What is the test for a "rational connection" between legislation and its objective?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice), 1998 CanLII 6872 (BC CA):
As to the test for a "rational connection" the learned trial judge referred, at para.194, to R.J.R.-MacDonald Inc. v. Canada (A.G.), 1995 CanLII 64 (SCC), [1995] 3 S.C.R. 199 and at para.206 to Lavigne v. OPSEU, 1991 CanLII 68 (SCC), [1991] 2 S.C.R. 211. Applying the law stated in those cases he concluded that the impugned legislation did have a rational connection to its objective. In this, and without endorsing his supporting reasons, I cannot say that he erred.
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