Can a government agency be held liable for failure to implement a policy decision with reasonable care?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from 1597203 Ontario Limited v. Ontario, 2007 CanLII 21966 (ON SC):
There is authority which recognizes the distinction between the making of policy decisions and the implementation of such decisions, and holds that government agencies, once having made a policy decision, can be liable for failure to execute that decision with reasonable care: Just v. British Columbia 1989 CanLII 16 (SCC), [1989] 2 S.C.R. 1228.
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