How to request access to your personal information from an Ontario ministry — and autofill it with my-id.ca
Request your personal information from an Ontario ministry without retyping your details
Under FIPPA you can ask any Ontario government institution for the personal information it holds about you — and the form repeats your name and contact details. This guide is an example of storing them once in my-id.ca.
Official form and source
- Service page: Freedom of information request — ontario.ca
- Form (Central Forms Repository): Access Request Form — on00279
What this form is about
The form requests access to personal information held by an Ontario government institution under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA).
Before you start: what to gather
- Your name and contact details.
- The institution and a description of the information you want.
Confirm the current process and any fee on ontario.ca.
How my-id.ca makes it faster
- Store your details once. Save your name and contact details in my-id.ca.
- Autofill the repeating fields. Use the my-id.ca Chrome extension on a web form, or fill a PDF from your saved profile inside my-id.ca.
- Describe the request yourself.
- File with the institution.
Why do it in my-id.ca
FOI and access forms repeat the same contact details. Stored once in my-id.ca — in Canada, with no third-party AI — the repeating fields fill themselves.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the access request ask for?
- Your name and contact details, the institution holding the information, and a description of what you want. my-id.ca can store your contact details for autofill.
- How does my-id.ca help?
- It keeps your name and contact details ready so the repeating fields fill quickly; you describe the information you are requesting.
- Where do I file it?
- With the institution's Freedom of Information coordinator. Confirm the current process and any fee on ontario.ca.
Fill it once. Reuse it everywhere.
Save your information in my-id.ca once, then autofill this form and the next one — web forms with the Chrome extension, PDFs right in the app. Your data is stored in Canada and AI runs on my-id.ca's own servers, never sent to third-party AI providers.