The applicant’s evidence and submissions cite what is commonly known as the “third party rule” or “control principle”. This principle is considered to apply when there is a sharing or exchange of information between police forces or intelligence agencies, particularly between those in different countries. By agreement between the agencies, express or implied, the agency receiving information is neither to attribute the source nor to disclose its content without the permission of the originating agency: Ottawa Citizen Group v. Canada (Attorney General), 2006 FC 1552 at para. 25, 306 F.T.R. 222.
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