The standard of review on appeal is set out in Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33. The standard of review on a question of law is correctness. The standard of review on a question of fact is palpable and overriding error. For questions of mixed fact and law, the standard of review is also palpable and overriding error unless there is an extricable question of law; in such a case the standard of review on that extricable question is correctness.
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