What is the patent unreasonableness standard for a patently unreasonable interpretation?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from London Hydro and Power Workers' Union, Cupe Local 1000, Re, 2006 CanLII 23146 (ON SCDC):
A patently unreasonable interpretation is “clearly irrational” or one that “borders on the absurd”. As Cory J. noted in Toronto (City) Board of Education v. O.S.S.T.F. 1997 CanLII 378 (SCC), [1997] 1 S.C.R. 487 at para. 35-37, the standard of patent unreasonableness is “very properly an extremely high standard, and there must be no retreat from this position.”
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