Damien Kurek at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On April 25th, 2023. See this statement in context.

April 25th, 2023 / 5 p.m.

Conservative

Damien Kurek Conservative Battle River—Crowfoot, AB

Thank you, Chair. Yes, I will be splitting my time.

Thanks. I appreciate you all for coming.

I've asked every witness who has come before the committee two foundational questions, and those are whether ATIPs and an ATIP system that works are essential for a modern, functioning democracy, and whether they're satisfied with where Canada's ATIP system is.

Virtually all—with the exception of the minister, interestingly—have said that our system wasn't where it needed to be, but everyone said that it was incredibly important.

I would just note, that's important in terms of the foundation.

Specifically, Ms. Giles, you're from a spy agency, reconciling secrecy with access to information. Can you just share practically what that looks like, so that Canadians can trust what is going on there, in about 30 seconds or so?

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