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. Metropolitan Preparatory Academy Inc v. Ontario

In Metropolitan Preparatory Academy Inc v. Ontario (Div Court, 2022) the Divisional Court held that government financial/policy allocation decisions were non-justiciable, here in an Ontario judicial review context:
[18] “[R]esponsibility for the management of public funds rests with the government and not the court…” (Bowman v. Her Majesty the Queen, 2019 ONSC 1064, para. 40). Expenditures of public funds are discretionary public policy decisions made by government pursuant to the Crown’s common law spending powers: Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of Canada v. British Columbia (Attorney General) (1997), 1997 CanLII 4597 (BC CA), 149 DLR (4th) 613, paras. 27-29 (BC CA).

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[28] Finally, we note that the applicants and their employees were eligible to seek funding under several programs targeted at businesses and as support for working people to relieve some financial consequences of public health measures taken in response to COVID-19. There is no unfairness in Ontario taking different approaches to addressing issues arising in the private sector and issues arising in publicly funded institutions.


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