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QUESTION PERIOD — Prime Minister’s Office

National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians

June 12, 2024


Senator Gold, the leader of the Green Party, Elizabeth May, has received an unredacted copy of the report of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, or NSICOP. She’s a leader of a party with only two elected members and therefore not a recognized party in the House of Commons. When will the leaders of the recognized groups in the Senate be afforded the same courtesy as that extended to the leader of the Green Party in the House of Commons and be given access to the unredacted report of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians?

Hon. Marc Gold (Government Representative in the Senate) [ - ]

Thank you for your question, Senator Downe, and for your persistence in this matter. As I’ve mentioned — I believe it was yesterday — my office has made inquiries with the government regarding this, and we do not have an answer yet from the government, but I will follow up with interested senators as soon as I know more.

Thank you. We appreciate the work of your office staff, but given the disparity of treatment between the party leaders in the House of Commons and the leaders of the various groups in the Senate, have you actually spoken directly to Minister LeBlanc to make the necessary arrangements for the group leaders in the Senate to read the same unredacted report that Elizabeth May read?

Senator Gold [ - ]

I personally and my office are in regular contact — I would say daily — with Minister LeBlanc’s office. We have made the inquiries and are awaiting a response from the government.

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