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This is an appeal under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act). The Ontario Film Development Corporation (the OFDC) received a request for the dollar amounts of financial assistance received by individuals, corporations and other entities during the period of April 1, 1990 to March 31, 1992 (Part A of the request). The appellant also requested copies of the information provided by these organizations or individuals when they submitted their applications for the financial assistance (Part B of the request).
Both the appellant and the OFDC have agreed that because there are voluminous records responsive to this request, the scope of the appeal would be narrowed and limited to a sample of the records.
The OFDC has indicated that it does not have the information responsive to Part A of the request in a consolidated format. Consequently, it has provided samples of its commitment letters and contracts with both individuals and corporations in which the requested information is contained. However, the only information which is responsive to the request in these documents is the dollar figure advanced by the OFDC to either the company or individual for the financing of a project.
The OFDC has denied access to this information on the basis of the following exemptions:
third party information - section 17(1)(a)
valuable government information - section 18(1)(a)
economic and other interests - sections 18(1)(c) and (d)
invasion of privacy - section 21(1) [only for those records involving individuals who received financial assistance]
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