Privacy notice statement

Participation in this consultation is voluntary, and acceptance or refusal to participate will in no way affect any relationship with Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) or the Government of Canada.

Information provided to the Expert Panel on Youth Employment or to Employment and Social Development Canada related to this engagement initiative can be subject to Access to Information and Privacy requests and will be administered in accordance with the Access to Information Act and Privacy Act.

The information is collected under the authority of the Department of Employment and Social Development Act (DESDA) for the 2016 Expert Panel on Youth Employment (the Panel). It may be used by the Panel or by ESDC for policy analysis and research; however, these uses and/or disclosures of your personal information will never result in an administrative decision being made about you.

Any personal information provided to the Panel or ESDC will be administered in accordance with the DESDA, the Privacy Act and other applicable laws. However, those providing information are requested not to provide any identifying personal information about themselves or anyone else (other than name, organization and contact information). In the event that you provide unsolicited personal information for the purpose of attribution, your unsolicited personal information could be used in publicly available reports on the consultation and elsewhere as deemed appropriate by ESDC or the Panel. If personal information is provided by an individual member of the general public (who is not an individual participating in the consultation on behalf of, or as a representative of, a stakeholder organization), ESDC and the Panel shall make every effort to remove the identifying personal information prior to including the individual’s responses in the data analysis.

You have the right to the protection of, access to, and correction of your personal information, which is described in Personal Information Banks ESDC PSU 914 or ESDC PSU 938. Instructions for obtaining this information are outlined in Info Source. Info Source may also be accessed on-line at any Service Canada Centre.

You have the right to file a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada regarding the institution’s handling of your personal information.

To obtain information related to this consultation, a request may be submitted in writing to ESDC pursuant to the Access to Information Act. When making a request, reference should be made to the Expert Panel on Youth Employment.