Informal Request for ATI Records Previously Released

Organization: Privy Council Office

Year: 2024

Month: May

Request Number: A-2022-00029

Request Summary: On February 15, 2022, the Governor General issued a Proclamation declaring a Public Order Emergency (SOR/2022-20). Please provide all documents, records, and information in whatever form or format in your possession, power or control, that are responsive, directly or indirectly, to the following areas of inquiry: (1) all information showing how and why the Governor in Council "believe, on reasonable grounds, that a public order emergency exist and necessitate the taking of special measure for dealing with the emergency", per the preamble of the Proclamation; (2) all information showing how and why the Governor in Council concluded that a "national emergency", as defined in section 3 of the Emergencies Act, RSC 1985, c.22 (4th Supp.), existed at the time the Proclamation was issues; in particular what events were taking places in Canada that (a) seriously endangered the lives, health or safety of Canadians; (b) was of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with; (c) seriously threatened the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve Canada's sovereignty, secuirty and territorial integrity; and (d) could not be effectively dealth with under any other law of Canada; (3) all information explaining how the events described in (2) (above), were leading, had led, or would lead to all outcomes listed above at (2)(a), (2)(b), (2)(c), and (2)(d).

Disposition: Disclosed in part

Number of pages: 1767

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