Can a Commissioner of Justice defend his decision to refuse to grant a unionized union a vote to strike?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Calgary Police Service v. Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner), 2010 ABQB 82 (CanLII):
There are sound policy reasons to permit the Commissioner to defend the reasonableness of his decision: CAIMAW Local 14 v. Paccar of Canada Ltd., 1989 CanLII 49 (SCC), [1989] 2 S.C.R. 983, at para. 39.
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