Industry Canada

Program Records

Aboriginal Business Canada
Description: Aboriginal Business Canada provides a range of support and services to Aboriginal businesses across Canada. The program supports trade and market expansion, tourism, innovation, youth entrepreneurship, and strengthened Aboriginal business and financial institutions, as well as certain other types of projects.
Topics: All components of the Aboriginal Business Development Program.
Program Record Number: IC ABC 005

Advanced Devices and Reliability
Description: Information pertaining to research and development of new microelectronic devices and circuits, particularly those based on compound semiconductor materials such as gallium arsenide (GAAs), and the evaluation of these materials in regard to their suitability for device and circuit fabrication.
Topics: Device and circuit fabrication processes and evaluations; GAAs high-speed logic optoelectronic devices and circuits for data processing; and broadband switching applications.
Program Record Number: IC SIT 800

Alternate Service Delivery
Description: Information on the Accreditation and Registration Programs.
Topics: Accreditation, electricity and gas, weights and measures, authorized service providers, manufacturers, contractors (utilities), service organizations, factory initial inspections, accreditation standards, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), quality assurance criteria, administrative requirements, initial transition period, manual review procedure, audit procedure, enforcement policy.
Program Record Number: IC MC 200

Broadcast Engineering Database
Description: This bank contains technical and administrative information related to broadcasting certificates. The information is used in the issue, renewal and amendment of certificates under the Radiocommunication Act and in providing technical certification to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to permit the issue of broadcast licenses under the Broadcasting Act. It is also used in meeting the technical criteria in bilateral agreements with the U.S.A. and agreements administered by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Some of this information is shared with the following organizations: Transport Canada, to ensure that transmission of FM broadcasting stations do not interfere with aircraft communications; Energy, Mines and Resources Canada, in preparing topographical maps; the CRTC; and the Federal Communications Commission of the U.S.A. (FCC), in relation to the above agreements.
Topics: Technical brief, call-sign
Access: Numeric filing system by broadcasting type (AM, FM, TV)
Program Record Number: IC SIT 810

Broadcast Technologies Research and Development
Description: Information on research and development in broadcasting and related technologies, systems and services.
Topics: Television; sound (radio); datacasting; imagery; video and film generation; interactive home-services; behavioural research; broadcast standards and networks.
Program Record Number: IC SIT 815

Cable Television Database
Description: This bank contains technical and administrative information related to broadcasting certificates for cable television distribution systems. The information is used in the issue, renewal and amendment of certificates under the Radiocommunication Act and in providing technical certification to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to permit the issue of licenses under the Broadcasting Act. Parts of this information are shared with the Transport Canada, to ensure that transmission towers do not interfere with aircraft communications and navigation, and with the CRTC.
Topics: Authorized distribution, leakage monitoring, aeronautical channels
Access: Numeric filing system
Program Record Number: IC SIT 820

Canada Business Service Centres (now Canada Business)
Description: General information on the operation of the network of Canada Business Service Centres (CBSCs). Also records of client service interactions with CBSCs located in Ontario, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, the four centres for which Industry Canada is operationally responsible.
Topics: Program information, evaluations, national statistics, client service system, and national web-services information system records.
Access: Client records are arranged by name, address and telephone number.
Program Record Number: IC CIO 710

CIPO Recruitment Program
Description: Patent Examiner Recruitment Inventory System is a database used by the Patent Branch and the Human Resources Branch for the recruitment of Patent Examiners. Candidates can apply for Patent Examiner positions directly through this database, which is accessible on CIPO's Web Site.
Purpose: The purpose of the database is to keep an accessible/searchable inventory of highly qualified candidates for present and future recruitment needs.
Program Record Number: IC CIP 115

Communications and Marketing
Description: Plays a pivotal role in ensuring that the Canadian public, and departmental clients and employees receive information about Industry Canada's policies, programs and services.
Topics: Communications; communications planning; media relations; coordination, production and distribution of speeches, news releases, publications, style guides, and Web Sites.
Program Record Number: IC CMB 350

