Source: https://www.scc-csc.ca/case-dossier/info/dock-regi-eng.aspx?cas=37896
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 22:21:41+00:00

Document:
2018-11-26 Notice of appearance, (Letter Form), Appellants (37896, 37897)-Bell Canada, et al. National Football League, et al.: Steven G. Mason, Brandon Kain, Joanna Nairn, Richard Lizius and James S.S. Holtom will be present. Mr. Mason and Mr. Kain will present oral arguments. 6 reserved seats requested.
Interveners (37896 and 37897)-Ontario Securities Commission, et al.: Matthew Britton, Jennifer Lynch, Paloma Ellard, Don Young and David Hainey will be present at the hearing. Mr. Britton will present oral arguments. 6 reserved seats requested.
Appellant/Respondent (37748, 37896, 37897)-Attorney General of Canada: Michael H. Morris, Marianne Zoric, John Provart and Ian Demers will be present. Mr. Morris and Ms. Zoric will present oral arguments. 8 reserved seats requested.
Intervener (37748, 37896, 37897)-Canadian Bar Association: Jonathan M. Coady, Justin L. Milne, Guy Régimbald will be present.
Intervener (37896, 37897)-Telus Communications Inc.: Christopher C. Rootham and Michael Ryan will be present.
Interveners (37896) Wholesale Code Applicants (Blue Ant Media, et al): Christian Leblanc and Michael Shortt will be present.
Intervener (37748)- Canadian Council for Refugees: Jamie Liew, Jean Lash and Gerald Heckman will be present. 2 reserved seats requested.
Intervener (37748)-Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers: Professor Audrey Macklin and Anthony Navaneelan will be present. Ms. Macklin will present oral arguments.
Intervener (37748, 37896, 37897)- First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada: Sarah Clarke, Nicholas McHaffie and David Taylor will be present.
Intervener (37748, 37896, 37897)- British Columbia International Commercial Arbitration Centre Foundation: Gavin Cameron and Tom Posyniak will be present at the hearing. 1 reserved seat requested.
Intervener (37748, 37896, 37897)-Attorney General of Quebec: Stéphane Rochette will be present and will present oral arguments.
Intervener (37748, 37896, 37897)-Attorney General of Saskatchewan: Kyle McCreary and Johnna Van Parys will be present. Kyle McCreary will present oral arguments.
Intervener (37748, 37896, 37897)-Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic: Alyssa Tomkins and James Plotkin will be present. Mr. Plotkin will present oral arguments.
Intervener (37748)-Association québécoise des avocats et avocates en droit de l'immigration: Peter Shams, Guillaume Cliche-Rivard, Claudia Andrea Molina and David Berger will be present. Ms. Guillaume Cliche-Rivard will present oral arguments. 1 reserved seat requested.
Intervener (37748, 37896, 37897)-Canadian Labour Congress: Steven Barrett will be present and will present oral arguments.
Respondent (37748)-Alexander Vavilov: Hadayt Nazami will be present and will present oral arguments. 4 reserved seats requested.
Intervener (37748, 37896, 37897)-Advocates for the Rule of Law: Adam Goldenberg and Asher Honickman will be present. Mr. Goldenberg will present oral arguments. 2 reserved seats requested.
Intervener (37748, 37896, 37897)- National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities: William W. Shores, Q.C. and Kirk Lambrecht, Q.C. will be present.
Intervener (37748, 37896, 37897)-Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario: Karen Andrews will be present.
Intervener (37896, 37897)-Association of Canadian Advertisers and the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists: J. Thomas Curry and Sam Johansen will be present.
Intervener (37748, 37896, 37897)-Queen's Prison Law Clinic: Brendan Van Niejenhuis and Andrea Gonsalves will be present. Mr. Van Niejenhuis will present oral arguments. 1 reserved seat requested.
Intervener (37748, 37896, 37897)-Cambridge Comparative Administrative Law Forum: Paul Warchuk and Francis Lévesque will be present. Mr. Warchuk will present oral arguments.
Intervener (37748, 37896, 37897)-Ecojustice Canada Society: Laura Bowman and Bronwyn Roe will be present. Ms. Bowman will present oral arguments.
