Scott Reid Receives Responses from RCMP on High River Actions
September 16, 2014OTTAWA – Yesterday, in the House of Commons, answers were tabled to two “order paper questions” filed by Scott Reid on June 3, 2014. Order paper questions 540 & 541 posed a series of questions relating to the manner in which the RCMP responded to the flood emergency in High River, Alberta in June and July 2013.
“The purpose of these order paper questions was to draw out information which might not otherwise be available to the public, relating to the question as to whether the RCMP acted appropriately or inappropriately during this period,” stated Reid. “Order paper questions can be a useful tool for exposing information which, while not actually a secret, remains out of the public eye.”
Order paper questions bear some similarity to the Access to Information requests that can be filed by any member of the public, but are more extensive. The right of MPs to pose such questions is laid out in House of Commons Standing Order #39(1).
Response to Q-540 from the Minister of Public Safety
Response to Q-541 from the Minister of Public Safety
For further information contact:
Dennis Laurie
Office of Scott Reid, M.P.
613-947-2277
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