Access to Information Act, fees under $25 may be waived when deemed to be in the public interest. No fees were waived during 2017–18.
* Includes cases where a Notice of Extension is sent to the requester within 30 days of receipt of the request.

Financial information (dollars)
2016 to 2017 Revenue	2017 to 2018 Revenue	2017 to 2018 Cost*	2017 to 2018 Remissions†
15	0	10,000	Not applicable
* The amount includes direct and indirect costs, where such costs are identifiable and material. † A remission is a partial or full return of a fee paid. Under the Service Fees Act, departments are required to develop policies that determine when fees will be remitted to fee payers should service standards not be met. The requirement for departments to remit is anticipated to come into effect on March 31, 2020. This effective date allows departments time to develop remissions policies and adjust service standard tracking and remittance systems. During fiscal year 2017 to 2018, some departments may have issued remissions, in accordance with the authority of their enabling legislation or regulation, as opposed to the authority given by the Service Fees Act. It is remissions issued under enabling legislations or regulations that are shown above.

Financial totals for all fee categories

Total revenues, cost and remissions (dollars)
2016 to 2017 Total revenue	2017 to 2018 Total revenue	2017 to 2018 Total cost	2017 to 2018 Total remissions
15	0	10,000	Not applicable
Note: the totals are the sums of the revenues, costs and remissions reported for all fee categories in the “Financial information” tables.

Fees under the department's authority

Fee amounts for 2017 to 2018, 2019 to 2020, and a future fiscal year, as applicable (dollars)
Name of fee	2017 to 2018 Fee amount	2019 to 2020 Adjusted fee amount*	Future fee amount and fiscal year†
Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
* Fees are adjusted annually in one of two ways: (1) Under the Service Fees Act, fees are adjusted in each fiscal year by the percentage change over 12 months in the April All-Items Consumer Price Index for Canada, as published by Statistics Canada for the previous fiscal year. The Consumer Price Index rate for this report is 2.2%. (2) The fee is subject to a periodic adjustment at a predetermined rate, in accordance with another authority in legislation or regulation. † The “Future fee amount and fiscal year” is the new amount of the fee, in a future fiscal year other than 2019 to 2020, adjusted by a predetermined rate, in accordance with the authority in legislation or regulation.

Endnotes

1
RCMP External Review Committee, http://www.erc-cee.gc.ca/index-en.aspx
2
Service Fees Act, http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/S-8.4/index.html
3
User Fees Act, http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/U-3.7/20040331/P1TT3xt3.html

Date modified:: 2019-06-10

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