Federal public servants worked to avoid giving direct answers to a Conservative MP’s written questions posed in order papers, according to internal emails, prompting outrage from opposition MPs.
Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner raised the issue in the House of Commons on June 15, saying she had obtained evidence through an Access to Information request showing that public servants “deliberately withheld information” she had sought from Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson in an order paper question filed in November 2022.
In the question, Rempel Garner asked Natural Resources Canada (NRC) for details about the U.S. military funding Canadian mining projects, to which Wilkinson gave an oral response in the House on Jan. 30….