MAYOR’S FOI – Information and Privacy Commissioner cancels inquiry

An inquiry into an allegation that Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson failed to properly respond to a Freedom of Information application has been terminated.

The mayor said today (March 20, 2026) he has received confirmation from the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner that the inquiry has been cancelled in view of iNFOnews.ca’s withdrawal of its application and complaint, and the file has been closed.

Coun. Margot Middleton, acting as spokesman for the rest of council, submitted a motion at last week’s City council meeting demanding that Hamer-Jackson provide the requested records to the applicant within 24 hours or face new sanctions.

InFONews.ca acknowledged after the council meeting that it was the applicant and was withdrawing its complaint.

Hamer-Jackson has maintained he attempted to e-mail the records to Middleton on several occasions. Middleton acknowledge in the days following approval of her motion that she had received some texted messages from him in response to her motion and turned them over to the City’s lawyers but that they weren’t the correct records.

Councillors had been scheduled to discuss the aftermath of Middleton’s motion next week.