What constitutes fraud and/or misrepresentation of fact?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Fiorillo v. Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc., 2009 CanLII 29902 (ON SC):
Fraud is a false representation of fact, made with a knowledge of its falsehood, or recklessly, without belief in its truth, with the intention that it should be acted upon by the complaining party, and actually inducing him to act upon it: see Parna v. G. & S. Properties Ltd., 1970 CanLII 25 (SCC), [1971] S.C.R. 306, [1970] S.C.J. No. 81.
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