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Q-736
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025 |
With regard to any actual, proposed or exploratory involvement of Brookfield Asset Management, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates in activities, transactions, investments, guarantees or financial arrangements undertaken by the Canada Growth Fund since 2022: (a) what projects, investments or transactions approved by the Canada Growth Fund have involved Brookfield or any Brookfield-controlled entity, including, for each, (i) the project name and location, (ii) the amount of Canada Growth Fund financing, (iii) the financial instrument used (for example, equity, concessional capital, contract-for-differences, guarantee), (iv) the role played by Brookfield, (v) the expected rate of return or public benefit, (vi) any conditions, performance requirements, or de-risking provisions applicable; (b) has the government or the Canada Growth Fund had any meetings, correspondence, briefings or consultations with Brookfield related to industrial decarbonization, clean technology, hydrogen, carbon capture, digital infrastructure or energy-transition investments, and, if so, what are the details of each communication, including (i) the date, (ii) the officials present, (iii) the topics discussed, (iv) a summary of any documents exchanged, (v) any resulting action items or recommendations; (c) has the Canada Growth Fund or any federal department ever evaluated Brookfield as a delivery partner for large-scale blended finance vehicles, and, if so, are any such evaluations referenced, resembled or incorporated concepts from the proposed “Maple Fund” disclosed publicly in September 2024; (d) has the government analyzed harmonizing Canada Growth Fund and Canada Infrastructure Bank financing through a strategic financing framework that could enable Brookfield, or any other private asset manager, to participate in or control digital, artificial intelligence, energy or industrial-infrastructure projects financed through public funds; and (e) what safeguards exist to ensure that public funds administered through the Canada Growth Fund do not result in undue concentration of influence by any single private-sector entity or asset manager, including Brookfield? |
Awaiting response |
Monday, January 26, 2026 |
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Q-735
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025 |
With regard to any actual, planned, proposed or exploratory involvement of Brookfield Asset Management, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates in projects financed, co-financed, guaranteed, supported or otherwise facilitated by the Canada Infrastructure Bank or the Government of Canada, since 2017: (a) what past, current or pending Canada Infrastructure Bank investments have involved Brookfield or any Brookfield-controlled entity, including, for each investment, (i) the name and location of the project, (ii) the total project cost, (iii) the amount of Canada Infrastructure Bank financing, (iv) the form of financing (for example, loan, equity, guarantee, revenue agreement, or other), (v) the role played by Brookfield or its subsidiaries, (vi) the contractual or ownership structure of the project, (vii) all due-diligence steps undertaken prior to approval, (viii) the date on which the project was approved; (b) has the government or the Canada Infrastructure Bank had any discussions, meetings, correspondence, memoranda or briefings since January 1, 2022, relating to potential collaboration with Brookfield on digital infrastructure, artificial intelligence infrastructure, cloud or compute infrastructure or any other project category added to the Canada Infrastructure Bank mandate in budget 2025, and, if so, what are the details of each communication, including (i) the date, (ii) the participating officials, (iii) the subject matter discussed, (iv) a summary of the briefing materials or decks exchanged, (v) any recorded outcomes or next steps; (c) has the government or the Canada Infrastructure Bank evaluated Brookfield as a potential delivery partner for artificial intelligence compute infrastructure, sovereign cloud capacity, national analytics systems or any other digital infrastructure projects referenced in budget 2025, and, if so, what were the findings; (d) has the government ever considered or evaluated a structure similar to the “Maple Fund” proposal reported publicly in September 2024, and, if so, (i) which departments or Crown corporations were involved, (ii) which pension funds were consulted, (iii) what due diligence or policy analysis was conducted, (iv) were any aspects of that model incorporated into the strategic financing framework announced in budget 2025; and (e) what safeguards, if any, has the government implemented to ensure that the expanded Canada Infrastructure Bank mandate for digital and artificial intelligence infrastructure does not result in undue influence, concentration of control or preferential positioning for any single private entity or asset manager, including Brookfield? |
Awaiting response |
Monday, January 26, 2026 |
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Q-734
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025 |
With regard to the government’s medical assistance in dying policy and preparations to expand eligibility to individuals whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness by March 2027: (a) what internal committees, working groups or advisory bodies are currently responsible for developing the framework for this expansion; (b) what consultations have been conducted since 2023, including, for each, the (i) dates, (ii) participants, (iii) summaries of written submissions received; (c) what draft guidelines, risk analyses or policy options have been circulated within the government or to external stakeholders; (d) what plans exist for formal parliamentary scrutiny prior to 2027, and will those plans include the tabling of all analyses and documents so Parliament and the public can review the work undertaken; (e) what safeguards, assessment criteria and clinical protocols is the government considering, particularly given the lack of consensus regarding the irremediability of mental illness; (f) since 2023, has the government consulted independent experts, including human rights experts, regarding potential impacts on vulnerable Canadians; (g) what concerns, warnings or dissenting opinions have been raised by federal officials, external experts or researchers; (h) what recommendations have been made to mitigate the risks identified in these analyses or consultations; (i) have any government analyses assessed the policy option of not proceeding with the expansion, in light of evidence that medical assistance in dying for mental illness cannot be implemented safely within an acceptable margin of risk to vulnerable Canadians; (j) how is the government working to protect the conscience rights of physicians who oppose medical assistance in dying, in light of recent Health Canada guidance encouraging clinicians to raise medical assistance in dying as an option; and (k) what complaints, reviews or appeals has the government received regarding medical assistance in dying delivery, and how it is addressing ongoing transparency concerns surrounding medical assistance in dying cases? |
