Garnett Genuis on Questions Passed as Orders for Returns

With regard to information shared between Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE) and the House of Commons Administration regarding threats to parliamentarians who are members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China: (a) what information was provided or presented to the House Administration about the (i) threats, (ii) targets of the threats, (iii) source of the threats (i.e., APT31); (b) regarding the information described in (a), broken down by (a)(i) to (a)(iii), (i) on what dates was the information provided or presented, (ii) in what format was the information provided or presented (e.g., memorandum, oral briefing, e-mail, slideshow or other visual display), (iii) who provided or presented the information, (iv) who received the information, (v) what was the classification level of the information provided or presented (e.g., Unclassified, Protected, Confidential, Secret, Top Secret), (vi) was the information provided or presented with caveats or other handling restrictions (e.g., “Canadian Eyes Only”, “for official use only”, “originator controlled”, not for distribution without CSE’s express authorization); (c) were House Administration officials explicitly advised by CSE on whether the information described in (a) could or could not, or should or should not, be shared with (i) the parliamentarians targeted by the threats, (ii) any other parliamentarian, (iii) any other person; (d) if the answer to (b)(vi) is affirmative, would House Administration officials have been possibly liable to prosecution for an offence under the Security of Information Act for sharing the information with anyone referred to in (c); and (e) was the Prime Minister, or any other minister of the Crown, briefed by CSE or any other government department or agency on the information in (a), and, if so, what are the details of those briefings, including the (i) dates, (ii) names of the ministers and ministerial exempt staff that were briefed?