Communications Application Research
Description: Information on the development, implementation, testing and marketing of new or improved communications and information technology products and services to meet the requirements of industry, governments and special needs groups such as people with disabilities, Aboriginal peoples, seniors and those in remote locations. This involves project management resulting from the application of policy and research and development undertaken by the department and its partners.
Topics: Social and informatics applications, disabilities, native syllabics, database industry.
Program Record Number: IC SIT 825

Competition
Description: Information on enquiries, complaints, legal proceedings and prosecutions under the Competition Act.
Topics: Program of compliance; international agreements; cooperation and liaison; enquiries and investigations; exports; imports; investments; textiles labelling; merchandising; mergers and pre-notifications; monopolies; price fixing; research; sales; services; tariffs; trademarks; transportation; warranties; guaranties. Industries: agricultural and retail services, fishing and trapping; logging and forestry; mining; manufacturing; construction; transportation and storage; communications and other utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance and insurance; real estate and operating insurance agents; business services; government services; educational services; health and social services; accommodation; food and beverage services.
Access: Case files are arranged under the 18 major groups of the standard industrial classification system.
Format: Microfilm, magnetic tape.
Program Record Number: IC CB 075

Components and Subsystems
Description: Information pertaining to research and development on the design, testing and application of GAAS monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMIC), miniature hybrid microwave integrated circuits (MHMIC), components for use in the EHF frequency band, and the design and application of silicon very large scale integrated circuits (VLSI).
Topics: MMIC components and devices; EHF MHMIC components; high speed digital components; and phased array antennas (for communications, radar and microwave landing system application).
Program Record Number: IC SIT 830

Comptrollership and Administration
Description: Responsible for financial and materiel management and related policies, systems, audit and evaluation, facilities, security, program integrity, the Industry Canada loan insurance portfolio, and processes and standards that are consistent with modern comptrollership.
Topics: Financial and materiel management; audit and evaluation; facilities; security; program integrity; loan insurance portfolio.
Program Record Number: IC CAS 300

Consumer Affairs
Description: Information on consumer issues, policy, marketplace trends and contributions to consumer groups.
Topics: Applications for funding
Access: alphabetical by subject or organization
Program Record Number: IC OCA 550

Copyright, Integrated Circuit Topography and Industrial Design
Description: Information on copyright, integrated circuit topography and industrial design legislation.
Topics: Copyright Act, Integrated Circuit Topography Act, Industrial Design Act; copyright, integrated circuit topography and industrial design case files; Timber Marking Act; registration and revision, enquiries, surveys, consultations with provinces, the private sector, and other departments; registration and enquiries about authors' and designers' works; applications for licenses.
Access: Registration and files arranged by title with cases filed numerically by subject, registration number and owner name.
Program Record Number: IC OCA 570

Corporations
Description: Information concerning incorporation of federal companies-contains data on federal corporations that are used for internal record keeping and information dissemination via the telephone, mail, fax or Internet. The master file also contains data used for the issuance of certificates of incorporation and corporate changes, and for the administration of programs dealing with compliance activities.
Topics: Applications, charters, financial statements, annual returns, enquiries, liaison with companies, inquiries and compliance actions; exemptions; arrangement court applications; boards of trade; corporations.
Access: Files accessible by corporation name with a numeric case file arrangement.
Format: EDB database
Program Record Number: IC COR 200

Departmental Programs
Description: Governmental programs carried out by the department and includes correspondence and material related to the initial contact with applicants, initial requests for information, investigations and analysis.
Topics: Programs include Acid Rain Abatement Program (ARAP); Canada Scholarships; PRECARN and CANARIE Grants and Contributions program; Computers for Schools; Environmental Technology Commercialization Program (ETCP); SchoolNet; Community Access Program; Defence Industry Productivity Program (DIPP); Technology Outreach Program (TOP); Program for Export Market Development (PEMD); Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario (FedNor); Ontario Community Futures Program; Canada Small Business Financing Act (CSBFA).
Program Record Number: IC OPS 605

