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Minutes of Proceedings
Bloc Québécois
The Minister made a statement and answered questions.
At 4:36 p.m., the meeting was suspended.
At 4:44 p.m., the meeting resumed.
Shuvaloy Majumdar moved, — That, having regard for the recent reporting that characterized the state of access to information in Canada as “dismal” and noted that the Privy Council Office is “among the worst offenders”, and having regard for the Treasury Board Secretariat guidelines for the public service that allow for the deletion of instant messages after 15 days, and emails after 30 days, the committee undertake a two-meeting study on the state of access to information in Canada, and, for the purpose of this study:
a) Invite Caroline Maynard, Information Commissioner of Canada, for one hour,
b) Invite Leslie Weir, Librarian and Archivist of Canada, for one hour,
c) Invite the appropriate officials from the Privy Council Office, for one hour,
d) Invite the appropriate officials from the Treasury Board Secretariat, for one hour, and
e) At the conclusion of this study, the committee report its findings and recommendations to the House.
Debate arose thereon.
Leslie Church moved, — That the motion be amended by deleting the words “, having regard for the recent reporting that characterized the state of access to information in Canada as “dismal” and noted that the Privy Council Office is “among the worst offenders”, and having regard for the Treasury Board Secretariat guidelines for the public service that allow for the deletion of instant messages after 15 days, and emails after 30 days,”; by adding after the words “two-meeting study on the state of access to information in Canada,”, the words “with particular attention to the deletion policies for instant messages and emails”; and by adding after the words “the committee report its findings and recommendations to the House”, the words “, and request a government response".
Debate arose thereon.
At 4:48 p.m., the meeting was suspended.
At 5:01 p.m., the meeting resumed.
The question was put on the amendment and the result of the vote was announced:
YEAS: Leslie Church, Wade Grant, Linda Lapointe, Abdelhaq Sari — 4;
NAYS: Michael Cooper, Gabriel Hardy, Shuvaloy Majumdar, Luc Thériault — 4.
Whereupon, the Chair voted in the negative.
Accordingly, the amendment was negatived.
The question was put on the motion and the result of the vote was announced:
YEAS: Michael Cooper, Gabriel Hardy, Shuvaloy Majumdar, Luc Thériault — 4;
NAYS: Leslie Church, Wade Grant, Linda Lapointe, Abdelhaq Sari — 4.
Whereupon, the Chair voted in the affirmative.
Accordingly, the motion was agreed to.
Mark Schaan and Samir Chhabra made statements and answered questions.
At 5:30 p.m., the committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.