Informal Request for ATI Records Previously Released

Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada

Year: 2024

Month: January

Request Number: 1A-2023-53449

Request Summary: Please provide all documents, memoranda, e-mails, correspondence, briefing notes, text messages, messages on Microsoft Teams or any other messaging platform, and any other records, including drafts, from May 12, 2022, respecting engagement with Russell Emery or Canadian Citizen Rights Council concerning Bill S-245, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (granting citizenship to certain Canadians), including (1) consultations on ideas for, drafted or proposed amendments or subamendments, (2) Tom Kmiec's question of privilege raised at the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration on May 3, 2023, concerning the unauthorized distribution of amendments and subamendments, (3) the Committee Chair's ruling on the question of privilege on May 8, 2023, (4) the motions considered and adopted by the Committee on May 8, 2023, concerning the question of privilege, inviting Mr. Emery to appear and requiring the production of e-mails, (5) Mr. Emery's appearance at the Committee on May 10, 2023, and (6) the motions considered by the Committee on May 10, 2023, to report the matter to the House. 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) copies of draft legislative texts, (5) briefing notes and covering memoranda concerning records in exclusions (1) to (4), (6) 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)), (7) publicly available versions of government documents (i.e., do not exclude drafts of those documents), (8) the French version of documents which are equally available in each official language, (9) off-topic information in otherwise responsive documents (e.g., news stories on other issues in a media summary), and (10) unannotated transcripts of parliamentary debates and committee meetings.

Disposition: Disclosed in part

Number of pages: 107

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