What is the test for determining whether causation exists?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Musselman et al v. 875667 Ontario Inc. et al, 2010 ONSC 3177 (CanLII):
In my view, causation is “essentially a practical question of fact that can best be answered by ordinary common sense” (see Farrell v. Snell 1990 CanLII 70 (SCC), [1990] 2 S.C.R. 311).
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