Investigation Report: FIPPA Refused Access – Manitoba Hydro
investigations & monitoring
fippa
Summary
Manitoba Hydro; refusal of access to records showing a breakdown of the reimbursement of community costs of the Cree Nation Partners, on the basis that disclosure would be harmful to a third party’s business interests and that disclosure could harm relations between the public body and the council of a band as defined by the Indian Act; provisions 18(1)(b) and 21(1)(c.1); ombudsman found that the exceptions applied to the withheld information.
Case 2012-0316