What is the test for an individual to be a member of a community where the other member of the community suffers from the adverse effects of the other's conduct?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Doucette-Grasby v Brenton, 2019 CanLII 69714 (ON SCSM):
People don’t live in splendid isolation from one another. There are competing interests – sometimes those who suffer the adverse effects of another’s conduct are expected to tolerate those effects as the price of membership in the larger community: Smith v. Inco Ltd., 2011 ONCA 628.
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