Does a breach of an express or implied term of a contract amount to a statutory obligation?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Deol v Dreyer Davison LLP, 2020 BCSC 771 (CanLII):

However, this does not mean that a breach of an express or implied term of a contract cannot also amount to a breach of a statutory obligation: Lewis v. WestJet Airlines Ltd., 2019 BCCA 63 at para. 47 [Lewis].

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