What is the test for establishing a rational connection between legislation and the law?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Federation of Law Societies of Canada v. Canada (Attorney General), 2013 BCCA 147 (CanLII):
A rational connection will exist where there is “a link or nexus based on and in accordance with reason, between the measures enacted and the legislative objective”: Reference re ss. 193 and 195.1(1)(c) of the Criminal Code (Man.), 1990 CanLII 105 (SCC), [1990] 1 S.C.R. 1123 at 1195. As found by Mr. Justice Iacobucci in Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice), [2000] 2 S.C.R. 1120 at 1238, 2000 SCC 69, the rational connection test is “not particularly onerous”.
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