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Find out if you need to register

Not sure if you should register? Take this questionnaire to help you find out

If you or your organization are engaged in activities related to foreign influence, this questionnaire can help you understand if you should register those activities.

Answer the following four questions to help determine if you should register or get more information by reviewing the registration requirements, consulting the legislation, its regulations, and the interpretation bulletins, or by contacting the Office of the Foreign Influence Commissioner of Canada.

This questionnaire should take less than a minute to complete.

This questionnaire does not provide legal determination. It is a starting point to support compliance and reduce uncertainty.

1. Are you or your entity undertaking activities to influence a political or governmental process in Canada at the federal, provincial, territorial, or municipal level?

This includes activities to influence:

  • The making, development, or amendment of a legislative proposal, bill, resolution, regulation, policy, or program
  • The awarding of a grant, a contribution, or other financial benefits
  • The outcome of an election, a referendum, a plebiscite, or other public votes
  • The processes of a government consultation or engagement
  • A decision made by a public office holder or elected official
  • Yes
  • No
  • Not sure

2. Are you acting exclusively in your official capacity in any of the following positions?

  • An employee or official of a Canadian federal, provincial, territorial, or municipal government (including Crown agencies and corporations, boards, and commissioners)
  • An official representative of a foreign government who holds accreditation documents issued by Global Affairs Canada.
  • An employee of a foreign principal who is acting openly in their official capacity
  • Yes
  • No
  • Not sure

3. Are you or your organization’s actions part of an arrangement with a foreign principal?

An arrangement may be formal or informal, written, or unwritten. The foreign principal does not need to have control over the individual or organization, such as through employment, contract, or membership.

A foreign principal can include:

  • Foreign state (includes a country, province, colony, dependency, possession, protectorate, territory, department or agency under the authority of a state other than Canada)
  • Foreign state-owned enterprise, organization, or institution
  • Foreign political party or group whose purpose is to assume the role of a government
  • An entity exercising the functions of a government outside of Canada
  • An organization which represents a group of foreign states
  • A person acting at the direction of, for the benefit of, or in association with a foreign power
  • Yes
  • No
  • Not sure

4. Will you or your organization conduct any of the following activities as part of the arrangement?

  • communicating with a Canadian public office holder (federal, provincial, territorial or municipal)
  • organizing public meetings or advocacy efforts
  • sharing or publishing information related to a political or governmental process (including on social media)
  • providing money, services, facilities, or other items of value
  • Yes
  • No
  • Not sure

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2026-07-06