Issues that involve a lower court’s exercise of its habeas corpus jurisdiction attract a correctness standard of review. It is well-established that if a provincial superior court improperly exercises or improperly declines to exercise jurisdiction this equates to an error of law and the correctness standard of review applies (May v. Ferndale Institution, 2005 SCC 82).
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