Interveners (37748, 37896, 37897)- National Academy of Arbitrators, et al.: Linda R. Rothstein, Michael Fenrick, Angela E. Rae, Anne Marie Heenan and Susan L. Stewart will be present.
Amici Curiae (37748, 37896, 37897): Audrey Boctor and Daniel Jutras will be present and will both present oral arguments. 2 reserved seats requested.
Interveners (37748, 37896, 37897)- Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (Ontario), et al.: David Corbett and Michelle Alton will be present. Mr. Corbett will present oral arguments.
Intervener (37748, 37896, 37897)-Attorney General of Ontario: Sarah Blake and Judie Im will be present. Ms. Blake will present oral arguments. 1 reserved seat requested.
Intervener (37748, 37896, 37897)- Attorney General of British Columbia: Micah B. Rankin and Kathleen Hamilton will be present. Mr. Rankin will present oral arguments. 1 reserved seat requested.
Intervener (37748)- Parkdale Community Legal Services: Toni Schweitzer and Ronald Poulton will be present. 6 reserved seats requested.
Intervener (37748, 37896, 37897)- Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals: Terrence J. O’Sullivan, Paul Michell and James Renihan will be present. Mr. O’Sullivan will present oral arguments.
The Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers; the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals; the Cambridge Comparative Administrative Law Forum; the Canadian Labour Congress and the Queen’s Prison Law Clinic are each granted permission to present oral argument not exceeding ten (10) minutes at the hearing of the appeals.
The Attorney General of Ontario; the Attorney General of Quebec; the Attorney General of British Columbia; the Attorney General for Saskatchewan; the Ontario Securities Commission, the British Columbia Securities Commission and the Alberta Securities Commission (jointly); the Ecojustice Canada Society; the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (Ontario), the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Tribunal (Northwest Territories and Nunavut), the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Tribunal (Nova Scotia), the Appeals Commission for Alberta Workers’ Compensation and the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Tribunal (New Brunswick) (jointly); Advocates for the Rule of Law; the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic and the Association québécoise des avocats et avocates en droit de l’immigration are each granted permission to present oral argument not exceeding five (5) minutes at the hearing of the appeals.
The Court will consider the written submissions of the Canadian Council for Refugees; the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario; the British Columbia International Commercial Arbitration Centre Foundation; the National Academy of Arbitrators, the Ontario Labour-Management Arbitrators’ Association and the Conférence des arbitres du Québec (jointly); the National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities; the Parkdale Community Legal Services; the Canadian Bar Association; the Community & Legal Aid Services Programme; the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada; Telus Communications Inc.; Blue Ant Media Inc., Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, DHX Media Ltd., Groupe V Média inc., Independent Broadcast Group, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, Allarco Entertainment Inc., BBC Kids, Channel Zero, Ethnic Channels Group Ltd., Hollywood Suite, OUTtv Network Inc., Stingray Digital Group Inc., TV5 Québec Canada, Zoomermedia Ltd. and Pelmorex Weather Networks (Television) Inc. (jointly); and the Association of Canadian Advertisers and the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists as set out in their factums.
2018-11-15 Order on motion to extend time, by KARAKATSANIS J.
The motion to extend the filing deadlines and to present oral argument at the hearing of the appeals is granted in part. The said intervener shall be permitted to file its factum and book of authorities on October 31, 2018. The decision with respect to the request to present oral argument is deferred to a date following receipt and consideration of the written arguments of the parties and the interveners.
2018-10-29 Intervener's book of authorities, (Book Form), (2 volumes), Amended covers required, Electronic copy missing-both rec'd 2018/11/01; Joint with 37897, Completed on: 2018-11-01 Telus Communications Inc.
2018-10-29 Intervener's factum, (Book Form), Joint with 37897, Completed on: 2018-10-29 Telus Communications Inc.
2018-10-29 Intervener's book of authorities, (Book Form), Completed on: 2018-10-29 Blue Ant Media Inc., Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, DHX Media Ltd., Groupe V Média inc.
2018-10-29 Intervener's factum, (Book Form), Completed on: 2018-10-29 Blue Ant Media Inc., Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, DHX Media Ltd., Groupe V Média inc.
2018-10-01 Correspondence (sent by the Court) to, the parties. Request for submissions on Publication Ban.
The motions for leave to intervene are granted and each of the said 27 interveners or groups of interveners shall each be entitled to serve and file a factum not to exceed 10 pages in length in these appeals on or before October 29, 2018.
