2017-2018 Annual Report

Table Of Contents

• Message from the Commissioner
• Retrospective on the Tenure of Former Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault
• About the Office of the Information Commissioner
  • Organizational Structure
• Investigation Highlights
  • Subsection 10(2) – Refusal to Confirm or Deny Existence of Records
  • Section 18.1 – Economic Interests of Certain Government Institutions
  • Section 20 – Third Party Information
  • Exceptions to the Exemption for Third Party Information
  • Collaborating with Institutions
  • Access to Scientists
• Court Proceedings
  • Transferring Requests and the Duty to Assist
  • Indian Residential School Settlement Agreements Records
  • Late Application of Exemptions Must be Justified
  • Test for the Information Commissioner to be an Added Party
  • Personal Identifying Information on Social Media can be considered Publicly Available
  • Facts and Decisions do not Qualify for the Advice and Recommendations Exemption
• Advising Parliament
  • Bill C-58, An Act to amend the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
  • Main and Supplementary Estimates
  • Bill C-71, an Act to amend certain Acts and Regulations in relation to firearms
• Protecting and Promoting Access
  • Right to Know Conference
  • Collaborating with International, Federal, Provincial and Territorial Commissioners
• Annexes
  • Detailed Summary: Access to Scientists
  • Facts and Figures
  • Report of the Information Commissioner, Ad Hoc, 2017–2018