Health Canada (Re), 2021 OIC 2
The complainant alleged that Health Canada did not conduct a reasonable search for records concerning producers and users of medical cannabis. Responsive records were drawn from one database, but Health Canada argued retrieving additional records from a second database would be unreasonable due to the manual labour involved. The Information Commissioner agreed that the search was reasonable given the effort required.
- Reasonableness of search
Complaint not well founded
The Commissioner found that while additional records may exist in a second database, the amount of manual labour required to retrieve them made the search reasonable.
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