The topic for the 2023 edition of the Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium was “The Legitimacy of the State”: The legitimacy of contemporary liberal democratic states is in a state of flux. Managing the effects of globalization, responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and fighting escalating inflation have prompted serious questions about public administration in the […] Read more
All of a sudden there is intense interest in Canada in the consequences of rights of appeal for the availability of judicial review. The basic issue, to be considered next month by the Supreme Court of Canada in Yatar (and at umpteen roundtables and seminars until that case is decided), is whether legislation creating a […] Read more
As we have done almost every year since 2013, Justice Stratas and I will be doing a joint online event next week for the Ontario Bar Association casting a look over the current state of affairs in Canadian administrative law: Our most popular Administrative Law Section event is back again this year to bring you […] Read more
To mark the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, I thought I might highlight Grammond J’s fascinating decision in Bastien v. Jackson, 2022 FC 591, which prompts questions about the relationship between the principles of administrative law and the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples. B and J were councillors of the Piikani Nation. B brought a […] Read more
After a hiatus of nearly four years, the Supreme Court of Canada yesterday applied the reasonableness standard for the first time since Vavilov and the companion case of Canada Post. The decision in Mason v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2023 SCC 21 (Jamal J for the majority; Côté J concurring) is significant as far as […] Read more
