If a legal prescription has weight, it can be assessed as having greater or lesser importance, and can be balanced against competing considerations. (slaw.ca)
But on the constitutional issue of balancing the allegedly competing considerations of religious liberty and equality rights, the Court gets it quite right when it concludes that «[t] his case demonstrates that a well - intentioned majority acting in the name of tolerance and liberalism, can, if unchecked, impose its views on the minority in a manner that is in itself intolerant and illiberal.» (ruleoflaw.ca)
Relevance, necessity, reliability and absence of bias can helpfully be seen as part of a sliding scale where a basic level must first be achieved in order to meet the admissibility threshold and thereafter continue to play a role in weighing the overall competing considerations in admitting evidence. (slaw.ca)