Awaiting response |
Monday, January 26, 2026 |
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Q-733
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025 |
With regard to all behavioural science experiments, evaluations, analyses and prototypes, and other policy or service-design work undertaken by the Privy Council Office’s Impact and Innovation Unit since its creation, including those conducted with or for other federal departments: (a) what current and past projects has the Impact and Innovation Unit undertaken, including, for each project, the (i) title, (ii) dates during which it was active, (iii) sponsoring department, (iv) costs, (v) objectives, (vi) names of any external contractors used; (b) what research methodologies and behavioural frameworks were used for each project (for example, nudge theory, social-norming, fear-based framing); (c) what message-testing experiments were conducted and what internal ethical guidelines governed them; (d) how have Impact and Innovation Unit behavioural insights been used and integrated into Public Health Agency of Canada or other department’s communication plans; (e) what public reporting or parliamentary reporting practices exist for Impact and Innovation Unit projects, and, if none, why; and (f) what Impact and Innovation Unit insights, documents or research has been shared with the United Kingdom, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Health Organization or other foreign governments, broken down by (i) recipient, (ii) summary of the material and data shared, (iii) purpose of the disclosure, (iv) the date on which it was shared? |
Awaiting response |
Monday, January 26, 2026 |
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Q-522
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025 |
With regard to Canada’s engagement with the World Health Organization's Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response Agreement (the Agreement) and the amendments to the International Health Regulations: (a) what steps has the government taken to ensure parliamentary review before signing or ratifying the Agreement; (b) has Global Affairs Canada or the Privy Council Office prepared any analysis comparing Canada’s treaty ratification process with those of Australia or the United Kingdom regarding public health treaties, and, if so, what are the details, including the findings, of that analysis; (c) how does the government plan to align domestic laws with the Agreement, and which departments will have enforcement authority; and (d) how does the government plan to align domestic laws with the amendments to the International Health Regulations, and which departments will have enforcement authority? |
Answered |
Monday, December 8, 2025 |
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Q-521
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025 |
With regard to federal digital identification initiatives: (a) which departments are currently developing or testing any form of digital identification credential; (b) what interdepartmental coordination mechanisms exist to manage citizen data; (c) has the government undertaken any review regarding the compatibility of digital identification frameworks with section 7 and section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and, if so, what are the details of that review; and (d) what safeguards exist to prevent a citizen’s access to digital ID-linked services from being suspended or restricted due to non-compliance with government regulations or mandates (related to health, environment, taxation, or other), and, if no safeguards exist, why not? |
Answered |
Monday, December 8, 2025 |
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Q-520
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025 |
With regard to federal policy and analysis related to housing and infrastructure accounting models in the past 10 years: (a) has the Department of Finance conducted any analysis on how shifting public-private accounting models for infrastructure assets could impact individual homeownership, land title (fee simple) and intergenerational wealth in Canada, and, if so, what are the details of that analysis; (b) what consultations, if any, has the government conducted regarding the potential introduction of new collective or lease-based housing models that could alter or replace fee-simple ownership, and, if any, what were the details and outcomes of those consultations; and (c) has the government incorporated, or are there any plans to incorporate, any recommendations from the Bank of Canada, the International Monetary Fund or the World Economic Forum relating to the use of residential property as an infrastructure or financialized asset class, and, if so, what are the details of those recommendations? |
Answered |
Monday, December 8, 2025 |
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Q-519
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025 |
With regard to the Canada Infrastructure Bank: (a) since its establishment in 2017, what proportion of the Canada Infrastructure Bank’s total lending portfolio has gone to projects that involve foreign contractors, sub-contractors, suppliers or shipyards; (b) what are the projects in (a) and with which foreign entities did each project engage; (c) what criteria are used by the Canada Infrastructure Bank to determine the “Value to Canada” score for project eligibility; (d) for how many and which projects in (a) did the Canada Infrastructure Bank know, prior to signing the loan agreement, that foreign contractors were involved; (e) since 2020, (i) how many Canada Infrastructure Bank-funded or financed projects have undergone review for national security or supply-chain vulnerabilities at any stage of the project, including pre-financial close or post-financial close, (ii) what are those projects, (iii) what were the outcomes of those reviews; and (f) what due-diligence processes does the government use to verify that foreign-built infrastructure financed by the Canada Infrastructure Bank complies with Canadian labour, environmental and human rights standards? |
Answered |
Monday, December 8, 2025 |
