Canada Directive on Automated Decision-Making (federal institutions)

Complete, approve and publish an algorithmic impact assessment before production; apply the Appendix C requirements for the impact level (notice, explanation, peer review, human intervention); offer recourse and report on effectiveness

By Jorge García Aibar Reviewed 2026-09-24

From clause to evidence Build the artefact, then file every output it produces as a record that names AIGE-OBL-CAN-DADM. Drawn from chapter 08.

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Clause: Canada DADM, Directive on Automated Decision-Making.
Duty holder: Canadian federal institutions.
Applies from: 2019-04-01, In force.
Artefact: Published AIA rendered….
Layers: Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 05.
Evidence record: Evidence record v1.
Record schema: Evidence record.
No crosswalk topic files this clause yet.

When this obligation applies The first date in the row's status, then each later step: filled once its date has passed, outlined while it is still ahead of the review date.

Data table: the dates

Dates of AIGE-OBL-CAN-DADM
Date	Step	Detail
2019-04-01	In force	In effect since 2019-04-01; modified 2025-06-24; earlier systems complied by 2026-06-24
2025-06-24	Later step	Current version of the directive
2026-06-24	Later step	Systems procured before 2025-06-24 meet the updated requirements

Id

AIGE-OBL-CAN-DADM

Instrument

Canada Directive on Automated Decision-Making law

Clause

Directive on Automated Decision-Making

In scope

Canadian federal institutions

Authority

Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

Applies from

2019-04-01 In force · In effect since 2019-04-01; modified 2025-06-24; earlier systems complied by 2026-06-24

Later dates

2025-06-24 Current version of the directive
2026-06-24 Systems procured before 2025-06-24 meet the updated requirements

The artefact that evidences it

Published AIA rendered from a shared impact fact base; notice and explanation templates; peer-review record; recourse path; re-assessment triggers as code.

Patterns that build it

No pattern in the catalogue names this clause on its "Maps to" line yet; the artefact above is the engineering answer.

Source

Chapter 08, section Other jurisdictions, checked against its sources on the review date above.

Machine-readable

This obligation: /api/v1/obligations/aige-obl-can-dadm.json
The register: /api/v1/obligations.json · CSV
Schema and stability promise: open data and API

Cite this obligation

García Aibar, J. (2026). Canada Directive on Automated Decision-Making (federal institutions) (AIGE-OBL-CAN-DADM). In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/obligations/aige-obl-can-dadm. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026obligation,
  author       = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title        = {{Canada Directive on Automated Decision-Making (federal institutions) (AIGE-OBL-CAN-DADM)}},
  howpublished = {In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {0.5.0},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url          = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/obligations/aige-obl-can-dadm},
  note         = {Version 0.5.0}
}