Talk:Condominium Conversion (Re: Personal Use Application)

Overview

• Relevant Pages:
  • Statutory Interpretation - Re: Principles of

Dictionary

• Define "a"
  • indefinite article:
    • 1: used as a function word before singular nouns when the referent is unspecified
    • 2: the same
    • 3: used as a function word before a singular noun followed by a restrictive modifier
      • a: —used as a function word before a singular noun followed by a restrictive modifier
      • b: ANY
      • c: —used as a function word before a mass noun to denote a particular type or instance
      • d: used as a function word before a proper noun representing an example or type
      • e: used as a function word before a proper noun to indicate limited knowledge about the referent
      • f: —used as a function word before a proper noun to distinguish the condition of the referent from a usual, former, or hypothetical condition
      • g: used before the name of a day of the week to refer to one occurrence of it
      • h: used before the name of a person (such as a famous artist) when the name is being used to refer to something (such as a painting) created by that person
      • i: used before a family name to show that someone is a member of that family
    • 4: —used as a function word with nouns to form adverbial phrases of quantity, amount, or degree

• Define "indefinite article"
  • the word a or an used in English to refer to a person or thing that is not identified or specified
  • also : a word that has a similar use in another language

Other Caselaw

Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65 (CanLII)

[115] Matters of statutory interpretation are not treated uniquely and, as with other questions of law, may be evaluated on a reasonableness standard. Although the general approach to reasonableness review described above applies in such cases, we recognize that it is necessary to provide additional guidance to reviewing courts on this point. This is because reviewing courts are accustomed to resolving questions of statutory interpretation in a context in which the issue is before them at first instance or on appeal, and where they are expected to perform their own independent analysis and come to their own conclusions.

[116] Reasonableness review functions differently. Where reasonableness is the applicable standard on a question of statutory interpretation, the reviewing court does not undertake a de novo analysis of the question or “ask itself what the correct decision would have been”: Ryan, at para. 50. Instead, just as it does when applying the reasonableness standard in reviewing questions of fact, discretion or policy, the court must examine the administrative decision as a whole, including the reasons provided by the decision maker and the outcome that was reached.

[117] A court interpreting a statutory provision does so by applying the “modern principle” of statutory interpretation, that is, that the words of a statute must be read “in their entire context and in their grammatical and ordinary sense harmoniously with the scheme of the Act, the object of the Act, and the intention of Parliament”: Rizzo & Rizzo Shoes Ltd. (Re), 1998 CanLII 837 (SCC), [1998] 1 S.C.R. 27, at para. 21, and Bell ExpressVu Limited Partnership v. Rex, 2002 SCC 42, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 559, at para. 26, both quoting E. Driedger, Construction of Statutes (2nd ed. 1983), at p. 87. Parliament and the provincial legislatures have also provided guidance by way of statutory rules that explicitly govern the interpretation of statutes and regulations: see, e.g., Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21.