What is the test for reading a statute or Rule?
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The following excerpt is from Maurice's Service Centre Limited v. Wood Products Industries Limited, 2018 NLSC 74 (CanLII):
The provisions of a statute (or Rule) are required to be read in their entire context, in their grammatical and ordinary sense, harmoniously with the scheme and object of the Rule, and the intention of the legislature (Rizzo v. Rizzo Shoes, 1998 CanLII 837 (SCC), [1998] 1 S.C.R. 27).
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