The decision with respect to the requests to present oral argument is deferred to a date following receipt and consideration of the written arguments of the parties and the interveners.
The interveners or groups of interveners are not entitled to raise new issues or to adduce further evidence or otherwise to supplement the record of the parties.
Pursuant to Rule 59(1)(a) of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Canada, the interveners or groups of interveners shall pay to the appellants and respondents any additional disbursements resulting from their interventions.
AND IT IS HEREBY FURTHER ORDERED THAT the appellant in the appeal Minister of Citizenship and Immigration v. Alexander Vavilov (37748), and the appellants and respondent in the appeals Bell Canada, et al. v. Attorney General of Canada (37896) and National Football League, et al. v. Attorney General of Canada (37897), are each permitted to serve and file a single joint factum, not to exceed 10 pages in length, in reply to the interveners, on or before November 19, 2018. Furthermore, they are each permitted to serve and file a single joint reply factum, not to exceed 10 pages in length, in response to the factum of the amici curiae, on or before November 19, 2018.
2018-09-17 Reply to the motion for leave to intervene, (Letter Form), original copy filed on Sept. 18, 2018., Completed on: 2018-09-17 Blue Ant Media Inc., Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, DHX Media Ltd., Groupe V Média inc.
2018-09-13 Reply to the motion for leave to intervene, (Letter Form), Completed on: 2018-09-13 Telus Communications Inc.
2018-09-11 Response to the motion for leave to intervene, (Letter Form), request to make a joint response to the submisisons of the amici and the interveners.
2018-09-04 Notice of name, (Letter Form) Blue Ant Media Inc., Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, DHX Media Ltd., Groupe V Média inc.
2018-09-04 Motion for leave to intervene, (Book Form), filing fees to come - rec'd on Sept.6/2018., Completed on: 2018-09-06, (Printed version filed on 2018-09-04) Blue Ant Media Inc., Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, DHX Media Ltd., Groupe V Média inc.
2018-08-27 Certificate (on limitations to public access), (Letter Form) Telus Communications Inc.
2018-08-27 Notice of name, (Letter Form) Telus Communications Inc.
2018-08-27 Intervener's book of authorities, (Book Form), on motion for leave to intervene, Completed on: 2018-08-27 Telus Communications Inc.
2018-08-27 Motion for leave to intervene, (Book Form), includes book of authorities., Completed on: 2018-08-27 Telus Communications Inc.
2018-08-13 Correspondence (sent by the Court) to, Amicus - letter further to the Order of the Chief Justice, dated August 7, 2018, appointing amici curiae.
Ms. Audrey Boctor and Mr. Daniel Jutras are appointed as amici curiae to assist the Court by serving and filing a single factum common to all three appeals not exceeding forty (40) pages and a book of authorities, if any, on or before November 6, 2018, and by making oral submissions at the hearing of the appeal.
The reasonable fees and disbursements of Ms. Audrey Boctor and Mr. Daniel Jutras shall be paid, on consent, by the Attorney General of Canada.
2018-05-10 Decision on motion for directions, See judgment on application for leave to appeal.
2018-05-10 Judgment of the Court on the application for leave to appeal, The application for leave to appeal from the judgment of the Federal Court of Appeal, Number A-472-16, 2017 FCA 249, dated December 18, 2017, is granted with costs in the cause. The hearing of the appeal will not be expedited.
The appeal will be heard with National Football League, et al. v. Attorney General of Canada (37897), and with Minister of Citizenship and Immigration v. Alexander Vavilov (37748).
The Court is of the view that these appeals provide an opportunity to consider the nature and scope of judicial review of administrative action, as addressed in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick,  1 S.C.R. 190, 2008 SCC 9, and subsequent cases. To that end, the appellants and respondent are invited to devote a substantial part of their written and oral submissions on the appeal to the question of standard of review, and shall be allowed to file and serve a factum on appeal of at most 45 pages.
d)	that the Registrar set a timetable for serving and filing appeal materials, if leave to appeal is granted to accommodate the expedited hearing date.
3)	The motion for directions setting a timetable for serving and filing appeal materials (if leave to appeal is granted) is referred to the panel to whom the application for leave to appeal is submitted.

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