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April 17, 1978
The Minister of Finance denied the possibility of a leak of budget information respecting the sales tax and, of course, the House must accept his word. The Chair has serious doubts as to whether...
The Speaker denied a question of privilege concerning an alleged budget leak, ruling that the matter did not meet the criteria for privilege and the motion was too general.
October 22, 1975
Although "the House guards the confidentiality of draft reports at this stage of a committee's proceedings and the publication of such a report would raise the strongest suggestion that some act...
The Speaker denied a motion for one committee to investigate a joint committee's leaked report, ruling it procedurally irregular and lacking a specific allegation of misconduct.
June 15, 1970
The investigation that the motion proposes may not be initiated by way of a question of privilege. A number of recent precedents indicates that motions proposing a study of the circumstances...
The Speaker ruled that motions to investigate information leaks must be introduced as substantive motions, not as questions of privilege.