Marginal note:Public Sector Pension Investment Board

20.1 The head of the Public Sector Pension Investment Board shall refuse to disclose a record requested under this Act that contains advice or information relating to investment that the Board has obtained in confidence from a third party if the Board has consistently treated the advice or information as confidential.

Marginal note:Internal audits

• 22.1 (1) The head of a government institution may refuse to disclose any record requested under this Act that contains a draft report of an internal audit of a government institution or any related audit working paper if the record came into existence less than fifteen years before the request was made.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) However, the head of a government institution shall not refuse under subsection (1) to disclose a draft report of an internal audit of a government institution if a final report of the audit has been published or if a final report of the audit is not delivered to the institution within two years after the day on which the audit was first commenced.

Marginal note:Written complaint

31. A complaint under this Act shall be made to the Information Commissioner in writing unless the Commissioner authorizes otherwise. If the complaint relates to a request by a person for access to a record, it shall be made within sixty days after the day on which the person receives a notice of a refusal under section 7, is given access to all or part of the record or, in any other case, becomes aware that grounds for the complaint exist.

• c) un tiers, s’il est possible de le joindre sans difficultés, dans le cas où le Commissaire à l’information a l’intention de recommander, aux termes du paragraphe 37(1), la communication de tout ou partie d’un document qui contient ou est, selon lui, susceptible de contenir des secrets industriels du tiers, des renseignements visés à l’alinéa 20(1)b) qui ont été fournis par le tiers ou des renseignements dont la communication risquerait, selon lui, d’entraîner pour le tiers les conséquences visées aux alinéas 20(1)c) ou d).

• Marginal note:Evidence in other proceedings

  (3) Except in a prosecution of a person for an offence under section 131 of the Criminal Code (perjury) in respect of a statement made under this Act, in a prosecution for an offence under section 67, in a review before the Court under this Act or in an appeal from such proceedings, evidence given by a person in proceedings under this Act and evidence of the existence of the proceedings is inadmissible against that person in a court or in any other proceedings.

• Marginal note:Disclosure of offence authorized

  (2) The Court may disclose to the appropriate authority information relating to the commission of an offence against a law of Canada or a province by a director, an officer or an employee of a government institution if, in the Court’s opinion, there is evidence of such an offence.

• Marginal note:Assistance technique

  (2) Le Commissaire à l’information peut retenir temporairement les services d’experts ou de spécialistes dont la compétence lui est utile dans l’exercice des fonctions que lui confèrent la présente loi ou une autre loi fédérale; il peut fixer et payer, avec l’approbation du Conseil du Trésor, leur rémunération et leurs frais.

• Marginal note:Investigations relating to international affairs and defence

  (2) The Information Commissioner or an Assistant Information Commissioner may not delegate the investigation of a complaint resulting from a refusal by the head of a government institution to disclose all or part of a record under paragraph 13(1)(a) or (b) or section 15 except to one of eight officers or employees — or one of any greater number of officers or employees fixed by the designated Minister — specifically designated by the Commissioner for the purpose of conducting those investigations.

• Marginal note:Disclosure of offence authorized

  (2) The Information Commissioner may disclose to the Attorney General of Canada information relating to the commission of an offence against a law of Canada or a province by a director, an officer or an employee of a government institution if, in the Commissioner’s opinion, there is evidence of such an offence.

EXCLUSIONS

Marginal note:Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

68.1 This Act does not apply to any information that is under the control of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that relates to its journalistic, creative or programming activities, other than information that relates to its general administration.

Marginal note:Atomic Energy of Canada Limited

68.2 This Act does not apply to any information that is under the control of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited other than information that relates to

• (a) its general administration; or

• (b) its operation of any nuclear facility within the meaning of section 2 of the Nuclear Safety and Control Act that is subject to regulation by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission established under section 8 of that Act.

GENERAL

Marginal note:Report of expenses

72.1 The head of a department or a ministry of state of the Government of Canada shall publish an annual report of all expenses incurred by his or her office and paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

• Atlantic Pilotage Authority

  Administration de pilotage de l’Atlantique

• Bank of Canada

  Banque du Canada

• Blue Water Bridge Authority

  Administration du pont Blue Water

• Business Development Bank of Canada

  Banque de développement du Canada

• Canada Council for the Arts

  Conseil des Arts du Canada

• Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation

  Société d’assurance-dépôts du Canada

• Canada Development Investment Corporation

  Corporation de développement des investissements du Canada

• Canada Lands Company Limited

  Société immobilière du Canada limitée

• Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

  Société canadienne d’hypothèques et de logement

• Canadian Air Transport Security Authority

  Administration canadienne de la sûreté du transport aérien

• Canadian Commercial Corporation

  Corporation commerciale canadienne

• Canadian Dairy Commission

  Commission canadienne du lait

• Canadian Museum of Civilization

  Musée canadien des civilisations

• Canadian Museum of Nature

  Musée canadien de la nature

• Canadian Race Relations Foundation

  Fondation canadienne des relations raciales

• Canadian Tourism Commission

  Commission canadienne du tourisme

• Cape Breton Development Corporation

  Société de développement du Cap-Breton

• Cape Breton Growth Fund Corporation

  Corporation Fonds d’investissement du Cap-Breton

• Defence Construction (1951) Limited

  Construction de défense (1951) Limitée

• Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation

  Société d’expansion du Cap-Breton

• Farm Credit Canada

  Financement agricole Canada

• The Federal Bridge Corporation Limited

  La Société des ponts fédéraux Limitée

• Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation

  Office de commercialisation du poisson d’eau douce

• Great Lakes Pilotage Authority

  Administration de pilotage des Grands Lacs

• International Development Research Centre

  Centre de recherches pour le développement international

• The Jacques-Cartier and Champlain Bridges Inc.

  Les Ponts Jacques-Cartier et Champlain Inc.

• Laurentian Pilotage Authority

  Administration de pilotage des Laurentides

• Marine Atlantic Inc.

  Marine Atlantique S.C.C.

• National Capital Commission

  Commission de la capitale nationale

• National Gallery of Canada

  Musée des beaux-arts du Canada

• National Museum of Science and Technology

  Musée national des sciences et de la technologie

• Old Port of Montreal Corporation Inc.

  Société du Vieux-Port de Montréal Inc.

• Pacific Pilotage Authority

  Administration de pilotage du Pacifique

• Parc Downsview Park Inc.

  Parc Downsview Park Inc.

• Queens Quay West Land Corporation

  Queens Quay West Land Corporation

• Ridley Terminals Inc.

  Ridley Terminals Inc.

• Royal Canadian Mint

  Monnaie royale canadienne

• The Seaway International Bridge Corporation, Ltd.

  La Corporation du Pont international de la voie maritime, Ltée

• Standards Council of Canada

  Conseil canadien des normes

• Telefilm Canada

  Téléfilm Canada