‘They have interfered with the privileges of Parliament’: Foreign Affairs Committee calls on Global Affairs to provide non-redacted documents

'The person doing the redactions should be an independent, non-partisan person who doesn't have conflicts of interest that government officials have,' says Democracy Watch co-founder Duff Conacher.

MPs of the Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Liberal MP Sven Spengemann, pictured bottom left, are calling on Global Affairs officials at the Pearson Building to provide the committee with unredacted documents. NDP MP Jack Harris, pictured top left, says he is 'more than disappointed' that the committee received pre-redacted documents. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and file photograph

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BY NEIL MOSS

March 31, 2021

MPs are once again calling for government documents requested by a House committee to not be blacked out in advance. For its study on arms exports, MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee supported a motion to have Global Affairs submit documents on behalf of itself, the office of the foreign affairs ...

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