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P-611
The Ontario Film Development Corporation (the Corporation) received a request under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) for access to the names of two individuals whom the Corporation had engaged to review a screenplay and to prepare separate reports on the artistic merits of the work. The requester was the author of the screenplay in question. It is the Corporation's policy to provide the authors of screenplays with copies of any reviews which have been completed on their work but to withhold the actual names of the reviewers.
Consistent with this approach, and based on the exemptions contained in section 21 of the Act, the Corporation made the decision to withhold the names of the two reviewers. The requester appealed the Corporation's decision.
Mediation of the appeal was not successful, and notice that an inquiry was being conducted to review the Corporation's decision was sent to the appellant, the Corporation and the two individuals who reviewed the screenplay (the affected persons). Representations were received from all parties.
The records at issue in this appeal consist of the names of the two reviewers. One such name has been removed from a report which the Corporation previously provided to the author. The second is contained in a log which records the dates on which screenplays were sent out for review.
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