Should the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission allow Canadian media…showing football’s Super Bowl to actually delete the wonderful American commercials that we all look forward to and substitute for them bland Canadian advertisements? Horror and disbelief are how the world of football greeted this rule.” The CRTC reacted by stopping the practice and the legitimacy of it doing so that was an issue.ĭean Mark Walters, Law’89, explained the relevance of the distinction between statutory appeals and judicial review.

“It involved the Canadian Registrar of Citizenship’s revocation of citizenship of a Canadian-born son whose parents, at the time of his birth, were spies from Russia operating in Canada.”īell Canada, he continued, was “a matter of great controversy among football lovers across the nation for as many as 40 years. “Vavilov featured the world of international espionage,” he said. He began by introducing the cases that have attracted much media attention. On March 9, a panel of Queen’s Law experts dissected the trilogy in an event called “Vavilov at First Sight.”īefore 120 students and faculty in a Queen’s Law classroom and hundreds more via Facebook Live, Professor Emeritus David Mullan, LLM’73, provided a magisterial overview that contextualized the trilogy in the long arc of Canadian administrative law. What do Bell Canada, the National Football League and Canadian-born children of Russian spies have in common? They form a trilogy of administrative law appeals, Bell-NFL-Vavilov, in which the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) formulated a new framework that will apply whenever the substance of an administrative decision is challenged in court.

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