What is the test for harassment in Canadian law?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from John v Toronto Police, 2016 ONSC 2015 (CanLII):
Lynch v. Westario Power Inc. [2009] O.J. No. 2927, is a decision of P.A. Daley J. of this court. Commencing at paragraph 66, the tort of harassment is discussed, and from that paragraph I quote, “Whether harassment has been established as a civil cause of action in Canadian law is unclear. Several decisions have specifically found that there is no such tort, while others were decided on the assumption that it does exist without setting out the elements of the tort.”
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