Access to Information Review Task Force - Research - THE NATURE AND STRUCTURE OF EXEMPTING PROVISIONS AND THE USE OF THE CONCEPT OF A PUBLIC INTEREST OVERRIDE

ANNEX D

CHART 3

COMPARISON WITH PROVINCES - CLASS EXEMPTIONS

Canada	Exemption	Alberta	British Columbia	Manitoba	Ontario	Québec
13 (1)	Other government	20 (1) (b) - class	16 (1) (b) - class	20 - class	15(b) - class	18 - class 28 (7) - class
16 (1) (a) & (b)	Policing	19 - injury	15 - injury	25 - injury	14(1) - injury 14(2) - class	28 - injury, except (7) - class
16 (3)	Provincial policing	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
18 (a)	Government trade secrets	24 - injury	17 - injury	28 - injury	18 - injury and class	22 - class
19 (1)	Personal information	16 - undue invasion of privacy 18 - confidential evaluation - class	22 - undue invasion of privacy	17 - undue invasion of privacy 30 - confidential evaluation - class	21 - unjustified invasion of personal privacy	N/A - not treated as an exemption
20 (1) (a)	Third party trade secrets	15 - injury	21(1) - injury	18(a) - class	17(1)(a) - (c) - injury	23 - class
20 (1) (b)	Third party confidential	15 - injury (except tax information)	21(2) tax information - class	18(b) - class	17(1)(a) - (c) - injury mediation - 17(1)(d) - class tax - 17(2) - class	N/A
21	Advice etc.	23 - class	13 - class	23 - class	13 - class	37 - class 38 - class 39 - class
23	Solicitor-client	26 - class	14 - class	27 - class	19 - class	31 - class
24	Statute based	N/A	N/A	N/A	67(2) - class	170 - class
69⁽¹⁾	Cabinet Confidences	21 - class 22 - (local) - class	12(1) - class 12(3) - (local) - class	19 - class 22 - (local) - class	12 - class	30 & 33 - (includes local) - class 35 - (Boards) - class 36 - (draft bills) - class
18 (d) injury	Studies prepared for the purposes of taxation, tariffing or the imposition of duties					27 - class
N/A	Member of the National Assembly Document					34 - class
22 - injury	Aptitude Test					40 - class

6. The Federal Act does not apply to Cabinet confidences. The provinces treat Cabinet confidences as an exemption