[6] This court has jurisdiction over this appeal pursuant to s. 31 of the Professional Engineers Act, RSO 1990, c. P.28. An appellate standard of review applies to the appeal: Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65, [2019] 4 SCR 653, para. 37; Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario v. Rew, 2020 ONSC 6018, paras. 50-51 (Div. Ct.):
Questions of law, including questions of statutory interpretation, are subject to a correctness standard of review. Questions of fact are subject to the palpable and overriding error standard of review. Questions of mixed fact and law are also subject to the palpable and overriding error standard of review unless a legal principle can be easily extricated from the legal issues in which case the legal issue is subject to a correctness standard of review… (Villa v. Professional Engineers of Ontario, 2022 ONSC 6104, para. 8 (Div. Ct.)).
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