Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v Vavilov

Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v Vavilov
Supreme Court of Canada
Hearing: December 4–6, 2018 Judgment: December 19, 2019
Citations	2019 SCC 65
Docket No.	37748 [1]
Prior history	Judgment for Vavilov in the Federal Court of Appeal, 2017 FCA 132 Judgment for Canada in the Federal Court, 2015 FC 960
Court membership
Chief Justice	Richard Wagner
Puisne Justices	Rosalie Abella, Michael Moldaver, Andromache Karakatsanis, Clément Gascon, Suzanne Côté, Russell Brown, Malcolm Rowe, Sheilah Martin
Reasons given
Majority	Richard Wagner, Michael Moldaver, Clément Gascon, Suzanne Côté, Russell Brown, Malcolm Rowe, Sheilah Martin
Concurrence	Rosalie Abella, Andromache Karakatsanis

Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65, is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of Canada that clarified the determination and application of standard of review in Canadian administrative law. Vavilov established a presumption that reasonableness is the applicable standard of review of administrative decisions in all cases.^[2][3] The case concerned the review of the Canadian Registrar of Citizenship's decision to cancel Alexander Vavilov's citizenship certificate on the basis of his parents' identity as covert Russian agents, based on an interpretation of s. 3(2)(a) of the Citizenship Act. The Supreme Court of Canada affirmed the Federal Court of Appeal's decision to quash the Canadian Registrar of Citizenship's decision, on the basis that it was unreasonable.^[3]: 3