Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guide to LA FOIP, Chapter 4, Exemptions from the Right of Access. Updated 18 Oct 2023. 129 1. Is it information of the local authority? The local authority must demonstrate that the information is of the local authority in order for the exemption to apply. Information means facts or knowledge provided or learned as a result of research or study.476 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.477 Proposed means something offered for consideration or acceptance; a suggestion.478 A plan is a formulated and especially detailed method by which a thing is to be done; a design or scheme.479 A detailed proposal for doing or achieving something; an intention or decision about what one is going to do.480 A policy is a standard course of action that has been officially established by the local authority.481 A project is an enterprise carefully planned to achieve a particular aim; a proposed or planned undertaking.482 The information does not have to be proposed plans, policies or projects to qualify. The local authority should describe what the information is. 2. Could disclosure reasonably be expected to result in disclosure of a pending policy or budgetary decision? 476 Pearsall, Judy, Concise Oxford Dictionary, 10th Edition at p. 727 (Oxford University Press). Cited in SK OIPC Review Report F-2006-002 at [45]. 477 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. 478 Garner, Bryan A., 2019. Black’s Law Dictionary, 11th Edition. St. Paul, Minn.: West Group at p. 1474. 479 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. 480 Pearsall, Judy, Concise Oxford Dictionary, 10th Edition at p. 1092 (Oxford University Press). 481 Garner, Bryan A., 2019. Black’s Law Dictionary, 11th Edition. St. Paul, Minn.: West Group at p. 1401. 482 Pearsall, Judy, Concise Oxford Dictionary, 10th Edition at p. 1143 (Oxford University Press).
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