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Information related to the reporting obligations and requirements can be found in the guidance and resources available.
Answers to top questions
1. Will Public Safety Canada accept reports submitted after the May 31 deadline?
In keeping with the spirit of the Act to enhance transparency, Public Safety Canada will continue to post reports, including those submitted past the May 31 legislated deadline. However, they will not be prioritized for publication. This will allow the public to have a central repository of all reports submitted to Public Safety Canada, via the library catalogue, regardless of when they were submitted.
2. When will submitted reports be posted online?
The publication of annual reports submitted by reporting entities and government institutions is determined by the date it was submitted. Entities and government institutions should not expect their reports to be published immediately following submission. Reports will continue to be posted to Public Safety Canada’s library catalogue on an ongoing basis.
3. How should a subsidiary evaluate whether it meets the revenue, asset, and employee thresholds when determining their obligations?
Subsidiaries must determine if they have reporting obligations independently from their parent company. If a subsidiary does not meet the definition of entity they do not have reporting obligations. The subsidiary should evaluate its own financial statement (not the consolidated financial statement of the parent company that controls it) to determine if it falls within the size-related thresholds outlined in the definition of “entity.”
4. When should consolidated financial statements be used?
When determining if they are an “entity” for the purposes of the Act, corporations, trusts, partnerships, and other unincorporated organizations should use consolidated financial statements to assess revenue, assets and employees and include the revenue, assets and employees of any entity it controls (i.e., its subsidiaries).
If both a parent company and its subsidiary are captured by the definition of entity and they are subject to reporting obligations, they may submit a joint report. Please refer to the guidance for more information about joint reports.
5. How should an entity assess if it is importing goods?
An entity is considered to be importing goods into Canada if the entity is responsible for accounting for those goods under the Customs Act. An entity buying a good in a domestic transaction, who is not causing the importation is not, generally, an importer. Purchasing goods produced outside Canada from a third party, where that third party is considered to be the importer for the purposes of the Customs Act, does not count as importing goods.
6. How should an entity determine if it is “doing business in Canada”?
To determine if they are “doing business in Canada”, entities may use the factors considered by the Canada Revenue Agency when determining if a non-resident person is “carrying on business in Canada” for GST/HST purposes. Refer to the guidance for more information.
7. Are provincial and municipal government institutions subject to reporting requirements?
Provincial and municipal governmental institutions are not subject to the reporting requirements as per the definition of “government institutions” in the Act. However, some provincial agent Crown corporations may be subject to the reporting requirements by falling under the definition of “entity." It is their responsibility to determine whether they are a reporting entity under the Act.
Contact information
Inquiries can be sent by email to:
SupplyChainsActInquiries-LoiChainesApprovisionnementEnquetes@ps-sp.gc.ca
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