As Melnick J. observed in Toporowski v. Millar at para. 14, it is generally accepted that representations as to future events are not actionable. Nevertheless, a statement of intention may be actionable. For example, in Nelson v. Hoops L.P., 2003 BCSC 277, Groberman J. (as he then was) found that a statement by the owners of a basketball team that they had no intention of moving the team was a statement of their existing intention and was sufficient to ground a claim if the other elements of the tort were proven.
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