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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 - 217 - Jun/20/23

Mr. John Brassard (Barrie—Innisfil, CPC)

Jun/20/23 10:08:11 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the ninth report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, entitled “The State of Canada’s Access to Information System”. While I am on my feet, I want to thank the members who participated in this report and the witnesses. I also want to thank Nancy Vohl, the clerk, and the analysts, Sabrina Charland and Alexandra Savoie, for their work on this. I hope this report reflects the seriousness of the current state of the access to information system. The recommendations in this report are meant and designed to fix what is a broken system.

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Context: House Hansard - 93 - Jun/21/22

Mr. John Brassard (Barrie—Innisfil, CPC)

Jun/21/22 2:56:53 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, that is contradictory evidence, according to the commission's report. According to the commanders on the ground, Commissioner Lucki became extremely upset that the commissioners were not releasing the information in an active investigation, despite the fact that the commanders on the ground said they were not willing to do it because it would compromise the investigation. Again, I ask this: Somebody in the Prime Minister's Office and somebody in the public safety minister's office directed Commissioner Lucki to get that information. Who was it?

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Context: House Hansard - 71 - May/13/22

Mr. John Brassard (Barrie—Innisfil, CPC)

May/13/22 12:31:52 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-19

Mr. Speaker, I rise on the same point of order. I want to thank the hon. member for bringing to your attention exactly what happened. We, as Conservatives, experienced the same situation. The information that was received by us in the lobby was not complete, so it would obviously call into question whether we received the accurate information. As the hon. member said, it is a 440-page omnibus bill, despite the fact that the government said it would never introduce an omnibus bill. We have and share the exact same concerns, not the least of which is its contents, whether in fact we have received the proper contents and whether we are able to disseminate those contents in our work at committee and in the House as well. I will speak to the broader issue, which is that this is a pattern on the government side of not having the ability, for some reason, to manage providing this type of information in an appropriate way to the opposition. I would add as well that, in spite of the information we received, which we deem as incomplete, and as the hon. member argued, we were only allowed five hours of debate in this place on Bill C-19, which amounted to a total of 11 speakers. Obviously, the privileges of the members in the House are paramount and we should be receiving exactly identical information, particularly on an important piece of legislation such as the budget implementation act, which is 440 pages. Several of those pages were missing from what the opposition parties received, and it was therefore incomplete. I ask that you look at this judiciously, and come back with what I would expect to be a favourable ruling on the hon. member's point of order.

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Context: House Hansard - 37 - Feb/28/22

Mr. John Brassard (Barrie—Innisfil, CPC)

Feb/28/22 1:37:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I agree with my colleague from the Bloc Québécois. We need to create this committee soon. I know there has been an issue of public and private information that becomes available to the committee, and how much should be public and how much should be private. I know the member has expertise in this field. I am interested to know, as we move forward, what sort of criteria he would be looking for on public information to made public and private information to be made private. I think it is a fair question.

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