What is the test for a Defendant to be exempt from the duty of care?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from South Yukon Forest Corporation v. Canada, 2010 FC 495 (CanLII):
Those policy decisions must have been made bona fide to exempt the Defendant from the duty of care; see Just v. British Columbia, 1989 CanLII 16 (SCC), [1989] 2 S.C.R. 1228, at 1242-1245. (a) Proximity
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