Statutory interpretation

Lexington on the Green Inc. v. Toronto Standard Condominium Corporation No. 1930, 2010 ONCA 751 gives a useful restatement of the customary approach to interpreting a statute:

[27] The Supreme Court of Canada has stated on several occasions that when interpreting a statute, the words of an Act are to be read in their entire context and in their grammatical and ordinary sense harmoniously with the scheme of the statute, the object of the statute and the intention of Parliament: see Chieu v. Canada, [2002] 1 S.C.R. 84.