Evidence of meeting #54 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was document.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
With that change in the French version, we are now dealing with paragraphs 1 through 4.
All in favour...?
Sorry. More, Monsieur Proulx?
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Liberal
Marcel Proulx Liberal Hull—Aylmer, QC
In paragraph 3, Mr. McKay informs me that there's an error in the first sentence. We say that “through an access to information request Mr. McKay obtained a document”. It wasn't Mr. McKay who obtained it; it was Embassy magazine.
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Liberal
Bob Rae Liberal Toronto Centre, ON
Embassy magazine did the access to information request and the information then became part of the public record. Those documents became widely available.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
And through Embassy magazine?
It's not actually incorrect, then, but we could lengthen it by adding that it was somehow different from that.
What would you like?
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Liberal
Marcel Proulx Liberal Hull—Aylmer, QC
I suppose we could say “through an ATIP request by Embassy magazine, Mr. McKay obtained....”
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Conservative
Tom Lukiwski Conservative Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK
That's fine. I was just going to say that the way it reads is not technically incorrect. It says “through an access to information request”. It doesn't say “Mr. McKay facilitated an access to information request”. But if you want to put in “Embassy magazine”, sure, that's fine.
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Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON
In actual wording, I think if we said “As a result of an access to information request through Embassy magazine, Mr. McKay drew the committee's attention to a document”, I think that was the function of what Mr. McKay did. He said “Hey, you should be looking at this”. Does that seem reasonable?
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An hon. member
Yes, that's better.
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Conservative
Harold Albrecht Conservative Kitchener—Conestoga, ON
Mr. Chair, at the risk of putting you to sleep, I don't understand, if that is a fact, why we didn't hear from Embassy people at this committee. I was under the impression all along that it was directly from Mr. McKay.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
We certainly could have called them as witnesses, I suppose, and I'll offer again a return to the evidentiary portion of this committee's work.
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Conservative
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
None opposed. Thank you for the assistant chairmanship there today.
