What is the test for reasonableness in the review process?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Balakrishnan v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2015 FC 552 (CanLII):
AND UPON noting that in my decisions in Bahta v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2014 FC 1245, and Hossain v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2015 FC 312, I concluded that although the RAD indicated that it was using reasonableness as the standard of review, it actually conducted the required independent assessment;
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