What is the correct approach to statutory interpretation?
New Brunswick, Canada
The following excerpt is from Fredericton Police Association v. New Brunswick (Superintendent of Pensions), 2019 NBFCST 12 (CanLII):
15. It is trite law that the correct approach to statutory interpretation is the modern method of interpretation according to which “the words of an Act are to be read in their entire context and in their grammatical and ordinary sense harmoniously with the scheme of the Act, the object of the act, and the intention of Parliament″. [E. A. Driedger, Construction of Statutes (2nd ed. 1983), at p. 87 as cited in Wilson v. British Columbia (Superintendent of Motor Vehicles), 2015 SCC 47 at para. 18]
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