Collection
Access to Information Orders
Date
File Numbers
PA23-00112
Adjudicators
Chris Anzenberger
Decision Type
Order
Applicable Legislation
FIPPA - 12(1)
FIPPA - 12(2)(b)
An individual asked the ministry for records about the cost of the environmental assessment of the GTA West Corridor Highway, and the cost of the highway itself. The ministry created a record with this information and provided partial access to it, but denied access to the information about the cost of the highway for two reasons (exemptions) set out in the Act, sections 12(1) (Cabinet records) and 18(1)(d) (economic and other interests).
The adjudicator agrees that some of the information is not required to be provided under the Act because its disclosure would reveal the substance of Cabinet deliberations, allowing it to be withheld under section 12(1).