What is the test for determining whether a decision under review was reasonable?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Issa v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), 2014 FC 980 (CanLII):
In deciding whether the decision under review was reasonable, it is sufficient if the reasons offered by the Minister’s Delegate are transparent, intelligible and justified, and that the result reached “falls within a range of possible, acceptable outcomes which are defensible in respect of the facts and law”: Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick, 2008 SCC 9 at para. 47, [2008] 1 S.C.R. 190.
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