What is the limitation period for discovering that there has been a fraudulent concealment of the existence of a cause of action?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Fehr v Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, 2015 ONSC 2908 (CanLII):
Where there has been a fraudulent concealment of the existence of a cause of action, the limitation period will not start to run until the plaintiff discovers the fraud, or until the time when, with reasonable diligence, the plaintiff ought to have discovered it: Guerin v. Canada, 1984 CanLII 25 (SCC), [1984] 2 S.C.R. 335 at para. 115; M(K) v. M(H), 1992 CanLII 31 (SCC), [1992] 3 S.C.R. 6 at para. 61.
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