It’s actually one of the broad exemptions for public releases of data in Canada. If it is embarassing or economically damaging to the government or any institution. Ontario’s provincial transit agency refused to release records on some of their struggling projects and their reason was basically that it may cause their contractors to lose money lol.
It really makes public releases borderline useless because if it has the potential to give any oversight iver government or a private entity the government contracts out to, the agency can just stop the release
honestly the existence of that exemption should be more embarassing than any disclosure, but I get the distinction between “embarrassing the power structure” and “embarrassing to constituents”.
obviously, embarrassing power is the REAL crime lmao.
“Your honor, I object!”
“On what grounds?”
“Because it is devastating to my case.”
It’s actually one of the broad exemptions for public releases of data in Canada. If it is embarassing or economically damaging to the government or any institution. Ontario’s provincial transit agency refused to release records on some of their struggling projects and their reason was basically that it may cause their contractors to lose money lol.
It really makes public releases borderline useless because if it has the potential to give any oversight iver government or a private entity the government contracts out to, the agency can just stop the release
honestly the existence of that exemption should be more embarassing than any disclosure, but I get the distinction between “embarrassing the power structure” and “embarrassing to constituents”.
obviously, embarrassing power is the REAL crime lmao.