Certain Fees in Respect of the Issuance of Identity and Travel Documents (2023 Canada Wildfires) Remission Order: SI/2025-115

Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 159, Number 26

Registration
SI/2025-115 December 17, 2025

FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION ACT

P.C. 2025-897 December 5, 2025

Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, considering that it is in the public interest to do so, on the recommendation of the Treasury Board, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, makes the annexed Certain Fees in Respect of the Issuance of Identity and Travel Documents (2023 Canada Wildfires) Remission Order under subsection 23(2.1)^{footnote a} of the Financial Administration Act ^{footnote b}.

Certain Fees in Respect of the Issuance of Identity and Travel Documents (2023 Canada Wildfires) Remission Order

Definition of document

1 In this Order, document means any of the following:

• (a) a passport, as defined in section 2 of the Canadian Passport Order;
• (b) a certificate of citizenship, as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Citizenship Act;
• (c) a permanent resident card referred to in subsection 53(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations;
• (d) a certificate of identity;
• (e) a refugee travel document issued under the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, dated July 28, 1951, and the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, dated January 31, 1967.

Remission

2 Remission is granted to any person who meets the conditions set out in section 3 of the fees paid or payable set out in any of the following provisions, in respect of the replacement of a document:

• (a) items 3 to 8, 14 and 15 of the schedule to the Passport and Other Travel Document Services Fees Regulations;
• (b) item 6 of the schedule to the Citizenship Regulations;
• (c) subsection 308(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations;
• (d) section 4 of the Consular Services Fees Regulations.

Conditions

3 Remission is granted on condition that

• (a) the person was in, or had their residence in, an area affected by a wildfire in one of the following provinces at any time during the corresponding period:
  • (i) Alberta, during the period beginning on May 3, 2023 and ending on November 30, 2023,
  • (ii) British Columbia, during the period beginning on May 11, 2023 and ending on November 30, 2023,
  • (iii) Ontario, during the period beginning on May 26, 2023 and ending on November 30, 2023,
  • (iv) Nova Scotia, during the period beginning on May 28, 2023 and ending on November 30, 2023,
  • (v) New Brunswick, during the period beginning on May 29, 2023 and ending on November 30, 2023, or
  • (vi) Quebec, during the period beginning on June 1, 2023 and ending on November 30, 2023;
• (b) the document was — while it was valid — lost, damaged, destroyed or rendered inaccessible as a result of the wildfire;
• (c) during the applicable period referred to in paragraph (a), the person, or a person acting on their behalf, made an application to replace the document;
• (d) the application included a declaration made by the person, or a person acting on their behalf, stating that the document was lost, damaged, destroyed or rendered inaccessible as a result of the wildfire and
  • (i) proof that, at the time that the document was lost, damaged, destroyed or rendered inaccessible, the person had their residence in an area referred to in paragraph (a), or
  • (ii) a declaration made by the person, or a person acting on their behalf, stating that, at that time, the person was in that area; and
• (e) the fees in question have not been remitted under section 11 of the Passport and Other Travel Document Services Fees Regulations.

N.B. The Explanatory Note for this Order appears following SI/2025-114, Certain Fees in Respect of the Issuance of Identity and Travel Documents (2023 Nova Scotia Floods) Remission Order.