The court reaffirmed principles that leave governments open to legal liability for civil damages that can result from their legislatures passing laws that are later found clearly unconstitutional
The long-running case centres around the tax strategies employed by a company once at the forefront of Canada’s expanding First Nations fuel businesses
Critics argue that the industry damage caused by activists is minimal, and have dubbed the statutes to be ‘ag-gag’ laws because they have the effect of fettering free speech