Foreign Affairs committee  Since the conflict has worsened over the course of this past year, we have scoped out and approved new projects that are specifically designed to help women prepare for and participate in the national dialogue, which we see as a very important element in reducing inter-ethnic con

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for raising the topic, because we truly do believe that the full engagement of women across the peace spectrum in prevention, during conflict management and in post-conflict state-building is absolutely essential to a resilient peaceful society. My area is very much co

Information & Ethics committee  The minister's office did not ask me for the non-censored report. I do not recall--

Information & Ethics committee  I do not recall receiving a request from the minister's office for that report, no.

Information & Ethics committee  I cannot confirm that, because he could have received it from other offices within the department. I do not specifically recall a request from the minister's office for the full report. I can check my records and go back and verify that. Normally the reports are used as raw mat

Information & Ethics committee  I am not at liberty to discuss specific references to the report that were redacted, as this is not before the committee. However, let me advise again that the rationale applied under section 15 is sometimes with reference to injury to the source, if a source is identified who co

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  One would automatically go to one's supervisor.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, there is an avenue.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't recall what the situation in my office was. We were probably very busy dealing with our day-to-day work. There would have been a request in the system for a Q and A response and to respond to media about that article or the ongoing issue. But that's a normal part of our

Information & Ethics committee  Excuse me, I did not say the department had no reaction to the article. I said it reacted to that article in the same way it reacts to all kinds of articles that appear in the paper that are items of interest to our department and for which we may expect questions in the House or

Information & Ethics committee  When I received the follow-up request, I did not receive this text from the requester. I received a request for confirmation that Canada does not produce the overall report--the initial report he had asked for. I then indicated that we do produce the annual country reports but th

Information & Ethics committee  I do not recall being advised that he wanted the Afghan report. Had I been asked for that Afghan report I would certainly have provided it, as I had in response to his earlier request and the request of Mr. Attaran, both of which were in the system. Had there been a clear request

Information & Ethics committee  It'll be 19 years in December.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The sentence with the words “no such report” refers to the immediately preceding sentence—which was also part of my response—that “Canada does not produce an annual human rights report analogous to the reports produced by, for example, the United States