What is the standard of review for questions of law and reasonableness?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Hamaisa v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2009 FC 997 (CanLII):
The standard of review for questions of law is correctness while other issues are reviewed on a reasonableness standard (Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick, 2008 SCC 9, [2008] 1 S.C.R. 190). At paragraph 47 of Dunsmuir, above, reasonableness has been articulated as: [...] concerned mostly with the existence of justification, transparency and intelligibility within the decision-making process. But it is also concerned with whether the decision falls within a range of possible, acceptable outcomes which are defensible in respect of the facts and law.
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