P-469

On May 10, 1993, the undersigned was appointed Inquiry Officer and received a delegation of the power and duty to conduct inquiries and to make orders under the provincial Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

BACKGROUND:

The Ministry of Housing (the Ministry) received a request pursuant to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) for access to certain correspondence relating to the operation of the Rent Review Hearings Board (the Board). The Ministry initially identified four records as being responsive to the request. The Ministry granted access in full to one record, partial access to another and denied access in total to the two remaining records. Access was denied in whole or in part pursuant to sections 21(2)(f), (g), (h) and (i) of the Act.

The requester appealed. During mediation, the Ministry located an additional one-page record which was responsive to the request. The Ministry denied access to it in total, claiming the exemptions described above.

Further mediation of the appeal was not possible and notice that an inquiry was being conducted to review the Ministry's decision was sent to the appellant and the Ministry. Representations were received from the appellant and the Ministry.

The records at issue in this appeal may be described as follows:

1. Three pages and part of a fourth page of a five-page letter. (This letter contains no address, signature or date.)

2. An unsigned hard copy of an electronically transmitted communication dated March 19, 1991 addressed to the Premier of Ontario.

3. An unsigned hard copy of an electronically transmitted communication dated March 20, 1991 addressed to the Minister of Housing.

4. A signed one-page letter dated January 24, 1991 addressed to the Minister of Housing.

• FIPPA
• 2(1) personal information (e)
• 21(1)(f)
• 21(2)(d)
• 21(2)(f)
• 21(2)(g)
• 21(2)(h)
• 21(2)(i)
• 49(b)

• another individual's personal privacy
• consent to access to personal information
• highly sensitive
• identifiable individual
• individual's reputation
• invasion of privacy
• opinions or views
• supplied in confidence
• unjustified invasion of