Keddy v. Canada ( President of Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency )
T-2296-91
MacKay J.
11/8/93
8 pp.
Application to review Information Commissioner's decision upholding respondent's decision not to release information requested by applicant on ground information exempt from disclosure as confidential financial, commercial, scientific or technical information supplied to government institution by third party and treated consistently in confidential manner -- Applicant seeking release of consultants' reports submitted to respondent Agency by third parties applying for funding for hotel projects -- Financial assistance application forms specifically providing "All information provided will be kept confidential" -- Respondent consistently treating information as confidential -- Express prohibition in each report against Agency disclosing reports without consultants' consent -- Reports submitted on understanding would be kept confidential -- Companies consistently treating report in confidential manner -- Application dismissed -- Information confidential within s. 20(1)(b) -- Information relating to planned, projected commercial operations of third parties -- Not available from any other source -- Communicated with reasonable expectation would not be disclosed -- Consistently treated by third parties as confidential -- Public interest in fostering confidential nature of relationship with third party -- Any portions not containing confidential commercial or financial information not severable as constituting such minimal portion of entire reports that release not reasonable -- Nor would release be reasonably related to purposes for which information requested -- Access to Information Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. A-1, ss. 20, 25, 41, 47, 53.