Beatty v. Michel

Decided: 2026-10-15. Docket: T-2404-24. Citation: 2026 FC 1267 (CanLII). Administrative law — Judicial review — Reasonableness — Vavilov framework — Whether decision was intelligible, transparent, and justified — Reasons conclusory on how procedural irregularities reasonably affected election outcome — Deference to First Nation election appeal bodies considered — Application for judicial review granted — Matter remitted for redetermination | Indigenous peoples — First Nations elections — Custom election code — Advance polls — Whether voters turned away for lack of ID reasonably affected outcome — Evidence of limited individuals denied at advance polls and ability to vote at general poll — Tribunal’s chain of analysis not supported by record — By-election direction set aside — Matter remitt