Another privilege battle brewing as feds refuse to give House unredacted green fund docs

Twenty-one governmental departments and agencies responded to a June 10 order for documents by redacting or withholding information, while 10 entities submitted unredacted documents.

Parliamentary law clerk Michel Bédard said in a recent letter to the House Speaker that government institutions were improperly applying access-to-information and privacy law restrictions to a June 10 production order from the Chamber.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

August 7, 2024

The House of Commons’ top lawyer is sounding an alarm as scores of governmental departments and agencies failed to turn over unredacted documents concerning communications about a now-shuttered clean-technology fund despite being ordered to do so by the Chamber.

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