Ballantyne v. Ballantyne

Decided: 2026-10-15. Docket: T-2403-24. Citation: 2026 FC 1268 (CanLII). Administrative law — Judicial review — Reasonableness — Vavilov framework — Whether the Appeal Tribunal’s decision was reasonable and intelligible — Reasons-first review for justification, transparency and intelligibility, Mason v Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) cited — Failure to explain how irregularities reasonably affected outcome — Application for judicial review allowed, matter remitted | Indigenous peoples — First Nation elections — Election Code — Material effect on results — Whether procedural irregularities were tied to votes likely affecting the result — Burden to show variances likely affected result, Whitford v Red Pheasant First Nation and Opitz v Wrzesnewskyj cited — “Magic number” test argued, Tri