What is the threshold for a reconsideration of a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from R. v Sanghera, 2019 BCSC 2124 (CanLII):

The reconsideration threshold was confirmed in Carter v. Canada (Attorney General), 2015 SCC 5, a case that involved a reconsideration of the earlier decision in Rodriguez v. British Columbia, 1993 CanLII 75 (SCC), [1993] 3 S.C.R. 519, regarding the constitutionality of s. 241(b) of the Criminal Code, the assisted dying provision:

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