Mr. Owen.
Evidence of meeting #25 for Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) in the 39th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was information.
Evidence of meeting #25 for Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) in the 39th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was information.
Liberal
Stephen Owen Liberal Vancouver Quadra, BC
Mr. Chair, I'd only add that this would fit well within the definition of a made-in-Canada climate change policy.
Liberal
Marlene Jennings Liberal Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, QC
No, he's not. I'll kick him if he does. Sorry, I didn't say that.
Liberal
Brian Murphy Liberal Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, NB
Well, in all seriousness, we've had a very compressed time, but it's a fairly poignant session of this committee when we have witnesses talking about protecting our competitive advantage globally. Innovation should be important to all of us. This is the blood and guts of this organization, and despite every opportunity to cross-examine or get out of this group that came before us, there was no compelling reason not to put them on the same footing as Canada Post and VIA Rail with respect to trade secrets, financial, commercial, scientific, or technical information.
I totally respect what Export Development said. Of course, they had no problem. There are protections under section 18 of the Access to Information Act, there is protection under the PIPEDA regulations, but we already have exceptions in this near-perfect act. The case for this group was perhaps the most compelling. So I don't know how, if members of the committee were listening carefully to that témoinage, they could resist voting for this amendment.
Conservative
Conservative
The Chair Conservative David Tilson
So L-20.1, on clause 166, fails? It's gone...?
We're going to leave that. Just ignore what I said there. We'll set down that little debate for a moment.
(Clause 150 as amended agreed to on division)
Conservative
The Chair Conservative David Tilson
There are no amendments for clause 151.
(Clause 151 agreed to on division)
(On clause 152)
Conservative
The Chair Conservative David Tilson
We're on New Democrat amendment 17, on page 132.
I don't think we've done that, Mr. Martin.
Conservative
NDP
Pat Martin NDP Winnipeg Centre, MB
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'm happy to move NDP-17.1, which amends clause 152 with a very important, very poignant amendment, brief though it may be. It creates the obligation to “disclose a draft report of an internal audit of a government institution”.
This is a very important amendment in that we all know that the sponsorship scandal was in fact unearthed due to a draft report. The pertinent information that revealed the scandal was in fact from a draft report. We want to make sure that, through access to information, draft reports of an internal audit of a government institution are in fact made available to access to information requests.
(Amendment agreed to on division)
NDP
Pat Martin NDP Winnipeg Centre, MB
(Clause 152 as amended agreed to on division)
(Clauses 153 to 160 inclusive agreed to on division)
Conservative
The Chair Conservative David Tilson
We've already dealt with clause 161.
Mr. Martin, we're going to go to new clause 161.1, in amendment NDP-18, on page 134.
NDP
Conservative
NDP
Conservative