Economic Policy
Description: Information on economic and industrial policies; trade; financial institutions; the environment.
Topics: Federal–provincial relations; foreign; monetary; prices–indexes and surveys regional situation; regulations; taxes; unemployment; industries; Canada, distribution, industry, legislation and programs, prices–indexes, processing, retailing, United States; agreements on tariffs and trade, United Nations Committee on Trade and Development; tariffs–imports, quotas; trade agreements, extra-territoriality.
Access: Files arranged by subject.
Program Record Number: IC POL 700

Electricity and Gas
Description: Information on the electricity and gas program.
Topics: Electricity – Act, regulations, policies, inspection procedures, meter approvals, calibrations, inspection reports, contractor registrations, applicable forms. Natural gas- Act, regulations, policies, inspection procedures, meter approvals, calibrations, inspection reports, contractor registrations, applicable forms.
Program Record Number: IC MC 205

Electronic Commerce
Description: ECOM: Creates a favourable legal and policy environment for investment in e-commerce, and its rapid diffusion throughout the economy, in order to enhance industrial competitiveness and productivity.
Topics: electronic commerce; e-commerce; industrial competitiveness and productivity.
Program Record Number: IC SIT 832

Emergency Telecommunications
Description: Information on emergency telecommunications planning in support of the Department's mandate summarized in Emergency Preparedness Act dated April 27, 1988 and Departmental Responsibilities for Emergency Preparedness dated May 1985.
Topics: Emergency preparedness and crisis management; interdepartmental, intergovernmental and international committees on civil emergency planning; emergency telecommunications programs and contingency plans; emergencies broadcast system and support by regions; NATO and U.S./Canada military and civil exercises.
Program Record Number: IC SIT 835

Engineering
Description: This class of documents contains information on technical standards and procedures for radio equipment and systems, the development and implementation of radio frequency plans and frequency assignment criteria. It also contains the Terminal Attachment Program standards and procedures.
Topics: Equipment type approval; technical methods, practices, procedures and standards; development and engineering. Spectrum management: assignment and licensing subsystems, research, special projects, pilot projects, spectrum surveillance system, automated systems development.
Program Record Number: IC SIT 840

Human Resources
Description: Provides strategic information, advice and operational services.
Topics: Corporate management; succession planning strategies; unions; demographic profiling; advice, guidance and assistance to departmental management and employees on classification, staffing and researching official languages, employment adjustment, labour management, employee equity, training and development, awards and recognition, career planning, compensation and benefits.
Program Record Number: IC HRB 050

Industry Development
Description: Information on the development of Canadian products industries for Canadian and Foreign markets.
Topics: Beverages; adhesives; petroleum and industrial chemical products; plastics; commercial services; consumer products-cultural products, leisure products, sporting goods; construction industry; defence industry; distribution services; electrical and electronics; communications equipment; environmental industry; fishing and trapping; food industries; forest industries-wood products, pulp and paper; furniture and fixtures-business and household products; information and communications technologies; leather and applied products; machinery; metals and minerals-iron, steel, non-ferrous; oil and gas, paper and allied products; retail trade; rubber products; scientific and professional industries; textile industries; tobacco products; transportation-air, marine, automotive, military, railway and street railway; wood industries-fabricated materials; framework policies; biotechnology.
Program Record Number: IC IND 125

Industry
Description: The role of the Industry Sector is to help Canadian businesses and industries grow and create jobs, in a sustainable way, through innovation, investment, trade backed by modern connectedness and marketplace infrastructure.
Topics: Aerospace and Automotive; Biotechnology; Environmental Affairs; Energy and Marine; Life Sciences; Manufacturing Industries; Service Industries and labour forces and youth internship.
Program Record Number: IC IND 130

