Our investigations are confidential, but the Commissioner may issue a public report if the matter is formally investigated and of public interest.

Formal investigations are relatively infrequent, and most complaints are resolved using our informal complaint resolution process. While we do not issue reports on complaints resolved informally, examples of this work can be read in Your Stories and in our annual reports. The following reports resulted from formal investigations.

Sectional Index - search our reports and find how our office has interpreted specific sections of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the Health Information Privacy and Management Act. 

Date Name Public body/Health custodian Type
Materials related to a land disposition
ATP11-029AR
The Applicant made a request under the Access to Information Protection of Privacy Act to the Department for access to all communications resulting from a letter written to the Minister of Energy Mines and Resources about a specific land disposition. The Department provided some of the records in their entirety but severed information in others citing the solicitor client privilege exception under section 18 (a) of the Act for the severing.
 Department of Energy, Mines and Resources inquiry (ATIPPA 2012)
Request for materials related to segregation reviews at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre
ATP12-037AR
Having decided that a response of "no record found" is not a decision under the Act to refuse to give access, then the conclusion in this case must be that there has not been a refusal by the Public Body to grant access to records. This begs the question of what an applicant can do if he or she feels the Public Body has not been diligent in its search or is not credible in saying a record cannot be found.
 Department of Justice investigation report
Time extension request
ATP13-001AR
IPC exercises discretionary power to extend response deadline.
 Department of Justice inquiry (ATIPPA 2012)
Annual Report / Rapport annuel
 annual report/rapport annuel
Request for authorization to disregard access requests
ATP12-031.pdf
The department requested authorization to disregard an applicant's pending and future requests, as well as the authorization to disregard similar access requests from any inmate in the future.
 Department of Justice inquiry (ATIPPA 2012)
When is a public body required to refuse access to severed information in requested materials?
ATP10-033AR
While one of the purposes of the ATIPP Act is to shed light on the operations of government, section 24(1) serves to limit disclosure of confidential business information of third parties that could be exploited by a competitor in the market place.
 Public Service Commission inquiry (ATIPPA 2012)
Materials related to a land dispute with Yukon Government
10-021AR, 10-022AR, 10-025AR, 10-026AR
The applicant has been involved in a long-standing dispute with the Yukon Government about land on which the Government says the applicant is “squatting” (a colloquial term used to denote the unauthorized occupation of land). The applicant made two separate requests for records related to a legal opinion and legal advice on the issue to both the Department of Justice and the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources.
 Department of Justice, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources inquiry (ATIPPA 2012)
Request for a copy of the "Wind Assessment Feasibility Study" conducted on Mount Sumanik
ATP10-019AR
The Study is entitled “Wind Assessment Feasibility Study” and the contents reveal it is a study of the feasibility of wind power. The Study clearly indicates that it has been done and written in relation to a project of the Yukon Energy Corporation. The record is a feasibility study relating to a project of the Public Body and, as such, the Public Body must not refuse to disclose it, except for redactions recommended by the IPC.
 Yukon Energy Corporation inquiry (ATIPPA 2012)
Request to disclose "performance pay" of Deputy Ministers of the Yukon Government (2002-2009)
ATP09-003AR
Are Yukon Government Deputy Ministers entitled to personal privacy even though they are public servants, and the activities of the Government of Yukon are subject to public scrutiny?
 Public Service Commission inquiry (ATIPPA 2012)
Annual Report / Rapport annuel
 annual report/rapport annuel