Privacy commissioner has delivered land-sale report advice to government

P.E.I.'s privacy commissioner has delivered her recommendations to the provincial government regarding whether it can release a report on an investigation into a controversial land sale from 2019.

The investigation was conducted by the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission. It involved a transfer of 2,200 acres of land in Summerside and North Bedeque to a company now called Red Fox Acres.

Just after he received the results of the investigation, Minister of Agriculture and Land Bloyce Thompson said the report concluded that a company and two individuals had contravened the Lands Protection Act by having too much land.

But so far, the King government has refused to make the report public.

In October, Thompson said he'd first need clearance from the privacy commissioner in order to release it.

CommissionerDenise N. Doiron'srecommendations were delivered to government on Jan. 5.

For now, even the privacy commissioner's recommendations are being kept under wraps until March.

Her office says that lag is designed to allow the government time to consider her advice.

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