Order of the House for Documents Item 6

HOUSE OF COMMONS JOURNALS December 10, 2009

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Pursuant to Standing Order 81(17), the House proceeded to the putting of the question on themain motion, as amended, of Mr. Dosanjh (Vancouver South), seconded by Mr. Cotler (MountRoyal), - That, given the undisputed privileges of Parliament under Canada’s constitution,including the absolute power to require the government to produce uncensored documents whenrequested, and given the reality that the government has violated the rights of Parliament byinvoking the Canada Evidence Act to censor documents before producing them, the Houseurgently requires access to the following documents in their original and uncensored form:

all documents referred to in the affidavit of Richard Colvin, dated October 5, 2009;

all documents within the Department of Foreign Affairs written in response to the documentsreferred to in the affidavit of Richard Colvin, dated October 5, 2009;

all memoranda for information or memoranda for decision sent to the Minister of Foreign Affairsconcerning detainees from December 18, 2005 to the present;

all documents produced pursuant to all orders of the Federal Court in Amnesty InternationalCanada and British Columbia Civil Liberties Association v. Chief of the Defence Staff for theCanadian Forces, Minister of National Defence and Attorney General of Canada;

all documents produced to the Military Police Complaints Commission in the Afghanistan PublicInterest Hearings;

all annual human rights reports by the Department of Foreign Affairs on Afghanistan;

all documents referred to by the Chief of the Defence Staff in his December 9, 2009 pressconference, and all other relevant documents; and accordingly the House hereby orders that thesedocuments be produced in their original and uncensored form forthwith.

The question was put on the main motion, as amended, and it was agreed to on the followingdivision:

(Division No. 155 -- Vote no 155)YEAS: 146, NAYS: 143

Excerpt Taken From:Journals of the House of Commons Canada, Dec. 10, 2009, 2rd Session, 40th Parliament. Ottawa: Queen’s Printer for Canada, 2009.