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Administrative Law — Canadian Doctrine

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Canadian administrative law doctrine — the Vavilov framework for judicial review, standards of review (correctness and reasonableness at common law; patent unreasonableness preserved by BC's ATA s.58), duty of procedural fairness (the Baker factors), legitimate expectations, bias and the reasonable apprehension of bias test (Committee for Justice and Liberty; Wewaykum), jurisdictional error (as reconstituted post-Vavilov), delegated legislation, sub-delegation, fettering of discretion, improper purposes, taking irrelevant considerations into account, and the doctrine of legitimate deference to administrative decision-makers. Focused on Canadian and BC practice where the RTB, Human Rights Tribunal, and other statutory decision- makers operate. ALWAYS trigger when: user asks about judicial review, procedural fairness, standards of review, tribunal decisions, Vavilov, Baker, patent unreasonableness, or the doctrine underlying their BC judicial review petition. Sits underneath bc-judicial-review-guide as the substantive doctrine layer.

Basic calculation

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Use when valuing the remainder after a partial taking — quantifying frontage loss by road class ($/linear foot), circuitous-access capitalization, landlocked-parcel easement cost-to-cure, shape-efficiency-driven development yield loss, or farm operation disruption (fencing, equipment crossings, irrigation severance). Before/after method with cost-to-cure vs. value-loss reconciliation.

BC Judicial Review Guide (RTB / tribunal → BCSC)

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Use when BC RTB/tribunal JR, Form 66, stay, or ATA s.57/s.58 work is needed. Patent unreasonableness path for RTB.

BC Legislation Administrator and Legal Statutory Analyst

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BC Legislation Administrator and Legal Statutory Analyst. Locate, verify, download, print, organize, and analyze British Columbia statutes, regulations, and rules ONLY from the official BC Laws portal (bclaws.gov.bc.ca). Never print legislation from CanLII or other third-party sites. Currency verification, historical vs current versions, court-ready extracts, BOA tabs, statutory analysis. Triggers: BC Laws, print statute, legislative extract, Book of Authorities legislation, verify RTA section, official legislation, JRPA, currency of the Act, point-in-time legislation.

BC Tenancy Advocacy — Advanced Modules

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BC tenancy advocacy advanced modules: judicial review escalation, human rights overlaps (BCHRT), strata/condo rentals, MHPTA manufactured home parks, client-centered trauma-informed advocacy, Law Society ethics, and advanced (Level 99) practice moves. Use with bc-tenancy-substantive, bc-tenancy-procedure, bc-judicial-review-guide, and supreme-court-civil-counsel. Legal information only — not legal advice. SRL-friendly.

BC Tenancy Procedure — RTB Runtime Environment

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BC RTB procedure runtime: evidence packaging, witness prep, applications, negotiation, hearing strategy, document drafting, enforcement/collections. Use for RTB filing, hearings, settlements, and post-order enforcement. Pair with bc-tenancy-substantive for RTA law and bc-tenancy-advocacy (advanced) for JR, human rights, strata, MHPTA. Legal information only — not legal advice.

BC Tenancy Substantive — Deep RTA Knowledge

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Deep BC Residential Tenancy Act knowledge: critical sections, bad-faith detection (renoviction, demoviction, caretaker loophole), eviction defence timelines, repairs, disputed fees/charges, rent increases, deposits. Tenant-side and landlord-side. Plain language for self-reps; technical depth for lawyers. Legal information only. Pair with bc-tenancy-procedure for RTB process and bc-tenancy-advanced for JR/HR/strata/MHPTA.

Canada PIPEDA Compliance

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Guides compliance with Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA, S.C. 2000, c. 5). Covers the 10 fair information principles in Schedule 1, consent requirements, cross-border transfer obligations, breach notification under Division 1.1, and OPC enforcement. Keywords: PIPEDA, Canada privacy, fair information principles, OPC, breach notification, cross-border transfer, consent.

