Organization: Elections Canada
Year: 2024
Month: August
Request Number: A-2023-00043
Request Summary: Please provide all documents, memoranda, emails, correspondence, briefing notes and any other records, including drafts, from November 1, 2022, to October 31, 2023, pertaining to the preparation of the 2023 representation orders under the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act and the Preserving Provincial Representation in the House of Commons Act. Please exclude: (1) memoranda to Cabinet and aides-memoire for Cabinet consideration (2) Treasury Board submissions (3) speaking notes or decks for presentations to Cabinet or its committees (4) copies of draft legislative texts (5) briefing notes and covering memoranda concerning records in exclusions 1 to 4 (6) duplicate copies of emails (i.e. exclude earlier messages in a thread of emails if a later message contains the earlier message(s)) (7) publicly available versions of government documents (i.e. do not exclude drafts of those documents) (8) the French version of documents that are equally available in each official language (9) off-topic information in otherwise responsive documents (e.g. news stories on other issues in a media summary) (10) unannotated transcripts of parliamentary debates and committee meetings (11) emails sent to, received by and never shared beyond employees below the EX minus 2 level (e.g. AS-06, PM-05, IS-05, EC-06)
Disposition: Disclosed in part
Number of pages: 2618