The Translation Bureau is an institution of the federal government of Canada operated by Public Services and Procurement Canada that provides translation services for all agencies, boards, commissions, and departments of the government.
[3] The bureau was transferred from the Department of the Secretary of State to Public Works and Government Services Canada in June 1993, when the then government reorganized agencies to consolidate groups primarily tasked with providing services to other government organizations, referred to as common service organizations (CSOs).
[5] Public Services and Procurement Canada only works with accredited interpreters, prioritizing those with an open contract.
[5] The bureau has investigated the use of various technologies to provide its services, including neural machine translation and artificial intelligence.
[6][3] It has used a statistical machine translation system named Portage developed by the National Research Council Canada since 2016.