Canadian Court Document Downloader v2

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Canadian court document retrieval, BOA builder, batch downloader, duplicate detector, and OCR extractor. ALWAYS trigger when user says: 'download this case', 'get me the PDF', 'pull the judgment', 'build my BOA from these cases', 'attach the cases', 'batch download', 'find duplicate cases', 'extract text from this PDF', or provides a list of citations and wants the actual documents. Also trigger for: 'check if I already have this case', 'organize my cases', 'export my authorities to CSV', 'missing authority report', or any request to retrieve, organize, or analyze Canadian court documents. Aliases: court-downloader, boa-downloader, case-retriever, batch-downloader.

Charter of human rights and freedoms (Quebec, C-12)

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The Charter of human rights and freedoms (Quebec, CQLR c. C-12) — Quebec's quasi-constitutional rights instrument, enacted 1975 and in force since 1976, enforced by the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse (CDPDJ) and the Human Rights Tribunal. A query-answering reference quoted from the official LégisQuébec text (à jour 1 April 2026, retrieved 2026-07). THE KEY STRUCTURAL FACTS: s. 55 + the 'No one may' drafting make it apply HORIZONTALLY to private actors (private employers, landlords, service providers) — unlike the Canadian Charter, which binds only government (s. 32); and s. 52 gives PRIMACY over other Quebec statutes to ss. 1–38 ONLY, so the Chapter IV economic and social rights (ss. 39–48) do NOT override legislation. Covers: fundamental freedoms (ss. 1–9.1) including the s. 2 duty to rescue, s. 6 property right, s. 7 inviolability of the home, s. 9 professional secrecy, and the s. 9.1 limitation clause with its Quebec-specific values (State laicity 2019, protection of French 2022, integration into the Québec nation 2025); the s. 10 equality right with its CLOSED list of 14 grounds verbatim (incl. the Quebec-only social condition, political convictions, language, civil status, pregnancy, and use of means to palliate a handicap) plus harassment (10.1), discriminatory notices (11), refusal of juridical acts re goods/services (12), void discriminatory clauses (13), public places (15), employment (16–19), and the ss. 20/20.1 exceptions; political rights; judicial rights (ss. 23–38) which reach CIVIL determinations not just criminal charges; economic and social rights incl. s. 48 protection of aged and handicapped persons against exploitation; and s. 49 remedies — cessation and compensatory damages for unlawful interference, PUNITIVE damages only for interference that is unlawful AND intentional. Also the CDPDJ (its investigation mandate limited to ss. 10–19, s. 48(1) and s. 82 reprisals — NOT ss. 1–9 or Ch.

Compensation Provisions Deep-Dive (s.13-18)

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Use when interpreting specific OEA (R.S.O. 1990, c. E.26) provisions — compensation under s.13-18, procedural requirements under s.5-12, hearing and appeal timelines under s.23-30, or applying leading case law (Antrim, Highway Properties, Gossen, Diggon-Hibben, Crombie) to a statutory question. Statutory interpretation, not negotiation tactics or valuation.

Construction Period Impacts (Temporary)

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Use when quantifying injurious-affection damages under OEA s.18(2)(a)/(b) — modeling construction-period noise (dBA), dust (PM2.5/PM10), or vibration (PPV mm/s); valuing permanent proximity impacts via paired sales or hedonic regression; documenting business losses with comparative sales analysis; or calculating cost-to-cure for traffic, signage, or parking impairment.

Constructive Dismissal Assessment Report

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Assess whether workplace conditions constitute constructive dismissal

Counsel Research & Draft Pipeline

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Use when researching and drafting BC legal documents.

Discrimination Assessment Report

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Assess potential discrimination patterns and document protected class treatment disparities

Distress for Rent (s.19-22)

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Use when advising landlords on enforcement strategy under Ontario Commercial Tenancies Act, executing distress for rent, weighing re-entry vs. acceleration vs. termination, calculating overholding double-rent liability, applying the election doctrine (Highway Properties) or mitigation duty (Southcott Estates), or defending against relief from forfeiture motions.

