Can a party deliberately misrepresented another party to an agreement?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from McDonald v. Give & Go Prepared Foods Corp., 2015 HRTO 1440 (CanLII):
Where one party to an agreement deliberately misleads another party and thereby induces him or her into entering an agreement, the agreement may be set aside on the basis of the fraudulent misrepresentation. See Wedderburn v. Air Liquide Canada, 2010 HRTO 691.
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