In Report A-2007-017, this Office has previously addressed the notion of whether inspection reports generated as a result of government inspections can be considered “supplied” by a third party to a public body. That Report referred to the decision in Canada Packers v. Canada (Minister of Agriculture) 1988 CanLII 1421 (FCA), involving similar records:
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