Can administrative decision-makers be bypassed on decisions such as this?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Canada v British Columbia (Attorney General), 2021 BCSC 1829 (CanLII):
If administrative decision-makers could be bypassed on issues such as this, those appreciations, insights and understandings would never be placed before the reviewing court. In constitutional matters, this is most serious. Constitutional issues should only be decided on the basis of a full, rich factual record: Mackay v. Manitoba, 1989 CanLII 26 (SCC), [1989] 2 S.C.R. 357 at pages 361‑363. Within an important regulatory sector such as this, a record is neither full nor rich if the insights of the regulator are missing.
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