Arthur Wishart, the province's new attorney-general after Frederick Cass (who had introduced the bill) was removed from the justice portfolio, recommended that the government appoint a royal commission on civil rights in response to the outcry.
[5] The commission's terms of reference instructed him to examine any Ontario law that might affect individual rights or freedoms and to recommend changes to the law to strengthen its protections for civil rights.
[8] It recommended that judicial review of administrative action in Ontario be available in more circumstances and that executive power under statute be curtailed.
[11] With respect to delegated legislation, McRuer recommended that the provincial cabinet or a minister be able to disallow any regulation made by a subordinate official.
[12] Ontario's Judicial Review Procedure Act, RSO 1990, c J.1, was based on the McRuer report's recommendations.