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Pat Kelly

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Conservative
  • Calgary Rocky Ridge
  • Alberta
  • Voting Attendance: 64%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $131,868.27

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Context: House Hansard - 331 - Jun/13/24
Mr. Pat Kelly
  • Jun/13/24 12:59:34 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, my colleague, our shadow minister of environment, talked about that in his speech, but I want to say to my colleague from the Bloc that his colleagues seemed to think that this motion is unworthy of debate or concern in the House. Do they think that it is okay for the Government of Canada to ignore requests for information with impunity, to gag the Parliamentary Budget Officer and to promise to Canadians openness and transparency but deliver secrecy, obfuscation and cover-ups?
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Context: House Hansard - 331 - Jun/13/24
Mr. Pat Kelly (Calgary Rocky Ridge, CPC)
  • Jun/13/24 11:39:50 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, on the motion itself, literally minutes, maybe even seconds, before the opposition leader moved the motion to compel the production of documents, the government reluctantly, at the very last second, dropped an 80-page report. The Parliamentary Budget Officer has had to resort to the broken and completely chaotic ATIP system to try to get basic information from the government to do his job. Does the member support the government's penchant for secrecy? Does he not support parliamentarians using the tools available to them to compel honesty from a government that promised to be the most open and transparent government in Canadian history?
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Context: House Hansard - 331 - Jun/13/24
Mr. Pat Kelly (Calgary Rocky Ridge, CPC)
  • Jun/13/24 10:59:53 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, does the member have any explanation for the reflexive secrecy? How on earth could it possibly come to the Parliamentary Budget Officer having to resort to ATIPing the government to get information from them? Secrecy by default is the Liberal government's M.O. Does the member agree?
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Context: House Hansard - 172 - Mar/23/23
Mr. Pat Kelly
  • Mar/23/23 1:44:14 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-26 
Mr. Speaker, with respect to the first question, I will set it aside and await more testimony and discussion at the defence committee about that. With respect to the second point, about the overclassification of information, that is a good one and I am glad the member raised it. It actually speaks to the overall culture of secrecy that exists in the Government of Canada. This is a real problem that has been ongoing for years. The current government ran on a platform in 2015 to let the sunshine in and we have absolutely unprecedented secrecy within the government. The member raises a good point around the overclassification of documents.
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