Evidence Law — Canadian and BC Practice

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Rules of evidence for Canadian and BC practice — relevance and materiality, admissibility distinct from weight, hearsay and its exceptions and the principled approach, privilege (solicitor-client, litigation, settlement, spousal, informer), best evidence rule, authentication, judicial notice, opinion evidence and the Mohan/White Burgess admissibility framework for experts, similar fact evidence, character evidence, prior consistent and inconsistent statements, documentary evidence, and the admissibility framework in administrative proceedings. ALWAYS trigger when: user is preparing an affidavit, drafting cross-examination questions, challenging opposing affidavit content, dealing with hearsay issues, working with expert reports, or asking about what evidence can or cannot be used. Pairs with supreme-court-litigation-counsel, bc-tenancy-procedure, and critical-reading/Module 4.

Form-Specific Checklists

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Use when pre-flighting Ontario expropriation Forms 1-12 under O.Reg. 363/90 before service or filing — verifying statutory authority citations on Form 2, compensation breakdown completeness on Form 6, 30-day notice math on Form 7, dual-signing-officer compliance, or affidavit-of-service adequacy. Catch defects before they trigger procedural challenges.

growth-cold-calling

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Plan a B2B cold-calling campaign under Canada's CRTC Unsolicited Telecommunications Rules — when a human may dial versus when a machine may (ADAD/auto-dialer express-consent rule with no existing-business-relationship exemption, the opposite of CASL email's conspicuous-publication implied consent), where the National DNCL does and does not apply (business-to-business calls are exempt from DNCL but still bound by the Telemarketing and ADAD Rules), permitted calling hours, mandatory identification and callback-number display, and why an AI voice agent looks cheap but is illegal without prior express consent at first-campaign volumes. Also covers call recording (Criminal Code one-party rule versus the OPC's notice-and-purpose requirement), reaching buyers email cannot (gatekeepers, role addresses, contact-form firms), the single qualifying question, logging call outcomes so the prospect list improves, and sharing one suppression list with the email channel. Pairs with growth-cold-email and growth-prospect-list. Use when planning phone outreach, deciding between human dialling and an AI voice agent, checking whether a call list is callable, or handling gatekeepers and callbacks.

Incident Report

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Build organized documentation of workplace incidents and issues

Jurisdictional Defects (Void Expropriation)

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Use when diagnosing whether a procedural error renders an expropriation void or voidable, evaluating ultra vires or bad-faith challenges, designing cure strategies (supplementary notice, court validation, fresh approval), or applying the s.23 one-year limitation period. Covers case law (Snider service, Fraser form defects, Crombie deadline enforcement) for procedural challenges.

Legal Terminology Core

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Foundational glossary of legal terminology organized by domain for Canadian and BC practice — procedural terms (pleadings, parties, service, motions), substantive private law terms (tort, contract, property, restitution), equitable terms (trust, fiduciary, unjust enrichment), evidentiary terms (relevance, weight, admissibility), criminal terms (mens rea, actus reus, intent categories), and Latin maxims still in active use. Definitions written in plain-English original wording, keyed to statutes and cases where possible. Not a reproduction of any commercial dictionary. Reader is expected to also consult Black's, Oxford's, Sullivan on Statutory Interpretation, or Halsbury's for authoritative treatment when accuracy matters. ALWAYS trigger when: user encounters a legal term they don't fully know, asks "what does X mean" for a legal concept, drafts a document and needs precise terminology, or reviews an opposing document containing unfamiliar terms. Pairs with every other legal skill in the stack.

Market Value Entitlement Framework

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Use when analyzing legal entitlement to expropriation compensation under the Ontario Expropriations Act — determining valuation date under s.13(2), applying the Antrim four-part test for injurious affection, distinguishing compensable disturbance from non-compensable goodwill under s.18(3), or assessing highest-and-best-use claims. Entitlement analysis (what is compensable), not valuation (how much).

Ontario Expropriations Act Deadlines

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Use when calculating Form 1/2/7 service windows, tracking the 3-month registration deadline under OEA s.9, managing approval-expiry risk, or escalating timeline-critical acquisitions through green/yellow/orange/red/critical protocols. Operational deadline tracking — not legal interpretation.