What is the test for having a good reason?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from Town of Russell v. Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of Manitoba, 2011 MBCA 56 (CanLII):
28 Reasons do not need to be perfect, nor need they be long. As stated by Stratas J.A. in Vancouver International Airport Authority v. P.S.A.C., 2010 FCA 158, 320 D.L.R. (4th) 733 (at para. 17): …. (b) The adequacy of reasons is not measured by the pound. The task is not to count the number of words or weigh the amount of ink spilled on the page. Instead, the task is to ask whether reasons, with an eye to their context and the evidentiary record, satisfy, in a minimal way, [their] fundamental purposes .... ….
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