In Irving Consumer Products Limited v. Singh (Ont Divisional Ct, 2024) the Ontario Court of Appeal allowed a JR, this from a WSIAT decision and associated reconsideration that a respondent could sue a corporation and it's employee under WSIA s.28 ['Certain rights of action extinguished'] "for compensation for injuries suffered by Mr. Singh in the course of his employment".
Here the court characterizes changes in the legal status of provinces since Morguard Investments Ltd. v. De Savoye (SCC, 1990):
[77] ... Since the Supreme Court of Canada decision in Morguard, provinces are seen less as independent foreign states at common law and more as part of a cooperative federal whole. ...
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