Add 10 leading SCC and FC decisions
Browse filesEight Supreme Court decisions plus two Federal Court decisions on the
IRPA s. 40 misrepresentation doctrine:
- Canadian Council for Refugees, 2023 SCC 17 (Safe Third Country Agreement)
- Hydro-Quebec, 2008 SCC 43 (duty to accommodate, undue hardship)
- Stewart v Elk Valley Coal, 2017 SCC 30 (addiction, safety-sensitive workplaces)
- Central Okanagan v Renaud, [1992] 2 SCR 970 (tripartite duty to accommodate)
- Irving Pulp & Paper, 2013 SCC 34 (random alcohol testing)
- MPAO v Canada, 2015 SCC 1 (collective bargaining rights for security forces)
- SFL v Saskatchewan, 2015 SCC 4 (constitutional right to strike)
- US v Ferras; US v Latty, 2006 SCC 33 (extradition / Charter s. 7)
- Wang v Canada, 2005 FC 1059 (innocent-misrepresentation defence)
- Bellido v Canada, 2005 FC 452 (materiality of a misrepresentation)
Heavily weighted to labour law and security-services bargaining, the
direct context for the FB collective agreement and BSO disputes. +611
case-law chunks (4425 -> 5036); corpus 16218 chunks. 5 new gold eval
questions added covering Elk Valley, Irving, MPAO, SFL, CCRf -- all
rank 1.
139-question eval: Hit@1 0.75 / Hit@3 0.88 / Hit@5 0.94 / Hit@10 0.97
/ MRR 0.83 (vs pre-add 134-Q baseline 0.75 / 0.89 / 0.93 / 0.96 / 0.83
-- Hit@5 and Hit@10 up, no regression).
caselaw.json crossed 10 MiB and is now tracked via git-lfs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- .gitattributes +1 -0
- canlex/caselaw.py +42 -0
- data/eval/questions.json +5 -0
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"arrest that contravenes the s. 495(2) limits can ground a breach "
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"of the Charter s. 9 right against arbitrary arrest, despite "
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"s. 495(3)"},
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# --- Federal Court of Appeal ---
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{"court": "fca", "id": 143136, "short": "Huruglica",
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{"court": "fc", "id": 57473, "short": "Almrei",
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"topic": "Reasonableness of an IRPA security certificate after "
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"Charkaoui; the test on re-determination"},
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# --- Federal courts: PCMLTFA cross-border currency forfeiture ---
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{"court": "fca", "id": 36092, "short": "Sellathurai",
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"arrest that contravenes the s. 495(2) limits can ground a breach "
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"of the Charter s. 9 right against arbitrary arrest, despite "
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"s. 495(3)"},
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{"court": "scc", "id": 19957, "short": "CCRf",
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"topic": "Constitutionality of the Safe Third Country Agreement; Charter "
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"ss. 7 and 15 review of designating the United States as a safe "
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"country for refugee claimants"},
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{"court": "scc", "id": 2507, "short": "Hydro-Quebec",
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"topic": "Duty to accommodate and undue hardship; the employer must "
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"arrange the workplace and duties to allow the employee to work, "
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"but is not required to fundamentally alter the conditions of work"},
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{"court": "scc", "id": 16679, "short": "Elk Valley",
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"topic": "Duty to accommodate addiction in safety-sensitive workplaces; "
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"the prima facie discrimination test and dismissal for breach of "
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"a no-free-accident drug and alcohol policy"},
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{"court": "scc", "id": 910, "short": "Renaud",
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"topic": "Tripartite duty to accommodate in unionized workplaces; the "
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"shared obligations of the employer, the union and the employee "
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"to the point of undue hardship"},
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{"court": "scc", "id": 13106, "short": "Irving",
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"topic": "Random alcohol testing in safety-sensitive workplaces; balancing "
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"the employer's safety interests against employee privacy under a "
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"collective agreement"},
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{"court": "scc", "id": 14577, "short": "MPAO",
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"topic": "Charter s. 2(d) freedom of association and collective bargaining; "
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"the exclusion of RCMP members from a meaningful labour relations "
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"regime is unconstitutional"},
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{"court": "scc", "id": 14610, "short": "SFL",
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"topic": "Constitutional right to strike under Charter s. 2(d); essential "
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"services legislation that prohibits strike action without a "
