The Information and Privacy Commissioner, Michael Harvey, has released his Report A-2023-019 under authority of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, 2015. A summary of the Report is included below.
To view the Report in its entirety, please go to www.oipc.nl.ca/reports/commissioner.
| Report: | A-2023-019 |
| Report Date: | April 14, 2023 |
| Public Body: | Office of the Premier |
| Summary: | The Complainant made a request for all records from the Office of the Premier related to former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Sir Tony Blair for the year prior to December 5, 2022. In response to this request, the Office of the Premier provided ten pages of records, consisting of several emails between Office of the Premier staff and employees of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change between August and November of 2022. The Complainant questioned why there would be so few records of interactions between the Office of the Premier and Sir Tony Blair and his staff, given the latter had made a high-profile visit to the province on November 30, 2022 and met with the Premier and members of his cabinet. The Commissioner concluded that there was insufficient evidence that the Office of the Premier had carried out a reasonable search for responsive records and recommended that it conduct a new search. |
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