What is the difference between dispensing and selling?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from College of Optometrists of Ontario v. Essilor Group Inc., 2019 ONCA 265 (CanLII):
At para. 54 of his reasons, the application judge distinguished dispensing from selling: “Dispensing” is qualitatively different from “selling”, the term that was central to the rationale in Ordres des optometristes du Quebec v. Coastal Contacts Inc. “Selling” is commerce. “Dispensing”, however, refers to acts that respond to problem eye sight (“prescribing”, “preparing”, “fitting”, “adjusting”, “adapting”): that is, health care.
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