The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (the ministry) received a request under the Act for access to records provided to or sent from the ministry to the Office of the Mayor of the City of Sault Ste. Marie and to the office of a named M.P.P. at the City of Sault Ste. Marie between 2019 to 2020.
The ministry issued an access decision advising that it had not located responsive records. The appellant appealed this access decision to the IPC on the basis that the ministry did not conduct a reasonable search for responsive records.
In this interim order, the adjudicator determines that the ministry has not provided sufficient evidence to established that it conducted a reasonable search for responsive records. Therefore, she orders the ministry to conduct further searches and to provide affidavit evidence detailing its efforts to search for and locate responsive records.