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Knowles, B. ADMIN. (REGINA), LL.B.(ALBERTA) de Villars Jones Edmonton, Alberta CARSWELL EDITORIAL STAFF/REDACTION´ DE CARSWELL Cheryl L. McPherson, B.A.(HONS.) Director, Primary Content Operations Erin Gwynne, M.SC., J.D. Acting Product Development Manager Nicole Ross, B.A., LL.B. Julia Fischer, B.A.(HONS), LL.B. Supervisor, Legal Writing Supervisor, Legal Writing Martin-Fran¸cois Parent, LL.B., LL.M, Molly Grindley, B.SC. (HONS.), LL.B., DEA (PARIS II) LL.M. Bilingual Legal Writer Lead Legal Writer Michael Johnson, B.A.(HONS.), LL.B. Lead Legal Writer Angelique Prada, B.A. Content Editor ADMINISTRATIVE LAW REPORTS Fifth Series/Cinqui`eme s´erie Recueil de jurisprudence en droit administratif [Indexed as: Bergeron v. Canada (Attorney General)] Mich`ele Bergeron, Appellant and Attorney General of Canada, Respondent Federal Court of Appeal Docket: A-141-13 2015 FCA 160, 2015 CAF 160 Johanne Trudel, David Stratas, Wyman W. Webb JJ.A. Heard: June 4, 2014 Judgment: July 7, 2015* Human rights –––– Practice and procedure — Judicial review — Standard of review –––– Applicant B made two human rights complaints under Canadian Human Rights Act — In view of human rights commission, complaints had al- ready been addressed and remedied in two grievances B brought — Commission dismissed complaints — B brought application to set aside commission’s deci- sion — Federal court examined evidentiary record and investigator’s report and concluded that outcome reached by commission was acceptable and defensi- ble — B’s application for judicial review was dismissed — B appealed dismis- sal — B alleged that commission’s decision must be set aside because it was unreasonable and was product of procedural unfairness — Appeal dismissed — In assessing reasonableness, reviewing courts are not limited to asking whether reasons are acceptable and defensible but are also to assess whether outcome reached is acceptable and defensible — There were no grounds for setting aside commission’s decision on basis of reasonableness — Law concerning standard of review for procedural fairness currently unsettled — Decision based on defi- cient investigation can be characterized as one that is not substantively accept- able or defensible because it is based on incomplete information, thereby trig- gering standard of review for substantive defects — There is currently “a * Leave to appeal denied at Bergeron v. Canada (Attorney General) (2016), 2016 CarswellNat 1073, 2016 CarswellNat 1074 (S.C.C.). 2 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW REPORTS 99 Admin. L.R. (5th) jurisprudential muddle” — However, there were no submissions received on is- sue in present case — In present case, even on standard of correctness, there was no ground to interfere with commissioner’s decision on basis of procedural fair- ness — Process was fair — Investigator was neutral and sufficiently thorough for purposes of issue before her, namely whether grievance was adequate recourse.