Does the Human Rights Tribunal have jurisdiction to declare unconstitutional its own enabling statute?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Krznaric v. Chevrette, 1997 CanLII 12426 (ON SC):
A human rights tribunal lacks jurisdiction to declare unconstitutional its own enabling statute Cooper v. Canada (Human Rights Commission), 1996 CanLII 152 (SCC), [1996] 3 S.C.R. 854, 140 D.L.R. (4th) 193.
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