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This is my final order, dealing with the outstanding issues in Appeal No. PA-010194-2. All other issues were addressed in Interim Order PO-2054-I, my November 8, 2002 letter to the parties regarding the Ministry’s reconsideration request, and Reconsideration Order PO-2086-R.
BACKGROUND AND NATURE OF THE APPEAL:
The appellant submitted a request to the Ministry of the Solicitor General (now the Ministry of Public Safety and Security) (the Ministry), under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) for access to “the 147 records referred to on page 6 [of Order PO-1608].”
Order PO-1608 resulted from a request by a different requester for “records by [a named employee] … sent and received from Sept 1/95 to Sept 15/95 relating to the Emergency Planning for Aboriginal Issues Interministerial Committee and/or Ipperwash Provincial Park”. In the body of that order, which dealt with the nature of the searches conducted for responsive records, I made the following statement:
In response to my request for additional details regarding [the Deputy Minister’s] affidavit, I received subsequent correspondence from the Deputy Minister regarding searches of the files relating to the named individual. The Deputy Minister advised me that there were a total of 147 records contained in the four files of the named individual ….
The Ministry (which was also the institution in PO-1608) identified the responsive records, which actually consist of 163 documents. The Ministry provided the appellant with access to a number of records, in whole or in part, and denied access to the remaining records or partial records on the basis of a number of the exemptions contained in the Act. One of the exemptions claimed by the Ministry was section 15 (relations with other governments).
The appellant appealed the Ministry’s decision.
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