What is the test for reasonableness of a decision by a police officer in a criminal case?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Wazid v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2006 FC 1415 (CanLII):
This is important for it means that the reviewing Court cannot weigh the evidence and substitute its own assessment for that of the officer. Reasonableness is not about whether the officer came to the right result. Rather: “[if] any reasons that are sufficient to support the conclusion are tenable in the sense that they can stand up to a somewhat probing examination, then the decision will not be unreasonable and a reviewing Court must not interfere”. (Law Society of New Brunswick v. Ryan, 2003 SCC 20, [2003] 1 S.C.R. 247, at para. 55)
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