An Ontario court has just settled what has been unsettled in Canada for a long time. From the decision...

"Can someone whose privacy has been violated by another person pursue a civil remedy in the courts of Ontario? Does our law recognize the tort of invasion of privacy? These are the questions raised in this motion ..."

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"Even if the plaintiff's claim for invasion of privacy were classified as "novel" (which, in any event, is not a proper basis for dismissing it) the foregoing analysis leads me to conclude that the time has come to recognize invasion of privacy as a tort in its own right."