Industry Structure and Services
Description: Policies relating to corporate relations and services in the telecommunications carriage industry.
Topics: Legislation; competition; terms and conditions of service; terminal attachment.
Program Record Number: IC SIT 845

Information Highway
Description: Works toward connecting Canadians to, and development of content on the Information Highway.
Topics: Information highway; innovation; information technology skills; network of innovation school. Recycling computers, broadband, community access sites.
Program Record Number: IC SIT 847

International Comparative Policy
Description: Information on Canada's telecommunications and cultural relations with multilateral trade organizations as well as Canada's bilateral relations with the United States in the field of telecommunications to ensure the successful pursuit of Canada's bilateral interests, and the promotion of the Canadian communications trade and industry. Also, information, studies, briefs and documentation on related cultural and communications policies in selected foreign countries.
Topics: Canada United States trade relations; spectrum coordination matters; cable and satellite retransmission rights; satellite services- direct broadcasting satellites (DBS); European Economic Community (EC); Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC); comparative policy analyses of Canadian communications policies versus those of other countries and regions.
Program Record Number: IC SIT 850

International Telecommunications and Coordination
Description: Development, analysis and the national integration of international telecommunications policy and strategic positions; the provision of advocacy and representational services to the department and government through promoting, negotiating and implementing privileged bilateral, and multilateral government-to-government cooperative and framework agreements; the development and elaboration of telecommunications trade policy; and the provision of authoritative advice and recommendations on issues and opportunities to support the realization of the corporate vision of increasing Canada's competitive advantage in the international forum.
Topics: International telecommunications policy strategy and positions; treaty-based inter-governmental organizations (e.g. ITU, CTO); privileged bilateral relations; emerging strategic markets; multilateral and regional market liberalization (e.g. WTO, FTAA, APEC); international policy and regulatory developments; WTO commitments; international forum of influence (e.g. OECD, CITEL, APEC, PTC, Francophonie); government/industry consultative committees (e.g. ITU, CITEL, APEC, OECD); world radio standardization and development conferences; international policy coordination and telecommunications (e.g. ITU, APEC).
Program Record Number: IC SIT 855

International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Activities
Description: Information pertaining to Canada's involvement in the International Telecommunications Union activities in consultation, management, regulation, development, standards setting and technical assistance.
Topics: Plenipotentiary conferences, ITU Council, Council Working Group, world conferences on international telecommunications, the Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R); world and regional radiocommunication conferences, radio regulation board, radiocommunication assemblies, radiocommunication advisory group, national and international study groups; Telecommunications Standardization Sector (ITU-T); world telecommunication standardization assembly (every four years); national and international study group meetings, telecommunication standardization advisory group; Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D); telecommunications development conferences; national and international study groups, and the telecommunication development advisory group; world and regional telecommunication development conferences.
Program Record Number: IC SIT 860

Investment Review - Legal Opinions
Description: Contains information on ministerial opinions and related information concerning requests for which the Minister determines a delay in implementing an investment would result in undue hardship to the investor or would jeopardize the operations of the Canadian business that is the subject of an investment; views and opinions on the applicability of the provisions of the Investment Canada Act, regulations and interpretation notes in response to written requests submitted by one or more parties to an investment; and ministerial opinions and related information on whether an investor is a Canadian as defined in the Investment Canada Act.
Topics: Status opinions - rules respecting control of entities; trusts; corporations deemed to be Canadian; equal ownership of a corporation; transitory provisions concerning foreign opinion; corporate reorganization; acquisition of control; joint ventures; partnerships; indirect acquisitions; oil and gas properties and mining properties; business and Canadian business; calculation of thresholds; step transaction; absolute rights.
Access: Files arranged by name of applicants who ask for an opinion (individual, company, partnership, joint venture, government or agency of a foreign corporation).
Program Record Number: IC POL 720

