Is serving alcohol before or after an arbitrary time of day an objectively dangerous act?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from R. v. Sztejnmiler, 2013 CanLII 148228 (ON CJ):

Third, logically, the act of serving alcohol before or after an arbitrary time of day, or the act of providing alcohol free of charge (as a social host would do), or permitting someone to be drunk on your premises does not, in any articulable way, constitute an "objectively dangerous act". Although the intoxication of a patron may well give rise to issues of civil liability, as in Stewart v. Pettie, it falls well short, in itself, of constituting an "objectively dangerous" act.

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