PO-4458

The OMDC received two requests under the Act for records relating to retroactive changes to the Ontario Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit. The OMDC issued a fee estimate for each request and agreed to waive part of the fee when the appellant applied for a fee waiver. The appellant appealed the OMDC’s fee seeking a full fee waiver based on financial hardship and on the basis that dissemination of the records would benefit public health and safety. He also claimed that the FOI coordinator at the OMDC was in a conflict of interest as she was also the executive assistant to the CEO. In this order, the adjudicator does not order a further fee waiver and finds that the FOI coordinator and the CEO of the OMDC are not in a conflict of interest in responding to his requests. The appeal is dismissed.