Lobbyists Registration
Description: Information concerning the registration of lobbyists.
Topics: Lobbyist registration, information systems, forms, legislation, regulation, policies, procedures, administration, and studies.
Access: Files arranged by subject.
Program Record Number: IC CAS 255

Marketing Practices
Description: Enquiries, complaints, investigations, legal proceedings, interpretations and correspondence on misleading advertising and deceptive marketing practices.
Topics: Advertising enquiries; misleading advertising complaints (National, Pacific, Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic and Headquarters); program of compliance; surveys and studies.
Access: Files are arranged by subject, company and individual name.
Program Record Number: IC CB 080

Measurement Canada
Description: Information on measuring instruments, specifications, symbols and standards, metric regulations, international measurement, international standards and Canada's participation in international working groups.
Topics: Liaison with associations, councils and international organizations; technical enquiries; metric regulations.
Program Record Number: IC MC 212

Notifications
Description: Information concerning the notification of investments by non-Canadians-a complete record of the notification of each non-Canadian investment, from the submission of a notice to the issuance of a receipt by the Agency.
Topics: Notices in prescribed form; subsequent correspondence with investors.
Access: Files arranged by non-Canadian investor (individual, company, partnership, joint venture, government or agency of a foreign country).
Program Record Number: IC POL 725

Office of the Corporate Secretary (now Corporate and Portfolio Office)
Description: Provides executive support to the offices of the Minister, Minister of State, Deputy Minister and Associate Deputy Minister.
Topics: Executive clients; briefings; correspondence; parliamentary affairs requirements.
Program Record Number: IC CPO 400

Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy
Description: Information on investigations, licensing, assets and liabilities, enquiries, discharges, legal actions, control and audits, enquiries on civil and common law, and correspondence on bankruptcies.
Topics: Audits and auditing; student loans; examination; fraudulent bankruptcies; enquiries-civil law, common law; bonds and bonding; claims; conferences; liaison-foreign governments, provinces, etc.; costs and taxation; dividends; estates; fees and expenses; instruction bulletins; licences; offences; application for a bankruptcy order; projects; prosecutions; reports and statistics; trustees; investigation of bankruptcies; trustees-in-bankruptcy; bankruptcy estate control files; retired or rejected applications.
Access: Trustee files are arranged by name of individual or corporation.
Format: EDP system; contains insolvency data used by bankruptcy offices to publish bankruptcy notices.
Program Record Number: IC OSB 275

Online Feedback
Description: This data bank contains an inventory of complaint reports from clients who provided feedback to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO). It includes the following client contact information: client name, company name, telephone, email, the nature of the complaint and the information supplied by CIPO. This database provides clients with the ability to formally register complaints with the CIPO. It is one component of CIPO's Client Relationship Management (CRM) program.
Topics: Collect client feedback and identify areas for service improvement.
Program Record Number: IC CIP 110

Optical Communications Technologies
Description: Information pertaining to research and development on optical communications and electrophotonics that have application in communications and informatics.
Topics: Research on standards; field trials; optical computing and switching; optical and passive waveguides; military applications; fibre optics local networks.
Program Record Number: IC SIT 870

Patents
Description: Information concerning inventive works.
Topics: Applications, registrations, licensing, legal actions, studies, surveys, correspondence, regulation, complaints and enquiries, and research and technical data; liaison with universities, associations, departments, foreign governments, provinces; information retrieval; court actions, legislation; agents; classification; public servants' inventions; technology.
Access: Files arranged by subject with a large case system by applicant names.
Program Record Number: IC CIP 100

Radio Communications Technologies
Description: Research and development in the area of radio communications technology, and the performance of radio communications equipment in its operating environment for military and civil applications.
Topics: Radio communications technology; radio frequency environment, radio systems techniques; radio networks; military communications.
Program Record Number: IC SIT 875

