CHAPTER 4

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INTERPRETING THE ACT AND THE REGULATIONS

4.2 Rules of Interpretation in the Case Law

Rules of interpretation are associated with a variety of approaches or methods. The most important approaches or methods currently in use are as follows: the ordinary meaning rule or literal construction, systematic and logic, and purposive. An application of any of these methods must start from following principle, articulated by Driedger, and cited several times with approval by the Supreme Court: "Today there is only one principle or approach, namely, the words of an Act are to be read in their entire context and in their grammatical and ordinary sense harmoniously with the scheme of the Act, the object of the Act, and the intention of Parliament."^{580 Citation 580}

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