Reports and publications

2025

• Guidelines on the Conduct of Ministers, Ministers of State, Exempt Staff and Public Servants During an Election

2024

• 2023 to 2024 Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy Report
• Canada’s Intelligence Priorities - September 2024
• Thirty-First Annual Report to the Prime Minister on the Public Service of Canada
• Standard on the security of Cabinet Confidences - April 2024
• Policy on the security of Cabinet Confidences - April 2024

2023

• Deputy Ministers’ Task Team on Values and Ethics Report to the Clerk of the Privy Council
• Thirtieth Annual Report to the Prime Minister on the Public Service of Canada
• Countering an evolving threat: Update on recommendations to counter foreign interference in Canada’s democratic institutions

2022

• Twenty-Ninth Annual Report to the Prime Minister on the Public Service of Canada

2021

• Privy Council Office Code on Values and Ethics (2021)
• Twenty-Eighth Annual Report to the Prime Minister on the Public Service of Canada

2019

• The collection, use and display of sex and gender information at the federal level
• 2016-2019 Mental health progress report: the Canadian public service experience

2018

• Report to the Clerk of the Privy Council: A Data Strategy Roadmap for the Federal Public Service
• Safe Workspaces: Starting a dialogue and taking action on harassment in the Public Service

2017

• The next level: Normalizing a culture of inclusive linguistic duality in the Federal Public Service workplace

2016

• 2016 Spring Report 3 of the Auditor General of Canada
• Report to the Clerk of the Privy Council of Canada on the Policy Community Project
• PCO Blueprint 2020 - Annual Report 2016

2014

• Destination 2020 - May 2014 - Report highlighting some of the ideas generated through engagement, confirming that continued engagement is the way forward, and setting out 15 horizontal initiatives to be undertaken across the Public Service. The 15 initiatives were chosen from among the ideas generated by public servants based on their relevance to the vision and to public servants, stakeholder support, impact and expected results, and feasibility. The title of the report was crowdsourced by public servants.

2013

• Info Source - Sources of Federal Government and Employee Information
• What We’ve Heard: Summary Interim Progress Report on Blueprint 2020 - December 2013 - Report outlining the feedback received from early employee engagement
• Blueprint 2020: Getting Started – Getting Your Views - September 2013 - Original consultation document asking public servants what the vision meant to them, what was needed to make the vision a reality and what they could do to help achieve the vision

2012

• Guidelines for Preparing Government Responses to Parliamentary Committee Reports
• Memoranda to Cabinet

Prior to 2012

• Glossary of Terms for Parliamentary Returns
• Guidance for Deputy Ministers
• Guide to Making Federal Acts and Regulations
• The Responsibilities of the Privy Council Office
• Guide Book for Heads of Agencies: Operations, Structures and Responsibilities in the Federal Government
• Cabinet Directive on Law-Making
• Responsibility in the Constitution
• Notes on the Responsibilities of Public Servants in Relation to Parliamentary Committee