P-488

The Ontario Native Affairs Secretariat (ONAS) received a request under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) for the Teme-Augama Anishnabai (TAA) 1992-1993 budget under the Contribution Agreement and the TAA Statement of Revenue and Expenditures for the 1991-1992 fiscal year. The request was referred to the Ministry of the Attorney General (the Ministry) as agent for the ONAS for processing.

The Ministry located the records responsive to the request and disclosed the Contribution Agreement which includes the 1992-1993 budget, in full, but denied access to portions of the Statement of Revenues and Expenditures pursuant to section 21 of the Act. The requester appealed the decision.

During mediation, the requester agreed to limit the scope of the appeal to three severed dollar figures on page six of the TAA Statement of Revenue and Expenditures for the 1991-1992 fiscal year. These can be described as, "Employment Costs" under the sub-heading "Forestry", and "Employment Costs" and "Consultants" under the sub-heading "Cultural Landscape" all of which appear in the "Salaries/Contracts" column of the record.

Further mediation was not possible, and a notice that an inquiry was being conducted to review the Ministry's decision was sent to the appellant, the Ministry, the ONAS, and the two Chiefs of the TAA (the affected parties). Written representations were received from the ONAS only.

• FIPPA
• 2(1) personal information

• identifiable individual