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Ontario Court of Appeal: Substantive Justice Outweighs Finality
April 4, 2016
In a number of recent decisions by the Ontario Court of Appeal[1], Ontario’s top Court has highlighted the court’s predisposition to have cases resolved on their merits rather than dismissed on procedural grounds. The latest decision of Labelle v. Canada (Border Services Agency) (“Labelle“) is consistent with the Court of Appeal’s liberal interpretation of the Reid