Investigation Report: FIPPA Refused Access – Manitoba Justice

2015-03-17

Summary

Manitoba Justice; refused access to records related to Gladue reports or a Gladue court on the basis that work involved would be cost prohibitive, could not be performed without substantial impairment to normal operations, and if records were located, much information would be severed; provisions 9, 17(1), 17(2)(e), 23(1)(a) and (c); ombudsman found that the public body did not fulfill its duty to assist by making every reasonable effort to search for responsive records. The public body released some records with severing.

Case 2013-0245