Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guide to FOIP, Chapter 4, Exemptions from the Right of Access. Updated 24 July 2025. 158 1. Is it information of a government institution? The information can be from a government institution other than the one relying on the exemption.575 The government institution must demonstrate that the information is of a government institution in order for the exemption to apply. Information means facts or knowledge provided or learned as a result of research or study.576 Including means that the list of information that follows is not complete (non-exhaustive). The examples in the provision are the types of information presumed to be involved.577 Proposed means something offered for consideration or acceptance; a suggestion.578 To put forward an idea or plan for consideration.579 A plan is a formulated and especially detailed method by which a thing is to be done; a design or scheme.580 A detailed proposal for doing or achieving something; an intention or decision about what one is going to do.581 A policy is a standard course of action that has been officially established by government.582 A project is an enterprise carefully planned to achieve a particular aim; a proposed or planned undertaking.583 The information does not have to be proposed plans, policies or projects to qualify. The government institution should describe what the information is. 575 This is because the provision uses “a” rather than “the” government institution. 576 Pearsall, Judy, Concise Oxford Dictionary, 10th Ed., (Oxford University Press) at p. 727. Cited in SK OIPC Review Report F-2006-002 at [45]. 577 Adapted from British Columbia Government Services, FOIPPA Policy and Procedures Manual at https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/services-for-government/policiesprocedures/foippa-manual/cabinet-local-public-body-confidences. Accessed June 26, 2019. 578 Garner, Bryan A., 2019. Black’s Law Dictionary, 11th Edition. St. Paul, Minn.: West Group at p. 1474. 579 Pearsall, Judy, Concise Oxford Dictionary, 10th Ed., (Oxford University Press) at p. 1147. 580 Definition originated from ON IPC Order P-229 at p. 10, which drew the definition from the Concise Oxford Dictionary. Adopted in SK OIPC Review Report LA-2011-001 at [78]. Same definition used by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Access to Information Manual, Chapter 11.18.5. Available at https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/access-information-privacy/accessinformation/access-information-manual.html#cha11_18. Accessed July 9, 2019. 581 Pearsall, Judy, Concise Oxford Dictionary, 10th Ed., (Oxford University Press) at p. 1092. 582 Garner, Bryan A., 2019. Black’s Law Dictionary, 11th Edition. St. Paul, Minn.: West Group at p. 1401. 583 Pearsall, Judy, Concise Oxford Dictionary, 10th Ed., (Oxford University Press) at p. 1143.
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