Does a tribunal have jurisdiction to suspend a member of a professional Chuckwagon Association?

In Mayan v. World Professional Chuckwagon Association, 2011 ABQB 140, Mayan’s membership in the association was suspended because a hearing panel found him guilty of abusive behaviour. He sought judicial review of that decision. Because the association abandoned the argument that the decision was not amenable to judicial review, the court only briefly considered the issue of whether it did have jurisdiction. However, that brief review summarizes of the state of the law: The courts will be slow to interfere with the decision of a voluntary, private tribunal. In general, the courts have intervened at least in cases where the tribunal’s decision could detrimentally affect a member’s employment, or where the tribunal has acted without jurisdiction, breached natural justice or made a decision that is patently unreasonable. The supervisory jurisdiction of the court does not extend, however, to determining whether the tribunal/s decision was right or wrong in substance. (para 25)