PO-4552

An individual asked the ministry for records about real estate property value assessments for the GTA West Corridor highway. The ministry gave the individual some records, but denied access to some information about specific costs for two reasons (exemptions) set out in the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, sections 12(1) (Cabinet records) and 18(1)(c) and (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). For other parts of the records, he does not agree that they would reveal the substance of Cabinet deliberations, and he also does not agree that they would harm the economic interests of the province. He orders this information disclosed.