What is the burden of proving that a councillor has breached the Municipal Censation Act?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Yorke et. al. v. Harris, 2020 ONSC 7361 (CanLII):
The citizen or elector who seeks to have a councillor censored under the MCIA bears the burden of proving that the councillor has breached the Act on a balance of probabilities: see Gammie v. Turner, 2013 ONSC 4563, 11 M.P.L.R. (5th) 177.
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