The appellant made a request to the City of Oshawa (the city) under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) for council minutes, reports and correspondence on a specific topic. The city denied access to them in part, relying on the discretionary exemptions at section 6(1)(b) (closed meeting), 7(1) (advice or recommendations), 11(d) and (e) (economic and other interests), and 12 (solicitor-client privilege), as well as the mandatory exemption at section 14(1) (personal privacy) of the Act.
The appellant appealed the city’s decision and in Interim Order MO-4455-I, an adjudicator upheld some aspects of the city’s decision, but ordered other information disclosed. She also ordered the city to re-exercise its discretion to apply the section 6(1)(b) exemption. In this final order, the adjudicator finds that the city has now exercised its discretion under section 6(1)(b) and she dismisses the remainder of the appeal.