What is the standard of review applied to exercise discretion not to release information that falls within the exemptions of the Health and Social Care Act?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Leahy v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2012 FCA 227 (CanLII):
We also agree that the reasonableness standard of review applies to exercises of discretion not to release information that falls within these exemptions. Such decisions, heavily fact-based with a policy component, normally warrant deference: Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick, 2008 SCC 9, [2008] 1 S.C.R. 190.
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