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John Brassard

Member of Parliament
Conservative

Barrie—Innisfil
Ontario
Voting Attendance: 68%
Expenses Last Quarter: $99,360.72

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Context: House Hansard - 316 - May/23/24

Mr. John Brassard (Barrie—Innisfil, CPC)

May/23/24 10:06:27 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the 11th report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, entitled “Main Estimates 2024-25: Vote 1 under Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying, Vote 1 under Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, Vote 1 under Office of the Senate Ethics Officer, Votes 1 and 5 under Offices of the Information and Privacy Commissioners of Canada.”

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Context: House Hansard - 283 - Feb/15/24

Mr. John Brassard (Barrie—Innisfil, CPC)

Feb/15/24 2:06:10 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, I rise today in tribute to former conflict of interest and ethics commissioner Mary Dawson, who passed away on December 24, 2023. Mary Dawson was not just the former ethics commissioner. Her fingerprints are all over very important parts of our history, including the drafting of the Access to Information Act, the Privacy Act, the Canada Health Act, the Official Languages Act, the Competition Act, the Customs Act and the Young Offenders Act. She was made a member of the Queen's Counsel in 1978 and became associate chief legislative counsel in the early 1980s. Aside from being the associate deputy minister of justice for nearly two decades, she was particularly proud of her constitutional work, including being the final drafter for the patriation package on the Constitution Act, 1982, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The job of a good conflict of interest and ethics commissioner is to make members of all the parties equally uncomfortable. She did her job well. Mary Dawson was a remarkable person, and Canada has been well served by her contributions. Our condolences go out to her family on the passing of a remarkable Canadian, Mary Dawson.

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Context: House Hansard - 198 - May/16/23

Mr. John Brassard (Barrie—Innisfil, CPC)

May/16/23 10:03:18 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the eighth report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, entitled “Main Estimates 2023-24”.

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Context: House Hansard - 192 - May/8/23

Mr. John Brassard (Barrie—Innisfil, CPC)

May/8/23 4:14:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I sit on the ethics committee with my hon. colleague. He is quite right that we have been studying the issue of foreign interference for some time, and the pathways it is leading us down are quite interesting. My question to him is one of confidence in our institutions. We heard the previous member, the member for Wellington—Halton Hills, speak about the executive branch of government and the responsibility of the executive branch to keep its citizens, and in fact MPs, safe. What we have seen is a structural failure in that. It was only because of CSIS and The Globe and Mail that we found out that the member's family and perhaps some other MPs' families had been threatened. Does my hon. colleague agree with me that there is a structural breakdown in the institutions and the executive branch of government that is allowing this foreign interference to propagate within Canada?

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