Verhagen v. Canada (Attorney General)

canada, canadian, case law, court opinion, canlii, fca, 2026fca155, 2026 fca 155 (canlii), 2026, fca, 155, (canlii), a-303-25, 2026, labour and employment, grievances, referral to adjudication, whether the first decision conclusively determined the grievance was not properly before the board, collective agreement grievance procedure and requirement to present the grievance at each level, parties may skip levels only on mutual consent, board treated failure to judicially review or seek reconsideration as determinative, application dismissed, procedure, time limits, extension of time, federal public sector labour relations regulations, para. 61(b), whether the board reasonably refused an extension of time in the interest of fairness, clear, cogent and compelling reasons for delay required, deadlines brief and precise and bargained for under the collective agreement, extension refused and application dismissed, procedure, time limits, computation of time, whether the 10, business, day period to transmit the grievance began only after the judicial review deadline expired, board rejected the proposed start date for running of the time limit, delay of 23 business days analysed against the 10, business, day timeframe, no cogent explanation accepted, application dismissed, administrative law, judicial review, reasonableness standard, canada (minister of citizenship and immigration) v. vavilov, whether the applicant identified sufficiently central shortcomings to render the discretionary decision unreasonable, board’s reasoning rational and logical and responsive to the parties’ arguments, no fundamental misapprehension or failure to account for evidence shown, application dismissed without costs