What is the test for whether harassment is a tort in Canada?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Veeken v. Spratt, 2019 BCPC 204 (CanLII):
A number of other British Columbia cases, similarly do not decide whether harassment is a tort in Canada, but assume hypothetically that it exists and resolve the matter by finding there was no harassment. One Ontario case, Merrifeld v. Canada (Attorney General), 2017 ONSC 1333, has recognized that harassment is a tort in Canada.
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