The appellant submitted a request to the City of Oshawa (the city) for access to records related to certain aviation companies. The city located records responsive to the request and issued a decision denying access to them in part. The city relied 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. In this interim order, the adjudicator upholds the city’s decision that section 12 applies to the information at issue. She also finds that sections 6(1)(b), 7(1), 11(d), and 14(1) apply to some pages and/or portions of pages of the records at issue, and that section 11(e) does not apply to any of the information at issue.
The adjudicator orders the city to withhold the information that section 14(1) applies to and upholds its discretion to apply sections 7(1), 11(d) and 12 and withhold certain information, but orders it to re-exercise its discretion in relation to its application of section the 6(1)(b) exemption. The adjudicator orders the city to disclose to the appellant the remaining information to which she concluded none of the exemptions apply.