Madam Speaker, I go back to the 1991 case during the government of then prime minister Brian Mulroney, where the government of the day said that it was not going to hand over the documents related to the Solicitor General because of privacy concerns. The House ordered the documents be handed over, and the government complied at the following meeting of the Standing Committee on Justice and the Solicitor General.
As such, clearly Parliament has the right to these documents, and no statute law, common law nor anything can interfere with Parliament's absolute right to call for the production of documents. Again, I quote from section 15 of the Constitution Act, which makes that very clear. It says, “The Constitution of Canada is the supreme law of Canada, and any law that is inconsistent with the provisions of the Constitution is, to the extent of the inconsistency, of no force or effect”, and that would include the Privacy Act.