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Appeal allowed and the Terrebonne federal election annulled.
The appellant challenged a Superior Court of Quebec decision concerning the federal election in the electoral district of Terrebonne.
The Supreme Court of Canada heard the appeal and delivered an oral judgment the same day.
A majority allowed the appeal and annulled the federal election held on April 28, 2025, in Terrebonne.
Reasons were reserved, including on costs.
Tribunal consolidates zoning by-law appeals and approves site-specific settlement at case management conference.
The Ontario Land Tribunal conducted a Case Management Conference regarding numerous appeals of the City of Vaughan's Comprehensive Zoning By-law No. 001-2021 and Transitional By-law No. 039-2022.
The Tribunal granted party status to several entities, consolidated the proceedings for both by-laws, and set deadlines for filing comments.
Additionally, the Tribunal approved a settlement regarding the property at 4603 and 4611 Highway 7, amending the zoning by-law to correct site-specific development standards based on uncontested planning evidence.
Motion for production granted in part to disclose publicly accessible property values, protecting settlement privilege.
The moving parties brought a motion for the production of rents and current values from a settlement between MPAC and the GTAA regarding other airport properties.
MPAC opposed the motion, arguing the information was protected by settlement privilege, irrelevant, and requested too late.
The Board granted the motion in part, ordering the production of the returned values prior to settlement and the final values placed on the public roll, finding this information relevant and not privileged, while protecting the confidential settlement process itself.
Injunction to extend political party leadership voting period denied due to balance of convenience.
The applicant sought an interlocutory injunction to extend the voting period in the respondent political party's leadership contest, alleging that he and others had not received the necessary verification numbers to vote electronically.
The court dismissed the application on two grounds.
First, the applicant failed to exhaust the internal dispute resolution mechanisms provided in the party's election rules before seeking court intervention.
Second, applying the tripartite test for an interlocutory injunction, the court found that the balance of convenience heavily favoured the respondents, as extending the voting period at the eleventh hour would prejudice the tens of thousands of members who had already voted and disrupt the scheduled leadership convention.
Absent a clear statutory mandate, an appeal of a Compliance Audit Committee decision is a review of the record, not a hearing de novo.
This is a preliminary motion ruling on appeals of Compliance Audit Committee decisions to order compliance audits of election campaign finances.
The appellants sought to have the appeals conducted as hearings de novo, while the respondents and the Committee argued the appeals should be limited to a review of the record.
The court determined that absent a clear statutory mandate to the contrary, appeals must take the form of a review of the record rather than de novo hearings.
The court rejected arguments that deficiencies in the record, the Committee's failure to provide reasons, or the prematurity of the audit application warranted a de novo hearing format.
