Strengthening the Access to Information Act
Annex 2 – Table of exemptions
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- Information received in confidence from other governments
(s.13)
- Information obtained or prepared by RCMP re: provincial or
municipal policing services (s.16(3))
- Personal information (s.19)*
- Trade secrets of Third Party (s.20(1)(a))
- Financial, commercial, scientific or technical information
received in confidence from the Third Party (s.20(1)(b))*
- Information protected under other, listed statutes (s.24)
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- Loss or gain to Third Party or prejudice to competitive position
(s.20(1)(c))*
- Interference with contractual or other negotiations of Third
Party (s.20(1)(d))*
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- Information obtained or prepared by listed investigative
bodies (s.16(1)(a))
- Information on techniques or plans for investigations (s.16(1)(b))
- Trade secrets or valuable financial, commercial, scientific
or technical information of Canada (s.18(a))
- Advice or recommendations to government (s.21(1)(a))
- Account of consultations or deliberations (s.21(1)(b))
- Government negotiation plans (s.21(1)(c))
- Government personnel or organizational plans (s.21(1)(d))
- Solicitor-client priviliged information (s.23)
- Information to be published in 90 days (s.26)
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- Injury to conduct of federal-provincial affairs (s.14)
- Injury to conduct of international affairs, or to defence
of Canada or allied states (s.15)
- Injury to law enforcement or conduct of lawful investigations
(s.16(1)(c))
- Harm in facilitating commission of criminal offence (s.16(2))
- Threat to individual's safety (s.17)
- Prejudice to competitive position of government (s.18(b))
- Harm in depriving government researcher of priority of publication
(s.18(c))
- Injury to financial or economic interests of Canada (s.18(d))
- Prejudice to use of audits or tests (s.22)
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* Denotes mandatory exemptions which include
a public interest override, i.e., the information be disclosed where
the public interest in disclosure outweighs the interest protected
by the exemption.
(Access to Information: Making it Work for Canadians; Report of the
Access to Information Review Task Force; June 2002.)
