What is a threshold question for entitlement in a claim for compensation?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Emmerson v. Emmerson, 2017 ONCA 917 (CanLII):

Entitlement is a threshold question: Bracklow v. Bracklow, 1999 CanLII 715 (SCC), [1999] 1 S.C.R. 420, at para. 49. It can be compensatory, non-compensatory or some combination thereof.

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