What is the exemption from the Minister of Transport’s requirements for the publication of confidential information to a government institution?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from St Joseph Corp. v. Canada (Public Works and Government Services), 2002 FCT 274 (CanLII):
In applying this exemption, the information in issue must meet the following criteria: 1) financial, commercial, scientific or technical information as those terms are commonly understood; 2) confidential in its nature, according to an objective standard which takes into account the content of the information, its purposes and the conditions under which it was prepared and communicated; 3) supplied to a government institution by a third party; and 4) treated consistently in a confidential manner by the third party. Air Atonabee Limited v. Canada (Minister of Transport), supra, at 207.
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