PO-4529

An individual made two requests to the ministry. One request was for access to a named company’s application to receive funding from the ministry’s Skills Development Fund (SDF) to operate a training program for Home Support Workers and the other request was for a related agreement between the named company and the ministry. The ministry issued a decision on each request granting access, in part, to the SDF application and the agreement, relying on section 17(1) (third party information) to withhold some information. The named company appealed the decision on the basis that section 17(1) applies to the information the ministry is prepared to disclose. In this order, the adjudicator finds that the information remaining at issue is not exempt under section 17(1). She orders the ministry to disclose the information in accordance with its revised decisions and dismisses the appeal.