Radio Propagation
Description: Information on the transmission of radio waves in the very low-frequency (VLF) through the extra high-frequency (EHF) bands and the design and management of analog and digital communication systems for both civilian and military applications.
Topics: VHF/UHF propagation studies, experiments and modelling; Space Shuttle/Waves in Space Plasmas project; VLF/LF/MF/HF studies and models; microwave propagation studies; wireless local area networks; UHF/VHF prediction Program and Topographic Database.
Program Record Number: IC SIT 880

Regional Development
Description: Covers records relating to departmental assistance programs and includes such material as initial contact, request for information, investigation and analysis, project monitoring, financial statement review and program evaluation. The following four programs, delivered in rural Ontario by FedNor, are included: the Northern Ontario Development Fund; the Community Futures Program, the Eastern Ontario Development Fund; and the Social Economy Initiative.
Topics: Economic development in areas of Canada where low incomes and slow economic growth are prevalent or where opportunities for productive employment are inadequate.
Program Record Number: IC OPS 610

Registration - Office of the Registrar General of Canada
Description: Information on formal documents, regulations, correspondence with other federal government departments, formal documents and railway deposits.
Topics: Formal documents and railway deposits.
Program Record Number: IC COR 205

Review of Applications
Description: Information on the review of non-Canadian investment proposals - a complete record of the review of each non-Canadian investment proposal, from the submission of an application to the Minister's decision whether or not the investment is likely to be of net benefit to Canada; in the case of investments that the Minister has decided are likely to be of net benefit to Canada, a record of investor performance with respect to plans and undertakings.
Topics: Application in prescribed form; certificates of receipt; subsequent correspondence with investors, including revised plans and undertakings; consultations with relevant provincial governments and federal departments; third-party representations; statutory documentation to the Minister; advice, including recommended courses of action to the Minister; results of monitoring the performance of investors' plans and undertakings, including the renegotiation of plans and undertakings that have not been fulfilled.
Access: Files arranged by non-Canadian investor (individual, company, partnership, joint venture, government or agency of a foreign country).
Program Record Number: IC POL 730

Satellite Communications
Description: Information on the research and development of communications and other space systems and subsystems.
Topics: Space communications systems research; military satellite communications; search and rescue satellite (SARSAT); mobile satellite communications; communications signal processing; low-cost satellite telephony terminals.
Program Record Number: IC SIT 885

Small Business Policy Branch
Description: The analysis of small business issues and development of policy and program options, advocacy of small business interests within the department and across the federal government and promotion of entrepreneurship and information on financing and sources of financing.
Topics: Small business.
Program Record Number: IC POL 735

Space and International Regulatory Activities
Description: This class of documents contains information on the application of Radiocommunication Act, the International Telecommunication Union Radio Regulations and Bilateral Agreements; the Authorization of space services, development and administration of procedures and regulations.
Topics: Coordination and Notification of space and terrestrial systems; World Radiocommunications Conferences (Preparatory and Post Conference Activities); Regulations; Authorization of spaces services; Policies and Procedures, (Applications and Development); ITU-R (Radiocommunications Sector Activities).
Program Record Number: IC SIT 890

Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications
Description: Facilitate the development and use of information and communication technologies, systems and services that serve the economic and social needs of all Canadians.
Topics: Systems interconnection; telecommunications; information technology standards; information highway; SchoolNet, Community Access Program; Computers for Schools Program; Digital Collections Program; Youth Employment Strategy Programs; communications devices and e-commerce.
Program Record Number: IC SIT 801

Spectrum Management Operations
Description: This class of documents contains information on the application of the Radiocommunication Act and the development and administration of regulations.
Topics: Call signs; procedures; standards and practices; regulations; spectrum management. Computer system operation: data management, Assignment Licensing System (PIB 2004). Interference: complaints and suppressions; prosecutions for unauthorized installations; Radio Operator Certification Records. Frequencies: coordination, amateur, experimental, private and public commercial, radio telephone, ships, monitoring (spectrum surveillance).
Access: General list- electronic
Format: Paper, DB QuoRC
Program Record Number: IC SIT 900