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"meaningful alternative dispute-resolution mechanism"},
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{"court": "scc", "id": 2306, "short": "Ferras",
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"topic": "Extradition under the record-of-the-case procedure; Charter s. 7 "
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"requires the extradition judge to weigh the sufficiency and "
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"reliability of the evidence before committal"},
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# --- Federal Court of Appeal ---
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{"court": "fca", "id": 143136, "short": "Huruglica",
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{"court": "fc", "id": 57473, "short": "Almrei",
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"topic": "Reasonableness of an IRPA security certificate after "
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"Charkaoui; the test on re-determination"},
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{"court": "fc", "id": 48199, "short": "Wang",
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"topic": "Innocent-misrepresentation exception to IRPA s. 40(1)(a); the "
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"section reaches indirect misrepresentations made by another "
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"party, subject to a narrow carve-out where the applicant had no "
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"knowledge of and no control over the misrepresentation"},
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{"court": "fc", "id": 47039, "short": "Bellido",
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"topic": "Materiality of a misrepresentation under IRPA s. 40(1)(a); a "
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"misrepresentation need not be intentional, deliberate or "
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"negligent so long as it could have induced an error in the "
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"administration of the Act"},
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# --- Federal courts: PCMLTFA cross-border currency forfeiture ---
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{"court": "fca", "id": 36092, "short": "Sellathurai",
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{"query": "Can a permanent resident be found inadmissible for acts of violence that endanger safety in Canada even without a conviction?", "answers": [["Mason", ""]]},
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{"query": "How much deference does the Immigration Appeal Division receive when it declines to grant discretionary relief from removal?", "answers": [["Khosa", ""]]},
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{"query": "Is lengthy immigration detention consistent with the Charter protection against arbitrary detention?", "answers": [["Brown", ""]]},
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{"query": "What meal and incidental allowances can a federal employee claim while travelling on government business?", "answers": [["Travel Directive", ""]]},
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{"query": "What is a federal employee entitled to when the employer requires them to wear a uniform?", "answers": [["Uniforms Directive", ""]]},
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{"query": "What protections does an indeterminate employee have when their position is declared surplus?", "answers": [["Work Force Adjustment Directive", ""]]},
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{"query": "Can a permanent resident be found inadmissible for acts of violence that endanger safety in Canada even without a conviction?", "answers": [["Mason", ""]]},
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{"query": "How much deference does the Immigration Appeal Division receive when it declines to grant discretionary relief from removal?", "answers": [["Khosa", ""]]},
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{"query": "Is lengthy immigration detention consistent with the Charter protection against arbitrary detention?", "answers": [["Brown", ""]]},
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{"query": "Is the designation of the United States as a safe third country for refugee claimants constitutional?", "answers": [["CCRf", ""]]},
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{"query": "Can an employee with an addiction be dismissed for breach of a drug and alcohol policy in a safety-sensitive workplace?", "answers": [["Elk Valley", ""]]},
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{"query": "When is random alcohol testing permitted in a unionized safety-sensitive workplace?", "answers": [["Irving", ""]]},
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{"query": "Do RCMP members have a Charter right to collective bargaining?", "answers": [["MPAO", ""]]},
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{"query": "Is the right to strike protected by the Charter?", "answers": [["SFL", ""]]},
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{"query": "What meal and incidental allowances can a federal employee claim while travelling on government business?", "answers": [["Travel Directive", ""]]},
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{"query": "What is a federal employee entitled to when the employer requires them to wear a uniform?", "answers": [["Uniforms Directive", ""]]},
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{"query": "What protections does an indeterminate employee have when their position is declared surplus?", "answers": [["Work Force Adjustment Directive", ""]]},
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