Once the master signed the order on February 28, 2011, it became effective. See Queen’s Bench Rule 59.01. The master had done everything she needed to do to perfect it and she could not revisit it except as expressly permitted by law. The doctrine of functus officio applied. See Chandler v. Alberta Association of Architects, 1989 CanLII 41 (SCC), [1989] 2 S.C.R. 848 at 860–862.
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