Student Connection
Description: Student Connections (SC) is an Industry Canada Initiative funded through the Youth Employment Strategy. SCP provides practical, cost-effective e-commerce and Internet training to small and medium-sized business as well as Internet training to seniors. Student Connections services are delivered by college and university students who gain valuable on-the-job technology and business experience.
Topics: E-commerce and Internet training for SMEs; E-business presentations; Internet training for seniors.
Program Record Number: IC CIO 700

Technology and Policy Planning
Description: Information about technological trends and priorities and the technical, economic, institutional, regulatory and social impacts of those key technologies.
Topics: Technology assessment, research environment, telecommunications program design and assessment; artificial intelligence, new video technologies, electronic publishing, information technology; Vision 2000 Project.
Program Record Number: IC SIT 905

Technology Partnerships Canada
Description: Information on Technology Partnerships Canada.
Topics: Aerospace and Defence relating to product development, process development, technology development, production capability development, market feasibility studies, supplier development and defence conversion; Enabling Technologies relating to advanced manufacturing and processing, applications of biotechnology, applications of advanced information technologies; Environmental Technologies relating to clean process technologies, waste reduction and recycling, aid and water pollution control, energy and water conservation and clean car technologies. H2 (hydrogen) early adopters projects fostering the development of hydrogen and hydrogen-compatible technologies, such as fuel cells and those used to produce, store and distribute hydrogen.
Access: Files arranged numerically.
Program Record Number: IC TPC 650

Telecommunications Policy and Regulations
Description: Policies relating to the regulation of the telecommunications industry.
Topics: Regulatory reform; regulatory policy and planning.
Program Record Number: IC SIT 910

Telecommunications Engineering and Certification
Description: Information on Mutual Recognition Agreements (MRAs) and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with other countries on conformity assessment of telecom apparatus; associated telecom regulations and procedures; mandatory telecommunications standards and regulations development; new voluntary telecom standards development; certification, testing, market surveillance and import monitoring of telecom apparatus; and developing and providing technical expertise on all telecom and IP matters including network security, and lawful access.
Topics: Mutual Recognition Agreements, Terminal Attachment Program, Telecom equipment certification, Telecom standards and regulations, IP network, network security and lawful access.
Program Record Number: IC SIT 915

Textile Labelling
Description: Information on regulations, interpretations and rulings, complaints and enquiries, correspondence, company registration, inspections, seizures and prosecutions, sampling and testing of textile products.
Topics: Textile labelling and legislation; liaison with the Canadian General Standards Board; Canada standards size program; care labelling program; liaison with other departments, provinces, boards, councils, industries, associations; identification numbers (CA); importation; laboratory compliance program; surveillance and enforcement; investigations; surveys; testwork; upholstered and stuffed articles; reference material.
Program Record Number: IC CB 085

Trade-Marks
Description: Information concerning trade-marks and their uses.
Topics: Applications, registrations, licensing, regulation, correspondence and enquiries; trade-marks interpretations; abandonments; appeals, oppositions, registered users, trade-mark agents and examinations; appellation of origin.
Access: Files arranged by subject with case filing by trade-marks.
Program Record Number: IC CIP 105

Urea Formaldehyde Foam Insulation (UFFI)
Description: Case files related to urea formaldehyde insulation system- established to control and monitor amount of money requested by homeowner and the amount spent to provide information on homeowners and contractors.
Topics: Compensation and assistance; claims.
Access: Case files are arranged by name and address of owner. (Program defunct as of 1986.)
Program Record Number: IC ATI 180

Weights and Measures
Description: Information on the measurement of volumes, linear and cubic area, and mass.
Topics: Linear and cubic area - approvals, calibrations. Mass and volume - Act, regulations, policies, inspection procedures, device approvals, calibrations, inspection reports, applicable forms, metric, and prosecutions.
Program Record Number: IC MC 210