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Req # A-2020-00166
Please provide all documents, including drafts, from October 21, 2019 to the present (July 26, 2020), respecting: (1) the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner’s Peschisolido Report, tabled in the House of Commons on February 5, 2020, and (2) Michael Barrett’s notices of motions in the House of Commons concerning the Report. 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, (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.Organization: Privy Council Office
14 page(s)
December 2020
December 2020
Req # A-2020-00357
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.Organization: Privy Council Office
4 page(s)
December 2020
December 2020
Req # A-2020-00397
The questions and results of the PCO’s “Weekly Public Opinion Research Surveys” for the week ending Nov. 22 and Nov. 29 , 2020. If no such surveys exist for either of those two weeks, please provide the PCO survey for the most recent week. Please provide raw tables.Organization: Privy Council Office
669 page(s)
December 2020
December 2020
Req # 20-2039
(1) the official name and classification of the rail line in question (1041 Lakeshore Road East – Oakville Subdivision Line); (2) the number of rail tracks; (3) the width of the railway corridor at tis subdivision; (4) the type and average number of train movements during the daytime and nighttime; (5) the average number of locomotives for each type of train; (6) the average number of cars for each train; (7) the average speed of each type of train; (8) the presence of any special operating conditions likely to increase the sound levels such as siding tracks, frogs or switches, whistle noise, etc.Organization: VIA Rail Canada Inc.
0 page(s)
December 2020
December 2020
Req # 20-2043
I am writing to look for VIA Rail traffic data on the Beachburg Subdivision, near the intersection of Smyth Road and Riverside Drive in Ottawa, ON. Please provide the following (1) type of train; (2) engine type; (3) welded rail; (4) number of trains; (5) number of locomotives and number of cars per train; (6) speed; and (7) whistle by-laws – at grade crossings in the area and if any whistles are blown (specifically the at-grade crossing at Pleasant Park Rd, or any other nearby ones that may have missed).Organization: VIA Rail Canada Inc.
1 page(s)
December 2020
December 2020
Req # A-2020-00258
Provide the briefing note titled "Letter to Premiers on the Federal Provincial Territorial Safe Restart Framework and Associated Agreement".Organization: Privy Council Office
49 page(s)
November 2020
November 2020
Req # A-2020-00284
Provide a copy of the review undertaken of the program that allows former governors general to make expense claims to the government for the rest of their lives, referred to as the “review of the former governors general program” in this news report: https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/expense-program-for-former-governors-general-has-caused-concern-for-two-decades-trudeau-told-in-briefing-note. Exclude cabinet confidences. Remove French versions if English exists. Final version of document or last draft if final version is not available. Limit records to those generated between July. 29 2019 and September 16th 2020.Organization: Privy Council Office
17 page(s)
November 2020
November 2020
Req # A-2020-00142
From all of the Access to Information requests received since April 2020, how many were responded to beyond the initial 30-day time limit? And from these, for how many were delays related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and in how many cases was a notice of an extension provided to the applicant within the initial 30-day time limit?Organization: Statistics Canada
1 page(s)
November 2020
November 2020
Req # A-2020-00143
A list of the vendor, contract value, and product name for all new or renewed contracts for the use of software for the benefit of Statistics Canada that were concluded between April 2020 and June 2020.Organization: Statistics Canada
1 page(s)
November 2020
November 2020
Req # 20-2028
Could you give me figures on VIA passenger volumes for 2020 as compared with a similar period in 2019.Organization: VIA Rail Canada Inc.
1 page(s)
November 2020
November 2020