Minotar Holdings Inc. v. Ontario (Municipal Affairs and Housing)

canada, canadian, case law, court opinion, canlii, onca, 2026onca606, 2026 onca 606 (canlii), 2026, onca, 606, (canlii), coa-25-cv-0425, 2026, constitution, superior courts, constitution act, 1867, s. 96, core jurisdiction, whether legislature may retrospectively extinguish a specific party’s pending causes of action and remedies, structural nature of s. 96, no personal rights against government, changes to substantive law not barred if core powers and subject, matter jurisdiction preserved, appeal dismissed, constitution, unwritten constitutional principles, rule of law, whether rule of law may be used to interpret s. 96 to invalidate impugned provisions, unwritten principles not an independent basis to invalidate legislation, no genuinely open question on settled meaning of s. 96, legislature may set the law within constitutional confines, appeal dismissed, constitution, inherent powers, control of process, greenbelt act, 2005, s. 19(3), whether barring proceedings usurps superior court authority to control its own process, distinction between statute dismissing proceedings and statute changing law to be applied, courts retain authority to interpret and apply the statute, appeal dismissed, constitution, judicial review, deeming provisions, greenbelt act, 2005, ss. 2(1)3, 14.1(a), (b), 19(4), whether legislative designation and deeming render judicial review illusory and block adjudication, crevier protects review of administrative action, not review of legislation, deeming as drafting technique for valid land use planning decisions, appeal dismissed