What is the liability of a municipality for not deploying a snowboard salter?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Giuliani v. Region of Halton, 2010 ONSC 4630 (CanLII):
It is clear from the cases that liability will only result where the situation gives rise to an unreasonable risk of harm to users of the highway, and the authority has failed to take reasonable steps to eliminate or reduce the danger within a reasonable time after it became aware, or ought to have become aware, of its existence. For a case where the municipality did take reasonable steps to make roads safe and passable by deploying salters, see Ondrade v. Toronto, [2006] O.J. No. 1769, a decision of Low J. of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
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