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Administrative law 2025 FC 300

Friends of the Earth Canada v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court found PMRA’s glyphosate renewal decision unreasonable because the record did not show meaningful engagement with 61 new scientific studies.

  • Pesticide regulation
  • Glyphosate
  • Reasonableness review
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Transparency and reasons
  • Remedies (remittal and delayed quashing)
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Administrative law 2023 FC 1471

Safe Food Matters Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court upheld the PMRA’s chlorpyrifos phase-out decision as reasonable, deferred to the agency’s statutory interpretation, and dismissed the judicial review applications.

  • Judicial review
  • Reasonableness standard
  • Pesticide regulation
  • Phase-out of registrations
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Functus officio
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Administrative law 2023 FC 1438

Friends of the Earth Canada v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court granted a Rule 317 motion for a further certified tribunal record in a judicial review over PMRA’s renewal of Mad Dog Plus.

  • Judicial review
  • Certified tribunal record
  • Procedural disclosure
  • Pesticide regulation
  • Glyphosate
  • Judicial-review
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Administrative law 2022 FCA 19

Safe Food Matters Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General)

The PMRA Decision was unreasonable because it failed to interpret and apply the statutory provisions it was bound to consider (including the meaning of "scientifically founded doubt" and whether expert advice would assist), provided no discernible statutory interpretation or adequate reasons under s.35(5), and therefore must be quashed and remitted for redetermination consistent with guidance provided by the Court.

  • Standard of review
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Notice of objection process
  • Pesticide regulation
  • Judicial deference
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Administrative law 2020 FC 242

McDonald v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court dismissed a judicial review of PMRA’s refusal to appoint a review panel on glyphosate, finding no scientifically founded doubt in the applicants’ notice of objection.

  • Judicial review
  • Standard of review - reasonableness
  • Pesticide regulation
  • Notice of objection
  • Review panel establishment
  • Scientific evidence review
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Administrative law 2019 FC 1637

David Suzuki Foundation v. Canada (Health)

The Federal Court dismissed a judicial review challenging a 24-month transition period in a PMRA re-evaluation decision on thiamethoxam products, finding the interpretation and decision reasonable.

  • Pesticide regulation
  • Judicial review
  • Standard of review
  • Delegated authority
  • Transition periods
  • Precautionary principle
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Administrative law 2019 FC 411

David Suzuki Foundation v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court dismissed this judicial review as moot after the impugned conditional-registration regime was repealed and PMRA consultations and proposed decisions had overtaken the dispute.

  • Mootness
  • Conditional registration
  • Public consultation
  • Pesticide regulation
  • Pmra procedure
  • Transitional provisions
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Administrative law 2018 FC 379

David Suzuki Foundation v. Canada (Health)

The Federal Court dismissed a motion to admit new evidence on appeal in a judicial review proceeding concerning PMRA pesticide registrations and alternative remedies.

  • Admission of new evidence on appeal
  • Adequacy of alternative remedy
  • Pesticide regulation
  • Course of conduct
  • Motions to strike
  • Pest control products act
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Administrative law 2018 FC 380

David Suzuki Foundation v. Canada (Health)

The Federal Court dismissed an appeal from a motion decision refusing to strike judicial review applications about PMRA pesticide registrations and s.12 notices.

  • Judicial review
  • Course of conduct
  • Limitation periods (s.18.1(2))
  • Federal courts rule 302
  • Adequacy of alternative remedy
  • Pesticide regulation
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Administrative law 2016 ONCA 283

Grain Farmers of Ontario v. Ontario

Grain Farmers of Ontario v. Ontario (Environment and Climate Change)

The application was properly struck because the Regulation is not ambiguous, GFO did not identify a genuine justiciable dispute about rights dependent on interpretation, and the relief sought would effectively rewrite or delay a valid regulation — a remedy beyond the court's declaratory power.

  • Declaratory relief
  • Justiciability
  • Interpretation of regulation
  • Stay
  • Pesticide regulation
  • Neonicotinoids
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