Organization: Employment and Social Development Canada
Year: 2025
Month: February
Request Number: A-2024-00674
Request Summary: Clarified on June 18, 2024: 1) INCLUDE ONLY the FINAL version of the records. If the record has not been finalized, provide the LATEST version. 2) REMOVE records of emails primarily intended to circulate documents for comment or awareness if the email record does not contain discussion relevant to this request, beyond requesting input on an attachment. 3) INCLUDE relevant records that may be attached to non-relevant email records. 4) REMOVE records with Cabinet confidences ONLY IF redaction of the whole document is required to protect the cabinet confidences (for example, if the entirety of an email will be redacted except for the participants, the email should be removed; however, if only 1 paragraph must be redacted, the rest of the email should still be provided). 5) DO NOT remove information below the EX-01 level, given that the latest version of a document may not have gone to the Director level or above. 6) Only information relevant to respiratory therapists should be included. Any and all correspondence and documentation/records that are not publicly available (e.g., roundtable discussions with relevant stakeholders) during the time period of May 9, 2022, to June 11, 2024, with respect to the expansion of professions under the Canada Student Loan (CSL) forgiveness family doctors and nurses program. Canada Student Loan (CSL) forgiveness for doctors and nurses is a federal benefit administered by the Canada Student Financial Assistance (CSFA) Program in the Learning Branch of Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC). "Expansion of professions under the Canada Student Loan Forgiveness for Family Doctors and Nurses" means at any time during the formation of the current policy/program, any discussion or reference made to broadening eligibility criteria to include respiratory therapists. Any information during the above time period mentioning respiratory therapists presented by Public Affairs and Stakeholder Relations Branch, with respect to the expansion of the program, including any and all information that is not publicly available, including: internal, provincial, professional and post secondary stakeholders.
Disposition: Disclosed in part
Number of pages: 638