P-598

The Ontario Human Rights Commission (the Commission) received a request pursuant to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) for access to all information regarding a human rights complaint initiated by the requester. The Commission provided partial access to the records which were responsive to the request. Access was, however, denied to 119 pages pursuant to sections 13(1), 14(2)(a) and 21(3)(b) of the Act. The requester appealed the Commission's decision to deny access.

Mediation was not successful and notice that an inquiry was being conducted to review the Commission's decision was sent to the appellant and the Commission. Representations were received from the Commission only. In its representations, the Commission also claimed that the discretionary exemptions provided by sections 49(a) and (b) of the Act applied to the records at issue.

The records at issue in this appeal are listed, together with the corresponding exemptions claimed by the Commission, in Appendix A to this order.

• FIPPA
• 14(2)(a)
• 2(1) personal information
• 21(3)(b)
• 49(b)
• 13(1)

• Advice or Recommendations
• draft reasons
• investigation