Gender Based-Analysis Plus at FINTRAC
FINTRAC recognizes the significance of Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) as an essential framework for fostering inclusivity and equitable treatment across all stakeholders. Although FINTRAC's mandate does not extend to crafting public policy or programs for the general populace, the Centre is dedicated to integrating GBA Plus principles into its operational activities.
GBA Plus emphasizes the necessity of an intersectional approach to promote inclusion and reduce barriers within the Centre’s systems, programs, or services. Historically, FINTRAC has concentrated its GBA Plus efforts on obligatory processes, including the evaluation of initiatives in Treasury Board Submissions, as well as diversity related activities in the Centre’s employment equity and multiculturalism action plan.
Following a needs assessment and gap analysis, FINTRAC has delineated GBA Plus from the employment equity and multiculturalism action plan and bolstered the institutional capability to conduct and implement intersectional analyses. This strategic move has not only enhanced the prominence of GBA Plus within the Centre but has also sharpened the focus on gender and intersectional analysis.
Institutional GBA Plus governance and capacity building
To champion GBA Plus, FINTRAC appoints an executive-level GBA Plus Champion charged with elevating awareness and underscoring the framework's importance. Their role encompasses spearheading campaigns, facilitating training opportunities, and engaging with interdepartmental networks. The Champion plays a pivotal role within the organization by promoting GBA Plus, particularly highlighting its applicability to operational business lines.
In alignment with its commitment to strengthen organizational capacity, FINTRAC designated a new GBA Plus Focal Point within the modernization Sector. As the Centre continues on its ambitious modernization journey, situating the Focal Point within the team responsible for enterprise change management ensures that GBA Plus considerations are woven into the organizational fabric.
The Focal Point oversees the Centre's GBA Plus integration, encompassing the departmental framework, guidance, tools, resources, assessments, and reporting. They actively participate in interdepartmental networks and communities of practice.
To foster awareness and adoption throughout FINTRAC, the Champion and Focal Point jointly lead a working group with representatives from each Sector. This group aids in developing tools and resources to facilitate FINTRAC-focussed analyses, serves as a liaison to their respective Sectors, and enhances awareness. The group also plays a role in the continuous monitoring of GBA Plus activities and contributes to annual reporting and evaluation efforts.
GBA Plus is incorporated into FINTRAC’s broader governance structure, with regular updates provided to the Centre’s Management Advisory and Executive committees. In the 2025–26 period, the Centre plans to formalize the integration of GBA Plus considerations within its governance processes.
Section 2: Gender and diversity impacts, by program
Core responsibility: Compliance with Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Legislation and Regulations
Program name: Compliance
Program goals: FINTRAC is responsible for ensuring compliance with Part 1 and Part 1.1 of the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA) and its associated Regulations. This legal framework establishes obligations for reporting entities to develop and implement a compliance program in order to identify clients, monitor business relationships, keep records and report certain types of financial transactions. FINTRAC undertakes enabling and enforcement actions to ensure that the reporting entities operating within Canada's financial system fulfill their PCMLTFA obligations. Through an intersectional lens, FINTRAC’s Supervision program considers the differentiated impacts on the regulated entities it serves.
GBA Plus data collection plan: Initiatives assessed through a GBA Plus lens rely upon program administrative data, Government of Canada statistics and open source intelligence, all retrieved on an ad-hoc, responsive basis. In 2025–26, FINTRAC will seek to collect and retain a compendium of data sources that complement the Compliance program in support of intersectional analysis.
Core responsibility: Production and dissemination of financial intelligence
Program name: Financial intelligence
Program goals: FINTRAC is mandated by the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA) to produce actionable financial intelligence that assists Canada's police, law enforcement, national security and other international and domestic partner agencies in combatting money laundering, terrorism financing and threats to the security of Canada, while protecting the personal information entrusted to FINTRAC. The Centre also produces strategic financial intelligence for federal policy and decision-makers, the security and intelligence community, reporting entities across the country, international partners and other stakeholders.
In developing operational alerts to inform stakeholders of the context of certain financial crimes, FINTRAC’s Financial Intelligence Program considers how some predicate offences to money laundering can have outsized impacts on victims of specific demographic groups. Similarly, the Financial Intelligence program accounts for intersectional characteristics, such as cultural and geographic attributes, when analyzing and disseminating strategic intelligence.
GBA Plus data collection plan: FINTRAC’s legislative and regulatory framework specifies the information that FINTRAC receives in order to analyze, assess and disclose in support of money laundering and terrorist financing investigations. While this program administrative data can be used to derive intersectional characteristics, in particular, for use in strategic intelligence products, the scope of information fields is strictly limited by legislation and regulation. The Program does not actively have a data collection program, nor keep sufficient individual recipient microdata information. Rather, to complement existing program data sources, FINTRAC will seek out additional sources of publicly available data, which can support assessments in fulfilling the Program’s GBA Plus objectives.
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