October 24, 2013
Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner – Report A-2013-016 Released
The Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ed Ring, has released his Report A-2013-016 under authority of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act. A summary of the Report is included below.
To view the Report in its entirety, please go to
www.oipc.nl.ca/accessreports.htm 
Report: A-2013-016
Report Date: October 21, 2013
Public Body: College of the North Atlantic
Summary: The Applicant requested, from the College of the North Atlantic, bi-weekly billings for contract payroll to Qatar for November 2008, December 2008, and January 2009. The College declined to provide the records, citing 23(1)(a) and (b) (disclosure harmful to intergovernmental relations) section 24(1) (a), (b) and (g) (disclosure harmful to the financial or economic interests of a public body) and section 30(1) (disclosure harmful to personal privacy) of the ATIPPA. With respect to sections 23 and 24, the Commissioner found that the College, by not providing any formal submission in support of its position, had not met the burden of proof under section 64(1) and as such, these sections could not be used to withhold the documents. The Commissioner found that section 30 did apply to some information in the record, but recommended that the record be provided to the Applicant with this information severed accordingly.
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Media contact:
Ed Ring
Information and Privacy Commissioner
709-729-6309
2013 10 24 9:45 a.m.