Pan-Canadian Identity Management Steering Committee

In November 2006, the Federal- Provincial-Territorial Deputy Ministers responsible for Service Delivery Collaboration commissioned a Task Force to develop a flexible Pan-Canadian Identity Management and Authentication strategy and framework. The Task Force presented their final report to Deputy Ministers in Halifax in November 2007. As this report represented the first collective decision of the Deputy Ministers, a proposal was made to align the group with a traditional Federal-Provincial-Territorial Table, with a federal and provincial co-chair. This resulted in the creation of the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Deputy Ministers’ Table on Service Delivery Collaboration (FPT DMs’ Table).

The FPT DMs’ Table is the senior governance group for the Pan-Canadian Identity Management Steering Committee (IMSC). Using the Inter-jurisdictional Identity Management and Authentication Task Force (IATF) Report as the starting point, the IMSC is overseeing the development of the Pan-Canadian Identity Management and Authentication (IdM&A) Framework and standards and will encourage the adoption of the Framework among Canadian jurisdictions.