Exclusion of Records
Under the Access to Information Act, Program Records referred to as confidences of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada are excluded from the provisions of the Act under section 69 if these records are less than 20 years old.

It should be noted that Orders-in-Council are published in Part II of the Canada Gazette and are, therefore, records in the public domain. Similarly, public opinion information, deposited with the Library and Archives of Canada, is also considered to be in the public domain. Requests for these types of material should not be made under the provisions of the Access to Information Act.