Can a Minister of Natural Resources, the Government’s Agent, be found to have acted in bad faith?
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The following excerpt is from Canada Bay Lumber Company Limited v. Business Investment Corporation, 2010 NLCA 10 (CanLII):
To reiterate, the applications judge was correct in finding that the evidence introduced by the appellants did not show bad faith, i.e., an abusive, arbitrary or dishonest exercise of power (Roncarelli v. Duplessis, 1959 CanLII 50 (SCC), [1959] S.C.R. 121) on the part of BIC, and although not necessary to say so, given that the Government was not a party to the action, that finding could reasonably and justifiably be extended to Minister of Natural Resources, the Government’s Agent. APPOINTMENT OF THE RECEIVER
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