"Commissioner Marc Giroux's office said revealing the number of appointees from the "recommended" list could be damaging to the legal process. ... "This prevents our office from distinguishing between the number of appointees that were highly recommended vs. recommended," Ms. Masse said in her e-mail."

Damage to the legal process indeed. No respect can be had for a legal or political system that thinks the truth is damaging. 
Clearly all the 2nd tier candidates were to fill appointments with females and the "special" categories. That's what they don't want us to see. 
How arrogant of them.