Completed Access to Information Requests

Request Number:
ZA-2024-25108
December 2025
Summary:

All documents, memoranda, e-mails, correspondence, briefing notes, text messages, messages on Microsoft Teams or any other messagingplatform, and any other records, including drafts, from March 12 to November 14, 2024, respecting parliamentary consideration of the ArriveCAN application. Including the following: the scheduling and appearances of witnesses before parliamentary committees, including preparations for, and debriefings concerning, those appearances, including responses to undertakings provided; the motion adopted by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Government Operations on March 13, 2024, inviting David Yeo, the Minister of National Defence, and Department of National Defence officials; the question of privilege raised by Garnett Genuis at the Government Operations Committee on March 13, 2024, concerning Kristian Firth’s evidence to the Committee, and the motion which the Committee adopted to report the matter to the House; the motion considered, amended and adopted by the Government Operations Committee on March 14, 2024, concerning a recommendation to the House in relation to an investigation by the Privacy Commissioner; the 15th Report of the Government Operations Committee, tabled in the House on March 18, 2024, concerning an investigation by the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner; the motion considered and adopted by the House’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts on March 19, 2024, concerning a proposal to the House’s Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs to investigate abuses in Indigenous procurement; the 17th Report of the Government Operations Committee, tabled in the House on March 20, 2024, concerning Mr. Firth’s evidence to the Committee; Michael Barrett’s question of privilege raised in the House on March 20, 2024, concerning Mr. Firth’s evidence to the Government Operations Committee; Peter Julian, Elizabeth May and Charlie Angus’s interventions on Mr. Barrett’s question of privilege on March 20, 2024; Julie Vignola, Kelly McCauley and Mr. Genuis’s interventions on Mr. Barrett’s question of privilege on March 21, 2024; Mark Gerretsen’s intervention on Mr. Barrett’s question of privilege on March 22, 2024; the Speaker’s ruling on Mr. Barrett’s question of privilege on March22, 2024; Mr. Barrett’s privilege motion, finding Mr. Firth to be in contempt and ordering him to attend at the Bar of the House to be admonished and to answer questions, and Mr. Gerretsen’s amendment to that motion considered by the House on March 22 and April 8, 2024; the motion considered, amended and adopted by the Government Operations Committee on March 26, 2024, concerning the production of documents; the motion considered, amended and adopted by the Public Accounts Committee on April 4, 2024, concerning the scheduling of witnesses from KPMG; the unanimous consent motion adopted by the House on April 8, 2024, concerning the disposition of the privilege motion and the amendment proposed thereto and the proceedings upon Mr. Firth’s appearance at the Bar of the House; the meeting of the House’s Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs on April 16, 2024, concerning the appearances of witnesses at the Bar of the House; Mr. Firth’s appearance at the Bar of the House on April 17, 2024; the motion considered by the Public Accounts Committee on April 30, 2024, concerning the production of documents in relation to conflict of interest declarations, and further considered and adopted on May 2, 2024; the motion considered and adopted by the Public Accounts Committee on May 2, 2024, concerning the scheduling of witnesses from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; the 18th Report of the Government Operations Committee, tabled in the House on May 6, 2024, concerning a recommendation to the House in relation to an investigation by the Privacy Commissioner; the motion considered, amended and adopted by the Public Accounts Committee on May 9, 2024, summonsing John Ossowski and Paul Girard; the motion adopted by the Public Accounts Committee on May 16, 2024, discharging its summons to Paul Girard; the motion considered by the Public Accounts Committee on May 16, 2024, and further considered, amended and adopted on May 21, 2024, concerning the publication of documents; the motion considered and adopted by the Public Accounts Committee on May 21, 2024, concerning the scheduling of witnesses from the RCMP; the motion considered, amended and adopted by the Government Operations Committee on May 22, 2024, summonsing Minh Doan; the motion adopted by the Public Accounts Committee on May 28, 2024, concerning the production of documents by Amazon Web Services; the subcommittee report adopted by the Public Accounts Committee on June 4, 2024, concerning the scheduling of witnesses from the RCMP; the motions adopted by the Government Operations Committee on June 5, 2024, concerning the production of documents; the motion considered by the Government Operations Committee on June 5, 2024, concerning a report to the House in relation to Mr. Doan’s evidence; the motion considered by the Public Accounts Committee on August 7, 2024, concerning the production of a recording of Diane Daly’s interview and the invitation of witnesses; the motion considered by the Public Accounts Committee on August 8, 2024, concerning the production of a recording of Ms. Daly’s interview, the invitation of witnesses and correspondence to Mr. Firth; the motion considered by the Government Operations Committee on October 29, 2024, concerning the invitation of witnesses. Exclude the following: memorandum to Cabinet and aides-memoire for Cabinet consideration, Treasury Board submissions, speaking notes or decks for presentations to Cabinet or its committees, copies of draft legislative texts, briefing notes and covering memoranda concerning records in exclusions, duplicate copies of emails (i.e., exclude earlier messages in a thread of e-mails if a later message contains the earlier message(s)), publicly available versions of government documents (i.e., do not exclude drafts of those documents), the French version of documents which are equally available in each official language, off-media summary), unannotated transcripts of parliamentary debates and committee meetings, e-mails sent to, received by, and never shared beyond, employees below the EX-minus-02 (e.g., AS-06, PM-05, IS-05, EC-06) level, and documents provided to parliamentary committees in response to their orders.

Disposition:
Disclosed in part
Pages:
4,654
Organization:
Canada Border Services Agency