Iqra Khalid at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On November 21st, 2022. See this statement in context.

November 21st, 2022 / 4:50 p.m.

Liberal

Iqra Khalid Liberal Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON

Thanks, Chair.

I'll start with Mr. Wernick.

You've made some really interesting remarks today. I really appreciate your differentiating the focus on transparency as opposed to request-based ATI.

You also mentioned that political staffers should be opened up to ATI, but you also have said that cabinet confidence is a necessity. Can I ask you to unpack that a little bit?

What kind of communication would a political staffer provide, where a bureaucrat talking specifically on policy or on decision-making would not be sufficient, so that we would need to go further toward having a political staffer also be ATIP-ed?

I would love your thoughts on that.

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