Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guide to LA FOIP, Chapter 4, Exemptions from the Right of Access. Updated 24 July 2025. 272 The following three-part test can be applied: 1. Is the information personal information that is evaluative or opinion material? To qualify as personal information, the information must be about an identifiable individual and must be personal in nature. Some examples are provided in subsection 23(1) of LA FOIP. See Section 23 in the Guide to LA FOIP, Chapter 6: “Protection of Privacy” for more explanation on what constitutes personal information. Evaluative means to have assessed, appraised, to have found or to have stated the number of.917 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.918 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.919 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.920 917 AB IPC Order 98-021 at p.4. 918 AB IPC Order 98-021 at p.4. 919 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. 920 AB IPC, Order 98-021 at p.5.
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