Does the principle of discoverability apply to the discoverability of the tortfeasor's identity?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Cote v. Ivanhoe Cambridge I Inc./Ivanhoe Cambridge I8 Inc., 2018 ONSC 5588 (CanLII):

The principle of discoverability applies to both the discoverability of facts and to the discoverability of the tortfeasor’s identity: Pepper v. Zellers Inc., at para. 17.

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