Organization: Privy Council Office
Year: 2020
Month: December
Request Number: A-2020-00357
Request Summary: Please provide all documents from May 24, 2020, to the present (November 2, 2020), respecting: (1) the House of Commons’ referral of a question of privilege concerning the premature disclosure of Bill C-7, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying), (2) the question of privilege, renewed in the House on September 25, 2020, on this matter, and (3) the Speaker’s ruling on the question of privilege. Please exclude (1) memoranda to Cabinet and aides-memoire for Cabinet consideration, (2) Treasury Board submissions, (3) speaking notes or decks for presentations to Cabinet or its committees, (4) briefing notes and covering memoranda concerning records in categories (1) to (3), (5) duplicate copies of e-mails (i.e., exclude earlier messages in a thread of e-mails if a later message contains the earlier message(s)), (6) publicly available versions of government documents (i.e., do not exclude drafts of those documents), (7) the French version of documents which are equally available in each official language, and (8) copies of draft legislative texts.
Disposition: All disclosed
Number of pages: 4