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This is an appeal under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act). The requester asked the Ministry of Municipal Affairs (the Ministry) for access to all records relating to the enactment of Bill 171, "An Act Respecting Certain International Bridges". She was particularly interested in receiving all correspondence, background reports and briefing materials relating to this subject. The requester is a lawyer who represents a client with an interest in this piece of legislation.
The Ministry identified a total of 90 records that were responsive to the request and agreed to release 73 of these documents to the requester in their entirety. The Ministry decided, however, to withhold the remaining 17 records, either in whole or in part, based on the following exemptions contained in the Act:
Cabinet records - section 12(1)
advice or recommendations - section 13(1)
solicitor-client privilege - section 19
invasion of privacy - section 21(1)
The requester appealed this decision to the Commissioner's office.
During the course of the appeal, the requester/appellant indicated that she did not wish to receive access to a passage in Record 9 which contained the personal information of a named individual. The result is that this document in its entirety is no longer at issue in this appeal. In addition, the Ministry subsequently advised the Commissioner's office that it had disclosed Record 14 to the appellant in its entirety.
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