Informal Request for ATI Records Previously Released

Organization: Privy Council Office

Year: 2020

Month: November

Request Number: A-2020-00046

Request Summary: Provide all documents, memoranda, e-mails, correspondence, briefing notes, and any other records, including drafts, from October 21, 2019, to the present, respecting: the Government House Leader’s December 2019 mandate letter concerning working “with the House of Commons to introduce new technology and other institutional changes to better connect Members of Parliament with their constituents”; the possibility of introducing virtual or remote participation in the proceedings of the House of Commons and its committees, including electronic or remote voting; the letter exchanged between the Government House Leader and the Speaker of the House on April 5 and 8, 2020; the Procedure and House Affairs Committee study, in response to paragraph (m) of the Order adopted by the House on April 11, 2020; Ian McCowan’s appearance before the Committee during its study; the Speaker’s letters to the Government House Leader on May 11 and 13, 2020, concerning preparations for virtual proceedings; the Committee’s Fifth Report, tabled on May 15, 2020; the government’s review and response to the Fifth Report; and the government’s proposal for a further Procedure and House Affairs Committee study, set out in paragraph (f) of Government Motion No. 7, notice of which was given on May 23, 2020.

Disposition: Disclosed in part

Number of pages: 530

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