Is an undertaking as to damages an essential condition to an injunction?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Guelph Taxi v Guelph Police Service, 2016 ONSC 3671 (CanLII):

The undertaking as to damages is an essential condition to or prerequisite for an injunction, without which an injunction cannot (see Marko v. Ottawa, 2007 Canlii 23354 (ONSC) para. 38).

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