Subtopics
- Absurdities
- Benefits-Conferring Legislation
- Business Judgment
- Certainty
- Comparison of Provisions
- Consistency
- Consolidations
- Context
- Deference to Parliament/ No judicial legislation
- Double Taxation/Deduction (Presumption Against)
- Drafting Style
- Ease of Administration
- Ejusdem Generis
- Equal Treatment
- Exclusionary provisions
- Expressio Unius est Exclusio Alterius
- French and English Version
- Hansard, explanatory notes, etc.
- Headings
- Indentation
- Inserting Words
- Interpretation Act
- Interpretation Bulletins, etc.
- Interpretation/Definition Provisions
- Legislative History
- Marginal Notes
- Noscitur a Sociis
- Ordinary Meaning
- Other/Conflicting Statutes
- Perpetual Obligations
- Principle of Legality
- Prior Cases
- Prior Provisions/Implied Repeal
- Provincial Law
- Punctuation
- Purpose
- Realization Principle
- Reciprocity
- Redundancy/reading in words
- Regulations/Statutory Delegation
- Resolving Ambiguity
- Retroactivity/Retrospectivity
- Revenue Rule
- Scheme
- Similar Statutes/ in pari materia
- Speaking in vain
- Specific v. General Provisions
- Symmetry
- Technical Notes
- Territorial Limits
- Third Party Rights
- Title
- Treaties
- Vested Rights