Guide to LA FOIP-Chapter 4

Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guide to LA FOIP, Chapter 4, Exemptions from the Right of Access. Updated 18 Oct 2023. 264 Evaluative means to have assessed, appraised, to have found or to have stated the number of.913 Opinion material is a belief or assessment based on grounds short of proof; a view held as probable for example, a belief that a person would be a suitable employee, based on that person’s employment history. An opinion is subjective in nature and may or may not be based on facts.914 2. Was the personal information compiled solely for one of the enumerated purposes? Compiled means that the information was drawn from several sources or extracted, extrapolated, calculated or in some other way manipulated.915 The enumerated purposes are: • Determining the individual’s suitability for appointment, promotion, or tenure as a member of the faculty. • For determining the individual’s suitability for admission to an academic program. • For determining the individual’s suitability to receive an honour or award. The personal information must have been compiled solely for one of the enumerated purposes to qualify. Award means to give or to order to be given as a payment, compensation or prize; to grant; to assign. In this context, it implies that the decision-maker has some authority to give or to order that benefit be granted.916 3. Was the personal information provided explicitly or implicitly in confidence? In confidence usually describes a situation of mutual trust in which private matters are relayed or reported. Information provided in confidence means that the supplier of the information has stipulated how the information can be disseminated.917 In order for confidence to be found, there must be an implicit or explicit agreement or understanding of 913 AB IPC Order 98-021 at p.4. 914 AB IPC Order 98-021 at p.4. 915 British Columbia Government Services, FOIPPA Policy Definitions at https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/services-for-government/policiesprocedures/foippa-manual/policy-definitions. Accessed April 23, 2020. 916 AB IPC, Order 98-021 at p.5. 917 Service Alberta, FOIP Guidelines and Practices: 2009 Edition, Chapter 4 at p. 104, SK OIPC Review Reports F-2006-002 at [51], H-2008-002 at [73], ON IPC Order MO-1896 at p. 8.

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